Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that one that got sent away he , he learnt a certain job which he 's done in ever since and he 's done very well at it . |
| 2 | MR SAM NUJOMA is the latest on the liberation trail that has led so many Africans from jail and exile to the presidency of their country . |
| 3 | A relatively old rug that has been well looked after may be in far better condition than a newer item that has seen less considerate use , and some contemporary items are deliberately made to look old by the use of chemical washes ( p. 27 ) . |
| 4 | Now that IBM Corp is in long-term decline , evolving into just another big company like Xerox Corp or General Motors Corp that has seen much better days , market-makers are looking for another bellwether to signal the direction of the entire market , the Wall Street Journal reports . |
| 5 | An ordinary little firm that has operated perfectly cheerfully with a clerk and a few assistants over the years , is it actually a practical proposition to install the computer and perhaps train one or two of the workers to use it ? |
| 6 | The hon. and learned Gentleman has his own view , but I think that , as a lawyer , he will agree that it is at variance with the constitutional practice that has operated hitherto . |
| 7 | It is the number of first-time overseas holidaymakers , ‘ new ’ consumers for this particular market that has remained surprisingly stable through the late 1970s and early 1980s , increasing by about 1 per cent per year . |
| 8 | For it is the personality of Law that has remained as elusive to historians as it was to his own contemporaries . |
| 9 | His job is rated Grade B on the Civil Service Scale , so he is on £31,747 a year — a figure that has risen dramatically from the £21,000 he started on in February 1989 . |
| 10 | Since 1961 , it has happened 17 times in 31 seasons , or over half : a remarkable proportion given the economic imbalance that has developed already within English football during the last 31 years . |
| 11 | One major subject area within the polytechnics that has developed considerably in recent years is that of teacher education . |
| 12 | Teachers of these classes need to know the extent , and the limits , of special provision , and to be in a position to identify and meet continuing needs , and to explore the relevance for all pupils using English of the understanding that has developed specifically in relation to the teaching of English to speakers of other languages . |
| 13 | One is the Muslims , the group that has suffered more than any other in the fighting . |
| 14 | Here , suddenly , was a car to lust after , but also a car to strike fear into the hearts of rival companies in an industry that has struggled more than most in 1992 . |
| 15 | An interesting feature that has emerged recently is the number of patients who are newly diagnosed as diabetic at the time of their myocardial infarction ( Oswald et al , 1984 ) . |
| 16 | But it is just such a view that could be said to lie at the heart of a second major theory of social stratification that has emerged more recently in sociology : the functionalist theory of stratification . |
| 17 | It also represents a major challenge to educationalists : not only should children be taught to use information technology , a subject that has emerged suddenly from nowhere with no teaching tradition , but all disciplines could profit from incorporating this new technology into their teaching practice . |
| 18 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that to suggest that there is one kind of school that can cater for the needs of all kinds of pupils is an example of the naive theorising that has caused so many problems in education , which we are seeking to address today ? |
| 19 | They are now indulging in distortion and scaremongering , but they are unable to hide the record of the last 13 years that has caused so much misery to so many people . |
| 20 | Certainly it is an army that has run amok . |
| 21 | TSB is one company that has invested heavily in interactive video . |
| 22 | The West ‘ gave us hours to survive , then days , then weeks and now they give us seasons , but they should learn from the time that has elapsed already ’ , he said . |
| 23 | Such regulations did not in themselves stop inhumane treatment , but they heralded a movement that has grown steadily on each side of the North Atlantic , both in numbers of its adherents and its influence on legislation . |
| 24 | In 1881 Mr Kibataro Oki produced the first Japanese telephone and created a company that has grown dramatically over the last 110 years . |
| 25 | In 1881 Mr Kibataro Oki produced the first Japanese telephone and created a company that has grown dramatically over the last 110 years . |
| 26 | This is most likely to occur in weak sappy growth that has grown fairly recently , like a flower stem , and where leaves on that stem have not yet had time to make the carbohydrates and store the energy in the storage cells of the node . |
| 27 | Giger was asked to produce designs not only for the full-grown monster , especially its head , but also for the two earlier stages , the ‘ face-hugger ’ ( the piece that comes out of the egg to attach itself to an animal/human and force an embryo down their throat ) and the ‘ chest-burster ’ ( the small creature that has grown enough within the host to burst out to an independent existence , killing the host in the process ) . |
| 28 | Whatever the form of ownership — and there is plenty of room and need for experiment — the aim is the same : to bridge the gap between ownership and control that has grown ever since companies ceased to be run by proprietors in the first half of this century . |
| 29 | Despite a pile of unread reprints now measuring 16 inches tall , I read this book because of the nagging suspicion that in a field that has grown as rapidly as vascular biology and medicine I might be missing more than my 16 inch stack suggested . |
| 30 | He estimates it is ‘ cheaper to discard books already in stock , rather than building additional storage space of reader access quality , if the books in question have a prospective frequency of use that has fallen below once in about 13 years ’ . |