Example sentences of "[that] [vb base] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I have to make two remarks that bring me great pleasure . |
2 | Bantamweight Karen Briggs , featherweight Sharon Rendle and light-middleweight Diane Bell all won on Saturday with performances that make them odds-on favourites for medals in Barcelona . |
3 | They 've been revolting for years under the surface and then some thing happens that make it possible course the continued revolutions have gone on through the world and because they 've seen the success of a revolution in Russia although we did n't know the full facts of it in the West , it was , it did establish a huge area in the wake of a revolution . |
4 | I can honestly say I hardly do any work , even though I am involved in various projects that occupy me most weekdays and some evenings . |
5 | His taste was individual : he had a pink suit and matching overcoat , both of thick wool , that cost him 3000 Marks ( the fee for a three-act ballet ) ; they were worn with an orange tie . |
6 | I know somebody here who got very good marks for his lab work and he 's good on computers , and he just programmed the computers in random errors and stuff that give him set results and nice graphs , and they were n't perfect so nobody noticed them , but he fiddled them , and that way he did n't have to do any lab work if he did n't want to . |
7 | If kids do things with their body that give them physical pleasure , that 's more sensuality rather than sexuality . |
8 | This wo n't be necessary in the case of societies that give you one redemption figure applicable whenever the mortgage is redeemed during the month for which the figure is given . |
9 | So that give you any ideas about this . |
10 | It 's the simple things of life that give you most joy and delight . |
11 | What I think is happening , I find this interesting , people are rejecting the idea of the aesthetic , and I 'm not quite sure why ; I do n't know whether they think it 's elitist or whether they 've got no taste of their own , or what , I do n't know , but people read poems not as poems which convey aesthetic emotion , which is the way I tend to think about poems ultimately , but simply as ideological statements and political texts , or at least , things that give you some understanding of the way people thought or so on at the time … . |
12 | The pages that give you expert advice , practical tips and the latest in children 's fashion and entertainment |
13 | It is not only the environment but also the animals and plants that inhabit it that display rhythms . |
14 | Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are almost as funny as they are in The Mary Whitehouse Experience , the show that earnt them this sitcom . |
15 | If you are a small family , look for models with the sort of controls that allow you rinse-and-hold cycles — a short cycle which rinses dishes for a short time to get rid of dried-on food and any smells so that they can then wait till you have a full load to put through . |
16 | The symbolic reproduces this imaginary in discrete , regulated entities — small , discontinuous , easily consumable like the bits of information on a computer screen , like the items in the supermarket , like the small , framed and mirrored segments of the glass-skinned skyscrapers that offer us gleaming reflections of our lives from moment to moment in the high-income , high-tech regions of the American urban environment . |
17 | There are hotels which keep you waiting at reception , restaurants that serve you cold coffee , shops which never have what you want in stock , mail-order firms that take three months to deliver the wrong goods . |