Example sentences of "that [verb] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tests show that eating lots of fibre or switching to polyunsaturated fats has about as much chance of prolonging your life as wearing a wig , but a kipper two or three times a week will have your life assurance rep collecting the premiums for ever . |
| 2 | But to enable him to concentrate on it , the government services that arose one after the other in the nineteenth century ( forestry , irrigation , the archaeological survey , public health and sani-tation , roads ) were organized outside the administrative structure , and had virtually no contact with the district officer . |
| 3 | ACT is now a separate computer maintenance company that was split off from Apricot before it was bought by Mitsubishi , the Japanese conglomerate that produces everything from the four-wheel Shogun to equally rugged Nikon cameras . |
| 4 | Kids too sick to raise their heads , lying soft and limp beneath the burden of heart disease , kidney failure and cancers that eat everything but innocence . |
| 5 | I sought a way of fudging it , of drawing a two-dimensional picture that conveyed something of what it feels like to move from point to point in the nine-dimensional genetic space of Biomorph Land . |
| 6 | He was still looking at her ; appraisingly , with a sort of lazy sensuality that made something inside her twist tight . |
| 7 | Below : Amblestone is a charming Victorian-style conservatory that offers plenty of space and light . |
| 8 | Larousse Gastronomique is considered the bible for chefs but now Larousse has produced a new , practical cookbook that offers lots of inspiration and advice for the enthusiastic amateur cook . |
| 9 | The first thing you 've go to do is you 've got to provide services that mean something to everyone at work . |
| 10 | The Labour party has learnt nothing about the deep-seated wish of the British people for local government structures that reflect what they feel about their local communities , and units of government that mean something to them and are not imposed on them . |
| 11 | She persuaded them to invest in ten rolls of wallpaper bought from a corner shop that sold everything from paraffin to knickers . |
| 12 | At last she found the shop belonging to Dai Jones , it was spread well back from the front door , a long dimly lit store that sold everything from flour and salt to patent medicines . |
| 13 | In any case it was Shirley who had typed the card and she was in a higher or lower world that cared nothing for such trivia . |
| 14 | From end to end , the curve of mountain wall which faces you occupies a full 180 degrees , and measures all but nine miles along the crest ; but even more than the width it is the depth that awes one at Gavarnie , because the cirque is very deep , with an average drop from crest to valley floor of 5,500 feet . |
| 15 | Handling a long-wheelbase Land-Rover with its trailer over rough ground is an art that needs plenty of practice . |
| 16 | 3 burner coffee stand ( has any one a local hall that needs one for coffee mornings etc ) |
| 17 | Personality is an all-embracing term that covers everything about you ; your outward behaviour as well as all the underlying factors , such as beliefs ( see page 21 ) , attitudes ( see page 12 ) and feelings ( see page 66 ) . |
| 18 | Most sailing clubs will have a few catamarans clustered together in one end of the dinghy park , but if you are keen to race one it is best to choose a club that has plenty of water space and specialises in a large multihull fleet . |
| 19 | Each of these labels indicates an aspect of study that has something in common , and our use of ‘ information skills ’ includes some parts of all of them ‘ ( p 11 ) . |
| 20 | Hulme explained , ‘ I 'm of the species that has lots of testosterone pumping around its body . |
| 21 | ‘ This is a new market for Guinness and one that has lots of potential but , though the Vietnamese drink plenty of beer , a black beer is virtually unknown . |
| 22 | Erm but I mean there 's nothing in , in that that we get from national level that has anything at all appertaining to Northumberland in it or on it , has it ? |
| 23 | Starts with a wolf-howl and then descends into galactic camp that has none of Betty Boo 's appeal , but all of her ideas ( that 's both of them ) . |
| 24 | It looked like a blaze photographed with a filter that transformed everything into shades of the same colour . |
| 25 | Marlene McGee is pioneering work with Suffolk County Council : Jane Fisk is selling Medau gummed stamps that urge everyone to ‘ Try Medau — Keep Fit ’ : £150 was raised for the ‘ BIG C ’ appeal ( Norfolk 's cancer research charity ) at a Medau ‘ Get-Together ’ organised by Ruth Rolph : Kay Baxter organised a successful jumble sale in aid of Society funds . |
| 26 | The latter declares *John was seen leave ungrammatical because the embedded clause seen leave is " unsupported " , i.e. constitutes " a subject — predicate sequence that exhibits none of the internal inflectional structures of a full sentence or clausal complementation " ( i.e. neither tense , nor infinitival to , nor progressive -ing ) , whereas John was seen to leave is said to be grammatical because here leave is " supported " ( by to ) , and can therefore serve as an argument for the verb see ( pp. 123 – 4 ) . |
| 27 | Love is not the impure self-seeking that chokes everything in its wake . |
| 28 | If we analyze lots of water samples taken at different depths at the same we can then plot a graph of concentration versus depth and get a profile that looks something like this . |
| 29 | Er we have a marketing group that goes around the country doing that and when they er sign the surgery up to do the er for us to do the product or pri print the product they leave a sheet that looks something like this . |
| 30 | But when you lift a corpse that looks anything but a corpse , it 's terrifying . |