Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] that [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's only after that that once again she begins to be worried at possible consequences ‘ What if God hath seen and death ensue , then I shall be no more and Adam wedded to another Eve ’ and therefore , of course , ‘ Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe ’ . |
| 2 | It would have prospered had it not been for the disastrous fire of 1935 that largely destroyed it . |
| 3 | He was well-known by sight to all the warren , for his fur was entirely grey , with patches of near-white that now caught the moonlight as he sat scratching himself without speaking . |
| 4 | It is clear despite this that not enough is being done , and the seriousness of the position is still not fully realized by the average person . |
| 5 | you know cos I told you Mike actually fancies one of these that actually fits right in the fireplace |
| 6 | Such a miracle would have dwarfed all miracles recorded in the Bible , and Frederick Temple , who in 1896 became Archbishop of Canterbury , pointed out in his Bampton Lecture of 1884 that neither Darwin nor Huxley had claimed to know how life had come to animate inert matter . |
| 7 | But in the four transcriptions of Rachmaninov songs recorded here ( the first is the ubiquitous Vocalise ) , of a series of fourteen that Wild made in 1981 , his prestigious pianism is let off the leash , most exhilaratingly in the fourth , ‘ floods of Spring ’ , in which floods of notes offer the pianist a platform for some hair-raising virtuosity . |
| 8 | She put into words the first question of many that instantly sprang into her head . |
| 9 | The development of Clayton 's first course — a guinea fowl terrine with apple , celery and shallot dressing — is typical of many that now come out of kitchen . |
| 10 | Yet he appeared surprised to find in Kursk guberniia near the end of 1922 that even villages near to the Moscow railway line had received their last single copies some months earlier . |
| 11 | However , for the majority of those that eventually retired early , redundancy appears to have been the deciding factor . |
| 12 | The rowing boat near the weir — only this time they had gone too far and Uncle Albert was not strong enough to row them back to safety ; the study at Uncle Albert 's house looking warm and friendly and inviting ; the professor beetle shouting rude instructions at some little beetles that had got into difficulty ; again a glimpse of her uncle 's study ; then a turnstile — one of those that only turn one way , so once you have passed through it you ca n't get back ; playful light beams now shrieking with fear as they hurtle past the window to their destruction ; walking up the down-escalator and not being able to get anywhere ; yet another brief snatch of the study … |
| 13 | An exception might be if your local paper is one of those that sometimes use colour on their pages . |
| 14 | erm I mean really ideally Mike would like one of those that actually fits perfectly |
| 15 | On a brief evening stroll Maxim had also noticed a few tourists who had clearly solved the problem of eating whilst asleep ; it is an oddity of American that only tourists are truly fat never the locals . |
| 16 | There was a loud spat , a brilliant flash of blue that almost burned out his night vision , and a sharp smell of ozone and cinders . |
| 17 | These majestic stones , flecked with orange and white lichen , are the last of thousands that once littered the prehistoric landscape . |
| 18 | Still in chains DO you remember the French student riots of 1968 that almost toppled General de Gaulle ? |
| 19 | It 's small links like this that only fit together if you are quite alert when reading the book and remember small factors such as a yellow ribbon in a drawer and a gold locket around someone 's neck . |
| 20 | We agree with Pondy that instead ‘ we should be trying to document the variety of styles available ’ ( 1978 : 90 ) . |
| 21 | Firstly , I am reporting to you that there has been in the current year additional efficiency savings over and above those that previously anticipated er at the level of two hundred thousand pounds and so we are assuming in the budget erm that those can continue into ninety four , five and thereafter , and then we 'll see the resolutions have been amended to take that into account and the text of the erratum sheet explains how that 's been done . |
| 22 | The permission of the Chief Constable was also a disadvantage in the field because it raised doubts among respondents about the purpose of the researcher 's questions over and above those that naturally arise from the political situation in Northern Ireland . |
| 23 | Even so , the power to predict and control the environment is enormously enhanced by a capacity to associate neutral events with those that already have some importance for the animal . |
| 24 | ‘ The car leaves behind it two long trails of squashy corpses , the tyres and wheels become encrusted with them , while the running boards are soon black with those that still live and crawl . ’ |
| 25 | Although this commonsense approach is probably used in most mother and baby units , including those that now admit mothers with chronic illness for preliminary assessment and subsequent training in mothering skills , the practice is open to criticism . |
| 26 | She is so suffused with magic that even her flesh is cold and pale , and her limbs are long and lean like icicles . |
| 27 | For those that actually trust people like the electricity and the gas company and the local council sticking grubby little fingers into their bank accounts without let or hindrance , Finchley , North London-based Telesmart Ltd has launched ADDACS Connect , an MS-DOS software package designed to process changes to those iniquitous direct debit transactions automatically : direct debit originators can link their computers to the Automatic Direct Debit Amendment and Cancellation System provided by the UK Bankers Automated Clearing Service , to retrieve direct debit changes ; the £1,000 package is available now . |
| 28 | It is doubtless true that following his realisation in 1934 that even in post-revolutionary Soviet society men and women were ultimately not liberated from the anguish and fear of individual death and obliteration , Nizan was forced to adopt a more modest , less euphoric tone when praising Soviet achievements . |
| 29 | The foresters used this customary toll as a pretext for extortion : the Charter of the Forest therefore conceded in 1217 that henceforth cheminage might be exacted only by foresters of fee paying the king a farm for their bailiwicks . |
| 30 | In the event , however , it was a glossy book from the Town Planning Ministry in 1986 that really took the message to the public — and that message was so remarkable that it deserves examination in some detail . |