Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't really believe that eating a McDonald 's a couple of times a week , as I do , is bad for anybody , ’ said commercial director Lee Soden . |
| 2 | They buy a cot , a changing table , a convertible buggy/pram , a baby seat to go in the back of the car , a changing mat , a night-light , a sterilizing unit , five large bottles plus teats , five small bottles plus teats , five baby-grows ( newborn size ) , three undervests ( newborn size ) , three pairs of socks ( newborn size ) , a mobile with four fluffy ducks dancing around a clockwork mechanism that plays the Brahms Lullaby , a wallpaper frieze with chickens on it which Paul has to put up in the nursery , a van-sized packet of newborn nappies , a tub of cream to put on the kid 's bottom , a bucket of white emulsion to freshen up the nursery walls , a lampshade with more chickens on it to brighten up the nursery light , a parasol to go on the buggy and a breast pump for expressing milk . |
| 3 | He remembers writing a document outlining the new range of M50 ( Elite ) , M51 ( a front-engined four-seater V8 ) , M70 ( a wedge-shaped mid-engined car that became the Esprit ) and M71 ( a mid-engined V8 ) . |
| 4 | The Centre — with raids in mind — had devised plans for a relatively silent , low silhouette landing craft that became the LCA ( Landing Craft , Assault ) , and produced some other worthwhile ideas , including methods for supplying troops by air . |
| 5 | Her frustration over the chaos that became the Cleveland controversy is palpable . |
| 6 | This seemed like the hovercraft 's end , but it spawned the technology that made the AP1-88 possible . |
| 7 | It is exactly the same tension that made The Smiths a success , and in their low-key way I suspect that Felt will keep some of the same cult appeal now they are gone . |
| 8 | It was the influx of these outstanding scholars that made the Warburg an internationally renowned research institute and set a pattern for the future . |
| 9 | It was these , not so much the explosions per se that made the Krakatoa eruption the most lethal on record . |
| 10 | He saw , with that sharp acumen that made the Heinz organisation famous , that Portland Place could not absorb the expanding requirements of a British Architectural Library , an architecture centre , and a professional institution . |
| 11 | I was reminded of this , fresh as I was from reading some of the slanging that made the Bermondsey bye-election so appealing , when looking at a joint release from six trades unions . |
| 12 | The track that crosses the BCR at Longville Bridge runs below the railway at this point , and perhaps the screen was for the benefit of users of the track , but as it is also below the railway on the opposite side of the ford , and no screen was suggested there , it seems doubtful that this was the reason . |
| 13 | Heinemann is publishing an Elementary English Grammar to compete with Murphy 's Essential Grammar in Use written by one half of the author team that produced the Heinemann English Grammar . |
| 14 | The project that produced the Aurora started as long ago as 1982 as a search for major improvements to the Condor , Karrimor 's then brand new 60–80 litres , top of the range rucksack . |
| 15 | yet the gear change itself is quicker and lighter than the long throw , rubbery device that spoils the Vauxhall . |
| 16 | We consider these properties to be advantages of our vaccine rather than disadvantages , as it is just these properties that distinguish the MicroGeneSys vaccine from the other candidates . |
| 17 | But I still retain sympathy for the misguided foreign tourists who read about its properties as a ‘ gateway to the beautiful western Highlands ’ and end up wandering in dismay down streets that make the Bronx look like Disneyland . |
| 18 | The phrases have become metaphors , some writers suggest , for all the zest and excitement that drives the Pacific 's inhabitants ever onward . |
| 19 | He was just turning into the featureless modern office block that housed the Heyes-Farringdon Company where Helen worked , when his eye was suddenly caught by a sign on the other side of the street : The Olivera Typewriter Company . |
| 20 | A number of kame terraces and transverse moraines in the Glenelly valley indicate that the ice decayed westwards along the valley , then southwards across the col that separates the Glenelly and Moyola valleys . |
| 21 | To the north-west of Nuneaton , multidisciplinary resurveys coupled with detailed work in quarries around Hartshill and Stockingford have shown that the so-called Boundary Fault that separates the Precambrian and Lower Cambrian successions from the overlying Triassic rocks is in reality an unconformity , thus indicating that hard-rock resources in the area are significantly greater than hitherto supposed . |
| 22 | Its populace formed the nucleus of the mob that attacked the Bastille ( July 1789 ) , and thus began the French Revolution . |
| 23 | Not your upmarket angst number with the Pinter script that got the Palme d'Or , none of that . |
| 24 | Apart from a few technical experiments , cable services the world over rely on coaxial copper cable similar to the wires that connect the TVs in people 's living rooms to the aerials on the roof . |
| 25 | Over each one was a small wood-burned sign that announced the Susweca Lounge . |
| 26 | It is not always the best side that wins an FA Cup semi-final ; in the main , it is normally the most experienced team that succeeds . |
| 27 | ‘ A code that forbids the Stroicim Inchinn . ’ |
| 28 | But at least that stopped the Montego 's soaraway adventures . |
| 29 | His passion for speculation in land and stocks overburdened him , and Sir Thomas 's good fortune turned rapidly downhill , a pattern that dogged the Websters until they sold the estate in the 1850s . |
| 30 | as if to prove that a Shetlander 's work is never done , the same storms that sank the Braer and then cleaned away the oil caused erosion of the coast along the edge of the unexcavated portion of Jarlshof , and emergency coastal defences had to be installed prior to the provision of a permanent seawall . |