Example sentences of "that [verb] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you want to run a business that involves shipping an unwieldy machine across Pentland Firth and Scapa Flow , servicing orders from London , New York and Japan , and travelling to Glasgow and London to seek commissions from the smartest fashion houses , then Back Road in Stromness is probably as good a place as any to do it from . |
| 2 | In 1991 Darren started a job that involved covering a huge business mileage but did n't provide a company car . |
| 3 | While the politicians and administrators who framed the Act would not have wished to have espoused the notion of the ‘ undeserving poor ’ they felt unwilling to risk the public criticism that would have resulted from an approach to poverty that involved ignoring the potential waste on the ‘ work-shy ’ and the fraudulent application in order adequately to meet the needs of the majority of applicants . |
| 4 | Any insect that arrives bearing the wrong smell is instantly attacked . |
| 5 | By this time , the trade was completely unionized , and the existence of the women 's section of the union gave the group a certain coherence and identity ; so much so that to avoid overloading the present chapter , the union 's creation and activity is discussed in Chapter 7 . |
| 6 | The clear message sent is that voters have lost faith in existing governing parties that enjoyed riding the long boom of the 1980s , but have no policies for a post-Berlin Wall Europe . |
| 7 | He was n't all that sorry to find an urgent message from Headquarters that meant leaving the glutinous pasta . |
| 8 | I thought of my interest as being in subjects rather than individual works ; showing subjects rather than the summation of an idea made my objective clearer and that meant presenting the complete thought process . |
| 9 | Additionally , a horse that enjoys eating a wider range of foodstuffs — alfalfa , oats , horse mixes , apples , carrots , and so on — provides us with a larger range of inducements to motivate it to do what we want as well as rewards for when it does do what we ask . |
| 10 | In British terms that means reflecting the multifarious ways in which speech and gesture reveal or seek to conceal social status and social pretension : and in a fast-shifting , highly unrigid world like the British , status is far more often a matter of pretension than of birth . |
| 11 | And er that means adopting the current market . |
| 12 | In any event , the Act makes it clear that it is not unlawful for a teacher to inflict corporal punishment ( as defined in the Act ) where it is necessary ‘ for reasons that include averting an immediate danger of personal injury to , or an immediate danger to the property of , any person ( including the pupil concerned ) ’ . |
| 13 | We have made it clear that bids involving a substantial degree of employee participation will receive a preference . |