Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [adv] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It is indeed strange that Anselm never referred the question to Ivo , bishop of Chartres : he knew him as a friend , but not apparently as the greatest authority on Canon Law in northern Europe . |
2 | Knowing that Mr Radley 's word was his bond , that judge gladly accepted the offer . |
3 | The detailed structure of the individual plates that combine together to build the skeleton are the basis for the classification of the corals , as well as the general form . |
4 | He had been in Britain for over twenty years and never had any problem or contact with the police except for one occasion when he was with Mum on a shopping expedition and police officers approached him and said , ‘ You fit the description of a guy that has just mugged a woman down the road . ’ |
5 | It is a habit that has historically enjoyed a measure of success in maintaining control over and transmitting limited knowledge to young people in large numbers in the physically restricted space of the school classroom . |
6 | Nearly all the 65 contributors work in the United Kingdom , a bias that has slightly influenced the selection of topics and viewpoints . |
7 | Their debacle against Essex , when the last eight wickets went down in the final 20 overs to Mark Ilott and John Childs , reflected a temperamental flaw that has repeatedly dogged the county . |
8 | Serbia , the only republic that has not signed the EC plan , has not said if it will accept . |
9 | Selling off an organisation that has n't made a profit for 40 years always looked like being the toughest possible test of the privatisers ' skills , and recent developments are not making things any easier |
10 | Right is there any body that has n't asked a question who would like to ask one ? |
11 | Right is there anybody that has n't asked a question . |
12 | I 've yet to come across a school anywhere in the country that has n't welcomed the opportunity to play host to a pair of teachers . |
13 | Anybody that has n't got a plate take it . |
14 | Then the next one spoke was er one of the Yorkshire miners , one of these er that has n't got a job to back to . |
15 | Obviously , if your document uses Monotype 's Times New Roman then there 's no earthly point in sending it to a bureau that has n't got the face . |
16 | In contrast with Bali , the Fipa as described by Willis provide an example of a hierarchical and centralized society that has successfully generalized a norm of peaceful interaction originating at the local community level . |
17 | Equally controversial has been the recently-introduced Employment Contracts Act that has drastically undercut the powers of the trade unions — to the extent that New Zealand may now be in breach of International Labour Organisation provisions . |
18 | But no-one in Tokyo dares say with any confidence it spells the end of a collapse that has nearly halved the value of Japanese shares since 1989 . |
19 | The marketing agents , Telemundi , have found themselves with the unenviable task of selling an event that has yet to capture the imagination of public and sponsors in a soccer-mad-country at a time when all media resources are concentrated on the approaching Olympic Games . |
20 | They are part of a three-year programme that has already seen the opening of six new nurseries with a further eight expected to open later this year . |
21 | The 5.3-litre engine and 3-speed automatic gearbox have gone replaced by the 6-litre V12 and 4speed gearbox that has already done a lot to transform the XJ saloons . |
22 | Keegan refuses to publicly condemn a competition that has already provoked a welter of criticism but has asked the Football League to re-examine the format of using Italian referees in England and vice-versa . |
23 | This process is particularly interesting because it involves two types of irreversible physicochemical changes ( problems in a general subject area that has recently seen the award of the Nobel Prize for physics to Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ) . |
24 | The hand of fate that has recently dealt the Brandywell club some crushing blows seems intent on turning the screw further . |
25 | One firm that has recently installed a CAD system is the Somerset shoemaker Clarks Ltd . |
26 | Scotland 's 1954 World Cup team will go down in history as one of the most disastrous and ill-prepared rabble that has ever represented the country abroad . |
27 | In the widely read book Human Aggression , the psychoanalyst Anthony Storr draws our attention to the ‘ sombre fact that we are the cruellest and most ruthless species that has ever walked the earth ’ ( 1968 : i ) . |
28 | Such ambiguities only add to the difficulties of a plan that has still to win the approval of the Bosnian Serbs . |
29 | This is a severe example of a kind of reviewing that has consistently created a line of demarcation between British and European ( or American ) taste . |
30 | The advantage for the butterfly is that if a bird seizes it by the wings , and is reminded of some earlier unpleasant experience with the species and its toxin , it will release the insect unharmed : a bluejay that has never seen a monarch butterfly will readily catch and eat it ; but within 15–30 minutes the toxins in the butterfly 's body cause the bird to vomit , and one such encounter is sufficient to make a bluejay avoid monarchs thereafter . |