Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liz and her family love colour , although she admits that she gets into a rut buying navy and black ‘ because it goes with everything ’ . |
| 2 | Lisa B says again and again that she knows as a model going into music she has to prove herself . |
| 3 | ‘ Not only can we match any skin , from lightest to darkest , ’ he says , ‘ but we can give any woman the exact combination of texture , weight and coverage that she wants in a foundation or powder . |
| 4 | Her claims to be heard are based on her spiritual topic matter and the historical accident that she writes at a time when she believes more has been revealed about the divine and therefore she possesses ‘ more information ’ than previously . |
| 5 | The importance of the PPR is that it occurs at a time when the numbers of new susceptible hosts are increasing and so ensures the survival and propagation of the worm species . |
| 6 | ‘ The more effects you use the more you lose the original signal of the guitar and I like the fact that it sounds like a guitar and it sounds really twangy . |
| 7 | The difference found in these is difficult to explain away and I shall accept the conclusion that it derives from a change in the distinctiveness of the pre-trained cues . |
| 8 | This programme , titled Repelita , has been discussed by Ross ( 1986 ) who indicates that it operates via a series of 5-year plans . |
| 9 | Although such characteristics probably do play some secondary role , we find this interpretation unconvincing and suspect that it stems from a need to make a connection with what are perceived as the relatively more ‘ attractive ’ features of psychosis , rather than with those emphasised in descriptions of schizophrenia , a concept that has taken on almost entirely negative connotations . |
| 10 | I feel that it shows itself in the contrast between the child 's — we 're talking about children for the moment , although obviously there are dyslexic adults — it shows itself in the contrast between the person 's ability to express him or herself in words and their ability to put it down on paper and to read it off paper , and it 's this contrast which often arouses one 's suspicions that there might be some problem and , having gone into it a little , we find that it stems from a failure of the sensory motor system — the brain is n't processing the information it 's receiving through the ear and eye . |
| 11 | The value of Black 's theory lies in the fact that it allows for a conception of metaphor as the interaction between two discourses , but like Goodman 's concept of imperial appropriation , it has overtones of subjugation . |
| 12 | Some ministers perhaps keep it on because they feel that it caters for a section of the adult church with whom they are unwilling to compromise in the sermon . |
| 13 | Our dilemma is that it speaks of a level of separation from the world , the flesh and human reality which has already proved far too harmful to the churches in general and for women in particular for us to consider returning to it . |
| 14 | It stands alone as a study of infant care practices , but we hope that it contributes to a discussion of those factors which form Bergman 's ‘ critical mass . ’ |
| 15 | And the reason for this , is that it belongs to a tradition , a fashion if you like , of writing , which went dramatically out of , out of fashion immediately after World War One . |
| 16 | This is the amount of food that it takes for a fish to stay the same weight , i.e. just survive . |
| 17 | The essence of preaching or prayer is that it asks for a response now , not later . |
| 18 | I do not see the theological basis on which we can go on saying that the human species is of such overwhelming and unique and colossal significance that it justifies as a matter of course the institutional exploitation of billions of other species . |
| 19 | Some people believe that it helps in a night consultation to see a doctor you recognise . |
| 20 | He takes the idea of " culture " and disassembles it into its constituent parts ; he then goes on to argue , or assert , that it depends upon a class system , upon a variety of regionalism and upon the family . |
| 21 | In very high winds it is usually better to deliberately let the glider swing into wind so that it comes to a stop facing directly into wind . |
| 22 | Boulestin 's writing still seems so fresh and original that it comes as a shock to realize that these happenings occurred over forty years ago , and that his first cookery book Simple French Cooking for English Homes appeared in 1923 . |
| 23 | The palazzo looks so much like a 1950s cinema ( or is it a small-town railway station ? ) , with its curves and ornate super-structure , that it comes as a surprise to learn that it is seventeenth-century . |
| 24 | No , I mean that it comes as a surprise when you first experience it , and then after that you ca n't change the course of events . |
| 25 | The acrylic is then mixed in the stay-wet palette with a damp sponge , and the moisture in the sponge dilutes the acrylic paint so that it reacts as a watercolour . |
| 26 | Remember that Dickens was writing before Freud had begun to uncover the immense complexity of the human personality , before William James 's pioneering work on consciousness , which showed that our conscious mind is not solid but that it runs like a stream , swirling endlessly around symbols , associations from the past ; always moving , never at rest . |
| 27 | To be worth singling out for special attention , a semantic relation needs to be at least systematic , in the sense that it recurs in a number of pairs or sets of related lexical units ( it will be recalled that the expression lexical unit is used to refer to a lexical form together with a single distinguished sense ) . |
| 28 | Melt the remaining 3 oz. of clarified butter and pour it , tepid , over the tongue paste , so that it sets in a sealing layer about one eighth of an inch thick . |
| 29 | Be careful not to install a mirror in such a position that it looks like a door , which people might then try to walk through ! |
| 30 | In Masterson v. Holden it was held that the conduct was insulting because the magistrates might properly have taken the view that such objectionable conduct in a public street may well be regarded as insulting in that it suggests to a witness that he or she is somebody who would find such conduct in public acceptable himself or herself . |