Example sentences of "[vb -s] that [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day in the early autumn of my lower-sixth-form year , when the damp leaves were already furring the grassy median strips that cleaved the dual carriageways surrounding Varndean Grammar , I saw a familiar figure from where I sat reading in the school library . |
| 2 | Wood finishes that let the natural beauty of the grain show through are becoming more and more popular . |
| 3 | In a series of experiments , balloons inflated sequentially throughout the gut identified trigger points that reproduced the abdominal pain in most cases of IBS . |
| 4 | He nearly had the match purloined from him too because Bryan Beeson , who captained England 's world bronze-medal winning team , took the first two games with some astutely controlled slow drives that induced the 20-year-old England No.1 to make errors . |
| 5 | Club captain Jim Wilson says that winning the Irish youth championship gave the club ‘ a great boost . ’ |
| 6 | He welcomes the thinking behind the changes , particularly the idea that people who use community care should take part in planning services , but he warns that implementing the new philosophy might prove very difficult . |
| 7 | Again , it was the middle management ranks that suffered the severest cuts . |
| 8 | Only a small fraction of pupils achieve the two Advanced Level ( A-Levels ) examination passes that constitute the minimum requirement for university entrance . |
| 9 | He will certainly play another club season at the Quins and , although he certainly nurtures a strong desire to play against the South Africans in November , he realises that come the new season he may not feel quite as strongly . |
| 10 | In one unbeatable Collection — the starts and sounds that set the whole world rocking ! |
| 11 | The Constitution has undergone much development in the last two centuries , but the concerns and fears that motivated the Founding Fathers have not lost their relevance . |
| 12 | ‘ National Parks are run by management boards that dictate the very colour of your window frames . ’ |
| 13 | A Country Diary : EGGLESTON BURN , Teesdale : Small burns that feed the main rivers of the Pennine Dales create some of the wildest features of the landscape . |
| 14 | Thus it seems that following the early manifestations of the id and its component sexual and aggressive drives in early childhood , from about the age of seven until the age of puberty a period of relative quiescence and control of the id sets in , associated with the development of the ego and especially of the superego . |
| 15 | Further , I submit file notes that concern the same issue . |
| 16 | Mangroves are trees that grow right at the edge of the sea , held and nourished through characteristic prop roots that grip the soft mud . |
| 17 | Ithanguni is important because it has contributed most of the fine ash deposits that blanket the lower slopes of west Mount Kenya and make rich farming and ranching land . |
| 18 | It was one of those plungers that generate the electric spark for setting off blasting charges . |
| 19 | The power for this immense mill , as with Ebley , was provided by five water wheels , fed by 16′ diameter culverts that ran the entire length of the building . |
| 20 | The analysis above indicates that getting the underlying structure right ( i.e. having an efficient firm organization ) is at least as important as having control over the firm 's prices directly . |
| 21 | All this means that building the temporal city is not simply a stage of ‘ humanisation ’ or ‘ pre-evangelisation ’ as was held up until a few years ago . |
| 22 | This means that to prove the requisite degree of mens rea for an affray , it will he sufficient for the prosecutor to prove that the defendant knowingly took part in a fight . |
| 23 | This means that to obtain the same measurement for height and width the proportion of stitches to rows will be different . |
| 24 | This is released by macrophages and neutrophils that infiltrate the colonic mucosa in large numbers during active ulcerative colitis and may affect the function of underlying smooth muscle . |
| 25 | What we learn from Wilde , Gide , Barthes , and others is that a conventionally understood politics which ignores sexual desire will quite possibly be as disastrous as one which makes that desire the prime mover — even , or especially , in the age of so-called post-liberation . |
| 26 | The support of the staff and their willingness to adjust their provision and their reaction , clearly demonstrates that given the proper approach teachers are in both principle and practice more willing to review their methods and sustain alternatives than is usually acknowledged . |
| 27 | Charles Leece , of Ferranti , emphasised industry 's need for resists that give the same results every time , and that are free of impurities larger than 0.1 micrometres . |
| 28 | Jack Delano believes that enriching the human spirit in some measure is the purpose of all art , and if any of his work has come close to doing that for anyone , then he and his wife , who sadly died in 1982 , would be more than satisfied . |
| 29 | a reduction in men 's pensionable age is ruled out for the foreseeable future on grounds of cost … on the other hand , the government believes that raising the pensionable age for women would be unfair to women who have contributed over the years in the expectation of a pension at 60 . |
| 30 | The nice complication then arises that to entertain the Copernican system seriously as a potentially true physical description , and subsequently to reject it , could be a more radical position than to accept it in the former sense . |