Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We , being their regular suppliers , do not have the option of action that neither helps nor hinders . |
| 2 | LANACANE has a special anaesthetic action that rapidly soothes the irritation and cools the burning of delicate tissues . |
| 3 | It is , in particulars the unnerving intellectuality of the life around him that Hölderlin attacks , the overvaluation of philosophizing and the promise of action that never comes , the substitution of books and words for deeds , the excessive introspection and lack of worldly competence ( the criticism has a special poignancy in that these are character traits he is intimately familiar with , which at times become part of his self-criticism ) When he speaks of Greece , it is not always clear whether he has in mind the fifth century or the timeless present in which Hyperion lives , but it is always Greece that provides the contrast . |
| 4 | The action that really matters was condensed into the final segment of this rollercoaster Ulster senior football championship preliminary round replay at the Athletic Grounds . |
| 5 | I mean , I knew from my own experience that carers were not getting the help , they were not getting the back-up , so any sort of really good telephone numbers I had laid my hands on got sort of written away in a wee book , and I was lucky enough to come across an association that actually backed up carers and actually were willing to sort of , put their life on the line and say to me , yes , you have got rights and you need support and we are here to give you that support . |
| 6 | A sense of release is created by such public demonstrations of grief that clearly triggers many people into dealing with their feelings . |
| 7 | There are , moreover , many small farmers who prefer to follow a traditional ‘ way of life ’ and abjure the profit maximization that often provides landscape change . |
| 8 | In this case Sartre demonstrates how the singular universal works , by appealing to the concrete example of a boxing match — a random exemplification that just happens to reproduce the single adversaries of the master/slave dialectic . |
| 9 | The second point is on correspondence , I 'm absolutely certain that when a member of public writes in to any department , not necessarily highway , he expects and needs an immediate response , now I know you have , you have started the acknowledgement of our system , but I think it 's , it does n't go far enough , an acknowledgement card that simply says the thing is received and is receiving attention , needs to then indicate the individual to whom that matter has been passed for attention and that leads me to the third point and I think the general complaint on the public is that local government is seen as faceless people and I think we have to get in our mind to name people within our department , there 's not one mention about it in our promise , I think we need , unless I 've not read it , but I think , I think we , yes , but I think we need to mention people by name , senior people within the department who will respond to particular things and certainly where public comes into contact within the offices we must get around to wearing a name badge who says who that person is , people want to relate to a person and I think we can do that if we try . |
| 10 | Rentokil and Retail Cleaning is not a partnership that naturally springs to mind . |
| 11 | She knew at that moment that she wanted to injure every penis that ever came into her hand . |
| 12 | Local private firms had built up a skilled work force that eventually drew in foreign multinationals on terms acceptable to the government . |
| 13 | The Merovingian dynasty began as a vigorous force that firmly developed the Franks into a national entity , and made many conquests that extended Frankish territory . |
| 14 | Why invent a mystery force that magically knows how hard to pull on everything to make them go round the same path when you could say that everything has to go in that curved path because that is how the space itself is curved ? |
| 15 | Often they turned out to be more like shocks , and she disliked the tension , the agitation , the feeling of disruption that frequently accompanied them . |
| 16 | Write out a list of local phone numbers and any instructions that the next occupants of your home will find invaluable — like how to open up that funny cupboard in the second bedroom that always sticks . |
| 17 | The burglary of the offices of the Democratic National Committee was a harebrained and quite unnecessary enterprise and the case against the president that eventually forced his resignation could never have been constructed without the re-installation of recording devices in the Oval Office . |
| 18 | We have seen that perhaps the growing and adolescent dinosaur had a metabolism that actually converted from some form of endothermy to homeothermic or heterothermic metabolism . |
| 19 | The obsession that never dies ’ — Haverford drank Guinness — ‘ whilst there is a spark of life in this old carcass . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ My sister Faye is a Type One diabetic — onset at age fifteen , with some past incidence of proliferative retinopathy that now seems under control , fortunately . |
| 21 | The hexagonal cells , however , are built with a precision and uniformity that fully matches those of the honey bee . |
| 22 | That scene ended an episode that also saw Frank and Betty taking two children to the zoo . |
| 23 | It eats steadily into the cutlery that never moves , and is never likely to . |
| 24 | I 'd like to try it straight to see how it looks and I 've heard there is a shampoo that temporarily smooths out the perm . |
| 25 | Yesterday it all came good for them with a thrilling five shot ( 78-73 ) victory over Old Bleach in the final at Jordanstown , a result that finally takes away the sour taste following their defeat by Bangor in last year 's final . |
| 26 | 6PM I spot a mini-mail with a Radio Shack at Melrose and Vine that miraculously has not been burned down . |
| 27 | Dodder propagates either from seeds or clonally from broken-off segments of the vine that accidentally come in contact with a fresh host . |
| 28 | I slammed on the brakes , stopping with a jerk that almost threw her on the floor . |
| 29 | It is another remarkable landmark in an extraordinary career , taking place in a movie that really warrants the achievement . |
| 30 | Most of his news-making troubles began in 1986 when he and Madonna embarked on a movie that never lived up to all the hype and publicity that surrounded it , Shanghai Surprise . |