Example sentences of "[that] runs [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It 's the system of brick flues that runs under the entire floor of the caldarium — the hot room of the baths — to circulate the hot air from the furnace .
2 The swimfeeder is attached to the line in the same way you would attach a link-leger , with a swivel , ring , or loop of line that runs on the main line .
3 A critical rethinking of the relationship between culture , ‘ race ’ and politics is the linking thread that runs through the various articles collected together here .
4 As I stated at the beginning of this book , the common thread that runs through the different chapters is the problem of continuity/discontinuity .
5 Er er but I think that 's the , the theme that runs through the whole thing , especially when he 's talking about his fourteen great achievements , is the fact that basically I mean he 's trying to sell himself , as you said before , he 's a pretty lowly member at this , you know , erm at this case and there therefore obviously he 's out to make a name for himself .
6 Well the obvious explanation is that that is the point that our modern hero , the connecting thread that runs through the whole design , can have none of the grandeur of the ancient one .
7 But I think the thing that runs through the whole collection and that makes Doisneau a remarkable photographer , is that he 's photographed the same locality and this is the locality where he still lives , really from the early 30s right through to the present .
8 Leaving the town by the road that runs along the left bank of the Gave , you come after seven or eight miles on the left to the D25 , marked for Mauléon .
9 SPORTING blue berets and Uzi submachineguns as they hurtle along in their spanking new vehicles , 1,000 Italian soldiers have started to patrol the 300-kilometre ( 190-mile ) road that runs from the Mozambican port of Beira westward to landlocked Zimbabwe .
10 ( They pick up PROF ENO and throw him into the small drainage channel that runs alongside the playing field )
11 This is a perspex tube that runs round the outside rim of the table , leading to the big points ( and what do points make ? ) .
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