Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now this will surprise you , I know ; but my mother has pointed that out time after time . |
| 2 | Inevitably , as a secular interpretation of morality has superseded that of established religion , so the activities of the social controller have become increasingly important in the drama . |
| 3 | The morality of aseptic rationalism has superseded that of spiritual regeneration . |
| 4 | On 1 September 1934 he hit five goals against Cardiff City and only Peter Simpson has bettered that in a single match for us . |
| 5 | The peak in our schools was not reached until 1983 ( Table 1 ) nevertheless the subsequent drop has matched that in the state sector . |
| 6 | To recap , the Board has decided that from 1.4.94 . |
| 7 | The problem of the assault course of whether she 's actually fitted in in three months , anyhow that 's what we ought to write that in , but er , she travels , she travels most weekends playing hockey for Yorkshire , and has done that for four years , and she 's all over , where were you ? , |
| 8 | THE ‘ new thinking ’ in the Soviet Union has outstripped that of Mr Joe Slovo , Secretary-General of the South African Communist Party , whose view that President De Klerk 's recent reforms were ‘ new wrapping on an old package ’ was published in the Guardian on Saturday . |
| 9 | He could remind them that since 1981 , the volume of manufactured exports from the United Kingdom has outstripped that of France , Germany , Japan and the United States of America . |
| 10 | Our share of trade in world manufactures has outstripped that of Germany , France , America and Japan . |
| 11 | But even in murder cases it is now far more favourable to the accused for him to plead instead diminished responsibility , and for most practical purposes this defence has replaced that of insanity in criminal law . |
| 12 | ‘ The public has known that for some time . ’ |
| 13 | For an instant our present , across the ruins of several decades , has rejoined that of an afternoon in the 1910s . |
| 14 | Variety is important to him , and he has translated that into his career by moving around the country . |
| 15 | ‘ The Eastern Health Board also has to realise that for many people , the Royal is situated in a no go area , ’ the MP said . |
| 16 | So , I had a look at the powers of the police authority and they 're restricted to financial and administrative responsibilities and if I took that argument further , of course the Chief Constable has to take that into account . |
| 17 | So , one has to take that on board . |
| 18 | Furniture for the dining area needs to complement that in the living section . |
| 19 | This approach is based on the classic problem-solving sequence , but it does n't mean that your answer has to follow that in every detail . |
| 20 | Scottish Nuclear currently has annual running costs of £400 million but wants to cut that to £300 million . |
| 21 | It spent £18 million in 1980 , but plans to reduce that to £13 million in 1984 . |
| 22 | So on Friday he tried to pull same stunt again so I says oh no you 're not , I says we 're not playing at that , I says chuff that for a lark , I says what do you think you 're playing at ? |
| 23 | Consequently the shape of the relationship between birth order and child mortality tends to parallel that of maternal age to the mortality of children under age five . |
| 24 | The BBC tends to do that to a girl . |
| 25 | Richards holds that in poetry the function of " feeling " tends to dominate that of " sense " , while Jakobson identifies a special " poetic " function , which can be found in many uses of language , but which dominates over other functions in poetry . |
| 26 | As a whole the reading calls to mind that of Del Monaco ( Karajan/Decca ) , and is none the worse for that , but misses the better manners of Pavarotti ( Solti/Decca ) and Domingo ( Maazel/EMI ) . |
| 27 | This socio-demographic complexity seems to foreshadow that of man . |
| 28 | My opinion of the school seems to reflect that of the majority of the parents . |
| 29 | This seems to suggest that for films with many moving objects or with high levels of subjective risk subjects ignored the fixed information in the recognition phase and were thus not biased by it . |
| 30 | The deal seems to mean that with the Scottish base , AST no longer needs the European plant it had planned . |