Example sentences of "[that] [adv] [prep] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With equal conviction a neighbouring headteacher might adopt quite a different approach — arguing that only by building a curriculum and a school day around the child can learning be effective and meaningful . |
| 2 | Many practices are worried that only by taking a fund can they retain some independence from what they fear may be increasingly arbitrary or incomplete control by the family health services authority or its eventual successor . |
| 3 | So you have to change that deliberately by typing a Y. |
| 4 | There is no record of its occupying caves at any time , but it must always be remembered that a woodland species in cave country could drop its pellets from the tree in which it is roosting to fall into or near cave openings , so that even without entering a cave the pellets of such a predator could accumulate inside the cave ( see p. 96 ) . |
| 5 | One of the techniques of cohesion ( see Chapter 5 , p. 100 ) is that instead of repeating a phrase , it is possible to use what are called grammatical words like pronouns " it " , " he " , " she " , " they " , or demonstratives like " this " . |
| 6 | He suggests , for example , that instead of making a care order an interim care order should have been made with a view to reviewing the progress of rehabilitation in six or nine months time . |
| 7 | As to the exact locality of the pain , it was difficult to convey that it had grown , and that instead of having a pain he was now contained inside it . |
| 8 | The clerk stopped for a moment and whispered to Mr Albert , who , realizing that instead of selling a pair of jeans he really had a customer with money to spend , hurried towards Hank . |