Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than a hundred years of systematic captivity had created a whole new genus , animals that had none of the skills and few of the desires of a wild habitat . |
| 2 | The driving force that keeps you on the road best . |
| 3 | Then everything was movement , sensation , and she could no longer laugh or speak or do anything but be carried along by a force greater than anything she had ever known before , a force that took them to the heavens to touch the stars that had already decided their destiny . |
| 4 | This makes me wonder if it is the creative thought that guides the discoverer or whether it is the emotion that is the creative force that impels him to the solution . |
| 5 | The temperature in the restaurant seemed to drop by several degrees , and the eyes that met hers across the table glittered threateningly gold . |
| 6 | In other words the states of mind that do nothing for the healing process . |
| 7 | The muscles are strengthened by an increased flow of blood , as are the ligaments that attach them to the bones . |
| 8 | ‘ It was brilliant to hit the goals that took us to the top , and it 's got to be the best 90 minutes of my career . ’ |
| 9 | Margaret Hughes wept in the backseat of the police car that took her from the court to prison . |
| 10 | The Ford ‘ Edsel ’ , unveiled as the car that had everything in the way of advanced engineering , flopped like a dead duck with the public which presumably was little interested in engineering . |
| 11 | That is a talent that followed him to the Foreign Office and to the Department of Health , where he helped Ken Clarke take on hospital doctors attacking their tales of long hours as ‘ fishermen 's stories ’ . |
| 12 | It was probably the idea of having to hang on for no more than two months that convinced me of the value of these silly prophesies , but I was a true believer . |
| 13 | If you go along to a good quality golf course they have the score card a planner but they also have a little script that tells you about the hole . |
| 14 | Polar stocks are generally assumed to have accumulated , and still be accumulating , adaptations that equip them for the polar environment ; endemic polar species , that are found only in polar regions , are assumed to be derived from temperate or subpolar stocks , via intermediate stages that no longer exist . |
| 15 | She thanked the driver , lifted the latch of the low iron gate and took four steps that brought her to the front door . |
| 16 | They can see and smell lines and shapes that lead them through the darkest night , point out lines of demarcation , isolate territories . |
| 17 | I 've cut the ropes that bind me to the shore , she thought , and sinking down onto the arm of Meredith 's chair she listened , smiling , to one of the pirates confiding that when he was in town he consulted the same dentist as dear Johnny . |
| 18 | We are challenged to recognise , first , that power is involved in non-decision-making , in inaction , and in non-participation , and , second , that interests are advantaged and disadvantaged by the fact that certain issues are not on the governmental agenda for complicated reasons that take us behind the scenes of the public face of policy-making and into the murky waters of the constraining role of ideas in society . |
| 19 | Presumably it was both practical and political reasons that led him to the subject working party strategy . |
| 20 | They covered a large tract of ground , quite deserted , but conveniently illuminated by the high powerful lights round the warehouses that separated it from the still-working mainline railway . |
| 21 | Perhaps the man was excited because he saw the chance of making more money , Kirov rejected , in the hope that reminding himself of the mercenary side of the Jew 's character might make his job a little easier . |
| 22 | Tony takes the hint and decides not to wax equally lyrical about the Svalbard storm that kept everyone in the tent for seventy-two hours , unable to go out for anything . |
| 23 | That put Swansea 8–6 in front at half-time , but even then the Aussies could n't have expected the storm that awaited them in the second half . |
| 24 | I would like to suggest that all activities that take us outside the practical business of living ( sacred worship , carnivals , listening to music and reading a novel , etc. , etc. ) can be seen as either subsumed under play or as extensions of it . |
| 25 | JONATHAN Davies scored 20 points as Widnes went on a scoring spree that took them into the second round of the Lancashire Cup . |
| 26 | His enthusiastic and entrepreneurial promotion of these studies , however , was combined with a political naïvety that blinded him to the problems that can arise from reliance on external sources of funding in politically charged fields of study . |
| 27 | His threat reflected anger at the results of an internal party election that relegated him to the number four spot in the party leadership and his supporters to inferior slots on the party ticket . |
| 28 | Because now I know there 's nothing behind the fancy shirt that interests me in the slightest . ’ |
| 29 | He went inside and the kitchen scents hit him then , laying down a trail that drew him across the creaking boards and down the hall . |
| 30 | A presence that disturbs me with the joy |