Example sentences of "[noun] that [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time it 's Murray Mouse : Supercop that comes up for a lump of cheese and a quick spin on the squeaky exercise wheel that keeps the whole house awake at night . |
| 2 | The little brick-built mill has an internal iron wheel that provides the power for the two sets of stones as well as the various ancillary equipment . |
| 3 | Of all the risks that face the world economy over the next few months , the most easily avoidable is this threat of trade war . |
| 4 | At the tender age of six or seven , she was then involved in court action that saw the man go to prison — with Rosemary being taken away to a place of safety , a children 's home . |
| 5 | It was Sole 's action that caused the collapsed scrummage , not ‘ lowering ’ by Probyn . |
| 6 | Sustainable development — action that alters the environment so that it caters more effectively for human needs , without depleting renewable resources — is essential if the world is to be free from poverty and squalor … |
| 7 | This stage culmin-ated in the massive reorganization of General Electric in the early 1950s , an action that perfected the model most big businesses around the world ( including Japanese organizations ) still follow . |
| 8 | Kent , taking full advantage of the disciplinary action that ended the 11 year reign of Essex as boys ' champions , won the Midland Bank Junior County Cup for the first time since its inception in 1967 , at Bournemouth during April . |
| 9 | In order to encourage your child to act in a way in which he has seldom or never before behaved , take your child through mini-steps towards a goal by rewarding any action that approximates the behaviour you want . |
| 10 | Erm , but obviously if somebody can take some assertive action that stops the fire |
| 11 | It is this action that levels the board out in flight and makes a small hop into a controlled jump . |
| 12 | Action in the majority of adventure stories is seen both to affect and to be affected by character but in the end it is action that has the final word , in the romantic happy ending in which the heroism of man is affirmed . |
| 13 | In a meeting with Menem in New York on Oct. 1 the US President George Bush had welcomed the Argentine decision to send troops to assist in the blockade of Iraq in the Gulf [ see p. 37694 ] , stating that Argentina had " rejoined the international community after many years of frustration and isolation that led the country to a critical situation " . |
| 14 | Though the OAS has traditionally carried little weight , the appearance of Mr Soares seems to have emphasised the international isolation that awaited the country if Mr Serrano remained in power . |
| 15 | And that 's the furnace that creates the steam and the steam goes then to the turbines and a matter of half a million er Drax Drax power station and Ferrybridge their units are s s s half a million horsepower half a million or six hundred five hundred million horsepower . |
| 16 | The associative characteristics that define the induction criteria for NMDA receptor-dependent LTP have found an elegant and satisfying explanation in the voltage-dependent properties of the NMDA receptor/channel complex . |
| 17 | Equally , however , it might be perfectly reasonable to use a headline that encourages the reader to read on to find out what the proposition is . |
| 18 | she remained hidden from her cruel stepmother , knowing that one day her prince will come , Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a mor as memorable as the songs that fill the movie |
| 19 | He was never recognised officially , principally because of the painful sincerity of songs that portray the lowest depths of spiritual and material Russia . |
| 20 | At the massive party afterwards the Seventies were celebrated in a most appropriate way : Gloria Gaynor , Thelma Houston and one half of the Weather Girls were on hand to perform the songs that defined the liberal optimism of the period . |
| 21 | ‘ We were talking about 1968 and 1969 and the songs that changed the face of country music — Sunday Morning Coming Down , Boy Named Sue , Lay Lady Lay , Both Sides Now — someone said they were songs that made a difference . |
| 22 | Burn Down the Kings Road could even be described as a straightforward heavy rock track and Prince of Darkness is one of several songs that has the semblance of a pop tune . |
| 23 | But that is truly a narrative , including a series of songs that advance the action in definite stages before it collapses in the lover 's rejection by his ( married ) mistress . |
| 24 | Music played softly in the background , haunting melodies of old Charles Trenet songs that soothed the senses , softening the harshness of chattering voices and the clinking of glass and crockery , insinuating themselves into the mind as stealthily as an incoming tide seeps into crevices between rocks . |
| 25 | Similarly , the release of sex hormones in the spring , which stimulates reproduction ( p. 46 ) , also stimulates northward migration , an association that led the biologist J. B. S. Haldane to remark that although ‘ we must be very careful in attributing human motives to animals , the emotion behind migration to breeding places is almost certainly more like human love than hunger or curiosity . ’ |
| 26 | Many hundreds of cousins , the majority of the proliferation that linked the Fairleys to the other great families of England , the Pagets , the Cavendishes , the Churchills , the Devonshires , and the Spencers , did not choose lives predicated totally on loyalty to the ruling house ; those who did entered a circle in which birth and wealth were of some consequence but far less important than the taste for maintaining the moral code of the élite in all its ramifications . |
| 27 | But this is still a rare instance , Likewise , at the in-service level , very few authorities can match the well-conceived programme of courses for teachers produced over a number of years by Geoffrey Hodson and Maureen Price of I.L.E.A. But until we can sort out our muddled thinking that surrounds the subject , there is a danger that the next ‘ official ’ report will not fare any better . |
| 28 | The hallmark of Glass 's music is a mesmeric rhythm that provides the structure in which melodic phrases , often of ethereal beauty , undergo a gradual transmutation in which time appears to stand still . |
| 29 | What is this grief that visits the Earth so regularly ? |
| 30 | The animals that received the PDGF-secreting COS cells were protected from the anti-proliferative effects of nerve transection ( Fig. 3 ) , whereas animals that received nontransfected COS cells were not ( data not shown ) . |