Example sentences of "that [vb base] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had long been held as a general axiom — quite incorrectly , as Catalonian experience showed — that entail caused a régime of short , unstable leases and once again stood at the head of the estorbos , the impediments to progress . |
| 2 | Oh on Mondays and Saturdays two or three times a week and it was er available for anyone that want to hold a dance they could rent it there was no jitterbugging it was just the waltz or foxtrot and two step and then we got er one they used to kick their legs about |
| 3 | I know that many anglers swear that barbel dominate a swim and force the chub to evacuate the area when they commence feeding . |
| 4 | Mr Rifkind , seen here in Bosnia , needs that support to resist a treasury threat to cut another billion pounds off the defence budget . |
| 5 | In the context of stock exchange dealings he suggests that clauses that purport to allow a broker without warning to act as principal rather than agent , are " quite inconsistent with the role of broker and ineffective except against a principal who has assented to the changed relationship on this particular occasion " . |
| 6 | Especially in polygynous species , males that fail to win a breeding territory spend their time on the fringes of the breeding population and often show high mortality . |
| 7 | ‘ Maybe I 'll write a book and then take up that offer to have a go for the European Parliament . ’ |
| 8 | At this year 's Chelsea Flower show , a group of prisoners walked off with a silver medal for a garden display.And at the prison itself , they 've been busy creating borders and features that have turned a jail into an oasis of colour . |
| 9 | Examples of such housing were built in Europe in the 1940s , but when it came to the public sector imitations in this country , narrowness of concep-tion and meanness in execution translated the idea into the publicly owned slabs and boxes that have become a feature of the landscape in our major cities ( McDowell , 1983 ) . |
| 10 | Police yesterday disarmed a parcel bomb at a black human rights office in Florida , the latest in a rash of mail bombings in the South that have killed a judge and a civil rights lawyer . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's had trouble with campers , who 've broken down his fences and left fires that have caused a lot of damage — not Guides or Scouts , of course , who you know are taught to leave behind nothing but their thanks but he puts all campers together and calls them all nuisances . ’ |
| 12 | In the first instance , MAS will search our computerised register of some [ specify number ] acquisitive clients and contacts to identify companies that have expressed a desire to expand in your industry . |
| 13 | ‘ Specially Chosen Music ’ refers to particular pieces of music that have inspired a choreographer and whose score has been interpreted by the choreographer as it stands , the composer 's scheme and continuity unchanged . |
| 14 | Finance for books , previously received for students aged 16 to 18 from the local authority , is likely to become a less frequent feature of the scene , and its absence will have a particular impact in those areas that have adopted a system of wholly tertiary colleges . |
| 15 | Those that have lost a share of their markets to cheap competition from Britain and Italy , whose currencies have fallen since leaving the ERM , will think three times . |
| 16 | He says the otters that have swallowed a lot of oil may be so ill there 's nothing that can be done . |
| 17 | Here fish live that have developed a method of finding their way about that no other creature so far has emulated . |
| 18 | Countries that have developed a taste for gas-guzzling machinery are certain to find it difficult to turn back to animal power . |
| 19 | Cabinet in Rome rebuilt in a day ITALY 'S Prime Minister , Giuliano Amato , reshuffled three key cabinet posts yesterday as he struggled to keep his government afloat after bribery scandals that have cut a swathe through the Italian political class . |
| 20 | Much of this support could be gained from voluntary befriending schemes , single parent advice groups and possibly the kinds of ‘ divorce workshops ’ that have gained a degree of popularity in American mental health centres . |
| 21 | These pores have been occluded by halite cement ( scale bar 1 mm ) ( B ) and ( C ) Irregular patch ( B ) and vein ( C ) of halite that have replaced a carbonate mudstone from Rustenburg-l . |
| 22 | Searching back through the long history of feline deterrents , there appear to have been only three smelly substances that have achieved a measure of success . |
| 23 | right that have got a bit of a niche round about five o'clock from bloody Amsterdam and we 're getting shafted . |
| 24 | Erm so if you just remember try and remember the ones that have got a K. |
| 25 | It does , however , cover the main theories that have attracted a following in the twentieth century . |
| 26 | Some students have been placed in difficulties by local authorities that have set a community charge that is so far beyond the reach of people that even the 20 per cent . |
| 27 | The book was conceptually too demanding , but it gave a young , reluctant reader new expectations that have lasted a lifetime . |
| 28 | There are places that have introduced a ban on advertising . |
| 29 | They also keep children 's books from the same era , particularly ones with titles that have acquired a Viz -like smuttiness across the ages , such as Scouts In Bondage , Dick 's Chum and Courtney 's Choice . |