Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There has been a call , monsieur , ’ he announced , taking the luggage and casting one interested look at Jenna with dark eyes that widened perceptibly as he noticed her ash-blonde hair , almost silvery in the sunlight . |
| 2 | In total , some 55 per cent of the labour force worked in units that employed less than 30 people in the mid-1980s and that aggregate was not dramatically different from what it was 30 years before . |
| 3 | His critical eye revels in the play and contrast of light on form composing the stark minimal images that have all but become his trade mark . |
| 4 | With further practice you will discover words that hold more than one meaning , that are themselves ambiguous , enabling you to represent contending realities at a single stroke . |
| 5 | They can hinge on words that have more than one meaning or more than one usage , words that rhyme or sound similar , common thematic elements , or common symbolic associations . |
| 6 | • It damages a strategic British manufacturing Industry that secures more than 71,000 jobs in Britain . |
| 7 | I draw this on to most designs that use more than two colours , before printing out . |
| 8 | So far in this chapter , I have described some of the plainer basic shapes , for often it is the less complicated shapes that work better than a contrived design . |
| 9 | shows a faith that persists even when he is told to be quiet by the crowd . |
| 10 | He also makes the distinction between lexical and conceptual collocations ; the latter being word pairs that co-occur simply because they are associated to the same context or topic ( e.g. , ’ bomb ’ and ’ soldier ’ , ’ trouble ’ and ’ problem ’ , etc . ) . |
| 11 | Is it one of those reactions that occur spontaneously when journalists ' ink is mixed with an equal measure of pure ignorance ? |
| 12 | Referring to Figure 5.7 again , a part that occurs more than once in an assembly only has its new node and box stored at second and subsequent occurrences . |
| 13 | A part that occurs more than once in an assembly only has its new node shown at subsequent entries . |
| 14 | This is closely related to an absorption spectrum , but not identical to it , because the ‘ spectrum ’ recorded relates only to those molecules that fluoresce rather than losing energy in other ways . |
| 15 | This difference could not be explained by the distribution of either histological types or admission types between the erm sites that had less than one hundred cases and those that had more than one hundred cases . |
| 16 | To start with , the ceramic hob has two Solarspeed heating areas that respond faster than you can say ‘ speed of light ’ . |
| 17 | Incidentally it should be remembered that the first picture ( Fig. 22.3 ) is actually the second stage of the sequence , because this pattern is itself the consequence of an instability that occurs only if the Rayleigh number is high enough ( Sections 22.2 , 22.3 ) ; however the first stage could only be represented by a picture which was ‘ a perfect and absolute blank ’ . |
| 18 | Is my hon. Friend aware that many of the companies that employ more than 1,000 people employ many women part time ? |
| 19 | I saw this boy that looks exactly like you . |
| 20 | In spite of the 190bhp power output capable of taking the little car from standstill to 60mph in under seven seconds and on to double the UK speed limit , it is that smoothness and flexibility that impress rather than the muscle . |
| 21 | Tony assured me that there was a supermarket in the village , which seemed unlikely in a place that had less than ten houses , but turned out to be almost true — — the garage sold bits and pieces . |
| 22 | And they are habitat for the millions of mallard duck , Canada geese , American widgeon and other waterfowl that pause here as they cruise the Atlantic Flyway toward warmer climes each autumn . |
| 23 | The last act began only when the deep-seated problems of the southern rural economy intensified to produce an endemic rural poverty that persisted even after the wartime prices had ended . |
| 24 | Dr Wilkins also advises migraine sufferers to swap conventional fluorescent lights for the newer ‘ nonflicker ’ varieties that oscillate more than 30,000 times per second — too fast for the brain to register , or to provoke a migraine . |
| 25 | Robyn gave a small cry of frustration and wrapped the gown close around her naked breasts , cursing the flush of embarrassment that surged upwards until she felt as if she 'd burn with the intensity of it . |
| 26 | It is also very fast , especially using the parallel cable option , and gave transfer rates in our test setup that averaged better than 4 megabytes per minute . |
| 27 | We 've just done a fortnight in the States promoting this region erm to the agents of the erm people who , you know , really book holidays , and one of the things that emerged more than ever was this comradeship , you know , we are together in this erm and what a great country you 've got over there . |
| 28 | DNA was cleaved by hydroxy radical ( 13,14 ) and DNase I ( 16,20 ) under conditions that leave more than 85% of uncleaved material . |
| 29 | An achievement that means more as the years go by . |
| 30 | And I might say : you 're something inside your head that goes away when you die . |