Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The atmosphere of grey repression that clung to the eastern side of the city is being purged at an astonishing speed . |
| 2 | On all the imperial and foreign policy issues that arose over the succeeding years ( the Cold War , Germany , the Atlantic Alliance , Indochina , Korea , the European Defence Community ) , he insisted on defining a " party line " . |
| 3 | Now that he had arrived at the wildest part of Britain , he wished to use his adventure in the same spirit as that in which Montaigne wrote his famous Essais — as trials of himself , as investigations of the ideas that arose in the non-stop chatter of his mind . |
| 4 | Two kicks of his big flippers were sufficient to send him drifting back up towards the surface that quivered in the harsh sunlight like a sheet of liquid mercury . |
| 5 | It was these two towns therefore that became of the utmost importance and , as Royalist and Parliamentarian forces fought to gain supremacy , the surrounding villages and hamlets became the scene of many violent skirmishes . |
| 6 | Members of the Royal Family have long been aware that to remain in the public conscience requires coming to terms with , and feeding , the needs of the media . |
| 7 | Edward 's only extant will is that made before the French expedition of 1475 , and on internal evidence it had been modified , if not superseded , by 1483 . |
| 8 | Edward 's only extant will is that made before the French expedition of 1475 , and on internal evidence it had been modified , if not superseded , by 1483 . |
| 9 | All saw the shudder that rippled through the big man like a wave ; the way his chin jutted forward and his face contorted in agony as he steeled himself to strike . |
| 10 | He went down the corridor that led off the central area . |
| 11 | ‘ Willingly , ’ Rose agreed , and led the way to a small antechamber that led off the main saloon . |
| 12 | We walked naked along the path that led across the ice-covered sea . |
| 13 | My last charter had begun ; I had one week to work , then it would be back to Masquerade , and then to the long winds of the southern ocean that led to the uttermost ends of the earth , and thus to happiness . |
| 14 | This comment reveals where many of the misconceptions that led to the official radicalization of land policy towards which ended up in the land October nineteen forty seven . |
| 15 | The doors to the great white stone building that led to the palatial rotunda were open , the lobby empty except for a single security guard sitting and reading behind the circular information desk . |
| 16 | Bacci and the Marshal were staring in at the uncurtained window below the steps that led to the front door . |
| 17 | They walked up the steps that led to the front door . |
| 18 | ‘ This way , ’ he was instructing , leading her on brisk strides up the double stone staircase that led to the front door . |
| 19 | Tony 's feet crunched over white pebbles , on the path that led to the front door of the insurance company where he spent seven hours a day hunched over claim-forms . |
| 20 | Indeed , it was the attempt by American political science to construct a framework for the comparative analysis of modern , transitional and traditional societies under the guidance of structural-functionalism , that led to the logical inevitability of the bureaucracy , particularly in developing states , being regarded as ‘ multifunctional ’ . |
| 21 | It is said that 60 per cent of the human genome codes for proteins that are only expressed in the nervous system , so the real reason that human brains are different may be because greater genetic control has allowed them to evolve more rapidly ; if that is the case , taking to the trees may have freed the smell-brain , but it was its susceptibility to rapid evolution that led to the neopallial explosion . |
| 22 | Looking back on years that the Yorks were together , it is easy to pick out the really bad moments that led to the complete breakdown of their marriage . |
| 23 | Father showed Duncan the path that led to the grassy slopes of the hills . |
| 24 | The Purple Hour was descending as the Robemaker thrust Nuadu Airgetlam before him down the final stretch of road that led to the grisly Workshops . |
| 25 | The sequence of the research that led to the final publication is as follows . |
| 26 | Facing him was the main front door , the door that led to the outside world . |
| 27 | After wandering about for a while she finally got her bearings and found the splendid staircase that led to the grand hall and the main entrance . |
| 28 | Chris Novoselic ambled up to say ‘ hi ’ and bemoan a chronic hangover — the inevitable punishment for a late-night sesh with support band Teenage Fanclub — and Dave Grohl soon emerged from down the rampway that led to the sun-baked arena , all smiles as ever . |
| 29 | It was the repercussions of this relatively minor event in the Balkans that led to the Great War as it was called , the First World War . |
| 30 | It was Ali 's martyrdom that led to the great schism in Islam between Sunni and Shia ; but here the Victory Arch becomes confusing . |