Example sentences of "that [verb] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The feel of them brought him back into the attic room , to the confusion that made a few words on a piece of paper into a lifeline . |
| 2 | The new calendar , now known as the ‘ Young-Avestan calendar ’ appears to have been adopted in the reign of Cambyses ' great successor Darius I. The most thorough and plausible investigation of the date of its introduction is that made a few years ago by the distinguished historian of ancient astronomy the late Willy Hartner of Frankfurt University . |
| 3 | All this under a Tory Government which admits its PSBR is to be double that proposed a few months ago . |
| 4 | Dinner is probably the meal that causes the most problems to the dieter . |
| 5 | In the case of Peru , initially the departments that contributed the most migrants to Lima were Ancash , Junín , Ica , La Libertad and Arequipa . |
| 6 | But she liked the money , and the new house , and the new dresses — and the six fields of apple trees and the big farm north of Stratford that came a few years later . |
| 7 | Earlier this year researchers learned that inserting a few atoms of potassium into a framework built of buckyball molecules makes the compound a superconductor : below a critical temperature of about 19 Kelvin — or 19 degrees above absolute zero — the material conducts electricity with no resistance . |
| 8 | I 'd have preferred a book that told a few truths , or even a few lies . |
| 9 | Unfortunately such empire-builders seem to have overlooked the fact that selling the same names and images a thousand different ways also hands unprecedented power to film and pop stars , whose soaring demands have sent movie and recording costs spiralling . |
| 10 | Charles Leece , of Ferranti , emphasised industry 's need for resists that give the same results every time , and that are free of impurities larger than 0.1 micrometres . |
| 11 | Even now a fast ion may be shooting through you that escaped a few days ago from the Jovian magnetosphere . |
| 12 | Young Jack thought he was hard , thought that having a few blondes and getting a few legs broken made you a man , but underneath it all he was soft , a little boy . |
| 13 | Phenomenal because it 's been such a difficult year , and this is erm a prize that 's given to the gentleman or lady that accrues the most points in the whole of the amateur section . |
| 14 | What 's more , I intend to say it properly , ’ he declared , reducing speed to turn into a parking area that lay a few yards ahead . |
| 15 | Those that carry the same names as overseas beers are produced under licence and do not necessarily adhere to the recipe or strength of the original . |
| 16 | Then , I looked again at a superficially rather strange SF trilogy that appeared a few months ago ( Schrodinger 's Cat , by Robert Anton Wilson , sphere , 1982 ) . |
| 17 | The women 's event is being staged in two pools of five followed by semi-finals and a final so it promises to be a tough weekend for those that reach the latter stages . |
| 18 | They produce small mammal assemblages of low diversity and low equitability , but they also hunt in regions that have the same characteristics , so there is no discrepancy between the predator assemblage and the original faunal composition . |
| 19 | Of course because there are no living trilobites we can not find direct confirmation of this hypothesis , but we can look for other arthropods that have the same modifications of the eyes , for example , in the present day oceans . |
| 20 | British Columbia , who fielded only five of the players that tackled the All Blacks , have acquitted themselves admirably in a four-day period that has seen them take on the might of the two Antipodean giants . |