Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some say that to belong to the kingdom of Heaven is the same as belonging to the Church . |
| 2 | The only way in which the discrimination between A and B can be enhanced is by some process that reduces the role of the c elements in producing generalization from A to B. It is not apparent that establishing associations between A and X and between B and Y will do this , even though X and Y themselves hold rather few ( z ) elements in common . |
| 3 | He left Helen and went to have a bath and in the cold steamy bathroom there came to him this vision of a distant unreal Helen looking — well , radiant was the unexpected word that came to mind — looking not her usual self at all in some frock that glowed and billowed and rustled as she came in at the front door late , pink-cheeked , a touch dishevelled and greeted by the stone wall of Dorothy 's disapproval . |
| 4 | In copper-oxide superconducting materials , this suggest that to raise the critical temperature you want to make the lattice smaller . |
| 5 | The results in Table 2 show that phosphorylcholine treatments have been successfully applied to a wide range of biomaterials . |
| 6 | There is therefore some hope that imprisoning executives might , through incapacitation and deterrence , bring down the incidence of corporate crime . |
| 7 | It is an historical construct that has historical conditions of existence . |
| 8 | They had crossed more than half a mile of open pasture without a trace of cover , expecting every moment some attack that did not come . |
| 9 | She says here in Stanton Harcourt there 's been gravel working for more than 30 yearsand that means lorries , dust , noise and a general loss of amenity … so for a very long time people face the loss of the countryside around them . |
| 10 | Adam 's eyes were closed , in some state that looked colder and more complicated than sleep . |
| 11 | Charlie Jordan was sitting beside his boat enjoying a pipe while he repaired some tackle that had been damaged . |
| 12 | Some argue that lifting the embargo would add a ‘ moral ’ component to American policy . |
| 13 | So you want it arranged in some form that makes it easy to retrieve ( find ) the specific item you are looking for at any given moment . |
| 14 | Even if we assume a 50/50 split that means a lot of our behaviour is learned and pliable . |
| 15 | ‘ About our business and the Lord Owen 's , ’ said Julian , with a vicious snap that belonged rather to a wife than a daughter , ‘ and worse pressed than we are , very likely . |
| 16 | It probably was , but they wont say that to make the Batty sale seem more justified . |
| 17 | These reveal that forecast turnover has been achieved and gross margins have been maintained . |
| 18 | However most of these assume that misspelled words have been identified , and concentrate on methods of comparison of the word in error to a number of candidates . |
| 19 | Thus it fell to one of the rank-and-file to make a lucky find that brought them at last to the downs : and probably saved a life or two ; for they could hardly have spent the night in the open , either on or under the hill , without being attacked by some enemy or other . |
| 20 | This division , which quite unintentionally put the uncharted territory of Brazil into the Portuguese section , encouraged the Spanish and Portuguese to believe that they had a right , backed by a religious authority recognized by every country in western Europe , to all land that did not have a settled and effective government , and that they were entitled to monopolize the trade of these new territories . |
| 21 | In cases where , after considering all alternatives , serious and disinterested ecologists and the like say that culling the herbivores seems to be the only practical cure , is that legitimate or ought we to ban all killing ? |
| 22 | In addition , numerical modelling of the geochemical trends indicates that within one cycle the magma may have evolved by inputs of discrete batches of primary peridotitic partial melt that fractionated as it rose and mixed with earlier magma prior to eruption . |
| 23 | The figures in Appendix I , Table 4 suggest that paying off credit agreements typically absorbs roughly twice as high a proportion of income for someone in the lowest income group as it does for people in higher income groups . |
| 24 | Everyone in the industry agrees that quality will be the key to success and of course they all say that means them . |
| 25 | The data in table 5.9 show that bond enthalpies increase as the number of bonds between two atoms decreases . |
| 26 | It is not at all clear that stepping up the competition between schools and colleges , and between the territorially ambitious award bodies , will produce the broad choices in education and training that ought to be an entitlement post-16 , just as much as the national curriculum is before that watershed . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm sure you all know that Trace Coley , the daughter of Kevin Coley , Chairman of Doggie Dins and our sponsor , is South Sussex 's Number One in the final today , ’ announced Fatty Harris . |
| 28 | We all know that breaking a mirror may cost us seven year 's bad luck , but did you know that … |
| 29 | Never trust politicians — but you all know that do n't you ? |
| 30 | You all know that retires from her position as Society Chairman at the next AGM . |