Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb base] that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its crust was already thick and rigid enough to hold open huge basins as early as 4.2 x 109 years ago ; and the great floods of mare basalt that filled the basins apparently ceased to erupt about 3.1 x 109 years ago . |
| 2 | Marxist and elitists of course argue that expressed or perceived political preferences can he distinguished from ‘ objective ’ interests . |
| 3 | Their fragrance mingled with the faint smell of wood smoke that lingered in the room and the rector thought , yet again , how warm and full of life this small room was . |
| 4 | Elizabeth Rickards , vice-principal of Duff Miller Sixth-Form College in London , believes that new types of examination mean that cramming in the old-fashioned way is impossible . |
| 5 | While a moving-coil meter does not exhibit any steady deflection when sinusoidal current passes through it and must be preceded by some form of rectifying circuit before it can register such current , other forms of meter exist that respond usefully by themselves to sinusoidal current . |
| 6 | Comparison with a doctor 's surgery may bring out those aspects of CAB work that make CAB queues particularly difficult to deal with . |
| 7 | It obliges the bureau to conform to the policy aims and objectives of the CAB and reach a standard of advice work that fulfils these aims to NACAB 's satisfaction . |
| 8 | Sedgefield Racers make the long trip to Chiltern tonight looking to maintain an end of season run that has taken them to the fringes of the play-off chase . |
| 9 | Back came all the romance of train travel that had not been seen for fifty years . |
| 10 | With the entire wealth of pop history on hand , the temptation is to indulge in the kind of free-for-all pick'n'mix that has been called retro-nuevo . |
| 11 | The total amount of Government grant that has been made available to British Coal over the past five financial years is £8.5 billion . |
| 12 | When a human chess player finds himself ahead , the art of the game demands that he win in the most expeditious manner ; some sort of lightning stroke that ends the game rapidly . |
| 13 | I 'd climb into my father 's bed with my shoes and raincoat on to eat a jar of malt extract that had been carefully saved . |
| 14 | Help is at hand , and the company to contact is Cree Research Inc , Durham , North Carolina , which has created a light-emitting diode out of Silicon Carbide that glows blue . |
| 15 | Transcripts of conversation reveal that involved parties switch from one control tactic to another , and that different tactics effectively counter one another . |
| 16 | ‘ These trophy wives , ’ says Fortune , ‘ make the 50 and 60-year-old executive officers feel they can compete sexually with younger men , the kind of ego boost that does n't hurt when going up against Young Turks at the office . ’ |
| 17 | Here again , both the trend of things and the advice of the experts is in the exactly opposite direction — towards the industrialisation and depersonalisation of agriculture , towards concentration , specialisation , and any kind of material waste that promises to save labour . |
| 18 | No matter how long he lived in Paris , or how wild his life was , he retained a love for Eugenia and a sense of family honour that jibed awkwardly with the easy amorality of the crowd . |
| 19 | The response in Britain was not quite so dramatic the National Grid was untroubled by the kind of power surge that goes with huge viewing figures . |
| 20 | Beautifully constructed courses which immensely satisfy both student and teacher alike with their intelligence and vigour , they have set a standard for classroom work that has yet to be matched . ’ |
| 21 | a steady reporting of names , dates , song titles , musical examples , from the procession of songs in commodity form that began … in 1789 . |
| 22 | The EPA insists that deals are better than lengthy lawsuits , but some in Congress suspect that polluting companies are getting off lightly . |
| 23 | The supporting monitoring services provided by AEA on site ensure that waste volumes are kept to a minimum , which can often represent a major cost saving . |
| 24 | If the Government sanction all the deals on gas burn that have been agreed to in principle , we will witness the transfer of 40 per cent . |