Example sentences of "[n mass] that [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Farnborough 1990 is featured with some interesting in flight cockpit shots of Su-27 and MiG-29 , plus the Russian aircraft that dominated the 1990 show , the Antonov An-225 . |
| 2 | Sir Henry Norris was an archetype of the old-style football club chairman , combining a slight knowledge of the game with a great deal of money to put into it , and he fitted the popular image with a walrus moustache that quivered when he was angry , and a pince-nez that had the disconcerting effect of partially obscuring the direction of his gaze . |
| 3 | She sat quietly , her freckled girl 's hand just encompassing the big brown mug , as though it had alighted there , her eyes held by the blessed , blissful forsythia that filled the whole kitchen with energy , with pleasure . |
| 4 | If a stretch of river holds more than one shoal of bream that patrol the same beat , then the only way they can pass each other when feeding on the same beat at the same time , is for one shoal to pass over the other . |
| 5 | Fighting will probably break out and so the fish that becomes the sub-dominant one should be removed , not the dominant fish . |
| 6 | I disagree with Neil about the gutter press : it was the liberal media that did the real damage , over years not days . |
| 7 | I took a seat a little way from the knot of people that formed the main body of our party . |
| 8 | Estimates of the extent of desertification vary ; the Gaia atlas of planet management ( Myers 1985 ) , for example , suggests that c. 10 per cent of the 700 million people that inhabit the arid and semi-arid zones are living in areas that are becoming impoverished and that c. 12 million ha of land are degraded annually to such an extent that they are agriculturally unproductive . |
| 9 | I just worries me that these caring people are the same people that support the Tory policies that oppressed |
| 10 | ‘ When you get down to the end of a tournament , the people that hit the great shots win and she hit some great shots . ’ |
| 11 | There are issues which driver training and what we 're doing in that because those vehicles are quite large , they are actually minibuses as such from the public 's point of view , and they are carrying people that need the best possible care and attention in their transport . |
| 12 | And there 's all those people that have the big signs that say |
| 13 | I was there for about a couple of years and then I moved in into Nottingham on traff on the Traffic Department , you know the people that wear the white hats and , and do people for speeding . |
| 14 | It does n't matter that fears of massive redundancies among office staff that greeted the first large computers proved groundless . |
| 15 | It is the routine and tender loving care of the staff that create the best atmosphere . |
| 16 | Three species of owl produce slightly higher levels of breakage of the teeth of their prey , mainly of isolated teeth rather than those preserved in the jaws , and these will be seen below to be the same species that produce the greatest degrees of digestion , namely the European eagle owl , tawny owl and little owl . |
| 17 | From the unearthing of traditional feminine skills like sewing to works that emphasise the everyday , the domestic existence of women , the debate about gender specific notions of culture continues . |
| 18 | This is not through any lack of distinction on the part of the writers of the time or those of their works that show the Greek influence ; nor is there any lack of such works . |
| 19 | Metaphysics , he writes , ‘ transcendence , the welcoming of the other by the same , of the Other by me , is concretely produced as the calling into question of the same by the other , that is , as the ethics that accomplishes the critical essence of knowledge ’ ( 43 ) . |
| 20 | France created a powerful centralized bureaucracy to override local power and ensure a direct supply of resources to sustain the armies of the Crown ; England 's monarchy was dependent upon a gentry that supplied the armed forces , administered local justice , sat in Parliament and paid the taxes upon which the royal armies depended . |
| 21 | Modulation sets up a structural series that echoes the mutative processes of nature . |
| 22 | The strokes came in the form of the 303X mainframe family , announced in 1977 , which hurt the residual values of 370 and 370-compatible mainframes leased by Itel … followed by the 1979 announcement of the 4300 series that destroyed the remaining hopes of lessors like Itel that had bet too heavily on the lasting value of older computers . |