Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than a hundred years of systematic captivity had created a whole new genus , animals that had none of the skills and few of the desires of a wild habitat . |
| 2 | The temperature in the restaurant seemed to drop by several degrees , and the eyes that met hers across the table glittered threateningly gold . |
| 3 | The muscles are strengthened by an increased flow of blood , as are the ligaments that attach them to the bones . |
| 4 | ‘ It was brilliant to hit the goals that took us to the top , and it 's got to be the best 90 minutes of my career . ’ |
| 5 | It was probably the idea of having to hang on for no more than two months that convinced me of the value of these silly prophesies , but I was a true believer . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She thanked the driver , lifted the latch of the low iron gate and took four steps that brought her to the front door . |
| 8 | They can see and smell lines and shapes that lead them through the darkest night , point out lines of demarcation , isolate territories . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Presumably it was both practical and political reasons that led him to the subject working party strategy . |
| 12 | They covered a large tract of ground , quite deserted , but conveniently illuminated by the high powerful lights round the warehouses that separated it from the still-working mainline railway . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In addition , despite a disarmingly pleasant manner , Reagan was widely considered to harbour views that placed him outside the mainstream of American politics ; there was a possibility that he might tamper with social security or lead his country into war . |
| 15 | The so-called ‘ comprador bourgeoisie ’ , groups that orient themselves to the interests of foreigners in general and TNCs in particular , play a central role in these analyses of the triple alliance . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Valdo and Romario soon defied the squelching conditions with a double exchange of passes that took them through the middle of the Dutch defence before the ball rolled across a gaping goalmouth with no one to apply a finishing touch . |
| 18 | Dreaming of moths that drink them under the moon ; |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The building sits on bearings that isolate it from the ground . |
| 21 | To advertise the fact , they surround the pollen and the anthers that produce it with the vivid petals of a flower . |
| 22 | And the big , one of the big things that affected us in the last few years was er Dallas . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I think that one of the things that get me at the moment is the time keeping , it 's very bad |
| 25 | Let It Rock did unbelievably good business Friday night or Saturday morning a lorry would turn up with a delivery of creepers — the very things that enticed me into the shop in the first place . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It consists mainly of a diagram of the shape , plus figures that tell you about the sizes , stitches and rows . |
| 28 | When you went to the pictures you did n't want to be reminded of the problems that dogged you outside the cinema : jobs , children , money and so forth . |
| 29 | Kozyrev highlighted the spirit of co-operation between the two sides : " We worked as friends and allies standing on one side of the barricade of all the problems that beset us on the other . " |
| 30 | What does Mr Hattersley know about rights that sets him above the wisdom of the ages ? |