Example sentences of "[that] [vb -s] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It is only the slow pace of human speech and human reactions that slows down the electronic processes that come into play when national security appears to be at risk . |
| 2 | thank you , now we 're going to bind this up , you take the long edge , sorry that goes down the long edge comes first of all over the two fingers and round the base of the thumb |
| 3 | The bass cut which this control provides has the effect of removing some of the boxiness that clutters up the lower mid-range at high volumes . |
| 4 | The force of repression is like a great dam that holds back the raging torrents of the instincts of the unconscious and allows er some of them through , but others break through in holes , and holes and cracks appear which are the unconscious returning as one |
| 5 | A sound that conjures up the balmy shores of the Carribean . |
| 6 | On the face of it , this seems like a happy ending that ties up the loose ends . |
| 7 | To be just , that is to say , to justify its existence , criticism should be partial , passionate and political , that is to say , written from an exclusive point of view that opens up the widest horizons . |
| 8 | She saw the only viable feminist film practice to be one that breaks up the familiar structures of visual pleasure , thus exposing and problematising the habitual violence which is the male gaze . |
| 9 | Conventional wisdom tells us that it is the lure of civilization that breaks up the old life , Tromø 's video games and bars pulling the Lappish kids down out of the forest into the town . |
| 10 | From the management 's point of view , any technology that breaks down the old lines of demarcation ( and reduces the number of employees ) is a good investment . |
| 11 | Look look that helps out the rich |
| 12 | It seems to be referring to a document that that that sets out the whole total quality process as far as the commission is concerned . |
| 13 | The er the county council came forward with these policies as a result of comments that er districts made a number of years ago and perhaps er over a passage of time erm makes at least validity your point but I I remain of the the view that there is in the there is nothing in the county structure plan that sets out the basic objective of protecting the countryside and still feel that 's a valid objective within the structure plan erm within the structure plan er context . |
| 14 | Onstage are a set of eccentric instruments , a bank of valve-powered electric equipment and a clumsily daubed monolith that blocks out the familiar Marquee logo on the stage back-drop . |
| 15 | What is it about kitchens at parties that brings out the homing pigeon in everybody ? |
| 16 | He was a bit bird-like , a picky eater ( especially when he was paying ) , fast in his movements and very thin in the sort of way that brings out the motherly best in women . |
| 17 | This is n't superstition , it is just that some people seem to attack computers in a way that brings out the worst in them . |
| 18 | There must be something about sporting events that brings out the unexpected in live radio and television commentaries . |
| 19 | Adding a line that works out the total amount paid in and the interest received at least puts it in perspective . |
| 20 | And if I said to you those three elements of communication that makes up the hundred percent of it yes ? |
| 21 | The cold truth is that such captures are all too rare and it is a daily influx of petty offenders and successfully detected trivia that makes up the major part of the detective 's world . |
| 22 | Many of us have long thought that anyone who could lead the Labour Party out of the darkness of 1983 would find leading the country relatively easy — and a task for which , despite all the sneering of the snobbish clique that makes up the political élite in this country , it is not necessary to possess a double first from Oxbridge . |
| 23 | ‘ What is true , ’ writes mason investigator Stephen Knight , ‘ is that the philosophic , religious and ritualistic concoction that makes up the speculative element in freemasonry is drawn from many sources — some of them , like the Isis-Osiris myth , dating back to the dawn of history . |
| 24 | When a drifting particle of food touches an arm , tube feet fasten on to it and pass it on from one to another until it reaches the gutter that runs down the upper surface of the arm to the mouth at the centre . |