Example sentences of "that [verb] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not until the auction , however , on the third day , that became clear that the roof of the Collector 's collapsed will had once more been shored up with the stoutest timbers . |
| 2 | It is a decay that became inevitable when the infamous Beeching Plan substituted the crass motif of economic viability for that of communal need , and ripped out the steel vertebrae of the nation , leaving whole areas more isolated than they had been at any time since the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | She enjoyed dispensing their weekly portions from the store room on Monday mornings : a quarter-pound of tea for each that made one and a half pounds and quite enough too ; half a pound of butter ; one pound of sugar for each and a small tin of Epps cocoa between them all . |
| 4 | After all , brewers are not paying tax on beer that contains little or no alcohol , so it should be half the price of normal beer . |
| 5 | When one is ill it 's the knowledge that somebody cared enough to come and see one that matters more than the flowers and the lemon barley water . |
| 6 | The taskforce is one of about 16,500 non-profit organisations ( Bushwick alone has almost 30 of them ) that receive little or no taxpayers ' money . |
| 7 | You can choose glasses that cost more than the value of your voucher and pay the difference yourself . |
| 8 | Table 7.1 Unionist share of coalition governments , 1915–1922 Cabinet Unionists in Total no. of Total no. of Ministers cabinet ministers Unionists May 1915 22 8 24 9 December 1916 23 13 32 14 January 1919 21 10 30 14 January 1921 21 12 29 14 October 1922 22 11 29 13 The discontent caused by lack of opportunity can be clearly seen in a number of cases , but was a general phenomenon that affected all but the top dozen in the party 's collective leadership . |
| 9 | My magical ride took me from lake to lake , from Lough Corrib to Lough Mask and then to a third lake that seemed smaller than the last two inland seas set among high mountains . |
| 10 | When Michael saw the happy faces on Christmas Day , the food that seemed inexhaustible and the merriment his gifts had brought , he finally came to terms with himself . |
| 11 | MANY readers have made enquiries about Treble Chance entries that cover more than the popular 16-match total . |
| 12 | I 've seen them all : Rolexes , snide Rolexes that look better than the real thing . |
| 13 | This is done as soon as some function is declared ( the simplest necessary declaration is that some solid entities are being entered ) and some volume exists , ie geometric entities that give more than a single coordinate value in each orthogonal direction . |
| 14 | That is , inner cities are perceived as ‘ deviant communities ’ , areas which need to be turned around and brought back into the mainstream , a mainstream that requires little or no restructuring or reform . |
| 15 | Tactfully , he designed a 4–6–0 express passenger locomotive that owed more than a little to Jones 's influence , and it was very successful on the demanding gradients of the Perth–Inverness line . |
| 16 | Just as curry may have become identified as a traditional British dish with the blurring of ethnic and other socio-economic and demographic trends , there is an equal and opposite trend to identify positively regional specialities such as West Country farmhouse cheddar or Welsh lamb or Scottish beef as offering that bit more than the ‘ commodity ’ product . |
| 17 | Wearing the latest active weekend wear from Debenhams — the perfect survival kit for every man 's wardrobe — they prove that sporting more than a dash of style is no sweat . |
| 18 | By an act of faith that spanned one and a half centuries , Ralph had assumed that Whitstable grocer must be the lineal descendant of the Protestant rebel . |
| 19 | or him that thought more than a handful |
| 20 | In Catalonia there was little criticism of a territorial aristocracy that took little or no interest in its lands : the large farmers were confident and secure in an aristocratic rural society where an early and major defeat of the economic power of the nobility had left the masovers a rural bourgeoisie . |
| 21 | And in both cases that took two and a half years . |
| 22 | In France too , corruption has played a part , though so has the ennui that follows more than a decade of rule by one party . |
| 23 | We would have to develop an ingrained self-confidence in our ability to navigate across featureless terrain without any back-up whatsoever and using maps that gave little or no detail . |
| 24 | If you are working , then how about looking for a job that pays more or a job that pays the same but reduces your travelling costs ? |
| 25 | Ron Evans had the idea that we should interview her in a terrace street that bore more than a passing resemblance to the famous TV set . |
| 26 | It easily unlocked his heart , one that bore more than the usual share of tragedy . |
| 27 | It 's still a superb test of skill and character , combining a clutch of relentlessly demanding holes with a scenic splendour that rivals all but a few . |
| 28 | Also , current recommendations for screening for stroke and major coronary events by blood pressure measurements are not rational in that they take little account of the absolute risk of these diseases , specifying cut off levels for blood pressure screening that take little or no account of age . |
| 29 | Weather did not deter them ; it rained most of the time and they traversed ground that had little or no trace of thoroughfare . |
| 30 | It must not be followed rigidly but should be modified in the light of information that becomes available as the test progresses . |