Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was so moved by the sufferings of the wounded at the battle of Solferino ( the Lombard village where the French and Sardinians defeated the Austrians in June 1859 ) that he published a book urging the formation of permanent voluntary aid societies to succour the wounded in time of war , and this so caught international imagination that in 1863 , sixteen European nations met at a conference in Geneva to launch the plan . |
| 2 | If she were to break her word , the big gendarme would go rushing off to his commandant with his ‘ fresh evidence ’ , demanding to be allowed to treat Klein 's death as murder ; he would harass and bully brother and sister , tearing open wounds that at best were only half-healed , forcing them to relive the pain and terror of the past . |
| 3 | During pre-trial interrogation Talb told Swedish police that between October and December 1988 he had retrieved a bomb from one of the PFLP-GC 's West German safe houses and passed it to an unnamed person , causing speculation that it could have been identical to the Lockerbie device . |
| 4 | A Hungarian , Ms Erszebet Varga , who returned from Timisoara on Monday , told Hungarian television that on Sunday pregnant women taking part in the demonstration approached the bayonet wielding soldiers and , pointing to their swollen bellies , demanded that the unborn children be killed immediately as they would only starve to death when they were born . |
| 5 | There were structures that defied gravity , fountains and sheets of cascading cool water that by night were vistas of colour and brightness that filled the heart with pulsing excitement . |
| 6 | Dr Roger Harrison , director of product development for Eli Lilly 's subsidiary Dista Ltd in the UK , told New Scientist that after five years of experience scaling up Lilly 's genetically engineered insulin ‘ we have not perceived any allergic reaction in the chemical processing or packaging units . ’ |
| 7 | Excavations have uncovered positive proof that between 10,000 and 25,000 years ago it was a wild beast 's den with bones of extinct animals having been found in the stalagmites on the cave floor . |
| 8 | ( Automatic Thought 1 may be traceable to a more wide ranging silent assumption that to be worthwhile she must get everything ‘ just right ’ . ) |
| 9 | Although we have not seen the report we have had encouraging indication that in some of the key areas BZW 's views and recommendations are broadly consistent with the views we have submitted to DTI and that they support the next steps we are taking . |
| 10 | There exists considerable evidence that in highly industrialised countries the emphasis is shifting away from the development of new systems for handling materials and energy , which is a preserve of conventional engineering disciplines , towards the development of a wide variety of information systems and processes . |
| 11 | Despite few policy differences between the two major parties , the PNM exploited widespread fears that in agreeing to the temporary residence of 100 Haitian refugees , Robinson was seeking to change the racial mix in a country where race relations had become a major political and social issue . |
| 12 | And at the very end of the decade , after this chapter had been written , Provincial announced that such was the cost of retaining ageing DMUs that in 1990 some services would be temporarily reduced until more Sprinters come on stream . |
| 13 | While much of the UK is looking gloomily at the dark clouds of a major recession , it seems poetic justice that for at least some of Belfast 's population , the future looks better than it has for many years . |
| 14 | He had been so moved by reading Political Justice that in 1794 he had decided to found a Godwinian state in a remote part of America . |
| 15 | Moreover , the immediate pre-war period saw clear signs that in the factional struggle among Social Democrats it was the more extreme Bolsheviks and Interdistrict faction , rather than the more moderate Mensheviks , who were gaining ground . |
| 16 | Most tellingly , in his Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) he coerces Propertius into avowing anti-Virgilian sentiments that in fact Propertius did not profess . |
| 17 | On occasions I looked at the casualty cards myself and identified potential clients that for one reason or another were not referred to me . |
| 18 | Animals in turn live by eating the organic materials that plants have produced by photosynthesis ; or by eating other animals that in their turn have eaten plants . |
| 19 | The doctors told me they had high hopes that in a year you 'd have made a full recovery . |
| 20 | The smelt mills had long flues that in some cases snaked up the hillside and across the fell . |
| 21 | On May 15 the Greek parliament voted by 117 to 24 that the criminal charges against the former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou , the latest of which had concerned allegations that as Prime Minister Papandreou had illegally ordered the phones of political enemies to be bugged , should be dropped . |
| 22 | He took a pristine white handkerchief out of his pocket and rubbed at the faint hand-print Kenneth had left on the glass partition as he said , ‘ These passivation glasses are of much use in the semi-conductor industry , and we have high hopes that with the burgeoning of the Scottish computer industry Silicon Glen as it is sometimes jocularly called — we shall shortly be supplying … ’ |