Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [vb -s] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The main problem is that the illness makes her foodpipe so sore that she drinks only milk and rarely eats solids .
2 Stick a gold star ( or a dab of nail varnish ) on the bottom button and sew a little red thread on the bottom buttonhole so that she does n't mismatch them .
3 She recognizes the fact that she loves both Paul and Bernard , but transposes this love onto the plane of the sacred and finds herself released from sexual desire .
4 If Irish industry is indeed managing its 17 000 out of 20 000 tonnes production of toxic wastes so efficiently that it pollutes neither land nor water then Ireland ought , by right , to become top European advisor on wastes handling .
5 The main advantage of the new method is that it requires only water .
6 Whereas the compulsory purchase order enquiry is fairly passive , relying on party initiative to inform the minister , the investigative enquiry is more active in that it seeks out information .
7 They know that it bumps up sales figures .
8 The ‘ glass shot ’ was originally painted on glass — and often still is — so that it fills only part of the frame , the rest of which is occupied by a built set and/or action .
9 We talk to him in his language and we have tried to lift as much of the experience from his mind as we can so that it does n't fester , get covered over , then burst out in 10 years time and turn him into a disturbed child .
10 That it does not means that this theory , like the other versions of interference theory already discussed , needs to include some further process ( such as a loss of associability ) to explain the results .
11 The ICRF is such a worthy cause and what makes it particularly so is that it uses just 8p out of every £1 for administration , meaning 92p really goes on advancing the research , ’ she said .
12 And when you consider that it measures only 17mm in depth at the first fret , it 's the closest yet to an invisible neck , from a purely tactile point of view .
13 The Chorley Report ( 1987 ) notes that it costs around £800 to digitize , check and edit one Master Survey Drawing .
14 Typically in English a paragraph is unified by the fact that it brings together material around a single point or topic indicated in the first sentence .
15 Without entering into the substantive details of the agreement or of the 1990 convention for its application , which appears not yet to have entered into force , it may be noted that it sets out rules for crossing the signatory states ' frontiers not just for their own citizens but also for citizens of all EC Member States , and the Convention of Application distinguishes between treatment at the internal and external borders of the signatory states .
16 An important feature of McGregor 's approach is that it shows how management assumptions are important in determining motivation and morale .
17 The company will probably discover , to its chagrin , that it cuts both ways .
18 This bacterium is unusual in that it tolerates extremely acid conditions .
19 When he is walking outside , the patient has to be specially careful to lift his feet off the ground so that he does not trip .
20 This is evidence that he does not posses any deep feelings at all for any of them .
21 In response to their charge ( Mark 3:22 ) that it is through demonic power that he casts out demons , he replies that no divided house can stand : if Satan casts out Satan , his empire is doomed .
22 The sub-contractor should be required to produce evidence that he possesses both employer 's liability and public liability insurance .
23 Othello ends up with the same poisoned suspicions as Iago , who had earlier confessed that he suspects both Othello and Cassio of having cuckolded him with Emilia ( II.i.285ff . ) .
24 One minute you say trustfully that he contains only soya meal and the next you suspect him of harbouring chunks of minced-up nameless anatomy .
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