Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [vb -s] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little brick-built mill has an internal iron wheel that provides the power for the two sets of stones as well as the various ancillary equipment . |
| 2 | Sustainable development — action that alters the environment so that it caters more effectively for human needs , without depleting renewable resources — is essential if the world is to be free from poverty and squalor … |
| 3 | In order to encourage your child to act in a way in which he has seldom or never before behaved , take your child through mini-steps towards a goal by rewarding any action that approximates the behaviour you want . |
| 4 | Erm , but obviously if somebody can take some assertive action that stops the fire |
| 5 | It is this action that levels the board out in flight and makes a small hop into a controlled jump . |
| 6 | And that 's the furnace that creates the steam and the steam goes then to the turbines and a matter of half a million er Drax Drax power station and Ferrybridge their units are s s s half a million horsepower half a million or six hundred five hundred million horsepower . |
| 7 | Equally , however , it might be perfectly reasonable to use a headline that encourages the reader to read on to find out what the proposition is . |
| 8 | But this is still a rare instance , Likewise , at the in-service level , very few authorities can match the well-conceived programme of courses for teachers produced over a number of years by Geoffrey Hodson and Maureen Price of I.L.E.A. But until we can sort out our muddled thinking that surrounds the subject , there is a danger that the next ‘ official ’ report will not fare any better . |
| 9 | The hallmark of Glass 's music is a mesmeric rhythm that provides the structure in which melodic phrases , often of ethereal beauty , undergo a gradual transmutation in which time appears to stand still . |
| 10 | What is this grief that visits the Earth so regularly ? |
| 11 | It is the early bird watcher that catches the bird . |
| 12 | They are seen in a partisan perspective , a perception that limits the extent of their popular appeal . |
| 13 | In the end , though , it is erratic instrumental balancing that throws the performance out of kilter . |
| 14 | It believes that every vehicle should have a sophisticated exhaust that traps the lead and prevents it from reaching the atmosphere . |
| 15 | For any desktop publishing package to work properly and display correct line endings it must have a screen font that matches the font in the printer ; ie the width tables must match . |
| 16 | Mann argues that the reasoning that rejects the notion of assignability of treaties resembles that which for centuries prevented assignment of debts in private law . |
| 17 | The force that perpetuates the acceptance of living death is the negative force . |
| 18 | These patterns are associated with the Coriolis force that expresses the Earth 's rotation . |
| 19 | It is also this force that converts the motion of a turbine into the electrical output of a generator . |
| 20 | Within the nucleus of a stable atom , the interproton repulsion is overwhelmed by the strong nuclear force that binds the protons firmly together with neutrons . |
| 21 | One is unlikely to forget the lush quality of the velour curtain retained by a gold ring that adorns the cover . |
| 22 | like a yellow and that just says ring , ring , ring that brings the lane and it just does that , that 's that belt , all it 's doing is taking it through them relay contacts |
| 23 | The DNA-binding domain of GCN4 also has a basic helical region and a leucine zipper ( bZIP ) but without the helix-loop-helix that characterizes the HLH family . |
| 24 | At all times it is consciousness that drives the chariot , or car — through the Mind . |
| 25 | They need to learn new ways of thinking and handling their emotions , because it is the wrong handling of emotion that causes the bulk of so-called stress in today 's society . |
| 26 | For parasites whose offspring infect the offspring of their host ( vertical transmission ) , any behaviour by the parasite that decreases the fecundity of its host ( and thereby that of the parasite itself ) is unlikely to be favoured by natural selection . |
| 27 | The Vatican 's ‘ Etruscans ’ show has a five-city itinerary that includes the Dallas Science Museum , the Morris Museum in Morristown , New Jersey , the Museum of Five Art at Brigham Young University in Provo , Utah , and the Birmingham Art Museum in Alabama . |
| 28 | Modernity is defined against pre-modernity , reason against irrationality and superstition , and this divide is mapped on to a symbolic geography that counterposes the West and its Orient . |
| 29 | But er we made them er , of course the le it 's the leverage that does the cutting you see . |
| 30 | In the optic nerve of the rate — the nerve that joins the eye to the brain — there are only three kinds of glial cells . |