Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [that] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , the fourth way to underline effectiveness is to slide forwards slightly on the front foot , drawing the rear foot up an equal distance if there is a danger that otherwise the stance will stretch out . |
| 2 | I have a suspicion that somehow the heating was on by the time they reached their new destination . |
| 3 | It is a pledge that only the Conservative and Unionist Party can give . |
| 4 | Now , when you find management — the representatives of enterprise and risk capital — standing up in public and saying that they have a responsibility to keep prices stable , or lower them , that individual prices ought to be reported on by a commission , and that profits ought to attract special tax penalties if they exceed a certain level , then it is a sign that either the millennium has arrived or else something is going very seriously wrong indeed . |
| 5 | I have little interest in the debate about his supposed sexism beyond a feeling that both the praise and the criticism of his small talent have been absurdly exaggerated . |
| 6 | These wards had a separate nursing staff ; separate and usually more lavish facilities in the way of private rooms and different food ; and the patient was attended by his own general practitioner and by consultants of his own choice , with a proviso that normally the consultant would need to be attached to the hospital concerned . |
| 7 | The identity of the two activities is asserted , with a succinctness that only the build-up has made possible , in ‘ flowered acanthus ’ ( acanthus , a classical motif of architectural sculpture , is also the stylized representation of specific foliage ) , and also in ‘ Can you tell the down from the up ? ’ ( for there is no way of deciding whether ‘ nature ’ is the ‘ up ’ and ‘ art ’ the ‘ down ’ , or vice-versa ) . |
| 8 | Indeed this is a challenge that even the materialist should be willing to accept . |
| 9 | Purity was a self-consciously popular movement in a way that even the repeal campaign had not been . |