Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | In desperation she slammed the stop-cock open and precious oxygen knifed outwards in an icy cloud that she aimed at the farthest point . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We much regret that this involved a net loss of some jobs but if we are to remain competitive against increasing overseas competition , it is essential that we operate with the lowest possible cost base and the most efficient facilities . |
| 5 | How is it that what seem like random discharges from a part of the brain that we share with the humblest reptiles can end up as the elaborate , coherent , cognitive activity we know as dreaming ? |
| 6 | Wordsworth discovered and established those kinds of poetry which would best suit him ; it is in the German period that we travel to the furthest limits of the ‘ Wordsworthian ’ vision , in poems such as the ‘ Lucy ’ and ‘ Matthew ’ sequences , which are at one level blindingly clear , but in terms of prose exposition almost impossible to ‘ explain' . |
| 7 | He ensures that they get to the best conferences and from time to time will organize his own , bringing in the best speakers . |
| 8 | And these were n't any old typefaces , they were Linotype 's which meant that they conformed to the highest typographic standards the industry was likely to require . |
| 9 | Calfa stressed that his government remained committed to the development of nuclear power , but would in future ensure that it conformed to the highest Western standards . |
| 10 | The only natural light came from an extremely tiny oblong of glass in the roof , but this was so filmy , and so splattered with accumulated bird lime , that it let in the flimsiest of light . |
| 11 | ‘ The only natural light came from an extremely tiny oblong of glass in the roof , but this was so filthy , and so splattered with accumulated bird lime , that it let in the flimsiest of light . |
| 12 | In fact I knew nothing of his family life — only that he came from the poorest part of the town , a row of " yards " containing tumbledown cottages , some of them evacuated because of their condition . |
| 13 | Fran had read all she could about Luke Calder before the interview and knew that he came from the poorest part of Glasgow and that he had got to where he was today by dint of sheer hard work and determination , but , looking at him now , she found it hard to imagine that he had come from anything but a moneyed background . |
| 14 | One of them said he was ‘ so fussy that he moaned about the smallest things — like the position of Miss Cuka 's arms in a scene ’ . |