Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [noun] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Perot was the only candidate to leave the debates with a higher opinion poll rating than when he entered them , there was a widespread perception that Clinton had clearly outperformed Bush , appearing assured and in command of an impressive array of detailed policy information , while Bush appeared keener to deal in innuendo and generality . |
| 2 | It was the largest force that Barbarossa had ever led , and was made up of experienced warriors , loyal princes and vassals , the epitome of the feudal army under its divinely appointed emperor . |
| 3 | Will Serafin show his independence of mind and his refusal to be controlled by his Civil Servants and reject them all , item by item , so that he ends up discovering for himself the colleagues , procedures and methods that Summerchild has already selected for him ? |
| 4 | There will also be two novelty events , though not the Desert Orchid versus Linford Christie contest that Gillespie had briefly considered . |
| 5 | Far from moderating his condemnation of Mansell 's start-line performance in Estoril the previous week , the world champion stuck to his allegation that Mansell had deliberately tried to push him off the track . |
| 6 | Anyway I read in the programme that Whyte has definitely gone to Birmingham City for 1/4 million . |
| 7 | Like Juvenal , Duncan realizes At this point enters Macbeth , the new Thane of Cawdor , a double irony that critics have long relished . |
| 8 | The thought flitted through her mind that Araminta had already done her worst . |
| 9 | The Jew is nothing more than a popular villain ( bear in mind that Marlowe had just had a success with The Jew Of Malta ) . |
| 10 | In any case , for him 7,500,000 votes was sufficient legitimacy , and it could , after all , be assumed by those of a religious turn of mind that God had already blessed his enterprise — could he have succeeded otherwise ? |
| 11 | ( It is also remarkable how commonly ideas similar to his have kept re-surfacing up to the present day , often without any apparent awareness on the part of their authors that Schleiermacher had already developed them , or that the subsequent movement of theology was to expose serious inadequacies in them . ) |
| 12 | Flying direct from Cairo to Paris and surviving the worst earthquakes that Egypt has ever suffered might sound excellent training for Paris Fashion Week , but proved to be more rigorous than the event strictly called for . |
| 13 | Spooky , but somehow the world seems kinda empty without his eccentric personality to relive the tedium that rock has since slid into . |
| 14 | The word of thanks that Jess had ready remained unspoken . |
| 15 | This meant in practice that magistrates had less say in determining what happened to children in trouble while social workers gained more say . |
| 16 | It has near perfect 50:50 front to rear weight distribution , giving the S2 a level of control that prompted one eminent motoring magazine to hail it as possibly ‘ the best handling road car that Porsche has ever made ’ . |
| 17 | The combinations of words that form compounds thereby become number sequences which are stored in a compound tree . |
| 18 | Musica Reservata , perhaps the most influential ( and certainly the most controversial ) ensemble that Britain has ever produced in this field , began in London 's Hampstead during the 1960s , when record shops were stocked with ‘ folk ’ and ‘ ethnic ’ music ; today the heady perfume of those years can still be caught in Tony Bingham 's emporium of rare and unusual musical instruments in that quarter of the city ( illus.4 ) . |
| 19 | They looked like equine stock , but they were half as big again as any horse that Rostov had ever encountered . |
| 20 | The French army , which the Duke still thought was massing south of the border , was probably the finest instrument that Napoleon had ever commanded . |
| 21 | The packet of Durex , bought in a chemist 's at Ipswich to meet an eventuality that Rosie had never allowed to materialize , lived permanently in his wallet ; he put them in a brown envelope in case a chance sighting made his intentions too crudely obvious . |
| 22 | It was the glossiest , darkest hair that Ronni had ever seen . |
| 23 | On the question of Poland , Lenin accepted much of Rosa Luxemburg 's case that circumstances had qualitatively changed since the time of Marx — ‘ the restoration of Poland , prior to the fall of capitalism , is highly improbable , but it can not be asserted that it is absolutely impossible ’ . |
| 24 | This technique was highly dangerous and required the skills that Cheshire had certainly acquired over a long period , but was equally within Gibson 's exceptional abilities . |
| 25 | A proper understanding of the electron and other spin-1/2 particles did not come until 1928 , when a theory was proposed by Paul Dirac , who later was elected to the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at Cambridge ( the same professorship that Newton had once held and that I now hold ) . |
| 26 | Well the reality is of course that Clare has already told us that internment did n't work the last time , it was badly done the last time . |
| 27 | As he walked away from the house , Mark had remembered that it was along this street , with its brightly — almost garishly — painted houses that Sophia had once seen a cluster of what she took to be exotic tropical fruits in one of the windows , only to realise that they were tomatoes put there to ripen . |
| 28 | They were more common than the spirals of the indigo snails that Sycorax had once used now and then , and a grave hazard the islanders understood always to avoid . |
| 29 | Came the day when a robed elder Inquisitor activated a palm-tattoo that Jaq had never seen before , and spoke to him the words : |
| 30 | There are now lots of signs that performance has indeed improved . |