Example sentences of "[noun] that [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At home the action that has drawn most attention in the past year was his vote in favour of war in the Gulf . |
| 2 | One of the main characteristics that has distinguished all radical art , from that of the Soviet revolution to the art of South Africa , from the art of our movement to the work of the AIDS practitioners in the United States , is its proximity to an active audience . |
| 3 | It is this feature of Beccaria 's programme that has caused more problems than probably anything else , as we shall see later . |
| 4 | By exempting pension funds and unit trusts from income tax on trading profits from futures and options dealings , he has managed to clear up an uncertainty that has kept many investing institutions shy of London 's derivatives markets . |
| 5 | The borderline between ritual and custom is a little blurred ; custom could be said to be a form of ritual that has lost many of its magical or religious overtones , but still retains some of the original intent to transform . |
| 6 | What was the fault that had deserved this punishment ? |
| 7 | The story of the Patiño family is by no means unique , but it is arresting nonetheless for all the romance and tragedy that has surrounded this clan of immensely rich and socially ambitious art collectors . |
| 8 | He cared enough about his loathsome , drunken and violent third wife , Mayo Methot , not to leave her until he knew she had gone to the furthest extremes to try and cure herself of the alcoholism that threatened to ruin both their lives . |
| 9 | It released the voice of Osbern of Eu , his colour still high from the interview that had preceded this one . |
| 10 | Practice that had made these things second nature to the T'ang . |
| 11 | This is a practice that has threatened several species . |
| 12 | Computers That Think raises some socially important and intellectually fascinating questions about the relation of man and machine , and its intelligibility will prompt discussion on these important matters . |
| 13 | Any car that does enter such a forbidden zone will lose all power , and remain until the traffic-warden arrives . |
| 14 | It was the cars that had started some new idea … |
| 15 | Ca n't you see a reincarnated Grace lashing the Long Room with scorn and fury on hearing the vapid 68 words that purported to explain this summer 's vilest scandal . |
| 16 | well in other words that means reprinting that page does n't it ? , page thirty one |
| 17 | Perhaps that is one of the safeguards that has made this country such a successful and stable parliamentary democracy . |
| 18 | The only killer that seems to have much success in dealing with this troublesome prey is the North American marten known as the fisher . |
| 19 | Anorexia nervosa patients seem unable to identify and to respond accurately to their emotional state , a deficit that has received some empirical support . |
| 20 | We will build up all the policies that have reversed that . |
| 21 | Intention movements are activities that tend to precede some other activity , which is presumably why they often evolve into signals . |
| 22 | Therefore , in this variant , the politician will indulge in promoting regulatory activities that tend to do this ; the MP of a farming constituency promotes tighter regulations on imported meat and so on . |
| 23 | The same flood tide that had brought such a good harvest of tiles heaped a mass of driftwood onto the Reach . |
| 24 | Alternatively , membership of one of the many different kinds of clubs that exist to suit all interests , or attendance at a Day Centre may be the answer for them , and we shall be examining some of these possibilities in detail later . |
| 25 | There have been few serious attempts to break away from this restrictive framework ; it is the absence of the application of any theoretical framework that has made such work so sterile , and it is doubtful whether evidence will be found for the social and economic developments during the period by studying art-styles , date and distribution alone , unless specific questions are formulated first . |
| 26 | The early Byzantine pendants and a necklace that had graced some medieval nobleman 's wife . |
| 27 | It had a breathless untidiness , with an underlying stratum of solid good things : expensive carpets and curtains in dark plain colours , antique furniture ranging from valuable to junk , but having in common a charm or whimsicality that had made each piece claim her attention originally . |
| 28 | Back across the Atlantic , can Apple Computer Inc escape the taint that threatens to stain most of IBM 's other partners ? |
| 29 | And the house next to her , on either side , those are the three houses that have got that on . |
| 30 | Very quickly , Polanski and Nicholson became darlings of the west coast film and rock-music communities , who were also selecting the new heroes of the screen — anti-heroes in fact — because it was old values that had kept those handsome , pristine hulks of the last generation at the top and old values were now strictly taboo amongst the young and trendy . |