Example sentences of "that [verb] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the area of the primate cortex that receives the direct visual projection from the thalamus is distinguished by a dense band of white matter in layer four . |
| 2 | Secondly , not only have Brown and his colleagues ( 1986a ) confirmed that it is a close relationship that plays the key protective role in the development of depression ( regular contact , fair level of confiding ) , but they also found that it was essential to consider both positive and negative aspects of such relationships for any satisfactory understanding . |
| 3 | The countries that were under the control of ruling Marxist-Leninist parties represented , for the USSR , the ‘ world socialist system ’ , a community of nations that shared the same political , social and economic interests . |
| 4 | In the case of poetry ( the first preoccupation in Formalist thinking ) it is ordinary , or what the Formalists call practical language that constitutes the main automatized element made strange by art . |
| 5 | Steve , with the instinct that marks him out as a real mountaineer , not just a climber , had searched for and seen an abseil that avoided the First Brittle Ice Traverse , It took us past the Pocket Hanging Glacier seracs , where the ropes twisted into corkscrews and jammed tight . |
| 6 | In the quadruple expression vector that made the 4 structural proteins of BTV , the weaker site was used for expression of VP3 , since the molar proportion of VP3 in VLPs is much less than the other three major proteins of BTV ( 27 , 28 ) . |
| 7 | Many of the regulars left in the country were stationed , as a central reserve , in the Isle of Wight , ready to be carried round the coast by transports anchored at the Nore — the same craft that made the French fearful of sudden landings on their own coastline . |
| 8 | He was concerned that to include the large Asian countries in such a scheme would introduce problems that the small nations could find difficult to resolve . |
| 9 | Lower at the back , the short dress 's absolute simplicity contrasted effectively with the extravagant colour , a deep rich crimson , the silky fabric moulded to every curve that it covered and tapering up to thin straps that revealed the pale olive tone of her smooth , slender shoulders . |
| 10 | The biggest Complication of mid-Cretaceous times were the circumstances that produced the first great spasm of the Alpine orogeny . |
| 11 | Perhaps it was the orogeny with its crustal shortening in the continents that produced the widespread marine regressions as suggested earlier in this chapter . |
| 12 | What is the use of going to open beaches when we must return to segregated residential areas and schools and suffer under the laws that make the best medical treatment the prerogative of the whites only in our country ? |
| 13 | The desperation that drives the rural poor to cities in the first place is not going to be quenched by water-cannon , police batons , or bulldozers crashing through shanty-towns . |
| 14 | Sprawling around the main house were the new wooden huts built to accommodate an increasing school population and almost encroaching on the distant row of classrooms that housed the still-private primary school . |
| 15 | Rachel and David joined in the quest for the green cases that housed the shiny brown conkers and soon pockets and paper bags were bulging as the collection grew , while the sound of spontaneous laughter hung in the still air . |
| 16 | Let me illustrate with another example that involves the entire organisational culture at the upper levels . |
| 17 | Hence where and it should be recognised that represents the natural resonant pulsatance . |
| 18 | The Information Service companies that reported the highest pre-tax margins were Macro 4 at 46% ; Micro Focus and Sage Group level at 33% ; Barbour Index at 31% and Total Systems 27% . |
| 19 | This was a very modest setback compared to the disaster that overtook the only independent Scottish attempt at colonization . |
| 20 | Do not be taken in by oil-company promises that opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration will never harm the 170,000 caribou that go there to calve . |
| 21 | The New York Times 's Vincent Canby wrote : ‘ There is nothing obviously glossy in Midnight Cowboy , but it contains a lot of superior laughter that has the same softening effect , ’ yet he found the central relationship was ‘ as honest and affecting as anything you 're likely to see in a movie , and more than compensates for those moments when the film seems to be exploiting its cheap , gaudy locale as might the director of a sight-seeing bus cruising through West 42nd Street and Greenwich Village ’ . |
| 22 | Any activity that causes the same physical emotional feelings as the particular addictive behaviour would be best avoided . |
| 23 | One of the major discoveries of the last two decades has been the mosaic of visual field representations that bounds the primary visual cortex in all of the mammals that have been studied so far . |
| 24 | The most we can claim is that his social situation and his physical deterioration induces in him a condition that approximates the classical clinical picture given of schizophrenia . |
| 25 | It also played an important role in preventing the expansion of immigrant landlordism into neighbouring districts — a policy that reinforced the central inner-city areas as immigrant ghettoes . |
| 26 | The most rapid rates of deforestation are occurring in the tropical rainforest regions , but deforestation is also significant in the savanna woodlands that occupy the drier tropical and subtropical regions . |
| 27 | She knew her mother 's moods ; she recognised the strain of annoyance that drew the long delicate features of her face into a severe mask . |
| 28 | If the net encircles , it becomes necessary to fasten it to the top and the bottom of each of the stakes that holds the net erect . |
| 29 | What is n't open to misinterpretation is L7 's monster sense of humour , frequently revolving around a sexuality that challenges the dozy male preconceptions still prevalent in the r'n'r nuthouse . |
| 30 | What is n't open to misinterpretation is L7 's monster sense of humour , frequently revolving around a sexuality that challenges the dozy male preconceptions still prevalent in the r'n'r nuthouse . |