Example sentences of "that [verb] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you want to run a business that involves shipping an unwieldy machine across Pentland Firth and Scapa Flow , servicing orders from London , New York and Japan , and travelling to Glasgow and London to seek commissions from the smartest fashion houses , then Back Road in Stromness is probably as good a place as any to do it from . |
| 2 | And a breeze that failed to set a single leaf atremble . |
| 3 | In shaded or damp areas that tend to collect a slippery coating of algae , paving and steps should always be cleaned regularly . |
| 4 | A second view that a scientific theory is a complex structure of some kind is one that has received a great deal of attention in recent years . |
| 5 | However , the job itself , as we have already noted , is rarely the cause of disenchantment with agriculture — indeed , in a decade that has seen a renewed interest in the countryside among young people and a growing desire to escape from the urban rat-race , agriculture could have much to offer . |
| 6 | He hopes , as all prime ministers do , that the shake-up will put an end to the back-biting and snarling that has reached a nasty pitch since the Newbury by-election and local-council humiliations three weeks ago . |
| 7 | The recourse to respirators and cardiac pace-makers that has made a legal definition of death based upon the absence of breathing and heartbeat outmoded is a good example . |
| 8 | Its fossils have been investigated by cutting them into thin slices , a technique that has revealed a great deal about its anatomy , even down to the details of the structure of its blood vessels . |
| 9 | Violent headaches which may be from exposure to a dry cold wind that has stopped a nasal catarrh from flowing . |
| 10 | This is a valid expense of Shaw plc and it is the charging of this extra depreciation that has caused an equivalent amount of Wilde plc 's provision for unrealised profits to become realised ( see working 3 ) . |
| 11 | Select a strong healthy stem that has borne a good bloom , or is still carrying one that has gone over the top , and look at the stem lower down — to see if you can find nice plump axillary buds or eyes in the leaf axils — these are latent growth buds , and they are going to become your new roses ! |
| 12 | Will my right hon. Friend consider early-day motion 209 , which relates to a British company that has achieved a wonderful contract in Kenya ? |
| 13 | Once it meant political independence and freedom from commercial pressures , but given the increasingly prescriptive and bureaucratic nature of grant-aid that has become a dubious notion . |
| 14 | Then Protagoras went further in saying that ‘ man is the measure of things ’ , a saying that has become a secular creed for modern times . |
| 15 | Another factor that has become an increasing part of the business scene in the 1980s is the changing relationship between seniority and salary . |
| 16 | If we follow Wimsatt and Beardsley this far , we arrive at a position that has had a great deal of attraction for literary critics , that the object of criticism must be the literary text itself . |
| 17 | The speech , one of the annual set-pieces of American politics , is billed as the grand overture to a presidency that has had a rocky start . |
| 18 | One of the major social phenomena in Latin America since the Second world war and one that has had a profound effect on the social transformation of the continent , is the urban explosion . |
| 19 | This system , which is discussed in detail by Montgomery and Wallace leads to a fairly high number of accesses required to retrieve records from a well-aged file , i.e. one that has had a large number of additions or deletions since it was last loaded . |
| 20 | Since that time , a major change has occurred with respect to social mobility that has had a direct bearing on the emergence of Britain 's underclass , and this is considered in this chapter . |
| 21 | ( that stands for Kids of Survival ) , an artist cooperative that has had an enormous success in recent years , opened its first show at Mary Boone last month . |
| 22 | The New Criticism began , as 1 said , with the work of Richards and Eliot ; more exactly one can say that it began with the publication in 1924 of Richards 's Principles of Literary Criticism , a radical , polemical programme for the study of literature that has had an enormous impact on British criticism and scholarship in the past fifty years . |
| 23 | In any case , Allison , who discovered the joys of off-licence products and credit card abuse before Norman Lamont was knee high to the Mace , has spilled most of the gravy that has come his way in a life that has brought a different kind of riches . |
| 24 | ‘ It is this type of censorship that has brought a dehumanising character to the proceedings , and communication has made this blatantly obvious . |
| 25 | In looking at him , Maria sees an aspect of herself , Pierre sees the outcome of the jealousy — a death — and the reader witnesses an internal struggle that has found a public stage . |
| 26 | Fortunately the means do exist for a PC to suspend the operation of one program and run another and it is the exploitation of this facility that has produced a veritable rash of Desktop Accessory software . |
| 27 | Is there any country in the world that has attempted a half-way house in this , or a quarter-way house ? … |
| 28 | Can I ask erm what 's happening to the Harlow Playhouse based Youth theatre cos obviously that has left a big gap in performances cos there 's nothing in this programme . |
| 29 | A horse that has spotted a possible predator arouses other horses ' attention in this way , and they all prepare for flight . |
| 30 | But Scudamore 's decision could see him start clear favourite in a race that has lacked a dominant performer since the death of Mighty Mogul . |