Example sentences of "that [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you carefully plan a new health regime that slowly introduces slight modifications to your usual meals , perhaps to try different ways of cooking food , to have slightly larger portions of vegetables and fruit , you will eventually find that your food preferences change slightly , enough to tip the balance from an unhealthy diet ( too high in fat and sugar , too low in fibre ) , to a healthy one that will help you attain and then maintain a slim figure . |
| 2 | Of the seven or eight countries that secretly have nuclear weapons , or are close to having them , only one ( India ) started building a bomb because it was worried about one of the big five ( China ) . |
| 3 | Sadly , one thing has not changed in 30 years : certain governments of the world still falsely imprison , torture and execute their citizens , regardless of internationally agreed standards that expressly forbid such abuses . |
| 4 | The merit of the book , however , does not so much lie in its attempt to break the " iron curtain " that traditionally separates linguistic and literary approaches to literature , but rather in its contribution to the development of a stylistics that successfully reconciles linguistic analysis with a consideration of the socio-cultural and ideological dimensions of the production and reception of literary texts . |
| 5 | However , its physical beauty is unsurpassed and silk rugs are normally used as decorative , rather than functional examples of textile art — either as wall-hangings , or floor coverings in rooms that rarely see practical use . |
| 6 | Yet beer — good beer — is a highly complex product and one that arguably needs greater skill to produce than wine . |
| 7 | Searches that predominantly involve specific words or phrases known to have been used in the source material . |
| 8 | Underlining last weekend 's commitment by John Smith , the shadow Chancellor , to control spending , Giles Radice , MP for Durham North , told the conference that properly financed public spending was not only good economics , but good politics . |
| 9 | Given his initial thought that properly established geometrical results would not be disputable , it is ironical that this claim led to lengthy and acrimonious argument , and brought Hobbes into some disrepute . |
| 10 | Despite being very nicely presented in a slip binder with well printed manuals , shame they did n't follow the ‘ industry standard ’ for size , the first thing the new user sees is a license agreement that effectively disclaims all responsibility for anything . |
| 11 | His appointment in 1650 as secretary to the committee for examinations of the republican council of state brought him to London , where he and Thomas Scott [ q.v. ] headed the intelligence operation that skilfully countered Royalist conspiracy . |
| 12 | The third offence would cover the use of worms , viruses , Trojan horses or logic bombs and include both attacks on particular computers and the putting into circulation of infected computer disks that eventually cause unauthorised alterations to computer material . |
| 13 | It has proved possible to reach agreements that eventually ended atmospheric pollution caused by nuclear tests , that prohibited environmental modification and kept Antarctica free of nuclear weapons and military establishments . |
| 14 | It was the republic 's failure to find a lasting democratic consensus that eventually pushed republican politics into violence and war . |
| 15 | Normally a language is developed by human beings from guttural sounds that eventually become verbal symbols for objects and actions . |
| 16 | Four years later , however , a science programme on Australian radio accused McBride of scientific fraud and it was this accusation that eventually led local health authorities in New South Wales to begin the medical tribunal proceedings . |
| 17 | Each stream is analogous to a body , whose ‘ development ’ is influenced by dust seed ‘ genes ’ , a body that eventually spawns new dust seeds . |
| 18 | Of all musics , ‘ dance ’ is the one that most preaches unthinking hedonism . |
| 19 | Jealousy is a label here that merely interprets that behaviour . |
| 20 | In Tameside the minister had sound administrative reasons for believing that the local authority was acting unreasonably but it was held that merely to have such reasons was insufficient . |
| 21 | However , the studies also indicate a note of caution : Cohn and Daro conclude by suggesting that perhaps putting all resources into intervention after the fact does not make sense and that intervention should take place at a much earlier preventive stage . |
| 22 | There 's an example in my book , with one that only lasted six weeks , for example , which is astonishing by modern standards . |
| 23 | For the next three minutes they experienced sensations that only requited sexual lust can bring . |
| 24 | The rowing boat near the weir — only this time they had gone too far and Uncle Albert was not strong enough to row them back to safety ; the study at Uncle Albert 's house looking warm and friendly and inviting ; the professor beetle shouting rude instructions at some little beetles that had got into difficulty ; again a glimpse of her uncle 's study ; then a turnstile — one of those that only turn one way , so once you have passed through it you ca n't get back ; playful light beams now shrieking with fear as they hurtle past the window to their destruction ; walking up the down-escalator and not being able to get anywhere ; yet another brief snatch of the study … |
| 25 | Senior product manager Tony Lacy-Thompson explained that although graphical interfaces offer benefits in terms of consistency , easy-to-remember icons and mice for user-driven interaction , these benefits are of little use to those that only use one application , those only interested in data entry and those whose productivity will not be improved . |
| 26 | The male of the latter is a solitary night hunter of the forest floor that only meets another rasse to mate and leaves rearing the young to the female . |
| 27 | This failure was attributed to defects of language or of home background rather than to an educational system that only valued one kind of language and actively discriminated against working-class culture . |
| 28 | So these are the months that only have thirty days , September April June and November . |
| 29 | The advantages that they are getting are admirable and important but reforms that only give these advantages to a select minority can not be called fair . |
| 30 | The 1983 Mental Health Act stipulated that only approved social workers should be allowed to deal with mental health cases . |