Example sentences of "that [vb base] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drums and percussion section of orchestral recordings lack their customary undernourished bass and tizzy top-end — a reversal of the traditional finding with compact disc — and the strong pulse that underpins music as varied as Bach 's Violin Concertos and Stravinsky ballets ( both well represented in the test programme ) was captured with a power and ‘ snap ’ that make many of the Ariston 's closest price competitors sound feeble . |
| 2 | Cooking up wonderfully complicated meals is fine for special occasions , but what most of us want most of the time are great ideas for quick meals that taste good without the fuss . |
| 3 | Therefore in the families with only one known affected subject , where samples can not be obtained from enough family members for linkage studies , or in the 20% or so that remain uninformative with the current probes , no predictive DNA tests are available . |
| 4 | That number , which is almost half of Hillingdon 's secondary schools , is both a testament to the support shown by Hillingdon to GM status and a rebuke to those local education authorities that remain hostile to the policy . |
| 5 | The new census statistics will benefit organisations such as Reader 's Digest or Kays , that sell direct to the customer , in that they will be able to improve the selection of both prospects and existing customers for targeted mailshots . |
| 6 | He constantly ignored Bolingbroke 's maxim that Members of Parliament are like hounds that grow fond of the leader ‘ who shows them game and by whose halloo they are used to be encouraged . ’ |
| 7 | Captain Robins left the saloon , I peeled a couple of the red bananas that grow wild on the islands — my dessert — and picked up the book . |
| 8 | The main determinant of territory size in predators is the resource dispersal in the territory , the distribution of the productive areas that supply most of the food for the predators ' hunting area . |
| 9 | The aspect of definition in Cézanne 's work , its ‘ measurable ’ quality , is well illustrated by the fact that in one of his later Cubist phases Gris was able to interpret one of Cézanne 's portraits of his wife in terms of a few sharply defined , superimposed planes that capture much of the structural feeling of the original . |
| 10 | When we see swallows that sleep high in the sky , circling higher and higher until they are absorbed by the sky , we think of the air as the frail hammocks finer than gossamer in which they are rocked to sleep . |
| 11 | Where 's the power to choose for those elderly people that want free at the point of service National Health Service treatment ? |
| 12 | Where 's the power to choose for those elderly people that want free at the point of service National Health Service treatment ? |
| 13 | Works entitled Constitutional Law cover a selection of laws that appear important to the author , together with important conventions and often a reduced version of the topics treated by institutionally oriented political scientists . |
| 14 | The Chapters below will each be concerned with particular principles of this kind , but let us here just identify the aspects of the utterances that trigger each of the inferences . |
| 15 | Work by the Fluid Inclusion Research Group , in collaboration with the NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory , has pioneered two new geochronological techniques that overcome some of the limitations of conventional radiometric dating . |
| 16 | This will involve new taxes and a cut in subsidies , including the huge fertiliser subsidy regarded as critical in the farming areas that hold most of the voters . |
| 17 | The other side is an unusually fresh approach to new ideas , complementary therapies , and the kind of questions that put most of the medical establishment into a cold sweat . |
| 18 | At risk are the coral reefs , mangroves , lagoons , marshes and estuaries that support much of the region 's wildlife . |
| 19 | Most of them can be put together quite cheaply but without ruining the style or atmosphere of the room ; on the contrary it 's often these that add most of the character to a room and reflect your personality better than the bought pieces which can look like everyone else 's . |
| 20 | Doggedly , they fly higher and higher up the flanks of the mountains towards piles of immense granite boulders that lie close to the summits . |
| 21 | Our imagination knows , for instance , that there is no definite outline or edge to the enlarged colour photographs of different types of water that lie flat on the floor framed by redundant handrails in elaborately worked metal . |
| 22 | Some years ago Edmund Wilson complained of writers of Gothic who could fail to lay hold on the terrors that lie deep in the human soul and have caused man to fear himself . |
| 23 | Some , like chickweed and poppies , have seeds that lie dormant in the soil for long periods until the right conditions trigger them to life . |
| 24 | All the same , Dustin does some things that seem strange to the natives , like making the Woodstock peace sign to the yobbish workmen , who return it mockingly , and also by playing loud bagpipe music on the record-player when the vicar and his wife pay a call . |
| 25 | Gritstone : windswept , weathered forms set amidst heather-clad moorland , the jewels that stand proud from the mysterious Dark Peak . |
| 26 | We predicted the DNA sequences that encode two of the peptides ( Fig. 1 b , legend ) and then used these as primers to amplify a cDNA fragment derived from F9 EC RNA . |
| 27 | There are windows that blow open in the wind … |
| 28 | DECEMBER 1989 IN A SUITE ON THE 24TH FLOOR of the Mirage Hotel , Muhammad Ali is sitting on a small white sofa near full-length windows that overlook much of the east side of Las Vegas . |
| 29 | It is therefore very difficult to draw a tree , however improbably , with branches that get thicker towards the top . |
| 30 | Most catalogues begin , usually with some proud and flamboyant phraseology , by describing the new varieties being introduced for the first time , and invariably , because they are the kinds that get most of the breeders ' attentions , these will be H.T.s and Floribundas . |