Example sentences of "that [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right sort of literary experience can be like a nuclear explosion , whereas the ‘ human expressiveness ’ that Scholes detects in the humblest graffito is more like the low-level radioactivity that is always present in the natural environment . |
| 2 | Main Line 's lawyers said during a trial in state court that Basinger suffered from an ‘ ego run amok ’ and that her backing out led to a year-long delay and a loss of between £3.3m and £6.6m . |
| 3 | The most obvious of these was that mergers occurred in waves and affected all industries . |
| 4 | The verdict was that Horsley had about as clean a bill of health as it was possible for a real , live capitalist to have . |
| 5 | Others said that Horsley saw in Hayling the image of what he had always wanted to be — idealistic , full of derring-do , glamorous , and free from the tedious baggage of conventional business life . |
| 6 | The Right-Ons fired back the unanswerable reply that meetings belonged to those who attended them . |
| 7 | His wife Kathy , who organised the walk , admits that Ian goes to hell and back on the walks . |
| 8 | It 's true that this was not the only experience of ridicule that Ian faced in childhood . |
| 9 | They were driven to this by the obstructiveness that Stirling met with . |
| 10 | It is important to emphasize that accompaniments based on motifs or , as in the previous section , on brief rhythmic cells , can not be successful unless they are formed from well-sculptured , distinctive material . |
| 11 | Lorna Woodroffe gave them a great send off by defeating Mandy Wainwright ( Essex ) , the National 's 16 's champion , 6–3 , 6–4 , Wainwright gained revenge in the doubles , which was the only reverse that Woodroffe suffered in the series . |
| 12 | It is suggested that views diverge on the central question of the rights of parents to custody and control of their children in relation to the right of the state ( acting through courts and social work agencies ) to intervene in the parent-child relationship , to remove children from their parents , to allocate their care and control to other parties , and to determine their subsequent upbringing . |
| 13 | There has always been the suspicion that values applied in cultural and moral spheres were far from impartial . |
| 14 | It has certainly been claimed that values associated with ascetic Protestantism provided new motivation for scientific inquiry , particularly in Holland and England during the seventeenth century . |
| 15 | Extending this aim meant that signs had to be invented when no obvious word — sign equivalent existed . |
| 16 | While they acknowledge that the data on their first two questions , as to whether sign languages are understood by foreigners , were mostly self-reports , they conclude that signs used in foreign countries , or even in different parts of the same country , are largely unintelligible in connected discourse . |
| 17 | And yet it is a paradox of the period that change came into country life as often as not through the women . |
| 18 | It is at the local level that change needs to be assessed and at which the variety of political forces at work was best displayed . |
| 19 | The process meant that adolescence ceased to be what an American scholar has called an ‘ idea ’ and became , in his words , a ‘ social fact ’ . |
| 20 | Then she remembered that her therapist had said something about that , had said that it was not for Camille that Scarlet grieved in expectation but for herself and her own pain , implying by her tone that it was really most foolish . |
| 21 | Eliminating the risk element in electricity prices is the most important benefit that ICI expects from the planned 1725MW Enron power station on Teesside . |
| 22 | It held , for example , that Italy was in breach of its obligations under the Treaty when it required that researchers employed by the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche had to be Italians because they were civil service posts . |
| 23 | It is crucial that researchers aim to be more participative in the way they frame research questions and their methodologies and at the same time be more sympathetic to the subject(s) they are researching . |
| 24 | In 1991 , Jan Mitchell gave the Metropolitan Museum of Art a hoard of Pre-Columbian gold from Columbia , Peru , Costa Rica , Panama and Ecuador that experts estimate to be worth more than $3 million . |
| 25 | But it turns out that snails parasitized by certain kinds of fluke ( flatworm ) have extra-thick shells . |
| 26 | Lord Denning M.R. said that liability extends to a case where a ‘ third person prevents or hinders one party from performing his contract , even though it be not a breach . ’ |
| 27 | By 1971 , the tension was so great that Kapwepwe broke with Kaunda and formed the United People 's Party ( UPP ) which depended on a flimsy alliance between the Bemba and other tribal groups who at that time felt they were out in the political cold . |
| 28 | The systems planning team will have to ensure that rewards come during and not only after the full information systems project is implemented . |
| 29 | He certainly used methods of etching and aquatinting that Sandby introduced from the continent . |
| 30 | Where the objection does dent it , however , is in the ambiguity of key terms like ‘ fellow countrymen ’ , something that MacIver points to . |