Example sentences of "that [vb base] [adv prt] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the trousers were no ordinary trousers : they were whole-falls , that is , trousers with a flap that let down in front like a sailor 's . |
| 2 | THE man exposed by the Daily Mirror for selling monkeys that end up in research laboratories quit his job at a top safari park yesterday . |
| 3 | Nearly all the undesirable changes that go on in food after it is harvested make it less pleasant , or decidedly horrible , to eat . |
| 4 | How aware is it of the trading data that is collected , the way in which trading or order cards are filled in , or the pit trading practices that go on in front of its pit officials ? |
| 5 | Other examples from his list of claimed sense-qualifiers turn out to belong , instead , to a class of peculiarly restrictive adjectives which we discuss elsewhere ( Chapter 7 and also Ferris , in preparation ) : ( 31 ) their main faults our prime suspect he was named first citizen These adjectives , unlike most , are inherently restrictive , and select the particular entity to be identified by a speaker out of an already assumed body of entities ; thus the faults in the first example are not main faults in any general sense , as would be required if they were to be sense-qualifiers ; they are those that come out in front , relative to the background group of all their faults , relevant on the particular occasion where the expression is used . |