Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] [that] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 The dangerous stimulus is sensed by another sensory neuron , whose synapse connects with one or more interneurons that eventually run into the same synapse connecting with the motor neuron that controls the mantle muscles .
2 Standing together in the back yard of the ‘ Windy Ridge ’ , all four of them momentarily experienced that eerie silence that always prevailed on the banks of the River Severn at high water during the hours of darkness .
3 There were three other aspects of the activities of the family farmer and part-time farmer that perhaps needed strengthening in the light of observations of European farmers .
4 The gentlemanly proprietorships and relaxed chairmanships that historically supplied a large bulk of presidents have become rarities .
5 We reported in May 's Pilot Notes the extraordinary political and linguistic arguments that finally led this summer to the closing of Grimbergen , one of Belgium 's most important GA aerodromes .
6 Leavis , who countered How To Read with a booklet , How to Teach Reading , and Winters , who declared in 1937 , ‘ Mr Pound resembles a village loafer who sees much and understands little ’ , told the same story as Tate : Pound was a naïf , an imagination and sensory apparatus that consistently performed better than it knew , in ways that the maker 's own discursive intelligence failed to comprehend or measure up to ; in Winters 's memorable and mordant judgement of 1943 , ‘ a sensibility without a mind , or with as little mind as is well possible ’ .
7 The army of herders and small farmers that once destroyed wild dogs as a question of principle has gone off to work at FIAT .
8 Even when Peter Langan was still around and threatening an imminent breach of the peace , this was always one of the most comfortable restaurants : stacks of paintings , a cheering bustle and bright lighting that somehow managed to appear discreet .
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