Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the [det] " 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 | Neither did he , for the moment , recognise her own diffidence as an indication that she felt in the same way about him . |
| 3 | Sabatini had sympathy for her , admitting that she went through the same ordeal before winning the US Open in 1990 . |
| 4 | ‘ Do I take it that you work for the same man as the two who broke into my house ? ’ she asked . |
| 5 | That we grip through the many senses , and striped wasps |
| 6 | I hope that future generations will never have to suffer the , and endure the noise that we did for the same purpose . |
| 7 | We hope to juxtapose paintings that they painted at the same site at the same time ’ . |
| 8 | Many people find that they return to the same company over and over again , or take up a permanent job offer at a place they have been working for a while . |
| 9 | As neighbours of the enormously powerful and expansionist United States , the Canadians had a direct and abiding interest in maintaining for their part the fiction that they belonged to the same political entity of the rich and powerful United Kingdom . |
| 10 | Apart from errors and omissions these are defined in the National Accounts in such a way that they come to the same value . |
| 11 | It is interesting to note that they come from the same stable that brought us the national insurance surcharge . |
| 12 | It should not be assumed from these statements that they do not move at all-they can be quite active at high tide by night but that they remain within the same general area of shore . |
| 13 | Most speakers would agree , I think , that Mary wore a red dress and Mary wore a blue dress were contraries ( assuming , of course , that they refer to the same occasion , and that Mary , as would be normal , wore only one dress at a time ) ; the colour terms refer to the predominant colour of the dress , and there can be only one predominant colour . |
| 14 | Mosasaurs , when not head-butting each other , were deep-diving sea hunters , and evidence of avascular necrosis in their bone structure hinted that they suffered in the same way as did human divers — they had frequent spells of the ‘ bends ’ . |
| 15 | He says safety is paramount you have to make sure the balloons are at the same temperatures and that they keep at the same height . |
| 16 | Relatively little is known of the first great temples , which were built between 2000 and 1900 BC and destroyed by earthquakes in 1700 BC , except that they stood on the same sites as the later temples . |
| 17 | Okay , now I 've just used this one example , but if you look at erm each other and one another there is also a reflective pronoun to find that they work in the same way in the appropriate antecedents and it also works for quantifier pronoun relations every girl admires herself which is fine but herself admired every girl does n't make a whole lot of sense . |
| 18 | The main characteristic of rejuvenation terraces and breaks of slope in the valley side caused by the same process is that the terraces are essentially paired , so that they occur at the same elevation on both sides of the valley . |
| 19 | It may be shown ( using the criterion that they lead to the same set of equations ) that by adding the so-called leakage inductances to the ideal transformer the two representations ( Fig. 4.11 ) become equivalent . |
| 20 | This is like forensic science , where the more ‘ matches ’ one finds between two fingerprints , the greater the certainty that they belong to the same person . |
| 21 | The tags in the corpus must also be translated so that they conform to the same tagset as this new lexicon . |
| 22 | One popular religious writer who thinks that they believe in the same god is John Hick . |
| 23 | All we can reasonably conclude is that they happened at the same time . |
| 24 | It is thought that many of the jury became wealthy men , through bribes by both Blount and Dudley , so that they arrived at the same conclusion — a conclusion that ‘ After a searching enquiry , they could find no presumption of evil doing . ’ |
| 25 | The leaf area/weight was as efficient in the sense that it took about the same time to detect comparable differences . |
| 26 | Secondly , in an exchange like the following ( from Lyons , 1977a : 668 ) : ( 94 ) A : I 've never seen him B : That 's a lie the pronoun that does not seem to be anaphoric ( unless it is held that it refers to the same entity that A 's utterance does , i.e. a proposition or a truth value ) ; nor does it quite seem to be discourse-deictic ( it refers not to the sentence but , perhaps , to the statement made by uttering that sentence ) . |
| 27 | As for the residence requirement , despite the fact that it applied in the same way to British nationals , it constituted covert discrimination on grounds of nationality in so far as , by the very nature of things , nationals of other member states were less likely to be ‘ resident ’ in the United Kingdom than British citizens . |
| 28 | These units could then be regarded as repeatedly subdivisible to the point that the final dimension is so minute that it stands in the same relation to the highest human capacity for feeling as does the single cell to the supreme achievement of cellular development , which is the physical human being . |
| 29 | As Dulé had never heard his mother tongue , he and his new companions could only surmise , from the similar flare of their nostrils , the high broad set of their shoulders on slender frames , and the deep oval plunge of their chins on thin , round necks , that he came from the same part of the hinterland of West Africa , was of the Iqbo people in his origins . |
| 30 | Much of his youth was spent in Clermont , a city where the latter had been bishop , and his mentor there was Avitus , whose name indicates that he came from the same family as Sidonius 's father-in-law . |