Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [verb] 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 | It was Sole 's action that caused the collapsed scrummage , not ‘ lowering ’ by Probyn . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This is particularly so in the field of Scottish education , where folklore about having once been the best in the world has too easily fostered the delusion that restoring the old ways is the route to excellence . |
| 5 | The grizzled Skipper is a graphics accelerator card that replaces the standard video driver installed in your computer . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The declining appeal of socialist ideas was openly acknowledged , for instance , by Anatolii Dobrynin , the veteran US ambassador and later Central Committee Secretary , and by the commentator Alexander Bovin , for whom the changes in Eastern Europe were evidence that ‘ the great socialist experiment that spanned the entire twentieth century had failed ’ . |
| 8 | We drive the car that 's reckoned to the capable of 0–60mph in less than 4secs and talk to the driver/navigator partnership that rattled the established names in international rallying . |
| 9 | The terrible tandoori oven of the womb , the essential kindling of sex , the force that woke the dormant dog of philoprogenitive penis . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Creative football that created the big chance — a second chance at Wembley . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is only in the pursuit of important goals that he may see himself in a negative light , and only during the recurrence of situations similar to the childhood loss that brought the negative schema into existence . |
| 16 | It was a murder that shocked the local community . |
| 17 | But he controlled himself — there was a force of mandroids that would have done the controlling , otherwise — and merely snarled a reply that left the old pirate fuming . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Consequently it was the huge anti-fascist demonstration that created the major problem of public order . |
| 21 | The Board is a Government Department that administers the Common Agricultural Policy for the European Community within Britain . |
| 22 | Anne flipped the switch that opened the front gate , and the ironwork brushed the bottom of the video image . |
| 23 | It is this uncertainty that makes the political leaders more than usually tentative in their predictions . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | I thought it was the fella that had the nervous twitch . |
| 26 | There are those who argue that it was the desperate attempts made by the Soviets in the last decade and a half to match the US , especially in Star Wars research and development , which brought about the economic collapse that dismantled the communist monolith . |
| 27 | Although he had marvelled at it many times , Ludovico had never become blase about the stupendous vista from the Villa Battista and its famous terrace that ran the whole length of the low , pale yellow house . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In doing so we shall concentrate in this chapter on lines of research that address the general issue of whether psychosis and creativity are in fact connected . |
| 30 | The UN mandate that authorised the American-led ‘ Operation Restore Hope ’ talks of providing a secure environment for relief operations . |