Example sentences of "that [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Burgundians thought that eating too many potatoes caused leprosy , the Prussians believed that they were responsible for the dreaded consumption , whilst the Russians simply said that they were food sent from the devil . |
| 2 | To all who thought as Joyce did , the Munich crisis of 1938 had posed a problem of conscience that admitted only one solution . |
| 3 | However , anxious dreams produce smaller erections than those that bring more pleasurable fantasies . |
| 4 | It had taken him only a few moments to discover , from his wife 's tirade , that Hank 's book was not quite so innocent as he had imagined ; however , any book that made so much money was a good book , in his opinion , and he had defended Hank hotly . |
| 5 | It was the economic fragility of peasant proprietorship in areas of monoculture and drought , where two bad years drove the small man to sell his lands , that led more far-sighted reformers to argue against outright peasant proprietorship and in favour of a state-controlled and state-aided colonization with the family as the settled unit . |
| 6 | The ‘ progressive ’ parent who believes in total involvement in shaping the disposition of children may end up in a stifling relationship that offers precious little access to the outside world . |
| 7 | It seems churlish to denigrate a show that offers as much humour and sharp observation as this one , but it is impossible to escape the conclusion that Reflected Glory finally adds up to less than the sum of its parts . |
| 8 | Wang Sau-leyan was still in full view of Fischer 's secreted camera , his well-fleshed face split by a grin that revealed unexpectedly fine teeth . |
| 9 | Thing is I bet you the spikes that goes exactly next door to him I 'll paint yellow . |
| 10 | It was a marcher territory that produced extremely loyal Germans and abused and confused Poles . |
| 11 | Hand-beating an aluminium panel does not necessarily make for a better car , confers no empirically measurable added value : nonetheless , it is the hand-wroughtness of Aston Martins that make otherwise sensible men write out cheques for £120,000 . |
| 12 | The bricks from which the Midlands and south-east of England are built come from clay pits that make splendidly impermeable rubbish dumps . |
| 13 | The metaphoric networks that bind together thematic sequences are organized by two underlying figures : enclosure and penetration . |
| 14 | It 's hunger that drives so many ballet students there , not an innate artistic urge . |
| 15 | In the case of dieting , do not force yourself to diet in a way that involves too much hunger or deprivation . |
| 16 | The merchant unwittingly parodies Christ 's resurrection in his withdrawal to his counting-house to review his affairs : He descends only to join the rest of the household in a superficial scanting of Christian ritual between the call of the business world and the lure of socializing : Note the distraction and reluctance implied by the " " But … " " at the beginning of line 251 in comparison with the consecutive " " And … " 's that introduce more pleasing activities . |
| 17 | Fluke 's ‘ Joni ’ , a furious homage to Joni Mitchell 's ‘ Big Yellow Taxi ’ , was one of the dance singles that got away last summer . |
| 18 | ‘ The teams that stay up will be those that lose as few goals as possible . |
| 19 | They look super in the portfolio : far better than all those grotty 10 cm doubles that sold so many army surplus sleeping bags . |
| 20 | Equally to the point , the spectre of drastic economies that haunts so many men and women is often the result of their having only the haziest idea as to their likely income and expenditure . |
| 21 | In the present study , the poor response patients who had post-treatment calcium clearance estimations show that pamidronate effectively inhibited bone resorption , but did not correct the tubular defect . |
| 22 | There is an unusual small catmint ( Nepeta phylloclamys ) next to some tiny lilies that grow only six inches tall , and a viola on a tall stem that E A Bowles wrote about . |
| 23 | A highly crafted , hugely sophisticated building-machine that rewrites so many rules of conventional corporate architecture is inevitably hard to digest . |
| 24 | ‘ We do a kit of plans and key parts for £350 , or a kit that needs only 40 hours to get to a bare hull for £1,800 . |
| 25 | It is always much more difficult to produce a lovely picture that contains only one type of flower , such as a bunch of freesias , as you can only use one flower shape , although you will be able to press the flowers in various ways — for example , side views , full views , with buds and without . |
| 26 | A brief review that covers more modern forms of generative treatment is in Katamba ( 1989 ) , chapter 11 , section 1 . |
| 27 | But manufacturers have come a long way from the aluminium-framed picture windows that disfigured so many homes in the early days of the replacement window boom , and a wide range of window styles is now available . |
| 28 | A style of Champagne that has slightly softer bubbles and marginally less " fizz " than ordinary Champagne . |
| 29 | We have signed a treaty to agree to that , but we have not just retained Polaris , with its enormous fire-power ; we have now decided to go on to Trident that has even greater firepower than Polaris . |
| 30 | Although the physical act of taking a drink or drug is technically self-induced , the spiritual disease that leads to this compulsion is a disease that has clearly identifiable characteristics and outcomes , that runs in families and may even be genetically inherited ( this does not mean that if your parents have addictive disease then you will necessarily also have addictive disease , but it does mean that there is a higher chance of your having it ) and therefore the existence of the disease may be totally beyond the control of the sufferer . |