Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living . |
| 2 | Anyway I I bought a little book that I saw in one of the shops and it was er The Industrial Lawyer . |
| 3 | ( The only failures at innovation that I saw in high-tech firms occurred when the manager thought he or she already had so much power that coalition building was unnecessary . ) |
| 4 | These birds , with now and then a solitary Rhynchops and frigate bird ( Tachypeles aquilus ) , were all of the feathered race that I observed in these heated latitudes , a part of the voyage which always hang heavily upon those destined to visit these distant regions ; by me , however , it was not so much felt , the monotony being relieved by the occasional occurrence of a whale , whose huge body rolled lazily by ; by a shoal of porpoises , which sometimes perform most amusing evolutions , throwing themselves completely out of the water , or gliding through it with astonishing velocity ; or by the occasional flight of the beautiful flying fish , when endeavouring to escape from the impetuous rush of the bonito or albacore . |
| 5 | Erm , is that okay for that I just have something that I read in New Scientist does everybody take it ? |
| 6 | God did many things in my life and in the lives of friends that I made in different places . |
| 7 | One of the reasons I managed to improve so quickly was that I practised in flat water with a steady wind . |
| 8 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 9 | And no one else can say of me that I know in one case and not in the other , because for all I know I am wrong both times . |
| 10 | Yes , yes , oh yes I 've well you know the fires on that I had in all the winter I 'm going to get on that today . |
| 11 | Except that I had in some way to justify myself . |
| 12 | Many of the points that I make in this speech have already been covered by John , but they are important and deserve to be repeated . |
| 13 | One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something . |
| 14 | I had strap many times , I remember once , on my desk , in my desk , they were lift up desks at the time , and it it and it was teacher was a grand fellow , and I got under my desk , underneath my desk , written underneath it , erm God helps them that helps themselves , but God help them that I catch in this desk . |
| 15 | While I would insist on the centrality of Noel Coward 's sexuality to the patterns of meanings that I see in Brief Encounter , I would not wish for one second to hold him up as any kind of gay martyr . |
| 16 | No erm it 's , it 's more recent than that I think in nineteen fifty the election was on a Tuesday . |
| 17 | It is perhaps inevitable that I think in these terms , since I have more direct experience of leading the British than any other nationality , and I am deeply conscious of our national foibles . |
| 18 | It 's as though I 'm holding everything that I want in all the world … there in the palm of my hand . |
| 19 | The headings that I tabulate in this way ( but you may like to include others ) are as follows : identity ; outstanding mortgages ; restrictive covenants ; covenants for production ; land charge searches ; registrations with freeholders ( for sales of leaseholds ) ; endorse memorandum ( when there 's been a probate or letters of administration , or a sale of a part only of the land comprised in a prior conveyance ) ; and stamping of documents . |
| 20 | Well I mean one of the women I spoke to that I mentioned in that piece felt strongly that schools were laying too much on children in terms of taking responsibility for how the world is , and she erm mentioned in particular erm the kind of ecological issues that lots of schools and teachers are taking up now and erm children are becoming involved in projects for , you know , recycle this that and the other and there 's a book , is n't there , ‘ The Children 's Green Guide ’ or something . |
| 21 | I should be just as happy to take the advice that I read in National Westminster Bank 's quarterly review , for instance . |
| 22 | Not that I believe in this God of yours , you understand . " |
| 23 | Nothing personal , Bill , but just remember that I work in this town , and for me to work here then I need doors opening up for me . |
| 24 | That I sleep in that chair ? |
| 25 | I re-read the speech that I gave in this full council chamber on November the twentieth nineteen ninety one nothing has changed except possibly it has got worse . |
| 26 | On that instant she put down her comb , and turned her back on her dressing-table mirror — and at the same time rejected any notion that she felt in any way excited . |
| 27 | Tradition required not only that she rot in constricted shade with the disintegrating corpse of her husband , but that she also eat a special diet for the entire period , which excluded any rice at all . |
| 28 | She 'd been letting on that she lived in one of those posh houses . |
| 29 | At the start of the story Anna is portrayed as being ‘ perfectly unaffected and was not trying to conceal anything , but that she lived in another , higher world full of complex poetic interests beyond reach ’ . |
| 30 | It turned out that she lived in some place called Romford and as she was due to take me back there the day after the funeral I had only been left with a few hours to make a decision . |