Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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1 | After years of abusing students , minsters are clearly now hoping that nothing washes whiter than a government 's attempt to get re-elected . |
2 | Traditional building materials such as mud will have a role to play only when the national objective is to ensure that everyone has better housing now . |
3 | ‘ It is simply that I expected better service , ’ he snapped . |
4 | I mentioned this to no one for two practical reasons : one was that I loathed swimming , and if I pretended that I was still menstruating , signing the little red book every four weeks , I should be able to evade an unpleasant experience for at least one week out of four ; the other was that I feared further reprisals might be taken against me . |
5 | The people are very tolerant and it has been overheard that I speak better Portuguese than I do English . |
6 | To accurately imitate what I can see will require that I use smaller shapes than those used in other parts of the painting . |
7 | To accurately imitate what I can see will require that I use smaller shapes than those used in other parts of the painting . |
8 | The Committee has asked that I seek further information on the way in which the Society is developing its campaign and the nature of the second report . |
9 | I went reinforced too by all I had been doing for myself and with the knowledge that I felt better than I had felt for some time and that that growth towards well being appeared to be increasing with each day . |
10 | It 's because my cousin makes me forget that I feel better when I 'm with her . ’ |
11 | What is absolutely erm essential is that we do more to provide good quality support teaching materials and advice and that the grant that I mentioned earlier is made full use of , so that specialisms and co-ordination can be much improved in primary schools . |
12 | I see , on re-reading this minute , that I promised further sections on the weekend and holidays . |
13 | She is worried about me not eating , she is worried that my periods have stopped , that I look thinner and thinner , that my hair has gone dry and flat and rasps like paper when you touch it , but she also admires me . |
14 | She wanted to kiss him , to soften him , to diminish him in some way so that she felt safer , more human . |
15 | Surkov rang Masha from the lobby and learnt that she felt better ; we could come to her room . |
16 | Summoning all her reserves , she swam forcefully down the whole length of the pool , and back again , gradually realising that she felt fitter than she had done for ages . |
17 | If his parents bought her a present he was always comparing and felt that she had better things and more things than he did . |
18 | This time , she was wearing a hat , which pulled her face back , somehow , and made a line round it , so that she looked older than she had the other night . |
19 | It seemed to me that she looked older than she was , using her age as a shield against unwelcome advances which she might secretly long for but would never permit . |
20 | She even pretends that she has higher principles than many of the other characters in the play : |
21 | The important thing is to be able to let your partner know what sort of sex you want and that you want safer sex . |
22 | It 's always wrong to want a special friendship with someone just so that you feel better about yourself or so that others are impressed . |
23 | Explain that , as you know more about HIV , you no longer want to risk unsafe sex and that you see safer sex as a way of taking care of each other . |
24 | People still think the greatest compliment they can pay you is to say that you look younger than your age . |
25 | This does cause a problem in that you need shorter focal length lenses to obtain the same effect . |
26 | It is by helping newcomers , becoming a sponsor and by doing practical service of one kind or another for the group or for the Anonymous Fellowship as a whole that one gains greater insights into one 's own disease and greater humility and security in one 's own recovery . |
27 | We have assumed that all objective functions are ‘ desirable ’ in that we prefer greater to lesser objective function values . |
28 | Does my right hon. Friend also agree that we need greater United Nations intervention in the sovereign affairs of sovereign states — as in Iraq , where there is gross violation of human rights and massive oppression of minorities ? |
29 | After many conversations , it is my feeling that we need better communication between the youth of Shropshire and the youth of the rest of the diocese . |
30 | We all know that we feel better after a few days in the mountains but why is this ? |