Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ice is the greatest worry that a pool owner has during winter months , for not only does it trap noxious gases which are likely to suffocate the fish , but it also exerts tremendous pressure upon the pool structure and can crack the most expertly laid concrete . |
| 2 | In the spring of 1932 the British announced that a flotilla of three destroyers was to grace the city with a visit . |
| 3 | Yoshida also took the opportunity to say that while , of course , the decision must rest with the Allies , the Japanese felt that an early Peace Treaty was most desirable . |
| 4 | The first alleges he set fire to clothing valued at £10 in Littlewoods store in Oxford city centre , the second alleges that a few minutes later he set fire to clothing worth about £100 at the Nicklebys store nearby . |
| 5 | Nobody wanted to push the struggle any further ; nobody in the 1740s imagined that a fight to the death was at hand . |
| 6 | The icons to the left indicate that a slide is a chart or an organisation diagram . |
| 7 | Iraq 's expansion of the port of Umm Qasr and the development of the Rumalla oil field during the 1970s meant that a settlement of the dispute became a prime Iraqi objective . |
| 8 | The reasons for this phenomenon are varied : the tightening bonds of serfdom and the greater degree of social regimentation introduced by Peter the Great meant that a number of previously innocent practices ( tree-felling , salt-gathering , trespass , begging , vagrancy , and so on ) were criminalized and punished with hard labour and exile ; popular protest against the proliferating powers of the state in the form of minor revolts , mass insurgencies ( for example , Bulavin , Pugachev ) , large-scale banditry and escalating rates of petty crime were similarly dealt with ; the abolition of capital punishment for criminal offences in 1753 led to its replacement with ‘ civil execution ’ ( public flogging and mutilation followed by perpetual katorga ) ; and laws passed in 1766 and 1769 changed the usual place of penal servitude from Rogervik and other locations in European Russia to the silver mines and factories around Nerchinsk . |
| 9 | But it was from the first emphasised that a priesthood of succession should be established through Aaron , Moses ' brother . |
| 10 | But what distinguishes these interchanges is the fact that the offender is so often the first to recognise that an infraction has occurred and usually initiates the appropriate repair work without being asked to do so . |
| 11 | Sukarno suffered from malaria ; in 1938 he was moved to Benkulen in Sumatra , perhaps for humanitarian reasons ( in 1936 Hatta and Sjahrir were moved from their vile jungle camp ) , or perhaps because the Dutch hoped that a more Islamic environment would complete his ‘ conversion , from politics to religion , for Islam in Sumatra was more powerful than the syncretic faith of Java . |
| 12 | I should be the last to imply that a Member of Parliament ought to subordinate his judgement of what is wise or right to even the most overwhelming majority of opinion . |