Example sentences of "[that] [noun prp] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in the decline of the movement that Healy came into his own . |
| 2 | Subsequently , the owner claimed damages from Veitchi , claiming that Veitchi had through their negligence laid the floor badly . |
| 3 | The bitter lesson that Nizan learned to his cost in 1939 was that moral integrity and political reality rarely coincide . |
| 4 | He was quite happy to be Marcus 's dog , but it was possible that Marcus relied on his assuming some more dignified role . |
| 5 | It is becoming increasingly essential that Carling recovers from his strained thigh muscle in time for Saturday 's first Test against the All Blacks . |
| 6 | And it was in Paris that the Liszt-Thalberg rivalry began ( though it was not a thing of their own making , and there does not seem to have been any genuine animosity between them ) ; when they played in a contest in an aristocratic household Thalberg was declared the first pianist in the world and Liszt was thus deemed to have won on points , and it was said that Thalberg departed with his head hung low . |
| 7 | Once both yards are in the private sector , the danger for Rosyth is that Devonport bolstered by its secure base-load of Trident contracts , will be able to undercut the Scottish yard for surface work too . |
| 8 | ‘ I felt that Ben panicked in our race in Seville , ’ Carl said , ‘ and if someone is with him at sixty metres then I think he is vulnerable . ’ |
| 9 | For much of the broadcast he was answering questions put by two interviewers , but as it was drawing to a close he suddenly began reading from a prepared text , declaring : " I warned in 1987 that Gorbachev has in his character an aspiration for absolute personal power . |
| 10 | He later announced that Woolridge went to his death with great courage . |
| 11 | One Protestant Unionist recalled that Paisley arrived at his house a month before a Belfast Corporation election and asked if he and another person would be willing to stand . |
| 12 | For the scene when Benjamin is trying to get a room key , Nichols suggested that Dustin find in his life what was the most painful thing for him to do that had a sexual connotation , in a public way . |
| 13 | Again the cockerel , its cry a reminder to me — like the little cake that Proust dipped in his tea — that time is a complex thing , stronger than any tide , yet so fragile it can be traversed instantaneously on a familiar sound or smell . |
| 14 | The eyes widened , the mouth opened to form a smile , and then a gaping O , and then with a cry that Bernice heard in her mind rather than with her ears the nose and chin split in a vertical line , the eyes moved apart , and the entire face divided in two . |
| 15 | His conversation had the inconsequence that Chekhov gave to his older characters and it was larded with Russian proverbs , many of which he was suspected of having invented himself . |
| 16 | The floor was crowded with cardboard boxes that were filled with leaflets for the Literacy Project that Ellen helped in her spare time . |
| 17 | The sick smile that Odilo sported throughout his wedding day seems , in retrospect , all too appropriate . |
| 18 | Christina noticed that Susanna played with her food , moving it around the plate before leaving most of it . |
| 19 | Well , ladies and gentlemen , I think you 'll agree that some of John Maynard-Smith 's early engineering training showed through , as it were , in reverse order , if that 's not too heretical a statement to make in this context , in the gentle good natured demolition job that he did on the main current critical attacks on Darwin 's mechanism , and particularly on the rhythms of change that Darwin adumbrated within his own time scale . |
| 20 | The vast majority of evolutionists shared both the racist and the sexist assumptions that Darwin built into his theory . |
| 21 | There were other extraordinary , dramatic examples of transmutation that Darwin encountered on his voyage and overlooked , quite apart from those found in the Galapagos . |
| 22 | Gould 's efforts did not come quickly enough , and Ortega suffered a crushing defeat , one that Gould predicted in his report last December . |
| 23 | Thersites is a walking manifestation of the ‘ leprous distillment ’ that Claudius poured into his brother 's ears , a ‘ tetter ’ or scabby eruption ‘ bark 'd about , /Most lazar-like ’ ( Hamlet , I.v.64ff . ) . |
| 24 | The fan overhead sliced through the air , like the chaff-cutter that Ramlal used on his farm at home . |
| 25 | It is from this forbidding , inhuman Paris , projected into the not-too-distant future , that Giorgio returns to his childhood haunts in the Abruzzi . |
| 26 | I had made the mistake of volunteering to sleep on the couch in the living room on the nights that Janice stayed at our flat ; this offer was made with what I thought was obvious sarcasm one evening while Gav and Norris were attempting to develop a technique for cooking poppadoms in the microwave . |
| 27 | The SoftBench Framework technology provides the underlying tool-to-tool communication that IBM used in its SDE WorkBench/6000 and SDE Integrator/6000 products , and incorporating the Framework with other IBM systems will enable IBM 's Systems Application Architecture users to participate with systems based on a Unix operating system in an open , heterogenous environment . |
| 28 | Whereas works were human actions , faith was a gift of grace , a divine action , something implanted in the believer by God — the sort of imagery that Barth refined in his work on Anselm . |
| 29 | There was a newspaper open at the local pages on top of the freezer , and as he munched the roll Zen read an article describing the life and times of the late head of the Miletti family in such exorbitantly fulsome terms that Zen wondered in his dour Venetian way whether such a paragon would find Paradise quite good enough for him . |
| 30 | I suspected that Kim sitting on his lap like that had perked him up no end . |