Example sentences of "that [verb] [adv] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for cutting it away , it was obvious that to wander about on the other side of the rampart was to invite certain death . |
| 2 | Romantically but not altogether inaccurately , James Emerson Tennant , Colonial Secretary to Ceylon , wrote of the island in 1859 in his book Ceylon : ‘ a pendant that nestles gently on the swelling bosom of the Indian Ocean . |
| 3 | Appropriately enough , we met in the Hominid Room of the Natural History museum , a light spacious rectangular chamber with a glass wall on one side that looks out on a grassy park . |
| 4 | They all confirm that a black hole ought to emit particles and radiation as if it were a hot body with a temperature that depends only on the black hole 's mass : the higher the mass , the lower the temperature . |
| 5 | Looking up at the north-facing slope ahead you would see snow and ice and you would tremble , but you would know that coming down on the other side , you would walk in sunshine , through green grass and sweet-smelling flowers . |
| 6 | Ventilator holes in that hood doubled as the hollow pupils of slanting crimson eyes that focused faithfully on the chosen target , since a single discharge of super-heated plasma would completely exhaust the capacitor . |
| 7 | Now Lucy Netzer and Jacob Sagiv , from the Weizmann Institute of Science , Rehovot in Israel have developed a simpler and quicker technique for preparing monolayer films that relies simply on the chemical properties of the starting materials . |
| 8 | This list includes eight marginal species — mountain and forest mammals that occur only on the arctic fringe — and over a dozen others that seldom penetrate far and are never found in the northern zones . |
| 9 | Earthquakes , especially the big ones , are caused when two tectonic plates — segments of the earth 's crust that float freely on the molten magma beneath — come into contact with one another and one plate bangs into another or rubs alongside it or dives under it . |
| 10 | Recent studies of language acquisition reveal that children are very attentive , and actively process evidence in ways perhaps not fully appreciated at the time when Chomsky was championing a theory of innate linguistic universals that depended heavily on an alleged gap between the scanty data available to the child and the rich system that he eventually masters in response thereto . |