Example sentences of "that [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus our next problems are to understand what principles govern the establishment and modification of the interconnections between unimaginable numbers of nerve cells , how these interconnections endow us with higher mental functions , and the cellular mechanisms that bring about these remarkable processes . |
| 2 | The constituency that made up these ordinary readers was probably no more ordinary than Tillyard 's projected Elizabethans were , yet his assumption was of a body of readers outside higher education institutions . |
| 3 | I decided to examine some of the services that made up this massive total . |
| 4 | ( As suggested in Chapter 1 , ‘ larks ’ tend to be at the lower end of the range and ‘ owls ’ towards the top of it. ) • Where are the sense organs that pick up such external factors ? |
| 5 | " Dance " is the cogs of bodies meshing in one section of a machine that turns out Collective Unified Expression . |
| 6 | It is easy to imagine them combining together to form complex organic materials , of the kind that make up modern living tissue . |
| 7 | Like so many of the films that were to be made during the Second World War , The Four Just Men does n't only draw attention to the nature of the enemy ; it also presents an evocative picture of just what it is that is under threat — ‘ all the roads and rivers , fields add woods and hills that make up this funny old island . ’ |
| 8 | Now it 's sticking out a mile , but the time home that make up another ruddy story to give |
| 9 | The copper-coloured rust stains from ragged window-shutters that drip down ochre coloured stone catch my eye frequently . |
| 10 | The copper-coloured rust stains from ragged window-shutters that drip down ochre coloured stone catch my eye frequently . |
| 11 | There were special lines for Christmas — wooden Christmas trees that opened out green painted branches on the principle of an opening umbrella ; Santa Claus masks , red and white as raw beef ; little tin candleholders shaped like gnomes and sprites for the tops of Christmas cakes . |
| 12 | There is an amount of innocence and naivety present in their songs that glides over current dour factions in the alternative sector . |
| 13 | High up in the sky was a protective layer of gas that screened out dangerous ultraviolet rays from the sun . |
| 14 | Bergson turned from the bank of screens that took up one whole wall of the long room and got up from his chair . |
| 15 | No one was sure whether he had deliberately set a trap , or whether it was merely a chance remark that brought about such astounding results . |
| 16 | Perhaps it was sitting in front of an audience that I hardly knew but believed to be very worthy that brought back that old feeling of being a bit of a fraud , particularly when one lady , catching the shreds of my zeal said I had taken away her fear of cancer ! |
| 17 | There ought to be some principle that picks out one initial state , and hence one model , to represent our universe . |
| 18 | The strands merge in the study of complete systems ( human and computer ) that carry out various linguistic tasks . |
| 19 | It was a statement that summoned up some private vision they had of her , the simple words swelling to become a vehicle for all their feelings about her . |
| 20 | What is it about paying tax that brings out such juvenile spitefulness even among the strenuously respectable ? |
| 21 | ’ This Council and its partners , in the remainder of this decade must try to raise society 's sights quickly enough to develop the corporate vision that brings about useful administrative change which commands wide enough public support . |
| 22 | Like the planetary cluster that makes up SenFed Central . |
| 23 | The cooking pot of cultures and races that makes up this vast nation has created distinct regional specialities and major cities will offer everything from kosher to Korean . |
| 24 | But the discipline that backed up that solitary duty was — even by the standards of the 1920s — extraordinarily harsh and pervasive . |