Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Traditional building materials such as mud will have a role to play only when the national objective is to ensure that everyone has better housing now . |
2 | ‘ It is simply that I expected better service , ’ he snapped . |
3 | I mentioned this to no one for two practical reasons : one was that I loathed swimming , and if I pretended that I was still menstruating , signing the little red book every four weeks , I should be able to evade an unpleasant experience for at least one week out of four ; the other was that I feared further reprisals might be taken against me . |
4 | The people are very tolerant and it has been overheard that I speak better Portuguese than I do English . |
5 | To accurately imitate what I can see will require that I use smaller shapes than those used in other parts of the painting . |
6 | To accurately imitate what I can see will require that I use smaller shapes than those used in other parts of the painting . |
7 | The Committee has asked that I seek further information on the way in which the Society is developing its campaign and the nature of the second report . |
8 | I see , on re-reading this minute , that I promised further sections on the weekend and holidays . |
9 | If his parents bought her a present he was always comparing and felt that she had better things and more things than he did . |
10 | She even pretends that she has higher principles than many of the other characters in the play : |
11 | The important thing is to be able to let your partner know what sort of sex you want and that you want safer sex . |
12 | Explain that , as you know more about HIV , you no longer want to risk unsafe sex and that you see safer sex as a way of taking care of each other . |
13 | It is by helping newcomers , becoming a sponsor and by doing practical service of one kind or another for the group or for the Anonymous Fellowship as a whole that one gains greater insights into one 's own disease and greater humility and security in one 's own recovery . |
14 | After many conversations , it is my feeling that we need better communication between the youth of Shropshire and the youth of the rest of the diocese . |
15 | We 're now attempting to install , or produce those systems so that we have better information . |
16 | Labour claimed the result ‘ smashed ’ the Liberal Democrats in Wear Valley despite the fact that we gained further ground and Labour 's support fell back . |
17 | The time may well have come when the taxpayers of our country need their own union to ensure that they receive better value for their money — rather like local authority ratepayers ' committees . |
18 | Recognising that relocation may have a worse effect on married staff than on single workers , it is not unusual to find that they receive higher allowances . |
19 | Cracks under 1mm are acceptable , up to 2mm they require minor repair ; above that they require further investigation by a builder or structural engineer . |
20 | He believed that they had greater capacity to do so than previous generations and hence would be less in need of support from the state when they reached old-age — there was therefore no need to establish complex insurance machinery . |
21 | Some of the professionals believed that they had greater patience than their able-bodied colleagues , and often pointed out that their patients and clients had greater confidence in them and were more likely to take their advice . |
22 | It therefore seems directly consistent with the theory that candidates were forbidden to try to persuade the voters that they had better policies or attitudes than other candidates : a directive which had distinctive consequences for the pattern of the contest . |
23 | The early bipedal hominids were smaller than us so it is not surprising that they had smaller skulls , but there are no good grounds for supposing that men have gradually been evolving into creatures of greater and greater intelligence . |
24 | While nothing definitive can be concluded from such meagre data , the fact that such examples do seem to suggest different impressions than the to infinitive to speakers of various dialects indicates that they deserve closer attention , especially in the light of a further examination of the passive voice . |
25 | Some tasks may be logically more complex than others in the sense that they subsume simpler tasks . |
26 | On the negative side it should be recalled that many Belorussian nationalists were more pro-Western than specifically Belorussian in their emphasis , while many others became so identified with the Bolshevik Party that they shed earlier inclinations . |
27 | Executives have discovered that they achieve better results in the workplace if they fall in love with a colleague , according to an American report . |
28 | Already , third-world countries such as India are complaining that they face tougher loan conditions than Russia . |
29 | The latest report on the employment of black graduates also concludes that they experience greater difficulties than white graduates in obtaining employment ; in addition , the jobs obtained appear to be inferior to those gained by white graduates ( CRE , 1987 ) . |
30 | Conversely , the Profitboss accepts that they have greater skills in packing , driving and cleaning than him . |