Example sentences of "that [vb base] [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The building sits on bearings that isolate it from the ground . |
| 3 | Eutrophication also spawns epidemics of epiphytes , microalgae that attach themselves to the leaves and stems of underwater plants and further obstruct light . |
| 4 | The muscles are strengthened by an increased flow of blood , as are the ligaments that attach them to the bones . |
| 5 | They have , therefore , fewer cultural resources with which to resist the forces that place them in the underclass . |
| 6 | Anything would have been better than this ice-cold contempt that cut her to the bone . |
| 7 | It had been in his eyes when he lay on the bed staring rigidly at the ceiling , a terrifying , heart-rending pain that cut her to the bone . |
| 8 | There was a cruel taunt in his voice that cut her to the quick . |
| 9 | But however unpleasant monsoonal conditions can on occasion be , they are as nothing compared with the fearsome storms that hurl themselves on the Pacific with terrible regularity . |
| 10 | I hate these people that catch you in the street ! |
| 11 | They were now thirty-odd miles away from the Manchester slums where they had been brought up , a distance that put them beyond the range of mobility of their families , who could not afford to visit them . |
| 12 | Jones revealed : ‘ A lot of people say to me ‘ that put you on the map ’ . |
| 13 | We always promote the sons-of-bitches that kick us in the ass ! ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You can even create subject profiles that guide you to the pages containing stories most relevant to yourself . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | An interpretation I have often heard is that God 's ways are mysterious and wonderful , and it may well be that in the very last moments of the person 's life they had an encounter with God that set them on the path to eternal life . |
| 18 | Bats , that wrap themselves against the light , |
| 19 | Overall there are some 80 plus codes that control everything from the font required , the justification format , the numbers of columns , kerning , tracking , leading and a host more . |
| 20 | I think that one of the things that get me at the moment is the time keeping , it 's very bad |
| 21 | It consists mainly of a diagram of the shape , plus figures that tell you about the sizes , stitches and rows . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 25 | A forager learns many things about a food source that aid her in the future , including its colour , shape , odour , location , nearby landmarks , time of nectar production , how to approach , land , enter , and reach the nectar , and so on . |
| 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 | I am sure this would only be a minority but it is always the minority that spoil it for the majority . |
| 28 | In other words the states of mind that do nothing for the healing process . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |