Example sentences of "that [noun prp] [verb] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to say that Hewison denies outright the possibility of a career — his concentration throughout the book on the films of Derek Jarman speaks otherwise — it is more that the pessimism of his viewpoint stops him from looking for them . |
| 2 | The USA insisted that Arafat denounce both the attack and the PLF leader , Mahmoud Abul Abbas , a member of the PLO Executive Committee . |
| 3 | The fact that Bunn had both the guarantee and the charge drawn up and executed both by the husband and himself on Friday , 23 July , and his evidence that the wife 's attendance on the Monday was , so far as he was concerned , a mere formality , shows that all that remained was to get the wife 's signature in accordance with bank policy . |
| 4 | He realized that his last chance was to make his captors believe that Donna knew where the book they sought was hidden , whatever it was . |
| 5 | Fleet diesel sales grew by 15.6 per cent last year , and Brookman naturally wants it known that Peugeot picked up the lion 's share . |
| 6 | It was on an earlier trip to Germany that Brenda took up the challenge to pass her bike test . |
| 7 | Negotiations for the player 's £60,000 transfer to Parkhead are ongoing with Bangor insisting that Byrne plays out the season here . |
| 8 | The proliferation of regional ale brands since the sector 's launch in 1988 made it difficult to build a national product that would kick-start it in the way that Perrier set off the mineral water market in the seventies . |
| 9 | In previous work , the investigator has developed a means to investigate children 's understanding of recursive beliefs in story characters , that is , whether they can understand that John does not know that Mary knows where the ice cream van is . |
| 10 | It was at this point that Venturous took over the job completely and we holed up discreetly just round the corner in Helford River to await news of the suspect 's departure , to be signalled to us by our Investigation colleagues ashore . |
| 11 | I think I must have realized that Jean-Claude had neither the nerve nor the genuine confidence to take up an appointment in a language he did not speak . |
| 12 | These were the trends of mail order sales , the percentage and identity of the returns , the sources of manufacture , market research results , plans for mail order catalogues in the future and that Harris knew intimately the chairman of the manufacturers . |
| 13 | But as Greenblatt points out , there is evidence to suggest that Stanley made up the part about burning Shakespeare to heighten the effect of his story . |
| 14 | The truth is that Cortot had neither the time nor the inclination to polish his performances to a high degree of perfection . |
| 15 | The traditional story is that Edison sketched out the idea to his mechanic John Kruesi , who built it and bet a box of cigars it would not work . |
| 16 | She realised that Urquhart had neither the grace nor sensitivity to apologise and she wondered whether it was due to shyness or boorishness . |