Example sentences of "that [noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] an " in BNC.

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1 I can remember one unfortunate teacher , faced with a whole class engaged in this feat , saying with a very red face , ‘ Any girl who makes that noise will have an order mark ! ’
2 These days , that figure can represent an entire print run .
3 They know as well as anyone else that Labour will have an even higher mountain to climb come the next general election as a result of Boundary Commission changes .
4 He hoped , he said , that peace might bring an end to difficult communication .
5 We have made it absolutely clear that , in our view , that body will play an important part in our future defence position .
6 But some will , and it is at such times that counselling can play an important role .
7 As someone interested in trying to promote industrial regeneration and further growth in the north-east does my hon. Friend agree that the additional burdens laid on businesses in regions such as his own by the absurd idea of the imposition of a regional tier of government and the increased taxation necessary to pay for that tier would have an adverse effect on local business , would increase costs , would reduce competitiveness and would help to drive business and jobs away from his region ?
8 If a person prays believing that the prayer will be answered , then that person will receive an answer .
9 Is it not an absolute absurdity that that person should spend an extra week in prison and my elderly pensioner couple should not get compensation for the damage that they suffered as a result of the burglary ?
10 Well it 's obvious that any er settlement in that area would have an impact on the A sixty four as that 's the only access into that area .
11 While that argument would beg an important question , on the face of it the marriage laws do seem to promote the function of optimal outbreeding .
12 To understand de Gaulle 's monarchy , one must begin with the man himself , since he believed so firmly that policy should reflect an individual will rather than an ideology or a process of political bargaining .
13 He also hoped that success would build an unanswerable case for membership of the exchange rate mechanism of the European Monetary System , which he believed had become vital .
14 Their previous cutter Vigilant was still going strong and it was hoped that Searcher would have an equally successful career .
15 Gow 's work on Hellenistic epigrams has the same qualities as his Theocritus , and like that book will remain an essential instrument of scholarship .
16 We also saw that context can have an effect on the speed of visual word recognition , although experiments by Fischler and Bloom ( 1979 ; 1980 ) suggest that the effect is inhibitory rather than facilitatory , with a word taking longer to identify when preceded by a context which makes it semantically anomalous .
17 In view of my evident misery , both at the onset and towards the end of the disease , the two statements may at first seem irreconcilable : I was desperately unhappy and had known for years that death can put an end to everything , including unhappiness .
18 That gun would fire an armoured human missile , namely Yeremi himself , brandishing in his outstretched hands a huge volume bound in luminescent human skin inscribed with the spidery title Codex Lex , the Book of Law …
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