Example sentences of "that [prep] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just a few weeks before the zoo was due to close at the end of September , a meeting of the Zoological Society of London , which owns both Whipsnade Wild Animal Park and London Zoo , revealed that after struggling on despite falling attendances , the zoo 's finances have finally broken even . |
| 2 | The only disappointment was that after opening up a 50-point lead at the beginning of August , they failed to win any of the next four matches . |
| 3 | Mr Justice Ognall said that after carrying out the killing , Green ‘ took determined and sophisticated steps in an effort to mislead the police ’ . |
| 4 | Mr Justice Ognall said that after carrying out the killing , Green ‘ took determined and sophisticated steps in an effort to mislead the police ’ . |
| 5 | The following day the dress rehearsal went so smoothly that after giving out his notes — the pause at the end of the third act , before Olwyn opened the cigarette box for the second time , was a whisker too long , and her response to Robert 's line to the effect that she 'd fabricated the person she loved a touch too quick — ; Meredith declared enough was enough . |
| 6 | I also believe that upon taking up their post , all new post holders should receive a pack from HQ detailing their duties and rights , as well as outlining a training plan to support their work . |
| 7 | Mr Hodgson explained that in buying up so many small firms , who really could no longer make ends meet , he , Howard Hodgson , could do better and cheaper funerals and that no one need worry about the cost any way , because if the deceased or whoever was taking the responsibility of next-of-kin possessed less than £300 , the DHSS would pay for the whole thing . |
| 8 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
| 9 | It is very important to emphasise that in drawing up these formal treaties covering the limitation and control of the methods and means of warfare , those involved did not see themselves as creating new rules , but as codifying existing principles and specifying how they were to apply to the rapidly changing conditions of warfare produced by political and technological developments . |
| 10 | It contended that in carrying out their functions in April and May 1984 , the auditors owed a duty of care to investors in the form of the existing shareholders and to potential investors including Caparo . |
| 11 | Appeals will surely ensue but in the meantime we may well sympathise with those Soprintendenze who feel tempted to put all restoration work on hold in the fear that in carrying out their proper duties they may find themselves being sentenced as criminals . |
| 12 | It seems to me that it is impossible to say that in carrying out that exercise he misdirected himself or came to a conclusion to which he could not reasonably have come in the exercise of his discretion . |
| 13 | ‘ In respect of all the applicants , a declaration that in carrying out his announced policy under and in relation to section 61(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 in respect of persons serving sentences of life imprisonment imposed in the discretion of the trial judge , the Secretary of State for the Home Department , in determining for how long such a person ought to be detained for punitive purposes should fix the date of the first review by the local review committee and the Parole Board strictly in accordance with a period of detention ( that is to say , the notional determinate sentence less one-third remission ) recommended by the judiciary as necessary to meet the requirements of retribution and deterrence . |
| 14 | We further believe that in carrying out these arrangements we enhance the company 's reputation , its quality of product , flexibility and responsibility within the market place , together with its personal service and image . |
| 15 | Radmilovic claimed that in opening up Yugoslavia to foreign imports , by lowering tariffs in order to force domestic manufacturers to lower prices and become more competitive , the government had encouraged dumping , and was ruining domestic producers . |
| 16 | It may be that in weighing up all relevant factors , extending an existing quarry would be preferable to the wholesale removal of an old tip . |
| 17 | It may be that in weighing up all relevant factors , extending an existing quarry would be preferable to the wholesale removal of an old tip . |
| 18 | He had , however , noted that in clamping down on the protests of 1980 the Polish party had acted under great Soviet pressure . |
| 19 | It was decided that before going up to Oxford , which in fact he never did , he should spend time with a German family in Mecklenburg and three months studying at the university in Jena , where he attended lectures on philosophy and political economy and made many close friends among German Jews . |
| 20 | Enormously impressed by this friendly , helpful girl , who did n't seem in the least like most receptionists she encountered , Ellie slid back the registration card , accepted her plastic key , gave one of her funny little smiles , and decided that before going up to her room she 'd better try and find Donal . |
| 21 | I now decided that before going back to Oxford I would spend a month in the Danakil country . |
| 22 | And later she might have sworn , even though the lighting was bad and he was already some distance away , that before turning around and stalking off into the night , the stranger had snarled like a beast . |
| 23 | Hence it is provided that on winding up , a voluntary arrangement , or appointment of an administrative receiver under a floating charge , preferential debts , which include certain payments to employees , will have priority over the claims of ordinary creditors and shall similarly have priority over any floating charge . |
| 24 | Equals that plus Come on you 're multiplying by X plus two . |
| 25 | I dimly understood that by holding out to me this realm of material essences , available by an act of will alone , The Fat Controller was condemning me to a cosmos of brand names , a metaphysic of motifs , a logic of logos , and an epistemology based on EPOS ( The Electronic Point of Sale method of inventory-keeping , which was just coming into use at this time among major retailers ) . |
| 26 | It certainly might have helped Diana to listen and learn from counselling sessions , where other couples ' problems are aired and discussed ; but there is no doubt that by taking on the role of patron at a time when the world was prophesying doom for her own marriage was an exceptionally brave thing for her to do . |
| 27 | Yet they equally commonly affirm the observation that by taking on additional ‘ jobs ’ from which they derive real enjoyment and satisfaction , their energy and resources seem , paradoxically , to be replenished rather than further drained . |
| 28 | She observes that by taking out the old fuse and putting a new one in she has caused the iron to work again . |
| 29 | France 's Carrefour did just that by setting up a hard-discount subsidiary , Erteco , in the mid-1980s . |
| 30 | She soon discovered that by stepping on to the glove she had the food literally at her feet . |