The owner of the cinema needed to make a lot of improvements and employ more people to keep it running, _______meant spending tens of thousands of pounds.
Of the two brothers, Bill is ____ younger one, and he is a quiet boy, _____ that most adults like very much.
The officials soon realized that, _________, things would get worse.
Great changes have taken place in that school. It is no longer ______ it was 20 years ago, _____ it was so poorly equipped.
Hearing the dog barking fiercely, away ____________.
It was ______ creative thinking that I took the course, not to get high marks in exams.