Example sentences of "[indef pn] [that] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To him everything that happens in the natural world is rational through and through and subject to a rigid norm . |
| 2 | Everything that occurred in the educational sphere after 1927 was no more than a " clearing-up " operation . |
| 3 | Among the blocks there were other large items embedded in the hump : a skeletal pylon , a diminishing spiral of linked , vitreous bubbles — and something that looked like the front end of an asteroid cruncher , a large sub-warp ship with front-opening doors big enough to engulf space rocks . |
| 4 | " Development is not something that happens to the poor . |
| 5 | A positive symptom is something that happens in the brain-damaged animal that does n't happen in the normal . |
| 6 | We have seen how the impersonalism of public life and changes in the structure and functions of the family have led to an emphasis on self-fulfilment as something that belongs in the private sphere . |
| 7 | The amount of press coverage that 's been generated this week by your conference has been enormously important to the local trade unions , it 's something that we can build on , it 's something that says to the local press to the local media trade unions have got something to say trade unions have got something to put forward and it 's that 's something that we will come back to erm afterwards , after you 've gone , we can use that , we can build on it . |
| 8 | But to the new professional researcher a Hellenic ideal was something that belonged to the modern world outside ; and while he might privately approve , his professional concern was with a self-contained world of antiquity . |
| 9 | Previously they had been assumed to be something that belonged to the Royal College of Art , the Slade School , the Royal Ballet School , and so on . |
| 10 | It 's difficult to describe in detail without spoiling the effect for future viewers , something that goes for the whole film . |
| 11 | ‘ A common public perception is that the Aquino government is doing something that goes against the time-honoured Filipino tradition and cultural values , ’ said Alvin Capino , a newspaper columnist . |
| 12 | It was actually something that happened before the Tory Party Conference but it did n't , it did n't actually help me recover |
| 13 | It was actually something that happened before the Tory Party Conference but it did n't , it did n't actually help me recover |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , but that 's just something that happened in the outside world . |
| 15 | But what we find in the resurrection of Jesus is not something that originates from the natural processes of life , but something that constitutes a unique event . |
| 16 | Choose one that contrasts with the current wall colour or wallpaper and see how it totally changes its character . |
| 17 | Deserts are the result of a lack of water and if there is a prolonged , fluctuating drought ( like the one that began on the northern fringe of sub-Saharan Africa at the end of the 1960s ) vast sums of money are not going to stop desertification . |
| 18 | The second argument about the origins of the incest taboo is the one that relates to the major theme of this chapter and I shall consider it at some length . |
| 19 | I stopped in a little restaurant and ordered a hot dog by pointing at a picture of one that hung over the greasy counter . |
| 20 | Huy wondered if the community which was supporting Surere was less one that adhered to the New Thinking in secret than one which simply shared his sexual habits . |
| 21 | ‘ The one that goes with the Slow Children sign at the other end of the village . ’ |
| 22 | The introduction of a local income tax therefore requires a major reform to income tax and one that points in the opposite direction to the recent individualisation of tax — with separate assessment for husbands and wives . |
| 23 | There 's a remarkably fat one that stands by the nearby shellfish stall . |
| 24 | It should be clear from the above diagram that the sentence which forms the most readily accessible link between ( 1 ) and ( 3 ) is ( 2c ) ( it is also the one that appears in the actual text ) . |
| 25 | In her anxiety not to ‘ assist ’ the nationalistic bourgeoisie of Poland , Rosa Luxemburg , by her denial of the right of secession in the programme of the Russian Marxists is , in fact , assisting the Great Russian Black Hundreds ( extreme Right ) ; she is in fact assisting … the nationalism of the Great Russians … the most formidable at the present time : it is precisely the one that is less bourgeois and more feudal , and it is precisely the one that acts as the principal brake on democracy and the proletarian struggle . |
| 26 | It would have had a beginning in the big bang , about fifteen billion years ago , and it would come to an end for a star that collapsed and for anything that fell into the black hole the collapsing star left behind . |
| 27 | Anything that appears in the major scale is a major interval or a perfect fourth and fifth . |
| 28 | Did any any of you three see what anything that happened in the first one . |