Example sentences of "[that] [adv] [vb -s] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But often , feminist psychologists draw parallels between the status of ‘ women ’ and ‘ black people ’ : a comparison that effectively leaves out black women . |
| 2 | The Vauxhall ( remember it 's actually an Opel ) suffers from ugly digital gauges that are often hard to interpret and a digital speedometer that only reads in even numbers . |
| 3 | Each has its own momentum that critically affects how much developing country governments can influence the outcomes . |
| 4 | So when price inflation is extraordinarily high , but interest rates lag behind , customers who can get the cheaper forms of credit such at bank loans ( and that usually means relatively richer people ) may actually be able to beat inflation by borrowing : for them , it is a question of buying now and paying less later . |
| 5 | Atmospheric stuff that gradually gets more atmospheric until on ‘ Meditation Mix ’ there 's no music anymore , just atmosphere . |
| 6 | His reluctant agreement to append an entirely unconvincing ( but uproariousy staged ) happy ending to the show is a coup de theatre that still seems strikingly modern more than 250 years after the premiere of this bracing comedy . |
| 7 | There is nothing more important than that we should stick up for the system that we have inherited down the ages , and that still has so much to offer the people of our country . " |
| 8 | The post office has a monopoly only on the delivery of letters and parcels weighing less than a kilogram — a decling trade and one that now represents only 40 per cent of total earnings although attempts to stop the drift by creating , for example , specialised services for direct marketing have been very successful . |
| 9 | A Shamen show is designed so you do n't just stand and stare at the band : and though the live act might be the heart of the show , the spectacle of Colin ( cropped Aberdeen curls , Trotsky shades ) , and Will ( shoulder length braided locks , shabby green fatigues ) is only part of an evening of light , music and effects that now involves around ten people . |
| 10 | BREASTFEEDING — Suckling ; a still nearly universal way of feeding infants and young children in most developing countries , first exclusively by lactation ( full breastfeeding that often lasts about three to six months ) , then introducing supplementary food ( partial breastfeeding that may last for several years until weaning ) . |
| 11 | The source of the higher hazards at the youngest and oldest maternal ages are held to be , in the case of infants born to teenagers , the physiological immaturity that often characterizes very young women at the birth of their first child ; the mother 's social immaturity and inexperience with child care ; and impoverishment in respect to formal schooling and overall living conditions . |
| 12 | One useful trick that often comes in handy is to convert an entire spreadsheet to values . |
| 13 | Like most artists , I hope to give shape to a reality that often seems wilfully chaotic . |
| 14 | By contrast with this largesse , however , one area that nowadays seems rather under-represented on our screens is the mainstream cinema of western Europe . |
| 15 | It is a remark that engagingly suggests how little , as a devout atheist , he understood the relation between religion and life . |
| 16 | Why invent a mystery force that magically knows how hard to pull on everything to make them go round the same path when you could say that everything has to go in that curved path because that is how the space itself is curved ? |
| 17 | They bow gracefully to all the passengers , catching the men 's eyes with a practised coquetry that yet seems charmingly fresh , then vanish backwards with tiny steps to reappear with hot towels and orchid sprays . |
| 18 | I like to know what their intentions are , what they are hoping to achieve in that lesson and that cumulatively becomes more specific because it 's based on what we said last time . |