Example sentences of "[noun pl] [that] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The muscles are strengthened by an increased flow of blood , as are the ligaments that attach them to the bones . |
| 2 | Polar stocks are generally assumed to have accumulated , and still be accumulating , adaptations that equip them for the polar environment ; endemic polar species , that are found only in polar regions , are assumed to be derived from temperate or subpolar stocks , via intermediate stages that no longer exist . |
| 3 | They can see and smell lines and shapes that lead them through the darkest night , point out lines of demarcation , isolate territories . |
| 4 | I 've cut the ropes that bind me to the shore , she thought , and sinking down onto the arm of Meredith 's chair she listened , smiling , to one of the pirates confiding that when he was in town he consulted the same dentist as dear Johnny . |
| 5 | We are challenged to recognise , first , that power is involved in non-decision-making , in inaction , and in non-participation , and , second , that interests are advantaged and disadvantaged by the fact that certain issues are not on the governmental agenda for complicated reasons that take us behind the scenes of the public face of policy-making and into the murky waters of the constraining role of ideas in society . |
| 6 | I would like to suggest that all activities that take us outside the practical business of living ( sacred worship , carnivals , listening to music and reading a novel , etc. , etc. ) can be seen as either subsumed under play or as extensions of it . |
| 7 | But it is thought , however , that these few people do n't have the antibodies that protect them from the toxin if it is produced . ’ |
| 8 | Dreaming of moths that drink them under the moon ; |
| 9 | The control over text and graphics it allows is immense , and some of the functions that differentiate it from the rest of the Windows word processor league are particularly appropriate for a word processor — sentence selection being a case in point . |
| 10 | The building sits on bearings that isolate it from the ground . |
| 11 | To advertise the fact , they surround the pollen and the anthers that produce it with the vivid petals of a flower . |
| 12 | A good starting point is to ask parents to list ten things that irritate them about the school plus ten things that the school does rather well . |
| 13 | I think that one of the things that get me at the moment is the time keeping , it 's very bad |
| 14 | Most people vary enormously in the reserves that they have available , so that the things that floor them at the end of term may be the same small irritations that they sailed through at the beginning . |
| 15 | It consists mainly of a diagram of the shape , plus figures that tell you about the sizes , stitches and rows . |
| 16 | We always promote the sons-of-bitches that kick us in the ass ! ’ |
| 17 | They have , therefore , fewer cultural resources with which to resist the forces that place them in the underclass . |
| 18 | The perspective of the poem follows its language , tumbling suddenly into a burst of passion and emotion as the poet struggles to observe the forces that buffet him in the heart of his mind . |
| 19 | Christian people are often in this category , discussing issues that concern them within the trusted confines of their church fellowship or house group . |
| 20 | But our intention is to take account of your views and address the issues that concern you at the earliest practicable opportunity . |
| 21 | Because it is open to the sea , the lake becomes salty now and again , but the salt is flushed out by the rivers that feed it from the African mainland . |
| 22 | Regular faces that greet you in the banks , shops and offices in Funchal are to be seen on the eight-kilometre long beach of white sand . |
| 23 | Herbaceous forms grow as tightly-packed mats ( Saxifraga , Stellaria ) , rosettes ( Draba , Potentilla ) or cushions ( Silene ) , habits that keep them under the snow in winter and close to the warm soil surface in summer . |
| 24 | The area below the stair then becomes part of the lounge , extending back from the glazed folding doors that separate it from the dining-room ( Fig 48 ) . |
| 25 | The semiotic surfaces as rhythmic pulses , disturbances in logic , and other ‘ poetic ’ mechanisms that mark it as the source of the ‘ poetic ’ in writing ( 1974:22–30 , see also Brooke-Rose 1981:342 ) . |
| 26 | Moreover , the observer at A forms a picture of the white hole on the basis of all the light rays that reach him at the same time . |