Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] a [noun] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the slogan , however carelessly drafted , means something more than banality ; it stands for an attitude that is important and open to challenge . |
| 2 | Now the torrents and viperish fury that fired ‘ Weld ’ have subsided , it looks like a battle that had to be waged to get to the next stage — the calm , healing shores and sanguine odes of ‘ Harvest Moon ’ . |
| 3 | Brighton , as someone memorably said , looks like a town that is helping police with their inquiries . |
| 4 | it looks like a robin that er does n't it ? |
| 5 | Looks like a pterodactyl that does n't it ? |
| 6 | BID FOR CGI LOOKS LIKE AN ADMISSION THAT IBMers CA N'T CUT IT ANY MORE … |
| 7 | Thus one starts with an indication that more than one person may be affected by the problem , and that there may have been a crisis or trigger-event leading to a referral for assistance at this point . |
| 8 | The article concludes with a declaration that British members of the National Front should identify themselves with the struggle of the Palestinians : ‘ We must draw inspiration from people such as the Palestinians who having lost so much more than us , still continue to fight for national sovereignty , and stubbornly refuse to relinquish their national identity . ’ |
| 9 | But , so far as two-thirds of appellants are concerned , the most dissatisfying aspect of the appeal process lies in a discovery that the appeal has been unsuccessful . |
| 10 | Conceived by the director of ARIEL and LENINGRAD COWBOYS with the ambition of ‘ making Robert Bresson seem like a director of action pictures ’ , THE MATCH FACTORY GIRL unfolds in a style that is characteristically laconic and terse . |
| 11 | It starts from a belief that ‘ social order ’ or ‘ industrial peace ’ are themselves the problem : conflict is a way of instituting necessary revolutionary change . |
| 12 | Locus M corresponds to a circuit that exhibits real positive feedback at a frequency represented by the point Q but , as the length of OQ is less than unity , oscillation can not occur . |
| 13 | JOHN ROBBIE looks at a scandal that is threatening the Boks ’ rehabilitation . |
| 14 | This brief in our series on the modern classics of economics looks at a paper that is still as controversial as when it first appeared — and suddenly much more relevant to the debate on economic policy . |
| 15 | He looks at me hard and says in a voice that can only be described as arch , ‘ Do you mean do I cry when I see children with flies round their eyes ? |
| 16 | But the mental health commission , a body which monitors standards in mental hospitals , says in a report that at Coney Hill hospital patients were locked in the seclusion rooms for too long because there were n't enough staff to look after them properly on the wards . |
| 17 | Dr Eurwyn Lloyd Evans , the county 's director of economic development and planning , says in a report that a steering group , chaired by Professor Eric Sunderland , the principal of University College , Bangor , recognises the need for North West Wales to improve its competitive edge by attracting hightech industries . |
| 18 | All three deposit their surveys at the ESRC Data Archive at the University of Essex , but the data arrives in a form that can be quite hard to read , and it can take several months for the Archive to be able to supply even small amounts of the raw data in a form usable on most college computers . |
| 19 | ‘ The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large , but mostly one who , through ignorance or stupidity steals in a way that is not customary . |
| 20 | Realism is radical because any purposive attempt to change the world depends on a conviction that it can be described , even that it has been described ; and it is the chosen task of realism to describe . |
| 21 | bases on which he arrives at a decision that he may sometimes find considerable difficulty in making a good case on paper for some action he may have taken , even though he feels , and subsequent events may prove , that action to have been perfectly correct . |
| 22 | The separate offence exists as a warning that ‘ those who are minded to assault police officers should appreciate that they run a real risk of a sentence of immediate imprisonment . ’ |
| 23 | It also means that the speaker hears his or her own voice and this acts as a check that the system is working . |
| 24 | Even a temporary relapse back to old behaviour and its damaging consequences may itself hopefully be a therapeutic process because it acts as a reminder that recovery is a continuing process that has to be worked for on a continuing basis by each and every recovering person . |
| 25 | We can say with confidence that God wo n't ask us to build an ark — because the story of the flood ends with a promise that there will never be such a deluge again . |
| 26 | More recent imaging results from the SIGMA telescope aboard the GRANAT satellite show , however , that the variable component of the 511keV line emission originates from a source that lies 0.75° ( 105pc ) from Sgr A. The dynamical centre of the Galaxy can not lie so far from Sgr A , so the γ -ray line source can not mark the nucleus . |
| 27 | Without being offered a particle of evidence to support the accusation the young man sees in an instant that it is true , and abandons the whole project . |
| 28 | Finnis observes in a footnote that there is no happy English equivalent of determinatio but suggests that ‘ implementation ’ is more elegant than Kelsen 's ‘ concretization ’ . |
| 29 | Tom McClenaghan , the council 's director of administration , reveals in a report that owners will be charged an initial £12 for the security of knowing that their furry friends can no longer go as they please . |
| 30 | The glacier ends in a cliff that calves small icebergs that head seaward , grind to a halt when they hit the sand base of the river and dissolve in tears at the indignity of it all . |