Example sentences of "that [vb base] [prep] [art] [noun sg] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Clinton administration is slowly turning its attention to the $14 billion that the US government will spend this year on basic research , conducting a review of six multi-billion-dollar interagency initiatives and convening a panel of senior administrators to draw up programmes for future budgets that correspond to the president 's domestic policy goals . |
| 2 | The centre piece of the act is the onymous toad , unique among the frogs and toads because it has lost the horny pads ( the so-called nuptial pads ) that grow on the male 's hands during the breeding season and because it mates on dry land rather than in water . |
| 3 | The normal price for any given daily supply of fish , which we are now seeking , is the price which will quickly call into the fishing trade capital and labour enough to obtain that supply in a day 's fishing of average good fortune ; the influence which the price of fish will have upon capital and labour available in the fishing trade being governed by rather narrow causes such as these . |
| 4 | I took him into the business with me , you know , after all that bother at the Turk 's Head . ’ |
| 5 | The assistant recorder determined that issue in the plaintiff 's favour . |
| 6 | The assessment was based on Neuman 's model , which examines the stresses that impinge on an individual 's equilibrium . |
| 7 | Tests include stack checking ( ie file formats ) , identifying system calls , portability issues and dynamic parameter tests that run with the software 's own quality assurance suite . |
| 8 | A variety of exercises that draw on the student 's own experience and creative imagination . |
| 9 | This is a way of showing what an owl 's pellet looks like when it comes out of the bird , and then ‘ dissecting ’ it to show the various bones and other indigestible bits and pieces that pass through the owl 's system . |
| 10 | that tremble on the mower 's stethoscope . |
| 11 | A distinction should be drawn first of all between limits on the discretion of the directors that result from the company 's objects clause , and limits that depend on fiduciary duties . |
| 12 | Ed and Johnny were sporting foolish party hat and blowing those paper things that uncurl like a chameleon 's tongue and go baarrrp . |
| 13 | Its production is not a once-and-for-all process but a tool in its own right , complementing the many other processes that contribute to the Museum 's development . |
| 14 | The right of shareholders to restrain directors from entering into transactions that fall outside the company 's objects is preserved , however , and the directors remain liable to the company for any loss that may result from entering into such transactions , and to that extent the doctrine of ultra vires survives . |
| 15 | The 800 species of hermit crab that occur in the world 's oceans are distinguished from all other crabs by living inside the unoccupied shells of marine snails . |
| 16 | It is well known , indeed , that Charles Darwin accepted these Lamarckian notions , but what Lamarckism stands for today is the notion that adaptive changes that occur within an animal 's own lifetime somehow are imprinted upon the genome and thus become part of its heritage . |
| 17 | Judge Byron Robb chose it to rule that work on the cult 's nuclear bunkers in Montana had to stop , after their fuel oil tanks were found to be leaking . |
| 18 | It is clearly not Amnesty 's view that damage to a woman 's marriage prospects is the sole or main reason for opposing rape . |