Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have extracted a vast number of chocolates from automatic machines ; I have obtained cigarettes , toffee , scent , and other things that I dislike by the same machinery ; I have weighed myself with sublime results ; and this sense not only of the healthiness of popular things , but of their essential antiquity and permanence is still in possession of my mind . |
| 2 | However , once we start to distort the operation of open justice and the consideration of the matters , we may very well , through the operation of rumour and all its insidious effects that are so damaging in libel cases — the only justification that I know for the high damages granted in such cases — inflict more damage on justice than we realise . |
| 3 | ‘ I shall also be reviewing the way we get independent advice , so that the public will be able to see absolutely clearly that I act on the best possible evidence , without fear or favour . ’ |
| 4 | The Prime Minister answered a question that I put to him earlier this year by referring to the fact that he did not believe that I live in the real world . |
| 5 | The clerk , realising from Mirsal 's uniform that I belong to the sacred official class , merely bows his head to the storm , pays up and looks pleasant . |
| 6 | It was , therefore , with sadness that I read of the British Olympic Association 's petty , bigoted decision to withhold recognition of the Paralympics team . |
| 7 | I was a bit bored this lunchtime , so I though I 'd type in a bit of a report that I read in the Daily Mail about the Hibs game . |
| 8 | Well , the gravestone certainly stands by the porch and it does have a hole drilled through it , said to have been where the iron stake was hammered through the stone into the coffin , but I 'm afraid that I agree with the general consensus voiced around the bar of the Sun Inn and the George and Dragon that George Hodgson was guilty of nothing but old age , that the only thing he sucked were his gums , and that the hole in the stone was made for a railing or gatepost . |
| 9 | Casements on eternity , these great patient masterpieces ought to calm the mind and nourish the spirit , but seldom do , and its rare that I emerge from the National Gallery feeling I have really taken advantage of what 's on offer . |
| 10 | He played with his children and then suggested that she go to the nearby Windmill Inn for some beer , as travelling had parched his throat . |
| 11 | However , we recommend that you keep to the usual recommended calorie intakes for weight loss , and reap the additional advantages in ease and speed , rather than try to eat even fewer calories than usually recommended in a diet . |
| 12 | If you find that you worry about the imagined outcome of the bout and fear the worst or if you have a racing pulse , then I would say you are over-aroused and in danger of throwing everything away . |
| 13 | Among the women themselves there 's the feeling that you hope for the best and expect the worst , a deep pessimism that patriarchy rules and scarpers without paying the bills . |
| 14 | Anything that you design in the ORIGINAL shaping section can of course be saved on to disk for future use . |
| 15 | As with the STANDARD version , shapes that you design in the ORIGINAL section can be superimposed on to stitch patterns created in the COLOUR PATTERN section . |
| 16 | For short time , high temperature bakery items at 200°C–220°C , pre-heating at 300°C will ensure that you bake at the correct temperature ( on average 80° C will be lost whilst loading the oven ) |
| 17 | Included in the kit is a bell push that you attach to the front door frame , 9 metres of bell wire , complete with cable clips ( if you need more than around 8 metres , Smiths recommends a bell transformer is used , connected to the mains electricity ) , the door chime and securing screws for fixing to wood . |
| 18 | Please acknowledge receipt of this letter and confirm that you agree to the above conditions . |
| 19 | And there was a , a book , I always regret not pho photostatting it , where one of the people who write on health er made the point that you start with the full page in the book , and the outer band of it were all pictures of the world , and then it was erm a particular sort of location in a town , and then it was a house and garden and then it was a room in a house . |
| 20 | It goes without saying that you start with the bottom step , to prevent the concrete falling through to the one below . |
| 21 | ‘ Do I take it that you work for the same man as the two who broke into my house ? ’ she asked . |
| 22 | The operation itself is usually purely formal , and only just stirs up enough dust to make you cough a little , but it is a sign that you belong to the higher or fit-to-be-dusted classes . |
| 23 | ‘ Are you saying , ’ Southgate accused , ‘ that you sympathise with the dead Duke ? ’ |
| 24 | Erm , and I feel very strongly , and I urge members to consider that we should support this as a matter of principle , to help er , that group of our society , I me , I was going to suggest an amendment that we ask for the average age of this council erm , |
| 25 | I want it to have the money for the investment that it needs to build the phone service that we require for the 1990s . |
| 26 | This paradox about being able to predict one 's actions is closely related to the problem I mentioned earlier : Will the ultimate theory determine that we come to the right conclusions about the ultimate theory ? |
| 27 | It is only at this point that we come to the central theme , the reason why all those who wish to understand the problem of drugs in sport should read this book . |
| 28 | What we are actually going to do today is to look using this data , is to look at structural stability , right , we 're going to ask ourselves are the parameters that we estimate over the entire sample , are they constant over time . |
| 29 | But essentially all these tests do the same thing because they 're seeing whether the parameters that we estimate over the entire sample are robust over all sub-samples , right , we ca n't , we would n't bother testing over all sub-samples though we can do , it 's just if we have good reason to believe that behaviour in one sub-sample different for behaviour in another E G use er Chow test or equivalently a dummy variable on the intercept to see whether there was any change . |
| 30 | Later decades have seen other organizations use the term so that we speak in the twentieth century about the trade union ‘ movement ’ or the ‘ peace movement ’ ; we seldom think to describe the Conservative Party , the Confederation of British Industry or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as ‘ movements ’ . |