Example sentences of "a [noun] [that] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , the fourth way to underline effectiveness is to slide forwards slightly on the front foot , drawing the rear foot up an equal distance if there is a danger that otherwise the stance will stretch out . |
| 2 | I have a suspicion that somehow the heating was on by the time they reached their new destination . |
| 3 | It is a pledge that only the Conservative and Unionist Party can give . |
| 4 | Now , when you find management — the representatives of enterprise and risk capital — standing up in public and saying that they have a responsibility to keep prices stable , or lower them , that individual prices ought to be reported on by a commission , and that profits ought to attract special tax penalties if they exceed a certain level , then it is a sign that either the millennium has arrived or else something is going very seriously wrong indeed . |
| 5 | I have little interest in the debate about his supposed sexism beyond a feeling that both the praise and the criticism of his small talent have been absurdly exaggerated . |
| 6 | These wards had a separate nursing staff ; separate and usually more lavish facilities in the way of private rooms and different food ; and the patient was attended by his own general practitioner and by consultants of his own choice , with a proviso that normally the consultant would need to be attached to the hospital concerned . |
| 7 | The identity of the two activities is asserted , with a succinctness that only the build-up has made possible , in ‘ flowered acanthus ’ ( acanthus , a classical motif of architectural sculpture , is also the stylized representation of specific foliage ) , and also in ‘ Can you tell the down from the up ? ’ ( for there is no way of deciding whether ‘ nature ’ is the ‘ up ’ and ‘ art ’ the ‘ down ’ , or vice-versa ) . |
| 8 | Indeed this is a challenge that even the materialist should be willing to accept . |
| 9 | Purity was a self-consciously popular movement in a way that even the repeal campaign had not been . |
| 10 | ‘ This is an issue that neither the Government nor BP have grasped at the moment , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Theodora suspected that this was not an exercise that either the Bishop or the Archdeacon had had to perform before . |
| 12 | In 1861 the statistician and economist Cournot observed that ‘ the belief in philosophic truth has cooled off to such an extent that neither the public nor the academies any longer like to receive or to welcome works of this kind , except as products of pure scholarship or historical curiosity . ’ |