Example sentences of "words [that] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why , said Pumlumon , had n't there been a time , not so very long ago either , when he could rattle off the words that set the Draoicht Suan working with no more ado than you might make in the squashing of a flea , always supposing you wanted to do something so pointless , which Pumlumon himself never had . |
| 2 | This vision lies behind nominalism , which claims that it is the mind 's capacity for creating general words that creates the illusion of generality in the world itself . |
| 3 | Take two felt-tip pens , of different colours , and underline in one colour all the words that catch the meaning you intended , that evoke strongly the feelings you have about the room . |
| 4 | ‘ I do not doubt ’ are the words that cause the problem here . |
| 5 | He rushed in , then , with many words , many more words about awfulness and pills , and if onlys and sadness ; words that were curses and words that made the issue opaque and words that sounded trivial because he was so angry . |
| 6 | There were several words that meant the same thing . |
| 7 | The lips were moving , shaping words that had no sound . |
| 8 | The same two terms , ‘ bibliography ’ and ‘ history ’ serve to describe both subjects , and it is only the order in which they are cited and , in natural language , the connecting words that distinguish the statements of the two subjects . |
| 9 | The presence of words that form a compound in consecutive positions other than by intention is improbable , hence from knowing the existence of a compound tennis courts one would give priority to these individual words over their alternative candidates . |
| 10 | Remembering what Garvey had said about comforting the sick dame , Gabriel leapt to the end of the play and snatched at the only words that seemed the right ones for these poor corpses , these walking dead : |
| 11 | If you do see a sign like that please , or any words that mean the same thing , like no refunds , no money refunded , no money refunded on sale goods any of those phrases , will you please let Trad your nearest Trading Standards Office know . |
| 12 | He untied the rope and then bent , inspecting the horse carefully , examining each leg , and they could hear him talking all the time , soothing , quiet words that stilled the animal . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As a means of answering this question , the predicative function of the verb can be situated in the much more general framework of a mechanism which seems fundamental to all words that evoke a lexical content . |
| 15 | Or , as he puts it himself , in words that recall the Christian association of hypocrisy with the devil 's ‘ suggestion ’ or tempting : |
| 16 | First of all , take a part of a subject that you are studying and write down the key words that give the basis of that aspect of your studies . |
| 17 | Christopher knew it and was able to send him away with words that showed a very personal friendliness . |
| 18 | Identical spellings for words that sound the same are not a real problem . |
| 19 | it 's also the animal so that you 're actually left with three er words that sound the same , two of which are spelt differently and the third which is the name of an animal , okay . |
| 20 | The articles themselves have buttons with arrows on to indicate words that have a separate entry in the Encyclopedia , these are accessed by clicking on the button . |
| 21 | The simple wordtags either stand for classes of grammatically similar words ( e.g. NN for singular common noun ) or for closed class words that have a special function ( e.g. TO indicating when the word to is infinitival ) . |
| 22 | You see , it 's the words that have the power , not our ideas . |