Example sentences of "[noun] that [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among other forms of religion that flourished in the Roman empire was Mithraism . |
| 2 | Greavesey of course and at the risk of overdosing on goals you can see all the action that mattered from the First Division yesterday . |
| 3 | From a policy perspective , it may be considered propitious that the patterns of fertility that impair the health of infants and young children are the same reproductive characteristics that bear in a maleficent sense upon the well-being of mothers . |
| 4 | While many of the older songs that survive in the new set — ‘ Big ’ , ‘ Fishes Eyes ’ , ‘ Partial ’ — hang on to Justin 's overweight basslines for their effect , newer material enjoys a much broader baseboard . |
| 5 | That 's the thinking that lies behind the huge number of initiatives being taken by environmental organisations as their contribution to the Earth Summit . |
| 6 | and is that the thinking that lies behind the eventual getting of Terry Wogan and Angela Rippon ? |
| 7 | JEWKES ] Some melancholy hangs on her spirits ; she seems affected by a grief that rises from no common cause . |
| 8 | They were large animals that lived at the same time as the forerunners of the dinosaurs , the petrolacosaurs . |
| 9 | The ancestors of practically all the animals that live on the vast plains of western India originally came from the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East . |
| 10 | The freehold was purchased at a reasonable price in a complicated deal that allowed for a sensitive refurbishment of the grade 1-listed building and a limit of 30 hotel bedrooms . |
| 11 | The maggot-bearing stapelia from southern Africa not only reeks dreadfully of carrion but reinforces its appeal to flies by producing flowers with wrinkled brown petals covered with hairs that look like the decaying skin of a dead animal . |
| 12 | He had the revolutionary idea that gravity was not just a force that operated in a fixed background of space-time . |
| 13 | In particular , problems of the calendar were the driving force that led to the initial development of Greek mathematical astronomy in the last decades of the fifth century BC . |
| 14 | Through this relationship , they can also be a record of the life force that exists at a certain site . |
| 15 | Most people who have travelled through the Monkton district of Ayrshire will have noticed the monument that stands on the high ground behind the Dutch House Caravan Park , and wondered what it is and why it is there . |
| 16 | Basically the procedure involves monitoring biological signals that come from the central nervous system , the autonomic nervous system , the musculoskeletal system and the cardiovascular system . |
| 17 | Not everyone was reconciled to the breach in the succession that occurred with the Glorious Revolution . |
| 18 | " Next week I shall be writing about moorland walks and suggesting an itinerary that takes in the ever-attractive Tower Foin . " |
| 19 | She lifted her feet , one by one , pressed them down on to the boot-scraper that stood by the back door . |
| 20 | The Scotch of St James , off Piccadilly , was the club that pulled in the new pop generation . |
| 21 | In so far as the auditor in the public sector is expressing an opinion on financial statements , then the Auditing Standards and Guidelines that apply in the private sector also apply in the public sector , absent specific statements to the contrary ( Auditing Guideline 416 , 1987 ) . |
| 22 | Global warming or any of the thousand other worries that come under the environmental heading may or may not have a sound scientific basis , but subjective judgement is still required to determine what priority to give them , and what rules , actions and expenditure are justified to relieve them . |
| 23 | There may nonetheless be a genetic predisposition that leads to the mood-altering substance providing the perceived perfect solution to this quest for unconditional love . |
| 24 | Suddenly , the group has hijacked his campaign ; nominated Bernie Grant as his running mate ( sinking Ann Clwyd 's bid for the deputy leadership in in the process ) ; and put out a policy programme that reeks of the old 1970s left . |
| 25 | Well , yes , it can be that easy if you are only moving fairly slowly , but bear in mind that to stop in a reasonable distance you have to hold on the control long enough to raise the nose and apply a braking force . |
| 26 | He had broken through the terror barrier , perhaps , and was in the dead calm state of mind that lies on the other side . |
| 27 | However , it must be borne in mind that work from the non-diabetic population has suggested that only between 30 and 50 per cent of patients are sodium sensitive ( Kawasaki et al , 1978 ) . |
| 28 | Night Goblins eat vast quantities of the multi-coloured fungi that grow in the dank caves where they live . |
| 29 | She gathered her masks and stepped towards the hollowing , fighting against the gale that blew into the quieter realm of the marsh . |
| 30 | But in South Africa today , and surely for a good many years to come , there are also additional considerations that demand from a large company actions and policies that go beyond its immediate business interests and seek to ameliorate the excessive social and economic imbalances that have developed in our society . |