Example sentences of "that [vb -s] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 All round , an interesting tool , that sits comfortably in the hand , is kind to the elbow , and does n't cost an arm and a leg .
2 That sits oddly with the fact that the board was reconstituted as recently as May 1990 and has been rationalised , streamlined and reinvigorated since that date .
3 I think that covers most of the items in the agreement , erm , with some identification of new work that needs to be done during the year , but recognizing that during the course of the year , we have succeeded in following the main points from the agreement that was , was put forward er , I think , it was December this time last year .
4 That stands away from the wall .
5 If one looks at that erm built area where we are now that looks perhaps like a heron on a perch , and looks immediately east of that , you have Strensall Common , most of which is a restricted area .
6 I left the motorway system east of the centre of Birmingham and , with my map of the area open beside me , headed into the grey and depressing urban blight that lies to the south of the city or , rather , that lies all around the city .
7 I hope that the results of the public inquiry will be announced shortly and that the advance works on the link can be started before the end of the year , although that depends wholly on the outcome of the general election , because , as I said , the Opposition are committed to reducing expenditure on roads and vital pieces of road infrastructure such as that for which my hon. Friend rightly argues would be threatened by a Labour Government .
8 The question of er P P G thirteen and transportation I think is vitally important , York will come into the position that Chester er where I was just at a transportation enquiry recently , it 's a very similar sort of city , it 's not quite the same as Cambridge , where Cambridge is leaping ahead on quite , some would say draconian transportation measures , York in the forceable future will have to look at specialist transportation measures , that 's important in terms of the planning policy guidance that is out , it 's also in the white paper , it may be in draft P P G thirteen , it 's also in I think it 's P P G twenty two , renewable energy , that we should now be looking at developments which is closer to work , that links then to the question of sustainability and viability of a new settlement , I am not aware , and and I put it guardedly in those terms , of any significant employment existing or proposed in any of the new settlement proposals .
9 Erm , now you could n't do that with that and that sounds intuitively like the kind of expression that we might have , just because I ca n't think of one does n't mean that
10 That sounds more like a pose defiantly struck than a programme of reform : more Byron than Dickens .
11 That sounds more like an EastEnders plot .
12 As that applies also to the subject of mining , I shall give that advice to the hon. Member for Gordon , who spoke on a subject about which he knows very little — and it showed .
13 That applies even to the minority in the Labour party who believe in the nuclear deterrent .
14 That applies especially to the Arbroath batsman , George Salmond , who showed little signs of the bad calf cut , sustained during a recent football match and which necessitated 18 stitches .
15 That bodes well for the government 's aim to pay the East German bills without either raising taxes or boosting borrowing greatly .
16 ‘ A number of first year under-graduates are coming through , and that bodes well for the future .
17 The Environment Secretary , Chris Patten , has set a figure of just below three hundred million pounds as his own suggestion of what the Council should be spending next year , but that falls well below the figures calculated by the ruling Labour and Democrat Coalition .
18 However , that comes best through the co-operation of European countries rather than through competence under the European treaty .
19 I have had the pleasure of seeing some welcome sights in my time , but that comes very near the top of the list .
20 Lateral is the word given to a shoot , also called a side-shoot , that arises sideways from a leader .
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