Example sentences of "[noun] that [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you are left in this condition during the operation , then at the end of the operation they give you a second injection that reverses the first one that paralysed you . |
| 2 | It led , for example , to the quest for the nature of the signal from the organizer that caused the second embryo and the second nervous system to form . |
| 3 | But eventually selective breeding turned the tables on quality , and the economic boom that followed the First World War brought an explosion of demand for fur , for the first time a high-fashion commodity . |
| 4 | Similarly , at the bottom , warming gives it buoyancy that makes the next oscillation still larger . |
| 5 | ‘ Old school ’ , a term that describes the first wave of US rap originators , is now a bona fide street fashion craze . |
| 6 | * The aim of the review that constitutes the next two major sections of this chapter is largely methodological . |
| 7 | It is important to begin with this sense of perspective , lest the impression be given that politics exists only for the benefit of those who practise it — a kind of hobby ( or , better still , paid profession ) for an educated élite who compete among themselves for the ‘ prize ’ of being on the winning side that forms the next government . |
| 8 | The pattern shop was a haven of relative peace and quiet , reminiscent of cottage industry , a place where carpenters fashioned the wooden shapes that contributed the first stage of the moulding process . |
| 9 | His pockets bulged with the prizes he had won at the plastic ducks : a packet of fruit gums , a monkey on a stick that broke the first time he made it jump and three engagement rings with glass stones in them . |
| 10 | But it was neither safety , monopoly nor dangerous debt loads that precipitated the first major intervention in the industry by Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner last week . |
| 11 | A function and compatible string function that reads the next character from the keyboard buffer ( it waits for the character ) . |
| 12 | It was tiredness that finished the First Church . |
| 13 | Lakatos offers Marxism and Freudian psychology as programmes that satisfy the first criterion but do not satisfy the second , and modern sociology as a programme that perhaps satisfies the second but does not satisfy the first . |
| 14 | Third , and most important , the quinte part in the ballet is not playable by a late 17th-century oboe band : it lies too high for the bassoon and too low for the taille de hautbois , the tenor oboe that plays the third line . |
| 15 | One of the areas that shows the first signs of body ageing is the upper arms — they can become thick and flabby and as a result shapeless . |
| 16 | Mike Newell also weighed in with two , but it was the awesome , all-round power of Shearer that smashed the First Division club 's hopes of Coca-Cola Cup glory . |
| 17 | ‘ A place with corners that resemble the Third World ’ was his verdict this year on the city 's mixture of new private affluence and public squalor , its Mafia-like interest groups and its grotesque inefficiencies . |
| 18 | Though not a Leveller sympathizer , he sat as a leading London Independent on the committee that drafted the second Agreement of the People . |
| 19 | While the company has still not announced how much vendors will have to pay in royalties on top of the $400,000 licence fee for buying the 135,000 lines of code , it did say that royalties had been reduced significantly , and the second release of the code will be free to those companies that buy the first . |
| 20 | The biggest Complication of mid-Cretaceous times were the circumstances that produced the first great spasm of the Alpine orogeny . |
| 21 | The 1940s were a decade split by the great peace that ended the last European war in May 1945 , but it has its own domestic character — a character soon to be forgotten by succeeding decades , though in The Girls of Slender Means ( 1963 ) Muriel Spark aptly called it a time when ‘ all the nice people were poor ’ . |
| 22 | Light could cause Cr(CO) 6 to lose a carbon monoxide molecule , forming a reactive fragment that grabs the next molecule it bumps into . |
| 23 | This was the issue that dominated the first session of the Council , the only one Pope John knew . |
| 24 | In 1841 , when the Great North of England Railway opened up for coal traffic , it was a Kitching engine that pulled the first train . |
| 25 | Reviewing the four decades that followed the Second World War , Rowthorn and Wells concluded : |
| 26 | I felt sure the team that won the second division title in 89–90 ‘ d have scored from two or three of the pretty decent corner kicks . |
| 27 | This is the second Point that balances the first and safeguards it from the other extreme — being too soft on doubt . |
| 28 | Steve , with the instinct that marks him out as a real mountaineer , not just a climber , had searched for and seen an abseil that avoided the First Brittle Ice Traverse , It took us past the Pocket Hanging Glacier seracs , where the ropes twisted into corkscrews and jammed tight . |
| 29 | If grey was the colour that characterized the first phase of my time at Harwich , blue characterizes this next phase . |
| 30 | The plan of his outward life and activities is succinctly given in the Diary that forms the last third of The Woodland Life . |