Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] [that] [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 A door into the hallway , a door beyond that , and Schmidt going for the french window that let on to the patio .
2 So there 's some countries in the desert around the Gobi desert that do n't have any primary industry .
3 At this very moment , no doubt , she is pondering with regret decisions made in the far-off past that have now left her , deep in middle age , so alone and desolate .
4 Can you imagine a worse fate than being condemned to listen to the endless trivia that surround most criminal prosecutions ?
5 It is suggested that support for such organisations is drawn disproportionately from the middle class , and in particular those sections of the middle class that feel most at threat from the structural changes taking place in contemporary British society .
6 There are also direct links between the nerves and the immune system that do not rely on messenger substances .
7 We 've only got about two or three people in the whole house that do n't have a wheelchair if they go out .
8 Instead of a tantrum and the ensuing row that prove so reinforcing of defiant behaviour , the mother 's words of approval increase the likelihood of future co-operative behaviour .
9 So what was it about the wretched man that cut straight through her defences ?
10 By 1930 Addis Ababa was in a vast wood that spread up the slopes of the Entoto hills .
11 To prove my point , it is a well-known fact that barbel quite often grab the ‘ feeder itself , sometimes even before it has reached bottom .
12 Now the soaring trunks had raised this source of food high in the sky , creating a dense canopy that cut out much of the light .
13 His own trade included the quick memorising of landscape and cityscape and at one corner there was an L-shaped alley that cut off the building on the corner itself giving an alternative route to making a left turn on the streets .
14 If they saw him in a play , they saw a middle-aged man pretending to be young , in an outdated vehicle that bore as much relation to their reality as crinolines and penny-farthings .
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