Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] that [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At several points the route was unclear , where the buffalo and other animals had churned the grass into a mass of muddy trails , so we trended upwards , away from the boggy sections and towards the crest of a broad ridge that formed one side of the river valley . |
| 2 | They have reflected the wishful thinking that informed liberal development politics in the post-War period . |
| 3 | But in the Philosophie zoologique Lamarck had subordinated this to his belief in a progressive force that pushed living things steadily up the scale of organization . |
| 4 | The mouse has a two-position switch that allows this rodent to be switched between its two personalities — Microsoft or Mouse Systems mode . |
| 5 | Some thoughtful Germans , such as Volker Rühe , general secretary of the ruling Christian Democrats , argue that now more than ever the Europeans should speed moves to form a multinational force that includes German soldiers . |
| 6 | This finding that increased intestinal release of IL-8 was accompanied by increased release of myeloperoxidase , however , makes IL-8 a possible factor for local activation of polymorphonuclear granulocytes in this disease . |
| 7 | Well I do n't know whether I want let's see what this is in this parcel that came this morning . |
| 8 | In this instance that meant three emergency pumps . |
| 9 | This is another cable that crosses two stitches over two stitches . |
| 10 | He had always taken a strong interest in his students but , compared with Camberwell and Central , the College , having more pretensions , had a social side that created greater togetherness . |
| 11 | You lead life , it seems to me , like some ritual that demands unerring performance. , |
| 12 | He too is a newcomer to Portrush , but who would have guessed it from a three-under card that showed 16 pars , one eagle and one birdie . |
| 13 | But it is the one part of the European Community 's I 992 single-market programme that stirs real passions . |
| 14 | Donating blood was an example of a social institution that embodied non-selfish actions by individuals without demeaning the recipient . |
| 15 | Ireland was already there with its litany of laments , not thinly preserved , like the cultural echo that accompanies some exiles and émigrés into a new country where time will absorb the native generation 's traces of foreign identity and dispel them . |
| 16 | It is perhaps this dilemma that causes most disagreement among protesters and it is therefore the one most effectively used by the governmental authorities to weaken their position . |
| 17 | He needs at all rimes to be in full possession of his faculties , or that extra , unpredictable poetic thrust would never declare itself — that heart-lifting boost that rockets mere words into the outer spaces of true poetry . |
| 18 | He pulled up his roots a second time and moved to another new land , Germany , where during the twelve years that were left to him he accomplished a ‘ ballet miracle ’ , building not merely a repertory and a company in Stuttgart , but a whole new public attitude that affected other theatres throughout the country . |
| 19 | Another issue that concerns organic dairy producers is pasteurisation . |
| 20 | ‘ Interest ’ , complained a reforming chaplain , was the only stimulant in the new philosophy and it was this philosophy that inspired nineteenth-century liberalism . |
| 21 | Throughout the season the air had the peculiar resonance that attends hot weather , carrying sound from vast distances . |
| 22 | There is no answer to this question that commands universal acceptance . |
| 23 | Indeed , comparison of managerial facilities and perquisites in the public and private sectors ( such as office furnishings , secretarial support , company cars , expense accounts , etc ) suggest that ‘ it is the private rather than the public sector that offers greater possibilities for at least these kinds of non-pecuniary consumption ’ ( Breton and Wintrobe , 1982 , p. 77 ) . |
| 24 | It is in this way that Foucault can return to the possibility of doing historical work that has political force through his notion of genealogy , which means , as he puts it , ‘ that I begin my analysis from a question posed in the present ’ . |
| 25 | The experience of these writers was seen as emblematic of the increased social mobility that characterized post-war Britain . |
| 26 | There was a pipe jutting through the stone wall at the tunnel 's mouth , a wide cast-iron duct that brought nasty stuff all the way down the hillside from the great well in the cellar under the stairs . |
| 27 | West Germany , in the event for the first time , bring four world champions to Hyde Park to take on a British team that has six silver and bronze medallists from the recent World Championships , as well as squads from Italy , the Soviet Union and France . |
| 28 | As we shall see in Chapter 4 , it is the absence of this grounding that opens some methods to the charge of excessive individualism . |
| 29 | He still encountered in his daily life a few who looked past the empty gaud that distracted lesser minds and longed for a revelation that would burn the tinsel away , an Apocalypse that would show the Fifth the glories it yearned for in its sleep . |
| 30 | The air was bitterly cold and still , with the peculiar lifelessness that pervaded closed-off places . |