Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will the Secretary of State explain to the House the confusion that arose yesterday following the Prime Minister 's statement on the United Nations meeting ? |
| 2 | Paradoxically , ‘ people 's capitalism ’ has been ushered in at a time when the long-term trend towards a greater equality in wealth may have been reversed , and in a manner that has firmly excluded the poorest from acquiring capital assets themselves . |
| 3 | What to do — of anything — about the Italian Connection is a problem that has long perplexed the top administrators : some see it as a cancer at the heart of rugby ; others as a storm in a teacup of no consequence to what they see as larger and more insidious threat to amateurism in England and the rest of the ‘ Big Eight ’ . |
| 4 | The sigh of the waves sounding up that chute only emphasised the genial security of the chamber . |
| 5 | Donaldson was not , however , quite correct in stating that Burn always followed the Vitruvian principle of waiting to be sought . |
| 6 | This process implies that forecasts effectively became the annual budgets . |
| 7 | The Pacific Basin became the world 's key trading arena — and as a result the world was forced to take much more notice of Pacific Island groupings that had barely made the global news since World War Two . |
| 8 | It was a good start to a day that had already seen the Liberal Democrats improve by two points in the latest opinion polls . |
| 9 | Buxom cows , creamy-white and clean , with proper horns that had somehow escaped the French passion for pruning . |
| 10 | The new two-part report in February 1983 avoided direct reference to the Committee constitution that had so bedevilled the 1982 Extraordinary General Meeting , and it restricted its recommendation to clubhouse alterations , and to raising finance by a new bond issue which simultaneously meant redeeming the foundation bonds . |
| 11 | He was also a builder and developer of culture , and worked endlessly to set Germany upon a firm governmental and financial footing after the internal struggles that had long divided the German territories against one another . |
| 12 | But it was surely natural for it to feel a flutter of impatience with a fading tradition of Edwardian Modernism that had once invited the educated reader to find metaphysical foundations to his faith before he could believe life meant anything or was worth living . |
| 13 | It was ‘ How Soon Is Now ’ that had initially made the serious inroads into a vast American audience . |
| 14 | One problem that had consistently undermined the Urban Programme was its lack of objective definition ( National Audit Office , 1986 ) . |
| 15 | So much for Barry boasting at school that Rebel only ate the best . |
| 16 | It is not possible here to attempt to unravel the many strands of thought and practice that have historically influenced the contemporary curriculum in this way , but it may be useful to refer briefly to some of them before going on to consider the current pattern . |
| 17 | the sort of metal tables that have just got the four legs |
| 18 | Since these reports on the aged poor were first published in the 1960s , two changes have occurred that have radically changed the financial position of many of those who have retired . |
| 19 | If you increase the amount of reward the rats run faster than rats that have always received the large reward and if you decrease it the reverse happens ; the rats run more slowly than those that have always had the small reward . |
| 20 | If you increase the amount of reward the rats run faster than rats that have always received the large reward and if you decrease it the reverse happens ; the rats run more slowly than those that have always had the small reward . |