Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] that [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He called his acceptance of human sexuality and respect for the female energy Red Thread Zen , acknowledging that life itself would not exist if not for the umbilical cord that connects us to the feminine . |
| 2 | Then the reader 's fingernail will be able to produce the scent of clematis that wafts in through my window , the foie gras that awaits me at lunch , the liquid inspiration that gets me through the final paragraph . |
| 3 | Win Morgan smiled with a flash of humour that was rare because she was a woman grown old before her time , worn by the constant pain of her bone ache and wearied by the persistent cough that racked her . |
| 4 | They may also lose the generous donations from the European Community that enable them to pay what they owe abroad . |
| 5 | All along the terrace , on the low wall that bounded it , stood the statuary his father had once told him had been placed there by whoever inhabited the place before Hilbert and Lilian came . |
| 6 | To understand the Frankie story , then , it is necessary to understand the low theory that informed it , and to place this theory historically . |
| 7 | She could see the three robed figures , watching impassively as she tried to force her hands through the gold-flecked cloud that surrounded her . |
| 8 | There is nothing in the political system that forces them to consider the future . |
| 9 | While the political literati lay waste to vast tracts of newsprint in their musings about the causes of Labour 's failure , and the shortcomings of the political system that compounded it , those people who constitute what ought to be the bedrock of oppositional electoral support are becoming increasingly alienated not only from the Labour Party , but from the entire political process . |
| 10 | It 's a fast-paced , illuminating and frequently hilarious show , but the portrait is left incomplete by the short shrift given to film of Fishbone onstage — surely the one place where their controlled chaos makes perfect sense — and a surprising lack of emphasis on the political apoplexy that makes them so fascinating . |
| 11 | The young woman in the plain suit was not intimidated by it , nor by the hand-carved plate that proclaimed her to be in the offices of Yeo , Davis and Partners . |
| 12 | We know very little of these early years , beyond that it was a family of privilege , untouched by the economic scourge that surrounded it , though Nathan Cohen must frequently have feared it might touch them , too — not least when he was blessed with a much hoped-for son , whom he named Leonard Norman . |
| 13 | ’ The other ship , ’ Posi said , confirming my thought as it formed , ’ has been locked on to our energy-field infrapattern , by means of the advanced Intelloid that controls it . ’ |
| 14 | So the usual thing eventually after five months waiting for payment is to find out the bloody solicitor that told them this you see and inform the the solicitors that er his client has not yet paid us and we it ought to be done and eventually that 's how we get the money . |
| 15 | ‘ The right hook that finished him was the best body punch I 've ever thrown ’ said Damien with the air of a winner . |
| 16 | It was the way they put me on the right track that made me wonder — guiding angels in the Bible have a habit of appearing as two young men . |
| 17 | But the teacher of English knows that " experience " has proved that " science alone " will no longer suffice , especially in a world in which " scarcely a fortnight ago it was only the imaginative vision of one wise man which saved mankind from the awful catastrophe that threatened them . |
| 18 | Peter Powell 's adventures with kites had already put him into the headlines when he ‘ flew ’ his grandmother , long before he perfected the diamond-shaped stunter that made him a worldwide name from 1974 . |
| 19 | Love and trust still exist , but because the emotional machinery that registers them has gone wrong , we do not feel as we used to . |
| 20 | Something of the inaudible music that moves us along in our bodies from moment to moment like water in a river . |
| 21 | It is usual for unstressed syllables to continue the pitch of the stressed syllable that precedes them . |
| 22 | ‘ I ca n't face that girl , I ca n't tell her the sadistic bastard that raped her is going to be let loose . ’ |
| 23 | Lavenham and Long Melford , for example , have no telegraph poles , to preserve the timeless air that pervades them . |
| 24 | And it 's earning the chocolate-coloured Labrador that wrote it a worldwide reputation . |
| 25 | Professor Hoskins saw little in the modern development of the English landscape that filled him with pleasure and one has great sympathy for his feelings . |
| 26 | The French struggled for nearly sixty minutes against a generous but raw Romania , ran riot against a Fijian side well below par and short of the menacing inspiration that made them a fearsome proposal in 1987 , while the game against Canada exposed the shortcomings that England later exploited with relish . |
| 27 | The house in Long Island was referred to as Xanadu in the specialized trade that supplied her . |
| 28 | For his part , Lawson needed little encouragement to accept the exciting challenge that confronted him . |
| 29 | One peculiar characteristic of the British Parliament that distinguishes it from many legislatures in other countries , and particularly from the United States Congress , is the slight use made of specialized committees . |
| 30 | Astronomers at JTL , afraid of being scooped by the amateurs , put out a press release claiming IRAS discovered it first — but they failed to mention the British team that found it for them . |