Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] that [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a tribute to Masur and the players that a live performance — apparently taken from one concert and not edited from other sources , unless it was a previous rehearsal — should achieve a precision of ensemble to rival that of a studio performance . |
| 2 | Swanson 's abduction followed that of a Negros-based Japanese aid worker , Fumio Mizuno , who was seized by the NPA on May 29 . |
| 3 | My attempt to follow that with a lemon curd tart was a bit half-hearted . |
| 4 | And how can we run our do our job like that without a lamp ? |
| 5 | ‘ I will take the Opposition seriously on crime when they support , for example , the Prevention of Terrorism Act — and we will give them an opportunity to do that within a few days , ’ he said to Tory cheers . |
| 6 | Between 1955 and 1964 Barry 's job title remained that of a Production Assistant even though , throughout most of the early Sixties , he was spending more and more time in the Director 's seat , only narrowly missing , through his own admitted naivety , the golden opportunity of directing Donald Wilson 's great opus , The Forsyte Saga . |
| 7 | It is not sufficient for example to establish that for a given country inside the union exports and/or imports rise after integration . |
| 8 | When the star reaches a point where its total surface area equals that of a sphere of radius 2 GM/c2 , it disappears and becomes a black hole . |
| 9 | I have no authority to do that in a half-day debate , but perhaps hon. Members will bear it in mind . |
| 10 | By three to five years after surgery the actuarial survival rate exceeded that of a control population.This enhanced survival may reflect the fact that patients referred for surgery were highly selected , and an important limitation of these data is that the selection criteria were not explicit . |
| 11 | Whether a visitor came for a particular story or whether the old woman had one in mind she wanted to relate , the preliminaries were the same : she entered into a state approaching that of a trance . |
| 12 | Suddenly the scale becomes that of a cathedral , and it 's not fanciful to put the spirituality of the place in the same category . |
| 13 | Very occasionally his path crossed that of a couple walking home or a group of a young friends going up to the centre , and then the brief appraising glances they gave him left Zen feeling obscurely ill at ease , underlining as they did his lack of purpose or direction . |
| 14 | This survey found that of a sample of ‘ large industrial companies ' , 8% provided a balance sheet and 2% provided a source and application of funds statement . |
| 15 | Robyn followed as a determined Melissa led Luke , whose expression resembled that of a prisoner about to be given his last rites , across the field and in through the french windows . |
| 16 | And the best way to do that on a farm is to diversify , and this is why most farms in the U K are mixed farms . |
| 17 | The mood of Bank Holiday reflects that of a nation knowing that war must come , but other films dealt more directly with the storm clouds building up on the other side of the Channel . |
| 18 | But Marcel would no doubt take that as a compliment . |
| 19 | The very young Aplysia has a nervous system consisting of relatively few neurons , while the period of onset of the capacity to show sensitization as a behavioural phenomenon matches that of a great increase in neuronal number ; yet if all that sensitization required was the facilitatory response in a set of three neurons of the network described earlier , it is hard to see why , by contrast with habituation , it should be dependent on such an increase in neuronal number . |
| 20 | The lamp outside in the yard bathed him in grey light , leaving his eyes in deep shadow so that his face resembled that of a corpse . |
| 21 | For instance , the fact that lodgers are taken privately in a family dwelling house does not of itself constitute a material change , so long as the main use of the house remains that of a private residence . |
| 22 | The atmosphere remains that of a small-town challenger event , relaxed , friendly and informal , the perfect place to escape to after the tension and crowds of the French Open . |
| 23 | The mouth of the sea-squirt resembles that of a bottle . |
| 24 | The mouth of the cave resembles that of a bottle . |