Example sentences of "that [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as protecting domestic firms ' market share , the obvious motivation for the Polish government legislation would appear to be its desire to induce Western firms to invest in the local high-tech industry , a policy that has also seen it pursue interventionist policies in the fields of telecommunications and electronic components — all areas for which Poland was earmarked as a specialist under mechanisms instigated by the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 2 | This month I will also be embarrassed to allow my father-in-law , who is a Frenchman and a rugby enthusiast , to read a magazine that has again disgraced itself by using a humourless title such as ‘ Frog March ’ ( April 1992 page 20 ) which would be more at home in The Sun newspaper . |
| 3 | ‘ All right , ’ she concedes , slightly breathless , dealing with a shirt that has unaccountably unbuttoned itself , before letting herself out of one door and into the other . |
| 4 | However , the evidence that has finally convinced me that the neutral theory , if not the whole truth , is at least close to the truth concerns changes in the base sequence of DNA , and not in the amino acid sequence of proteins . |
| 5 | It also faced him with the need to untangle a financial crisis , a task that has frequently occupied him in his career . |
| 6 | ‘ I guess they just want other sorts of women in their movies in Hollywood , ’ she shrugs , saying she 'd rather now have no offers at all than be asked to play the kind of ‘ one-note , bitchy character ’ that has since come her way . |
| 7 | This may occur if you have been playing a game or using a program that has somehow corrupted your system files . |
| 8 | It 's a deep dilemma for a community that has traditionally regarded itself as liberal . |
| 9 | He had pride at stake , deposed champion Senna to humble — and a point to underline to the team that has negligently abandoned him to a new career in America . |
| 10 | Nothing would have induced me to part now except an overwhelming sense that the course of action which has been pursued has put the country- and not merely the country , but throughout the world , the principles for which you and I have always stood throughout our political lives-in the greatest peril that has ever overtaken them . |
| 11 | This is the moment when it comes into his mind to ask himself what he 's doing in this place ; to see the meaninglessness of his business there , and the hollowness of his enjoyments ; to lose sight suddenly of what it is in the texture of life that has ever occupied his attention and led him forward . |
| 12 | Wherever you look England appear likely to encounter the sort of quality of opposition that has usually ended their World Cup ambitions in the past . |
| 13 | This is another aspect of my work with film that has so fascinated me : the physiognomy of a great orchestra when the players are really concentrating , really absorbed in the process of music-making . |
| 14 | With their new album there 's enthusiastic talk of breaking the American market that has long eluded them . |
| 15 | It 's the inappropriate nature of my clothing that has consistently let me down through the years . |
| 16 | The vague beige word that has naturally attached itself to Mr Major is ‘ nice ’ . |
| 17 | That gives encouragement to all of us who argue that the British electorate has an enormous collective wisdom that has seldom let it down . |
| 18 | He is well liked and sticks to his brief come what may — a tactic that has rightly earned him the nickname of the ’ Bardic steamroller ’ . |
| 19 | In the glow of this new power , erotic love and spiritual love are somehow conflated ( in a way that seems finally to overcome for Prince the apparent mutual antagonism between sensuality and righteousness that has hitherto perplexed him ) . |
| 20 | It is a name that has certainly had its share of exposure ever since the 19-year old batsman arrived in England to take the place of Australia 's tearaway fast bowler Craig McDermott , The editorial in the May issue made passing reference to the volte face implicit in a very good batsman taking the place of a very good bowler . |
| 21 | It is this element of Charlie that has perhaps made him popular with other ( albeit less twisted ) musicians . |
| 22 | One type of music that has always had it s roots in the spiritual realm is traditional Irish . |
| 23 | I was pleased to be able to announce that I had followed many of their therapies , but fearfully expressed my alarm and disappointment that having religiously performed my visualizations , cancer may have returned by the back door . |
| 24 | She replayed in her mind every detail of the night before , every provocative movement that had unconsciously invited him to make love to her . |
| 25 | She gave her friend a significant glance and then clamped her lips together , in a parody of someone who was not going to say whatever it was that had just crossed her mind . |
| 26 | This was the plea of a young Eritrean boy as he was being dragged back to the plane that had just brought him to the UK , when in September 1990 , he and his sister were denied access to the asylum procedure . |
| 27 | My brain began to overheat at the sheer scale of the disaster that had just overtaken me . |
| 28 | Right now there was more danger in the strange , yielding weakness that had just taken her by surprise . |
| 29 | As their lips met , she knew in a flash that this kiss of love was even more wonderful than the words that had just thrilled her . |
| 30 | Though nothing had altered , somehow the fall had shattered the ice that had temporarily walled her up . |