Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | He stood silhouetted in the soft light that flowed out of the room and silently toasted me . |
| 32 | Observers held their breath as the former Derry City and Shelbourne star took to the pitch for his first game but the thunderous greeting that cascaded down from the Windsor stands proved it was unnecessary caution . |
| 33 | ‘ With this I would make a simple straight skirt that sits just on the knee , and a large cartwheel hat trimmed with the suit fabric . ’ |
| 34 | A Council visit to Hatfield made adverse judgments on its organization and administration that conflicted basically with the views and approaches of the Polytechnic 's Director and his colleagues . |
| 35 | The capes are famous for a confused and ugly swell , and peculiar lumps of wind that crash down from the coastal peaks of the Taurus Mountains . |
| 36 | There were leafless trees , empty park benches and a rising wind that scurried harshly in the frozen emptiness . |
| 37 | A wind that blows away from the shore . |
| 38 | In a side that trades heavily on the commitment of a classy midfield quartet , the cool defender 's ability to score vital goals has often proved a trump card for Charlton . |
| 39 | The road continues west with little indication of the excitement soon to come , passing through Bettyhill at the foot of Strath Naver , notable for its botany and ancient monuments , and after a detour inland comes alongside the Kyle of Tongue , a sea loch that penetrates deep into the interior . |
| 40 | Only 15 months later , the participants in that match , which , it must be said , was not full of passion , are now presumably heavily engaged in destroying each other simply because they come from two sides of a divide that dates back to the tragedies , miseries and horrors of the second world war , back to the first world war and into the deep recesses of history before that time . |
| 41 | An animal capable of symbolization can carry away from a situation an inner trace that stands in for the response it may make when it next encounters the situation . |
| 42 | Unfortunately , though , the gas is often extremely hot , probably over 800 degrees C , so the instrument that comes out of the jet is often only a sad relic of the instrument that went in . |
| 43 | Linear chains of oceanic volcanoes , such as the Hawaiian and Society Islands , that occur when lithospheric plates drift over a ‘ hotspot ’ , are now widely thought to be the surface manifestation of mantle plumes , columns of hot rock that rise buoyantly from the deep mantle . |
| 44 | Now we were huddled against the wall of sheer , pale grey rock that soared seamlessly into the sky , up into the ice-white clouds above . |
| 45 | Middenheim stands atop a sheer-sided pinnacle of rock that rises out of the surrounding forest . |
| 46 | And at the same time , and slightly in contradiction to that , I found it increasing erm , er , perception and indication of dissatisfaction with the way in which the joint er , collaborative structures were actually working , if I may say , especially at the top level in terms of the political erm erm , so I say to you colleagues , that you are required as er , by statute to , to have in place collaborative structures , er , under a statute that goes back to the nineteen seventies , and I should also say to you that up and down the country that authorities like your own are at this stage doing what you 're doing , and that is reviewing the effectiveness of the operation of those structures , and probably coming to much the same conclusions . |
| 47 | The last thing I wanted was to find myself slithering down the steep craggy section above the corrie , having mistakenly bypassed the Y-shaped gully that led back to the car , yet I could sense I was getting it all a bit wrong . |
| 48 | In despair , I scrambled all the way down to the gully that falls directly from the col and tried to climb it quickly before the sun got up . |
| 49 | He was thirty-eight years old with a youthfully handsome face , tousled auburn hair that hung untidily over the collar of his open-necked white shirt and a sturdy , muscular physique which he kept in shape with a daily five-kilometre run followed by a punishing workout in his own private gymnasium . |
| 50 | But from the sides of their mouths projected the glistening tusks of boars , and they were crowned with great , bristling manes of stiff hair that ran down to the base of their spines . |
| 51 | There was frequently a hair-tidy of the same design on the dressing-table , a little dish with a lid , and a hole through which one could push the hair that came out on the comb . |
| 52 | ‘ I ca n't believe I am being blamed for a fight that went on in the stand behind us , and I hope video evidence will clearly back me up . ’ |
| 53 | The excuse that filtered through to the press was that jury members did n't consider the film sufficiently ‘ German ’ . |
| 54 | Inside the two women who keep the inn serve through the hatch that opens on to the one room . |
| 55 | Gilligan sees this as a morality of responsibility that stands apart from the morality of rights underlying Kohlberg 's conception . |
| 56 | Dana , slumped over the kitchen table in a bright pink robe that left little to the imagination , raised resentful eyes . |
| 57 | Radon comes from the uranium that occurs naturally in the ground . |
| 58 | He pushed through a regulation fire door and found himself in a narrow passageway that ran along by the stairs to the kitchen . |
| 59 | Our concern is with that huge category of stock which is not issuing well and which fills our valuable storage space : the nineteenth-century biographies ; the classics of politics and philosophy ; the long journal runs ; the multi-volume histories ; the ‘ complete ’ works ; the novels , plays and studies of and by yesterday 's men and women ; the giant topographical histories — the accumulated cultural and historical heritage that lies heavily on the stacks and on the reference shelves . |
| 60 | I think the bit that stands up above the horizon is fine , I mean I think that gives you a good idea of what it would have been like had you been able to get the whole , or not perhaps the whole of it , but a lot more of the post up above the horizon simply by getting down lower . |