Example sentences of "[noun pl] [that] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one at the banquet could possibly have crossed the Firth of Forth in such weather with such speed and he knew from his own spies that only the King had crossed the Forth that night . |
| 2 | We 'll train you how not to ‘ blow it ’ on an important shot , lose an important lead , make the same mistake time and time again and other skills that only the pro 's could afford to know . |
| 3 | The plot in any ‘ Carry On ’ film was never terribly important , not when there were the opportunities to give words double meanings that even the scriptwriters sometimes had n't thought of . |
| 4 | But there are no signs that either the phrase or the policy which it expressed ever became part of his own thinking either about the Church as a whole or about his own duties as archbishop . |
| 5 | Both are signs that maybe the recession is past its worst . |
| 6 | When the decision comes to plant a new church , one of the great joys that initially the team finds is that of intimacy with one another : a true fellowship . |
| 7 | Corbetts , if you must , but the new bagging fashion is to find mountains that only the cognoscenti know and take at least a day 's walk to get into . |
| 8 | The latter belief explicitly rejects consistency as a virtue in its own right , while the former demands a balancing of public interests against those of the particular defendant in the light of moral judgements that only the magistrate is qualified to make . |
| 9 | Ten ideas that even the Tories eventually realised were too daft to implement |
| 10 | So Sarazen took on a young caddie , who , it transpired , seemed to do all the things that even the caddies of today would not dream of doing , like pulling the clubs without consultation with Sarazen , and then , if the club did not work , telling Sarazen he had just hit a bad shot — it was not his club selection at fault . |
| 11 | The final phase of your initial training takes you back to HMS Raleigh where you will learn things that only the Navy can teach you , such as field cookery in areas of natural disaster and practical experience of bulk cookery in our large galleys . |
| 12 | There are depths to the Inspiral Carpets that even the band are just beginning to find out about . |
| 13 | Soviet interest was aroused by the Iranian view that ‘ there will have to be guarantees that neither the Americans nor American surrogates substitute for the departing Russians ’ , that the problem of Afghanistan should not be solved in the East/West context . |
| 14 | One man 's father told coastguards that normally the group only travelled a few miles along the coast on the speedboat trips . |
| 15 | Between the farmhouse mob and the purveyors of alcoholic lemonade is a hinterland inhabited by giants such as Dixie of Bristol , who used to travel West Country fairs selling his wares from a thatched Ford Transit van ; and Dunkertons which produces subtle , bright and preservative-free ciders that even the Boy Nigel admits are like the real thing , only better . |
| 16 | The new act picks up the Warnock comments that really the majority of children can probably be erm accommodated in ordinary schools , but there will always be a need for special schools , and in fact they do mention some proportions . |
| 17 | When we consider the nature of many items that only the state uses ( or hopefully does not use ! ) |
| 18 | Although denying the allegations that either the government or the SADF were involved in the instigation or promotion of township violence , he conceded the possibility that individuals in the security forces might have acted unlawfully . |
| 19 | The bank undertook to arrange for the necessary documents to be drawn up and the manager gave instructions that both the husband and the wife were to be made aware of the nature and effect of the documents they would sign , and that the wife should be advised to take legal advice if she had any doubts about them . |
| 20 | You have already noticed in your SAS practice of up-to-time sentences that sometimes the mouth seems to open more noticeably than at others . |
| 21 | After all Koresh 's apocalyptic vision , his talk of the seven seals that only the lamb of God can unlock , sounded like refinements of what they already believed . |
| 22 | This chemist in Walcot is dealing with so many 'flu sufferers that even the assistants are going down with it . |
| 23 | An attempt by Daily Mail journalists to broaden the paper 's political coverage of the 1983 election was rejected on the grounds that only the editor was responsible for content and that outside pressure , if only from an organization 's own journalists , amounted to interference in the running of that organization . |
| 24 | The rival , splinter organization which emerged as a result , the Imperial Maritime League ( IML ) , claimed that any serious Navalist had to support the Conservatives , irrespective of the fact that individual Liberal candidates were ‘ sound ’ on naval questions , on the grounds that collectively the Liberals were against and the Conservatives in favour of a big Navy . |