Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Perot was the only candidate to leave the debates with a higher opinion poll rating than when he entered them , there was a widespread perception that Clinton had clearly outperformed Bush , appearing assured and in command of an impressive array of detailed policy information , while Bush appeared keener to deal in innuendo and generality . |
| 2 | It was the largest force that Barbarossa had ever led , and was made up of experienced warriors , loyal princes and vassals , the epitome of the feudal army under its divinely appointed emperor . |
| 3 | There will also be two novelty events , though not the Desert Orchid versus Linford Christie contest that Gillespie had briefly considered . |
| 4 | Far from moderating his condemnation of Mansell 's start-line performance in Estoril the previous week , the world champion stuck to his allegation that Mansell had deliberately tried to push him off the track . |
| 5 | A-Team star George Peppard 's second wife , actress Elizabeth Ashley — whom he met and fell in love with when they made The Carpetbaggers in 1964 — claimed that he assaulted her and came at her with a hot frying pan , an allegation that Peppard has always strongly denied . |
| 6 | However , it embarked on an even larger programme of educational expansion , with the result that education has consistently been one of the largest budget items . |
| 7 | Less sleep is needed by the elderly , but the habits of a lifetime might not be changed automatically , with the result that individuals retire earlier than necessary and too much time is spent in bed . |
| 8 | Eyles managed to get his officers to eject his rival , with the result that Franklin stood directly in front of Eyles for the duration of the service . |
| 9 | Anyway I read in the programme that Whyte has definitely gone to Birmingham City for 1/4 million . |
| 10 | Like Juvenal , Duncan realizes At this point enters Macbeth , the new Thane of Cawdor , a double irony that critics have long relished . |
| 11 | The thought flitted through her mind that Araminta had already done her worst . |
| 12 | The Jew is nothing more than a popular villain ( bear in mind that Marlowe had just had a success with The Jew Of Malta ) . |
| 13 | We considered that it would be reasonable to take peptic ulcer in people admitted after 1976 as a proxy for cimetidine use ( bearing in mind that cimetidine has only been available since then ) and to see if peptic ulcer was commoner in people with motor neurone disease than in others . |
| 14 | That apart , we should bear in mind that roses vary greatly in their ability to bloom more or less continuously after the first flush . |
| 15 | In any case , for him 7,500,000 votes was sufficient legitimacy , and it could , after all , be assumed by those of a religious turn of mind that God had already blessed his enterprise — could he have succeeded otherwise ? |
| 16 | A corollary is the prediction that cells expressing only the Sos variety of Ras activator may be able to respond only to signals transmitted through tyrosine kinases . |
| 17 | Spooky , but somehow the world seems kinda empty without his eccentric personality to relive the tedium that rock has since slid into . |
| 18 | This meant in practice that magistrates had less say in determining what happened to children in trouble while social workers gained more say . |
| 19 | It has near perfect 50:50 front to rear weight distribution , giving the S2 a level of control that prompted one eminent motoring magazine to hail it as possibly ‘ the best handling road car that Porsche has ever made ’ . |
| 20 | As early as 1917 Roxburgh demonstrated that many municipal legal systems had developed devices to avoid the restrictions and inconveniences caused by a rigid adherence to the analogous rule that contracts bind only parties to them , a process that continues . |
| 21 | There has been no recommendation to change the rule that provocation applies only where the defendant acts with a sudden and temporary loss of self-control . |
| 22 | For example , outbreeding is much more likely to occur than brother-sister incest because of the apparently innate rule that individuals raised closely together during the first six years of life are inhibited from full sexual intercourse at maturity . |
| 23 | It is not up to us to forget or forgive the crime that Germany committed only a few decades ago ; the only ones who might have done so died on the battlefield or , worse yet , in the gas chambers . |
| 24 | In the alternative , however , they contended that the payments by Woolwich had been made pursuant to an implied agreement between Woolwich and the revenue whereby it was agreed that the revenue would hold the sums pending the outcome of proceedings to determine the validity of the relevant regulations , and that any entitlement of Woolwich to repayment arose on the date of the first judgment of Nolan J. with the effect that interest ran only from that date . |
| 25 | The recommendation that costs thrown away as a result of the death or illness of a judge in the course of a trial should be paid out of public funds has been given effect by the Administration of Justice Act 1985 . |
| 26 | A look of corruptible innocence that Bernice found rather appealing . |
| 27 | He hesitated and looked as if he was going to abandon the trip , his smile coming back with such speed that Maggie stood too . |
| 28 | Musica Reservata , perhaps the most influential ( and certainly the most controversial ) ensemble that Britain has ever produced in this field , began in London 's Hampstead during the 1960s , when record shops were stocked with ‘ folk ’ and ‘ ethnic ’ music ; today the heady perfume of those years can still be caught in Tony Bingham 's emporium of rare and unusual musical instruments in that quarter of the city ( illus.4 ) . |
| 29 | They looked like equine stock , but they were half as big again as any horse that Rostov had ever encountered . |
| 30 | On Luke 's advice , she had n't mentioned any of his misgivings about the deal she had struck , and the woman now behaved towards her with a patronising graciousness that Folly found intensely irritating . |