Example sentences of "that [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On reaching Worsley the canal tunnelled into the sandstone cliff to reach the coal workings some three-quarters of a mile inside the hill , where it divided into channels that eventually reached a length of several miles . |
| 2 | Finally , it is clear that besides having a variety of grammatical uses , a word form may well display a split semantic personality , too , even within a constant grammatical frame . |
| 3 | The sort of windows that need little or nothing in the way of treatment are usually narrow slits of glass , small ovals , round , arched , stained and etched glass windows that only show a glimpse of the outside and are often unopenable anyway . |
| 4 | Dirty wind is disturbed turbulent air behind obstacles ( such as trees , buildings and other boards ' sails ) that greatly reduces a board 's speed . |
| 5 | FMCG thinks it has found four preconditions that greatly enhance a merger 's chances of success . |
| 6 | This would give you four separate pictures that together form a set , linked by the same frames and the colour pink . |
| 7 | As 9 is one that obviously needs a lot of work and a lot of thought on it . |
| 8 | It is no coincidence that combat soldiers , particularly paratroops , wear camouflage uniforms that somewhat resemble a leopard 's spotted coat . |
| 9 | If at all possible select pairs that already have a track record for breeding . |
| 10 | A user can only retrieve a module by quoting a package that already has a version of it as a member . |
| 11 | Management will be negotiating a 1 August pay settlement for those grades that normally have a pay review in August . |
| 12 | So what does TGV stand for , as in TGV Inc , the Santa Clara company that just signed a deal with Tekelec Airtronic GmbH ( CI No 2,168 ) ? |
| 13 | Sunrise Leasing Corp , the Minneapolis company that just did a deal on printers from IBM Corp 's Pennant Systems , has filed to offer 1.15m shares , 1.05m of them new , to raise cash to finance further leases . |
| 14 | I 'm still terrified , even though McDunn 's on my side , because I can see he 's not so hopeful any more and if they take him off this I might get the bad cops , the ones that just want a confession and Christ I 'm in England , not Scotland , and despite the McGuire Seven and the Guildford Four they still have n't changed the law : down here you can still be convicted on an uncorroborated confession even if you try to retract it later . |
| 15 | Equally , baseball is a fundamentally silly game that somehow achieves a kind of iconic status because its players dress like mad old Great Uncle Alfred on a day trip to Blackpool in 1910 . |
| 16 | They were tagged ‘ miserable sods ’ — a label that soon became a standing joke — and the arguments raged . |
| 17 | With great reluctance , as he maintained , Ledeen carried the message from Israel 's prime minister , Shimon Peres , to McFarlane in the summer of 1985 , asking him to approve the first shipment of arms from Israel to Iran ; McFarlane replied ‘ Okay , just that one shipment and nothing else ’ , words that soon acquired a hollow , awful sound . |
| 18 | Hargreaves continued the Sheffield pattern by mounting exhibitions by young artists in Imperial 's Consort Gallery , quality shows that soon attracted a following and that for years formed a regular feature of the London art scene . |
| 19 | In this country that generally means a wetsuit — even in the summer . |
| 20 | It states that not using a lawyer would save you money initially but that it could be a false economy , particularly if your case goes to the High Court , where your opponent will almost certainly have a solicitor and a barrister . |
| 21 | Er , er , one of the things that Not causes a problem |
| 22 | The reason is that physically removing a weed , especially a perennial , is quite final , while one hoed out and simply left on the surface can easily root in again , especially in wet weather . |
| 23 | This year 's Greenham will be a fascinating trial as Magic Ring , trained by Paul Cole , has reportedly worked impressively at home but will be tested fully over seven furlongs on ground that yesterday proved a stumbling block to many . |
| 24 | A college lecture is usually one of a series that ostensibly covers a syllabus , printed in the college prospectus ( although perhaps in an abbreviated form ) . |
| 25 | This was the sort of reaction that usually followed a burst of temper bordering on rage . |
| 26 | Furthermore , especially when blooms are double or have many petals , it is quite likely that spent blooms will collapse into a rain-soaked soggy mess that quickly becomes a haven a breeding ground for mildew . |
| 27 | The River Dee is below on the right , concealed by woodlands that once harboured a colony of red deer : access to it by cars is provided by a descending side road to a bridge near a chapel with a corrugated iron roof and a former sawmill in sylvan surroundings . |
| 28 | There was a book called The Young Visitors that once made a lot of money . ’ |
| 29 | But today 's beach games are n't quite the volleyball and handball that once kept a generation fit . |
| 30 | Where root crops are fed on the ground to cattle the rabbit has easy pickings and it remains interested and satisfied with the debris littering a field that once held a root crop . |