Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [vb -s] the [adj] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The grizzled Skipper is a graphics accelerator card that replaces the standard video driver installed in your computer . |
| 4 | But , in a ground-breaking move , EIGA has struck a deal that involves the Russian Agency for International Cooperation and Development giving companies buying the cover a letter promising not to pounce . |
| 5 | It 's the early bird watcher that catches the best bird song . |
| 6 | Cyclones are seen as a force that prevents the ecological succession of coral reefs from terminating in less species-rich assemblages ( in those reefs , the earlier stages are more species-rich ) . |
| 7 | United Left was always an inappropriate name for a coalition that includes the Communist Party of Spain , a breakaway socialist party known as the PASOC , and assorted republicans , independents , feminists , greens and pacifists . |
| 8 | If elected I would work within the council to eliminate the waste and extravagance that makes the current level of local taxation , in whatever form , an unacceptable burden on local residents . |
| 9 | In particular , the period drum gives off a dismal rattle that haunts the slow movement and makes the transition to the first movement recapitulation even more arresting than usual . |
| 10 | In our garden is a wooden seat that serves the same function as my former porch in France : it catches the last sunlight . |
| 11 | The marmosets were injected with tissue from the brain of a diseased cow in 1988 as part of a series of experiments to test whether the agent that causes the various forms of spongiform encephalopathy " such as BSE in cows and scrapie in sheep " can be transferred across species . |
| 12 | Upon the new holder 's confirmation of the carrier 's message , a confirmation that includes the new holder 's acceptance of the right of control and transfer , the carrier will cancel the current private key and will issue a new private key to the new holder . |
| 13 | The Board is a Government Department that administers the Common Agricultural Policy for the European Community within Britain . |
| 14 | It is this uncertainty that makes the political leaders more than usually tentative in their predictions . |
| 15 | We have tried to build on the uncertainty that surrounds the very definition of the inner city , firstly to examine the utility of particular cases of state intervention ( Part I of the book ) , then to highlight some of the misconceptions that have informed political initiatives in the inner city ( Part 2 ) and finally to present alternative perspectives on community mobilisation , entrepreneurship and urban crisis in the inner city ( Part 3 ) . |
| 16 | The entire medical research community should unite to make sure that the changes do not damage our ability to carry out world class clinical research that benefits the physical and economic health of the nation . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | a page of language study that summarises the main teaching points of the episode |
| 19 | Goldthorpe 's recent study that covers the social mobility records of the same age cohorts as those covered by Halsey reached conclusions that are strongly discouraging to egalitarians . |
| 20 | Repealers see the Wright amendment as another post-deregulation rule that helps the big airlines get bigger . |
| 21 | This goes against the general rule that says the bigger the band , the longer and more excruciatingly dull , the soundcheck . |
| 22 | Kinlochleven must be classed as an industrial community because of the aluminium works , a vast complex that provides the main source of employment and was the cause of its emancipation from a village . |
| 23 | Visitors unencumbered by cars get an even better introduction by embarking at Glenfinnan on the small passenger boat that plies the seventeen miles of Loch Shiel and delivers them at Acharacle without effort on their part : an idyllic cruise . |
| 24 | It could mark the beginning of a new North-South confrontation that replaces the old East- West confrontation as a way of organising global relations . |
| 25 | Er , er , the entry that uses the most memory is er , a formula . |
| 26 | While there 's some of that in ‘ Weird Nightmare ’ , Willner has fashioned an altogether darker ride , placing the shocking , brutal stream-of-consciousness prose from Mingus ' Beneath The Underground autobiography in the mouths of a droll , disembodied Leonard Cohen , a stentorian , harassing Chuck D and Doctor Joh , the latter back in a setting that recalls the Bacchanalian exotica of his classic ‘ Gris Gris ’ psychedelic gumbo album . |
| 27 | a definite mandate directed towards citizens to take whatever steps are available to them to achieve a law-oriented foreign policy for their own country , including , as both conscience and good sense dictate , non-violent acts of civil disobedience , and efforts to persuade members of all branches of government to overcome the gap that separates the normative consensus of the public as to the illegality of the use of nuclear weapons from prevailing official policies . |
| 28 | Very much part of the truly amusing comedy of the Miller 's Tale is the swift chain of cause and effect that links the three familiar plots — what is euphemistically called " the misdirected kiss " , the branding , and the Second Flood trick — together in the dramatic climax in lines 3798 to 3823 of the tale . |
| 29 | This seclusion period is closed by an elaborate ceremony that emphasizes the spatial and emotional removal of young men from the world of women . |
| 30 | Early in the morning , in the grey cold light that precedes the rising sun , he positioned himself in trees to the east of the lake but out of sight of it . |