Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Essentially this new regulation , or reregulation as it has become known , is the supervision of conflicts of interest and other risks that arise out of the process of deregulation . |
| 2 | THIS ALBUM 'S predecessor , ‘ The Psychedelic Years ’ , was possibly the best compilation album ever , in the sense that it contained the best songs by the best bands in its field of reference ; in fact , it seemed to have all the good songs that came out of psychedelia ( It also had The Incredible String Band , but presumably only as a sorbet to clear the palate . |
| 3 | The history of conflict between the peoples of this region over the centuries was interpenetrated by episodes in which it was subject to the imperial development of Rome , Macedon , Byzantium and the various peoples that streamed out of Central Asia into Persia and beyond . |
| 4 | But the Humane Society of the United States says that nearly 40% of the animals that wind up in shelters are pure-breds or their mongrel offspring . |
| 5 | If only more leading Bolsheviks had left their ivory tower in the Kremlin in early NEP in order to examine Russia at first hand , as Yakovlev did , the reifications that poured out from their pens and mouths might not have succeeded in obscuring the realities of actual life in the 1920s . |
| 6 | Two other intrinsic methods of measuring K are worth discussing as they are methods that carry through to the analysis of space time curvature in Chapter 7 . |
| 7 | TIES emblazoned with Santas and Rudolphs with red noses that light up at the touch of a button and seductive pictures of Marilyn Monroe are all part of Tie Rack 's campaign strategy for Christmas . |
| 8 | The sun stirs up the winds ; the winds suck up the swells ; the swells pump out waves that trip up against the jutting kerbs of the land . |
| 9 | It came and went in swirling waves that rushed down from the ceiling and swallowed her up . |
| 10 | She was saddened and alarmed by the white face and big dark eyes that stared back at her from a thinner face than she remembered . |
| 11 | He spoke lightly , amusement in his eyes , but there was no response in the two pairs of eyes that stared back at him stonily . |
| 12 | But the dark eyes that looked back at her were firm and steady . |
| 13 | She had switched the apartment air-conditioning off , distrusting its effect on the health , and for a while she tried to convince herself that it was the unaccustomed humidity that made her so restless , but she did n't really believe it , and the eyes that looked back at her from her bathroom mirror in the morning were shadowy , and hunted . |
| 14 | Iskandara took her hands away from her face and glared at her daughter with the same light , bright aqua-marine eyes that looked out from her mother 's portrait . |
| 15 | The blue and brown eyes that stare out of Bratby 's ‘ Self Portrait With Others , 1954 ’ shine with love . |
| 16 | As David Ryan , the drummer with big , bright eyes that explode out of his skull , who 's stuck with Evan longer than most , puts it : ‘ If things were n't going well I would n't be here , I 'd have flown home weeks ago . ’ |
| 17 | There was an ominous tightness to his mouth , a line of white fury , a threat in the dark eyes that burned down at her . |
| 18 | He tried asking her about herself , but she had a knack of averting his questions with an apparently bashful stammer , looking at him with kohl-lined eyes that rolled around like the globules in a bricklayer 's balance . |
| 19 | They would all be troglodytes before the war was over , thought Lucinda , with eyes that stood out on little stalks . |
| 20 | A splattering of gigs in London actually dragged the journalists that mattered out of their ivory towers . |
| 21 | But even where there may seem to have been little affection shown and where few apparent links remain , emotional ties that go back to earliest days are strong , and feelings about the death of a parent are bound to go deep . |
| 22 | If you are unable to recognise the various fragments that turn up on early sits , you may not consider the area to warrant further searching . |
| 23 | The democratic parties that grew up in opposition to the military rule earlier this century kept the tradition of authoritarianism in their internal structure . |
| 24 | Not as I remember no funnily enough but they used to have people who , who went out to work at different airports after the planes had gone out they used to have gangs that went out to Perton and er we used to draw equipment from er the maintenance un RAF maintenance unit at Stafford things used to come from there . |
| 25 | The most lethal amphibian venom of all is secreted by tiny arrow-poison frogs that clamber about in the leaves littering the floor of the South American rain forests . |
| 26 | He let his dark eyes drift over her sodden figure , over the T-shirt , now quite transparent , which clung to her wetly , displaying a pair of nipples that stuck out like doorknobs . |
| 27 | Her soft rounded breasts were revealed , peaked by erect nipples that stood up like rosebuds , and when his lips claimed them she was gripped by an aching pleasure that caused small sighs of ecstasy to betray her delight . |
| 28 | Then , when Uncle Guy arrived from Dublin he brought them a present , an enormous box of chocolates which was made like a chest or jewel box with trays that pulled out like small drawers , containing different foil-wrapped shapes . |
| 29 | Later Lisa was to wonder at the power of the sensations that swept in on her and possessed her at that moment . |
| 30 | In one of them he found a collection of cheque stubs and account books that went back to the 1940s . |