Example sentences of "of [noun sg] that [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nights grew colder , but in the early morning the rising sun was caught a thousand times in the droplets of moisture that formed in the webs that spiders wove across the bars of Creggan 's cage . |
| 2 | Clare was set to watch sheep and geese on Helpston heath as a child of seven , and spent years of his childhood , and of his later life , wandering over the heath and through the patches of woodland that survived in the parish . |
| 3 | St Albans is a good example of this type , if we think away the large block of building that lies between the present market place and the street called Chequer Street that lies behind . |
| 4 | He shook his head slowly , to show some reaction , staring past the druggist at the dark handcrafted old shelving , wondering if he should remember every detail of this place , and sadly realising he would only remember the huge can of chilli that appeared on the menu board as Home Made . |
| 5 | During night missions inside Iraq , the laser shines from the belly of the bomber , and is kept on target by the pilot or the weapons officer , with the help of electronics that compensate for the aircraft 's movements . |
| 6 | In ordinary cars the higher temperature is produced by having a higher compression ratio and one is used to having high performance cars which have a high compression ratio and need special grades of petrol to avoid knocking and pinking and other effects detrimental to the car , and of course that leads to the need for lead to be added to petrol to stop knocking . |
| 7 | Simply used as a marketing term , to designate a fashionable commodity , it might also have appealed to publishers , had it been available at the time , as a packaging for the wave of fiction that followed in the tracks of Eco and Calvino in the early and mid-1980s , and for which no better epithet could be found than ‘ new ’ or ‘ young ’ ( despite a number of its representatives being somewhat less than youthful ) . |
| 8 | Perhaps it was the name of Carmichael — the closest that London was to get to contact with the black revolt that year- and the name of Marcuse that pulled in the crowds that went to the Roundhouse for the fortnight . |
| 9 | It is the imperatives of a coherent demand for representation together with common points of struggle that lead to the notion of a somehow definable gay audience . |
| 10 | The consolidation of banking that started in the 1980s has paused for much of the past year . |
| 11 | I mean , the point about this is that actually I must emphasise it 's a needs based assessment , both in allocating the overall amount of money that goes to the various areas and er those of you who 've already looked at it will see that area three seems to have a disproportionately high amount of the money . |
| 12 | For those people who can sever their own feet and lurch away , they got it round the neck later from a special breed of Tightness that lives in the baskets of flowers up lamp posts . |
| 13 | The habits of mind that went with the mayorazgo were not those of the ideal improving landlord of the Economic Societies , ‘ always occupied in the felicity of his village ’ . |
| 14 | He had broken through the terror barrier , perhaps , and was in the dead calm state of mind that lies on the other side . |
| 15 | The peace of mind that comes from the Radio Rentals Total Service Guarantee . |
| 16 | Chlor-chemicals general manager Bob Hunt said : ‘ Results like these indicate the degree of confusion that exists around the use of chlorine and its natural presence in the environment . |
| 17 | We have recently cloned cDNA encoding the large subunit of TFIIF that interacts with the small subunit in vivo and shown that bacterially expressed proteins of both could replace the transcription initiation activity of native TFIIF ( 20 ) . |
| 18 | He began to walk , treading a careful path through the marshy ground , following a rising vein of rock that jutted from the sodden turf , until he came beneath the shadow of the Wall . |
| 19 | Conceptualizations of police work are therefore derived from and embedded in such phenomena as the day-to-day experience of police duties , which is itself contextually related to the sorts of crime that occur in the area in which the station is located , common-sense notions about policing contained in the occupational culture , and stereotypes of policing found in the wider culture . |
| 20 | The sense of disappointment that hangs over the rest of his career reflects the loss of nerve that came from finding that , at the moment when his career seemed to be taking off , there were no opportunities to build on what he had achieved . |
| 21 | Of this , £1 million is a large chunk that will reduce the UK 's ability to contribute to the type of research that led to the discovery of the Z o . |
| 22 | Among other forms of religion that flourished in the Roman empire was Mithraism . |
| 23 | The only illumination was the oblong of light that spilled from the open doorway of the TARDIS . |
| 24 | Dust floated in the beams of light that flooded through the fanlight over the front door . |
| 25 | Surere leant forward and his head , for the first time , was fully illuminated by the narrow shaft of light that fell through the window . |
| 26 | He stood quivering to the gradations of light that sang in the roof , and did not know what it was that moved him so , the hour , or the true beauty of the proportions and spaces about him , or the marvellous and frightening sense of having drawn so close to the spring of his own being . |
| 27 | These new men have made me see form , have made me more conscious of the sky where it juts down between houses , of the bright patterns of sunlight which the bath water throws up on the ceiling , of the great ‘ Vs ’ of light that dart through the chinks over the curtain rings , all these are new chords , new keys of design . |
| 28 | Philip went out into the garden , stepping into a patch of snow that lay by the step . |
| 29 | She was still bent to the Dobermann when she discovered that she needed a moment to control a knot of emotion that came from the thought that she would see neither the dog nor its owner again . |
| 30 | No one noticed the dark stain of blood that spread from the tip of a razor sharp stiletto knife in his coat pocket . |