Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] that [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 But a few instants later , she needed no other support than the strong arms that seized her and gathered her to a broad chest , the lips in her hair uttering the words that sent the blood rushing through her veins .
2 The study of portraits on coins is therefore as much about the political factors that influenced them as about their intrinsic or moral interest .
3 It is necessary to examine the idea of coalitionism and the political forces that made it a powerful alternative before considering its direct impact on the Unionist party .
4 Lee Rodwell on the conflicting views that leave her feeling muddled and guilty
5 ‘ Six years , and then burning up this last week I 've spent in Singapore , regretting the entrenched prejudices that stopped me making love to you last time we were together .
6 By the time they are mature , hedgehogs can have several thousand of the modified hairs that give them their prickly appearance and an ideal form of defence against attackers .
7 Graham calling from in Sussex , is it the economic aspects that concern you most ?
8 ‘ People coming and going ’ were to provide Bischof 's subject matter in the eight years of life that remained to him after his meeting with Rosellina ; people in camps , people displaced by the Second World War and then by the regional wars that succeeded it , from Eastern Europe to Indochina , and from Scandinavia to Japan .
9 Come and see the sorcerer 's kitchen where I brew up the grotesque potions that make me a legend here . ’
10 There are , of course , many other important points that I have not touched on , such as the administrative procedures that make it possible to build a power station , the organisation of nuclear safety , and the protection of the environment .
11 Secondly , the white paper and the working documents that supplemented it give only the barest outline of the market framework and leave several key issues unresolved .
12 They are experiencing what women have always known — that the life-sustaining relationships that enable us to grit our teeth and pick our way through the mess made by men , to endure and to survive , are those we share with other women : our mothers , our sisters , our neighbours and friends .
13 The 12 hours that shook us all
14 Faith in reason and its ability to crack the code of the universe by discovering the scientific laws that sustain it will become the new legalism of the dawning secular age .
15 She does n't avoid the painful issues that divide us — but , as few writers can , she makes us laugh at them and bring them down to size .
16 It might seem a bit bleak , a bit inhuman ( ‘ antihumanist , yes ; inhuman , no , ’ she would interject ) , somewhat deterministic ( ‘ not at all ; the truly determined subject is he who is not aware of the discursive formations that determine him .
17 Moreover , the observer at A forms a picture of the white hole on the basis of all the light rays that reach him at the same time .
18 The origin of some of this waste is obscure ; so are some of the British firms that handle it .
19 It was one of the magnetic forces that drew them overseas , and led them to disappointment quite as often as to wealth .
20 The set is created in the bifurcation that occurs as r passes through r* , and we can now mention some of the interesting properties that lead us to call it " strange " .
21 People who are concerned to preserve their own well-being , and also to strive to do a better job , need to look in two directions for help : they must look inwards , to gain insight into the dynamics of their own stress ; and they must look outwards , to understand better the social forces that surround them .
22 Deviants can not be viewed as billiard balls inescapably moved by the social forces that surround them .
23 Kypov shouted at him across the few metres that separated them , and the breath spouted white from the Major 's mouth .
24 When he turned to look at her with some compassion , she walked the few steps that kept them apart and , staring at him with desperate eyes , insisted , ‘ That woman in the docks … it was her , was n't it ?
25 It was the dark Raybans that made it impossible to tell what he was thinking .
26 When a direct file is loaded for the first time , we may have little or no information about the individual records that make it up .
27 The muscles of the legs and abdomen , and in many insects all the flight muscles as well , respond synchronously to the nervous impulses that reach them .
28 Look for the personal circumstances that fit yours ( or are close to ) the first column , then look under the Poll Tax figures .
29 He was kneeling by a pool , looking up at the towering trees that surrounded him — quiet , intent , somehow unsurprised .
30 The ability to hear a word and to recognise the separate sounds that make it up .
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