Example sentences of "that [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Molly Malone was right : the gangway was little better than a ladder that clung to the ship 's side with fragile tenacity . |
| 2 | He found that gazing at the CO 's moustache helped . |
| 3 | CYPRIOT club Apollon , Liverpool 's hosts in this week 's second leg Cup Winners Cup-tie , were involved in a riot on Saturday that led to a referee 's strike and postponement of yesterday 's Cyprus League games . |
| 4 | It was an awareness of this contrast that led to the Cubists ' interest in the violin and the guitar as plastic forms around 1910 . |
| 5 | " Of course , " he said , " of Course , " and he even showed her the corridor that led to the Ladies ' room , and she escaped , and they escaped from each other . |
| 6 | She could also have told this was Tina 's mother before Mrs Darne went off down the passage that led to the Headmaster 's Flat . |
| 7 | This move was probably motivated by the same considerations that led to the Perkins ' choice of a site near Harrow , and to its eventual abandonment . |
| 8 | He unlocked the companionway hatch that led to the yacht 's interior , glancing over his shoulder as he folded the doors back . |
| 9 | In the hallway , close to the door that led to the family 's rooms , was a small , wall-mounted console . |
| 10 | She sighed , then twisted on her stool to gaze in astonishment because a car was thumping and crashing its way along the dirt road that led from the island 's one village to Bonefish 's sprawl of shacks . |
| 11 | But without the sort of big-money sponsorship that goes to the men 's game the women are having to spend precious time fund-raising rather than concentrating on their playing . |
| 12 | The one is in the corridor that goes from the porter 's lodge to the stairs up to . |
| 13 | During night missions inside Iraq , the laser shines from the belly of the bomber , and is kept on target by the pilot or the weapons officer , with the help of electronics that compensate for the aircraft 's movements . |
| 14 | Pontikes also had direct personal experience due to a $500,000 investment in Saul Steinberg 's Reliance Capital Group Limited Partnership , a buyout and arbitrage firm with a roster of investors that amounted to a Who 's Who Among The Self-Made Rich . |
| 15 | Moreover , the equipment that sits on the manager 's desk is all that is required — the computer 's intelligence is housed within the one unit . |
| 16 | The Clinton administration is slowly turning its attention to the $14 billion that the US government will spend this year on basic research , conducting a review of six multi-billion-dollar interagency initiatives and convening a panel of senior administrators to draw up programmes for future budgets that correspond to the president 's domestic policy goals . |
| 17 | She strode out of the cupboard that passed for the shuttle 's sick bay and into the cabin . |
| 18 | Reports in the Independent of Feb. 24 suggested that splits over the government 's Gulf war policy had prompted new political alignments between the army and right-wing opponents of Sharif . |
| 19 | The centre piece of the act is the onymous toad , unique among the frogs and toads because it has lost the horny pads ( the so-called nuptial pads ) that grow on the male 's hands during the breeding season and because it mates on dry land rather than in water . |
| 20 | A cumbersome bureaucracy has grown up at Lloyd 's that panders to the market 's parochial interests rather than to its wider good . |
| 21 | The normal price for any given daily supply of fish , which we are now seeking , is the price which will quickly call into the fishing trade capital and labour enough to obtain that supply in a day 's fishing of average good fortune ; the influence which the price of fish will have upon capital and labour available in the fishing trade being governed by rather narrow causes such as these . |
| 22 | The section , ‘ The family ’ , is perhaps more likely to be explored in terms of an imaginary one — the family in a story or rhyme , or the family of dolls that lives in the doll 's house . |
| 23 | I took him into the business with me , you know , after all that bother at the Turk 's Head . ’ |
| 24 | The changes that occurred in the City 's international role over the 1960s and '70s are explained and discussed in J. Coakley and L. Harris , The City of Capital ( Oxford , Basil Blackwell ; 1983 ) ; the international role of the City over a longer period is discussed in depth in L. Harris , T. Evans , J. Coakley and M. Croasdale , New Directions in the Financial System ( London , Croom Helm ; 1988 ) . |
| 25 | Evidence is mounting against the received wisdom that interfering with a person 's cholesterol intake can reliably alter his or her destiny . |
| 26 | The article was not a news report , however , but one of those background features that appear on the women 's pages of quality newspapers after some well-publicized court case . |
| 27 | A recent parliamentary answer that drew on the Government 's own resources revealed that the Royal Navy was more modern in 1979 than it is in 1991 . |
| 28 | For example , in flowering plants the haploid stage is reduced to the pollen tube , derived from a haploid pollen grain that falls on the stigma of a flower and grows until it reaches and fertilizes the egg cell that lies in the flower 's ovary . |
| 29 | Five feet four or five at the most , looking almost as round as he was high , with a balding pate that rose like a monk 's tonsure through an unruly and still retreating fringe . |
| 30 | It was afternoon — the morning had gone on Crabb Robinson — which meant that all the ample , high , soft-blue leather desks along the spokes of the great wheel that radiated from the Superintendent 's desk , ensphered by the Catalogue , were taken , and he had to be content with one of the minimal flat triangular ends of the late-come segments inserted between these spokes . |