Example sentences of "that [vb base] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know that land I bought off the Ministry of Defence ? |
| 2 | Indeed , my research on images of the gene in popular culture is revealing trends that make me wonder about the results of public participation . |
| 3 | Then Bjorn Again say ‘ thanks ’ in accents that make them sound like the chef out of The Muppet Show , and an Australian voice tells us to hurry up and spend our money on tickets for their next gig in Manchester , which , due to overwhelming demand , is happening next week . |
| 4 | Not poems that make you feel on the edge of space but poems that make you feel you contain space inside yourself . |
| 5 | That let us think of the understanding of action in individualist terms , typified by the rational choices of the individual microeconomic agent . |
| 6 | Damn it all , woman , I would have thought that talk you had in the car park with your two ‘ friends ’ would have knocked some sense into your stubborn little head , but obviously it did n't ! ’ |
| 7 | The upper pole of the sphere is the centre of the inversion and the increasingly small stars that approach it correspond to the increasingly large stars lying at greater and greater distances on the plane . |
| 8 | Rincewind looked around nervously for a tall figure in black ( wizards , even failed wizards , have in addition to rods and cones in their eyeballs the tiny octagons that enable them to see into the far octarine , the basic colour of which all other colours are merely pale shadows impinging on normal four-dimensional space . |
| 9 | These usually run sponsorship schemes that enable you to contribute to the cost of the up keep of the pony of your choice . |
| 10 | We shall examine the relation of this new humanism to the history of Western colonialism in a later chapter : it is not a question that Foucault himself elaborates in the course of what is claimed to be an , ethnology of Western culture' . |
| 11 | We were going to run that tape you made after the planning-committee meeting , but in the light of recent events it seems unwise . |
| 12 | But just as the policy determinants of welfare are multiple , and sometimes unexpected , so individuals ' welfare is influenced by phenomena that have nothing to do with the activity of the state . |
| 13 | It was asked , how do we respond when what appears to most commentators to be a profitable plant is closed on the basis of criteria that have nothing to do with the plant itself ? |
| 14 | Bats may even use the sensations that we call colour for their own purposes , to represent differences in the world out there that have nothing to do with the physics of wavelength , but which play a functional role , for the bat , similar to the role that colours play to us . |
| 15 | Last week the Wagner Development Group put to rest that work which began with the 1988 Wagner report with the fourth and last conference jointly organised by NISW and Community Care ( News , page 4 ) , and the coincidental publication of the third Wagner volume Positive Answers ( HMSO , £6.50 ) . |
| 16 | The very particularity of the sacrament forces upon the penitent the sense that it is on the here and now — that row we had with the neighbours , the bad temper with which we did the washing-up , this specific uncharitable thought or unchaste deed — that salvation and damnation depend . |