Example sentences of "[noun] that [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gradually , the state of anticipation at Ballingolin began to subside like an inflated pig 's bladder that has a slow leak . |
| 2 | This time it 's Murray Mouse : Supercop that comes up for a lump of cheese and a quick spin on the squeaky exercise wheel that keeps the whole house awake at night . |
| 3 | It was Sole 's action that caused the collapsed scrummage , not ‘ lowering ’ by Probyn . |
| 4 | Kent , taking full advantage of the disciplinary action that ended the 11 year reign of Essex as boys ' champions , won the Midland Bank Junior County Cup for the first time since its inception in 1967 , at Bournemouth during April . |
| 5 | Action in the majority of adventure stories is seen both to affect and to be affected by character but in the end it is action that has the final word , in the romantic happy ending in which the heroism of man is affirmed . |
| 6 | Intel is firm in stating that this device is not a 486 with 386 pin outs and point out that the 486 has cache and burst I/O characteristics that require a 486 design on the main board in order to work properly . |
| 7 | Audiences become attached to soaps that have a strong sense of social realism . |
| 8 | He was never recognised officially , principally because of the painful sincerity of songs that portray the lowest depths of spiritual and material Russia . |
| 9 | At the massive party afterwards the Seventies were celebrated in a most appropriate way : Gloria Gaynor , Thelma Houston and one half of the Weather Girls were on hand to perform the songs that defined the liberal optimism of the period . |
| 10 | She emerged at the start of this year with the album Little Earthquakes , a collection of quietly rapturous songs that cast an unflinching eye across such subjects as loss of virginity , shattered romance and kinky sexual encounters . |
| 11 | Mammalian faunas on isolated continental fragments could evolve , at least for a time , separately from faunas in other parts of the world , producing a whole series of peculiar animals that have no direct relationships to animals with a similar mode of life elsewhere . |
| 12 | Charles had been particularly annoyed about the toothlessness , she could tell , although he tried to conceal it : he had in fact been without his two front teeth that week , while having their thirty-year-old caps replaced , caps that marked a heroic accident long ago in a swimming pool in Sevenoaks . |
| 13 | They blocked efficient economic combinations that posed no competitive risk to anyone , except the merging parties ' slower-footed rivals . |
| 14 | This is particularly so in the field of Scottish education , where folklore about having once been the best in the world has too easily fostered the delusion that restoring the old ways is the route to excellence . |
| 15 | The grizzled Skipper is a graphics accelerator card that replaces the standard video driver installed in your computer . |
| 16 | But , in a ground-breaking move , EIGA has struck a deal that involves the Russian Agency for International Cooperation and Development giving companies buying the cover a letter promising not to pounce . |
| 17 | It 's the early bird watcher that catches the best bird song . |
| 18 | She chooses to paint objects and settings that reflect the natural pleasure and sympathy she has with her daily life . |
| 19 | We drive the car that 's reckoned to the capable of 0–60mph in less than 4secs and talk to the driver/navigator partnership that rattled the established names in international rallying . |
| 20 | Steel met steel with a force that sent a nearby flock of birds shrieking into the air . |
| 21 | The terrible tandoori oven of the womb , the essential kindling of sex , the force that woke the dormant dog of philoprogenitive penis . |
| 22 | Cyclones are seen as a force that prevents the ecological succession of coral reefs from terminating in less species-rich assemblages ( in those reefs , the earlier stages are more species-rich ) . |
| 23 | As Ross followed in , the man swung , catching Ross solidly on the side of the face ; he was wearing a ring that opened a deep gash along the cheek-bone . |
| 24 | United Left was always an inappropriate name for a coalition that includes the Communist Party of Spain , a breakaway socialist party known as the PASOC , and assorted republicans , independents , feminists , greens and pacifists . |
| 25 | The eminent scientist and journalist , Lord Ritchie Calder ( 1963 ) , defined in another context the added ingredient that distinguishes a good engineer from a good engineering project manager : |
| 26 | Dr David Kessler , commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration said that his agency , the Environmental Protection Agency , and the Department of Agriculture will for the first time make a concerted effort to ‘ create incentives for the development of safe pesticides and to remove those pesticides that pose the greatest risk ’ . |
| 27 | The announcement , by the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) , the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture , will " create incentives for the development of safe pesticides " and " remove those pesticides that pose the greatest risk to health , " according to food and drugs commissioner David Kessler . |
| 28 | Creative football that created the big chance — a second chance at Wembley . |
| 29 | Using a mixture of regression , clustering and genetic algorithms , it becomes possible to ‘ train ’ the computer to recognise the signals that indicate a given event , and to decide the most appropriate action , if any , that such an event should trigger . |
| 30 | In the animal kingdom , we find many such examples of signals that play an important role in courtship . |