Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all the time the snow fell ; not once but many times , scooped up by the wind and hurled back in huge opaque whirlpools that obliterated even the pencil lines . |
| 2 | Each stetch was limited on its two sides by water-cuts or deep furrows that made easy the escape of surface water from the soil ; and in fact the main purpose of ploughing in stetches was — and still is , where stetches continue to be used — to ensure effective draining of the land . |
| 3 | I would see through a more coactive involvement in Europe , and establishing not just the physical link of the chunnel but expanding it right up to the northwest , a line that goes right the way through , that there is a material benefit to this area , from that connection . |
| 4 | the one that goes nearest the majority of points . |
| 5 | It 's a fierce dash through a highlight-clogged set , peaking with their grunge-funk cover of ‘ Tainted Love ’ that has even the Toto fans pogoing . |
| 6 | For the Elves the present is a time that holds both the promise of renewal and the threat of destruction . |
| 7 | The same government that reduced substantially the taxation rates for the very rich did very little , apart from reducing the basic rate of tax from 33 per cent to 30 per cent , for the low-income groups . |
| 8 | Such products may have to contain specific properties ( attributes ) that match exactly the demand pattern of a specific group of customers . |
| 9 | All this leads to swelling and shrinkage of keratin cells , and the bonds that hold together the nail weaken , causing brittleness . |
| 10 | A translation is a transformation that alters only the location of the square ( or whatever ) without altering its shape , its size or its orientation . |
| 11 | In fact the first person to say it was anthropologist Thomas Hornsby Ferril , who wrote an article in the Rocky Mountain Herald in December 1955 that put forward the idea that American football is actually a : |
| 12 | It is both funny and disturbing , a complex memory game that is distinctive in it simplicity and yet with a playfulness and sense of fun that complements both the rigour of the structure and seriousness of its themes . |
| 13 | First , however , I will argue that the ontological divide between the two views is reflected within the social sciences in a manner that reveals both the character of the dispute and its consequences . |
| 14 | A policy that affects only the distribution of after-tax wages and not its mean ( e.g. , a redistributive wage tax ) will leave the capital stock unchanged . |
| 15 | It 's because it 'll be that reduces then the number of pieces of machinery and the number of |
| 16 | And the tensions coincided with a downturn in sales that indicated both the ebbing of the 1968 wave , and the growth of other revolutionary papers which did have links to particular groups . |
| 17 | It is the correspondences that summon forth the jealousy and hold it , throughout the novel , under the reader 's gaze , as we witness the perceptions of a mind pulled awry by the pressure of an overwhelming suspicion . |
| 18 | Finally , there 's a batch of useful utilities and a program that takes away the boredom of formatting floppies . |
| 19 | On the large sideboard that covered nearly the whole of one wall statues of the Virgin and Child , as well as the holy family , stood silently . |
| 20 | There was a strength and hardness about their voices that took away the pride he had felt at disposing of the hooded crow so effectively . |
| 21 | Michael 's front garden was beautiful with stock , beds of sweet William and marigolds that took greedily the sun from the other flowers — pansies , roses and lilies . |
| 22 | The new measures will bring the UK more into line with other western governments ' statistical bureaux that limit both the number of ministers with access to figures and the amount of time they have to consider them . |
| 23 | One difficulty is that prising apart the imposition of duties from other effects of the exercise of authority is far from straightforward . |
| 24 | British Rail should go back to the drawing board , look at the line and the station together , and produce a new , properly worked out Bill that addresses both the line and the station . |
| 25 | On the upper mezzanine floor , and close to the staff lift that serves both the back of the Queen 's bathroom and the King 's wardrobe , a spare room has been turned into a trunk room . |
| 26 | Above the nervous chatter that continued once the corporal had left , Charlie could hear the last post being played on a bugle from the castle battlements . |
| 27 | As they reached the level of the deck a wall of green water lifted with a monstrous boom at the bow then broke into huge white columns of water , not unlike a Niagara Fall that carried majestically the length of Titron . |
| 28 | Articles in journals , a chapter in books on research methods and collections of conference papers ( such as that highlighted in the last edition of Observations ) , were available , but nothing that had quite the focus and range of explaining background , methodology and queries as well as providing sufficient examples . |
| 29 | And I would n't mind getting my hands on one of those typewriters that does all the work for you . |
| 30 | Geoff has also had the window shutters in this room restored to their original glory and painstakingly handpainted with a red design that matches both the wallpaper and the colour of the suite . |