Example sentences of "[vb -s] that [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within sat Mait , in plain robes , and a black woman whom Ace had n't seen before , who was dressed in a network of silk strips that left much of her body visible . |
| 2 | He sat with a small radar screen in front of him , writing up the small strips that are used by controllers all over the world , strips that have all the different aircraft information on them . |
| 3 | In an update of the story on the second anniversary of the disaster , Barron 's , the American business magazine , quoted Vincent Cannistraro 's dismissal of Juval Aviv 's Interfor Report as ‘ absolute nonsense ’ , and the more recent NBC and ABC newscasts that shared some of its conclusions as ‘ total rubbish and fabrication , . |
| 4 | Exercises that accomplish this are swimming , short-term jogging ( about half an hour a day ) and skipping . |
| 5 | A number of systems exist for helping to determine information requirements , for example , Task Analysis ( Spurgeon and Barwell , 1989 ) which is a technique that moves from a statement of work objectives to an identification of the information needs that underpin these tasks . |
| 6 | He says that illustrating this book was ‘ one of the happiest times of my life . ’ |
| 7 | The classroom development suggested in this paper assumes that to reach such a stage the finished unit would need to have the following . |
| 8 | I would like instead to consider some of the attitudes and concerns that underlie those issues . |
| 9 | We 're more into pumping tunes that express some sort of emotion and intensity . |
| 10 | It is worth growing for the effect of its foliage alone , but doubles its value as a garden plant in late summer with graceful pale green stems that grow some 5ft tall . |
| 11 | Now the equation of equilibrium under no body forces states that Applying this relation to the above stress-strain law gives Rearranging terms we have |
| 12 | The speech sounds that stimulate these organs are then converted into a neural signal from which a phonetic representation equivalent to the one into which the speaker encoded his message is obtained . |
| 13 | Everyone recognises that handling such a volume and variety of art-objects provides the perfect training to become a dealer , and when the art market prospers , some are tempted by the financial opportunities of dealing . |
| 14 | The Commission recognises that to achieve this objective it is necessary to reserve certain areas exclusively to the national postal administrations . |
| 15 | Indeed it has been postulated that the true process of recovery dates from when the sufferer first recognises that prhaps all is not in perfect control . |
| 16 | Underlying the principle of geographical distribution is more than merely a notion of fairness or equity , for it seems that to exclude any administrative area might be to risk offending the divisional authorities in a way which would be unhelpful to the project as a whole . |
| 17 | General Froebe slipped on a pair of reading glasses , and shuffled through the papers on his desk , glancing briefly at the timetables and lists that adorned each one . |
| 18 | It appears that underlying these and other instances of physical contact is the staff 's preparedness to inflict physical discomfort and to demonstrate quite openly the nature of their authority . |
| 19 | Civils work is now under way with the construction of the massive foundations for the bases for the steelwork structures that house all the mechanical plant . |
| 20 | And if a school feels that adding that fourth R to the old reading , writing , arithmetic routine then it seems a parent should n't expect more . |
| 21 | I am concerned with the logical structure of the solution , and not with the material objects that embody that structure : in computer jargon , I am concerned with software , not hardware . |
| 22 | It therefore follows that to receive these beacons with the point five frequencies the aircraft equipment must have sufficient bandwidth to cover at least on kHz , and at best will have a much degraded performance with reduced usable range and accuracy . |
| 23 | These pavements , the bare bones of the Dales , stripped of soil during the last Ice Age , seemed to stretch for miles , their surface fretted by grikes and clints and scoured and bleached by rain and winds that sweep these fells . |
| 24 | Evidence suggests that there is a sizeable amount of foreign currency held in Poland — it is thought between one and two billion US dollars is currently banked with the financial institutions , but the undeclared amount almost certainly swells that figure many times over . |
| 25 | The singer and actress admits that conducting any romance has become almost impossible due to the jibes about her taste in younger men . |
| 26 | Apparently it was Gibson Strings that pioneered such innovations as the ‘ double lock twist ball ’ and the use of alloys . |
| 27 | To the low- 187 Os/ 188 Os end of the arrays , the picrite basalts have γ Os values that overlap those of MORB and approach the characteristic negative γ Os of lithospheric mantle xenoliths . |
| 28 | They frequently write laboratory reports that give all the facts about an experiment or test but then come to an abrupt halt . |
| 29 | If that makes that happen that way what makes it go the opposite way ? |
| 30 | The investigation showed that the pollution probably derived from an engineering works that closed some 15 years ago . |