Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strangely , in writing off pop programmes as a lost cause , British TV seems to have ignored the example of MTV , which has come to define that genre across much of the world . |
| 2 | I have no idea why it has come to bear that name . |
| 3 | His word has got to have that place of authority in our lives . |
| 4 | Unlike the state monopoly telecommunications business which has tended to stay that way , the semiconductor chip business started out with United States commercial dominance ; it has continued on this pattern , with the one major change that in the 1980S the multinational companies dominating the world chip business ceased to be predominantly American and became a combination of Japanese and United States companies . |
| 5 | A Russian scientist has attempted to mimic that development by starting with wild foxes and breeding the most timid ones . |
| 6 | The ‘ fat oyster in the American story ’ probably refers to the story of a man struggling with a very large oyster in a stew , to whom the waiter says , ‘ Well , sir , you are the fourth man who has tried to swallow that oyster . ’ |
| 7 | 28 ( 1 ) The basis for the assessment of damages referred to in section 27(3) is the difference in value , determined as at the time immediately before the residential occupier ceased to occupy the premises in question as his residence , between — ( a ) the value of the interest if the landlord in default determined on the assumption that the residential occupier continues to have the same right to occupy the premises as before that time ; and ( b ) the value of that interest determined on the assumption that the residential occupier has ceased to have that right . |
| 8 | Nelson says he has striven to maintain that balance rather than provide a recording of the set pieces interspersed with insubstantial spoken passages . |
| 9 | The Minister has failed to counter that argument . |
| 10 | She 's got to wear that dress , come what may . ’ |
| 11 | All as me mother 's got to do that day was the dinners . |
| 12 | ought to see lounge , she 's got Take That disco , and Take That |
| 13 | now he 's got to transfer that authority , I do n't think it 's any more or less than that |
| 14 | I think we 've said it before did , about David Lawrence that he , he has the ability to bowl very quickly and in that learning curve of test cricket , he 's now got to go from a , a lad who goes for five and six and all the regularly , he 's got to drop that economy rate , down to three and still take the and then he 's a test bowler . |
| 15 | ‘ She 's gone to get that Simon , ’ said Bella , smugly . |
| 16 | Is it not extraordinary therefore that in the United States where there is the most rapid growth of technology and of productivity , there are no government training schemes and does this not make a nonsense of the opposition 's repeated claim that government training schemes are the way forward ? |