Example sentences of "that [verb] [adv] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm There 's probably two-thirds of the logging that goes on in the tropical forest , which is about 5 million hectares a year erm is of that nature , so that the forest is left to recover after the logging has gone through . |
| 2 | To adapt Orwell 's last sentence , it is almost impossible to say which was which , so profound and intimate are the links that bind the intellectual socialism of the early twentieth century to the National Socialism that sought confidently in the 1930s to replace it . |
| 3 | In one unique fish , the imperial angelfish , the juveniles are covered in white lines that curve round in a special pattern that centres all one 's attention on the tail end . |
| 4 | He wanted ‘ the greatest value in the smallest compass ’ ; he wanted an animal that weighed most in the best cuts and that quickly repaid the outlay on its food . |
| 5 | In Elizabethan days , three hundred years later , the solitary farm of Newton , standing upon the heath that petered out in the muddy flats of the bay , alone marked the site of Edward I 's ‘ new town ’ . |
| 6 | For it seems pointless to revalue a tradition that exists only in the feminist folklinguistic imagination . |
| 7 | This may mean returning it to the dealer or manufacturer , but certainly not incinerating it or throwing it out with other household waste that ends up in a shallow landfill . |
| 8 | Today , her Royal Highness Nick Hinton and his team will talk about the very impressive work and the tasks that lie ahead in the fifty countries and the U K in which Save The Children operates . |
| 9 | The occasions that stand out in the three decades of our post-imperial era are : Duncan Sandys ' 1957 decision to recommend the end of National Service , which almost halved the Army ; the Kennedy/Macmillan Polaris agreement at Nassau in 1962 that led to the RAF losing responsibility to the Royal Navy for the British nuclear deterrent ; Denis Healey 's scrapping of the TSR2 in 1965 , which threatened to ‘ unhorse ’ the RAF 's knights ; his cancellation of the aircraft-carrier replacement programme in 1966 , which did much the same thing to the Royal Navy ; and John Nott 's attempt in 1981 to maintain the strength of the Rhine Army and RAF Germany at the expense of our maritime capability . |
| 10 | The third common explanation suggested that growing up in a white racist society and with few positive black public images created low self-esteem and self-concept in black children which in turn led to poor performance in schools . |
| 11 | The great extension of astronomical observations that began early in the 1960s brought about a revival of interest in the classical theory of general relativity because it seemed that many of the new phenomena that were being discovered , such as quasars , pulsars , and compact X-ray sources , indicated the existence of very strong gravitational fields — fields that could be described only by general relativity . |
| 12 | Many teachers and heads felt that getting on in the primary sector required verbal and practical allegiance to certain quite specific canons of ‘ good primary practice ’ , and that anything less , let alone any open challenging of the orthodoxies in question , could damage their professional prospects . |
| 13 | The bits and pieces of competitor information that flow by in a constant stream may be true or false , relevant or irrelevant , confirmed or unconfirmed , positive or negative , deceptive or insightful . |
| 14 | Although spectacular fossils such as dinosaurs are not preserved in Wales , specimens from other regions help to emphasize the rich diversity of life that existed elsewhere in the distant past |
| 15 | It smashed spectacularly against the the stone rim below , splintering the air and Robyn 's nerves with its crash , forcing a cry from her surprised lips that echoed eerily in the dark night . |
| 16 | The ‘ Golden Ring ’ is an eleven-day journey from Leningrad to Moscow , travelling through the ninth and eleventh-century fortified towns that sprang up in the central and north- eastern regions of Russia . |
| 17 | As she headed for the path that crossed the garden to the pool and then on to the pine forest and olive grove , she heard one solitary , impassioned call that hung hauntingly in the hot air . |
| 18 | Mike Pumfrey had wondered whether the two of them might sit and talk things over in the two easy chairs stained , dusty , pre-war relics , that squatted capaciously in the far corner of the study . |
| 19 | If the universe is indeed spatially infinite , or if there are infinitely many universes , there would probably be some large regions somewhere that started out in a smooth and uniform manner . |
| 20 | It would act , for example , as a general mechanism to wipe out those that end up in the wrong place , say after a cut mixes cells between different layers of skin . |
| 21 | Just withering thrash grooves that shoot past in a punch-drunk blur , leaving their peers way behind . |
| 22 | There were leafless trees , empty park benches and a rising wind that scurried harshly in the frozen emptiness . |
| 23 | it 's all these odd ideas that go around in the barbaric south that 's the trouble ! |
| 24 | Working on Jane Austen was not all that different from working on trade cycles , or lowtemperature physics ; these were the kind of things that went on in the modern university . |
| 25 | Behind the facade , behind the glittering ceremony and the IAAF delegates ’ hotels which were far superior to those for the athletes , there was a lot of wrong-doing , not least the cheating that went on in the long jump where they tried to wangle a bronze medal for Evangelisti , the Italian , by inaccurate measuring . |
| 26 | How many businesses that went up in the 1980s might now come down ? |
| 27 | He had formed what later became the Prince 's Trust while he was in the Navy , and the grants that went out in the early years were paid for , anonymously , out of his naval allowance . |
| 28 | Although the Poles participated in the Reichstag , in the Prussian Diet and in the North German Union Parliament , their main areas of activity lay in the co-operatives , culture clubs , in popular education societies , reading rooms , choirs , orchestras and libraries that grew up in the 1880s ; in Catholic social organisations , in the physical culture movement and in the popular Polish-language daily newspapers like the Grudziądz Codzienny . |
| 29 | Lights that peak strongly in the blue and pink , resembling sunlight , encourage algae . |
| 30 | These tubes have to be fitted with high-polish reflectors , and should not be tubes that peak strongly in the blue colour spectrum . |