Example sentences of "that [verb] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though the task — one that involved pedalling on a stationary bicycle — was equally demanding at all times , it was felt by the volunteers to be most difficult to achieve in the middle of the night . |
| 2 | She had not drawn her curtains , and she turned on her side , staring out at the velvety darkness , listening to the little noises that came wafting through the open window . |
| 3 | The studies with tyr T and ptyr 2 DNA suggest that actinomycin dissociates from each of its GC binding sites with rates that vary according to the surrounding sequences . |
| 4 | The company is also planning a major investment programme that includes moving to a new £24m building in Wythall , on the outskirts of Birmingham in 1994 . |
| 5 | Whatever the reason , it 's certainly all my female friends that stand gazing into the black puddles with me . |
| 6 | It was while I was in this slough of despond that my publisher rang to ask if I would like to read a manuscript that needed transforming into a readable book before it could be published . |
| 7 | And that meant going to the local airfield . |
| 8 | A band like that survived because of the existence of indie labels that kept going in the Eighties even though many of their major acts like The Smiths , and now The Fall and Blue Aeroplanes , deserted them for the majors . |
| 9 | Despite occasional lapses ( like the 100kg of highly enriched uranium that went missing in the early 1960s from a factory in Pennsylvania ) the system has not failed catastrophically . |
| 10 | The second level of discourse is constituted less formally in social and psychological practices that facilitate living within the formal system , including ways of breaking the formal rules . |