Example sentences of "[that] [noun prp] [vb -s] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Such successful companies as Nalco , in the USA , and some of the companies that ICI has bought recently from the Beatrice group , in the speciality field , discovered this secret many years ago .
2 There are also rumours that DEC has struck up a deal with Auspex , although DEC UK would n't comment .
3 Then not ungently , ‘ I ought to tell you , they did talk to me about him , it ca n't be news to you what they are saying , that Michel has run off with your mother and that he wants to marry her .
4 This does n't mean that ICL has given up on the Texas Instruments Inc Sparc line , simply that it can now pick and choose from the two superscalar implementations on offer , says Mike Coote .
5 As I hang on to the arm-rest with white knuckles , it is clear to me that Brundle has decided not to attempt the corners but to go straight on to the escape road : the turn is impossible now ; it 's just a joke ; he 's trying to scare the shit out of me .
6 ‘ In essence ’ , say Trestle , ‘ it 's a tragedy , but the story is told with all the wit , humour and theatrical panache that Trestle has produced before ’ .
7 To compare Raskolnikov 's haymarket with Kim 's bazaar is to see that Kipling has done all the work so that you do n't have to go there to know what it 's like at the level of vivid and varied description , whereas Dostoevsky leaves his reader with an impression which hovers between smell and vapour and dream .
8 And to the fact that Ryedale has taken much greater share of that development than the other districts round York .
9 Drilling Engineer Perry Hill notes that BPX has drilled more than 10,500 feet of pay in horizontal wells within the last year .
10 It is unfortunate that Frey gets caught up in talk of ‘ sensory data ’ for it tends to deflect attention towards the workings of ‘ inner ’ sense and away from the whole context of the appetitive or like behaviour of the animal or human being .
11 Louis Gerstner was by no means the first , and IBM Corp has been actively hiring executives from outside the company since the beginning of the year , Associated Press reports : it says that IBM has hired about 30 outside executives in the past two years and is searching for 50 more ; incomers include Robert Howe , 48 , general manager , IBM Consulting Group , former head of worldwide financial services practice at consulting firm Booz-Allen & Hamilton ; Michael Cannon , 40 , vice-president , personal systems storage devices , Adstar , former senior vice-president , worldwide operations at Syquest Technology Inc ; John Osborne , 39 , sales director , Personal Software Products , former vice-president of sales and marketing at Zenith Data Systems Inc ; Jon Cornell , 53 , assistant general manager , original equipment manufacturers sales and marketing , IBM Technology Products , former president , Harris Corp ; John Singleton , 56 , general manager , business development , Integrated Systems Solution Corp , former chief executive , Security Pacific Automation Co ; and Clare Thain , 43 , advertising and promotion director , IBM US , who was formerly the managing partner at Ronald James Direct .
12 He continued : ‘ It is perhaps encouraging that Scotland has suffered less than most regions , however , although the average fraud perpetrated in Scotland tends to be smaller than in some regions , the impact on Scottish businesses can be just as damaging . ’
13 ‘ I do n't believe that Scotland has fallen far down the pecking order of top rugby nations .
14 Examples of community projects that NERC has set up include the Terrestrial Initiative in Global Environmental Research ( Tiger ) , which includes carbon cycling and trace greenhouse gases , as well as water and ecosystems ; the Biomolecules Special Topic , which covers fossil biomolecules ; and a Pollutant Pathways project run jointly with the Agricultural and Food Research Council , which is studying leakage from agricultural systems into aquifers and groundwater .
15 Claiming that Tyacke has paid too much attention to the academic debates of the university teachers and too little to the realities of parochial life , he asserted that throughout the period from 1529 to 1640 the English church was in essence a monarchical church whose leaders were primarily concerned to maintain stability by restricting controversy .
16 The newly-appointed C E O , Gary who took over at the end of the year when Gill retired has been very involved in these restructuring efforts and has been working very effectively and is on top of the situation , and although three swallows may not make a summer , I can at least tell you that Camco has traded profitably in each of the first three months of nineteen ninety three and now I 'd like to hand you over to Frank , who will talk about the rest of our business .
17 However , the independence that HMI has had up to now has been deeply embarrassing to the Government .
18 In fact , there seems to be some feeling here that China has fallen right behind the rest of the world in matters of language study and language teaching methodology , so I found myself , on one day , giving a résumé of Linguistics in the west over the past 50 years !
19 The row over Landsat equipment comes on top of a dispute over a ground station that China has set up in Peking , with American help , for receiving data from US and Japanese meteorological satellites .
20 It is from his home , set in ½ acre garden , that Harry has presented over 50 programmes of his popular TVS gardening programme That 's Gardening .
21 I 'm afraid that Mrs has gone off with , ah Mrs I 'll be very grateful if you could bring me in a bowl .
22 It 's very easy within our own company to see the stages that Cadbury has gone through .
23 It is on the detail of the recommendations that Cadbury has come in for strong criticism — in particular , over some of the recommendations in the code ( see also this issue , p 24 ) .
24 When I went there in 1987 , after my journey to Auschwitz , it seemed somehow facile , an instrument of propaganda that used the horror of what happened in Auschwitz and Treblinka and all the other camps to justify not just the existence of Israel but all that Israel has done since .
25 She said tersely , ‘ It seems to me that Adam has had far too much to say for himself .
26 The poem expresses a lot more anger in it than in ‘ Futility ’ where you get the impression that Owen has given up .
27 And Paul claims that God has done so , through the Spirit interpreting spiritual truths to men who possess the Spirit .
28 Reminds us that the way that God has reached out to us is through his love .
29 I hope that God has found somewhere warm and comfortable for her now .
30 The credibility of our called ministry stands or falls with respect to the other priorities that God has laid out for us .
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