Example sentences of "[that] [vb -s] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And God help the little sparrow that dares to close its eyes or shuffle its tiny feet during a performance . |
| 2 | It contained a poem by James Kirkup entitled ‘ The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name ’ . |
| 3 | The team that wins gets their presents . |
| 4 | Not the bottle that guarantees to turn your grey hair black or make your bald pate sprout again , but something else . |
| 5 | I really feel a foreigner and walk up the drive cursing the mud that has ruined my gold stilettos . |
| 6 | Maybe , then , it is The Smiths ' natural unease before cameras that has motivated their hatred of video . |
| 7 | This backward projection is one of the things that has motivated my own work on present-day speech communities , and my interest in how the authority of the legitimized variety is promoted in linguistic scholarship J. Milroy and L. Milroy , 1985a ) . |
| 8 | In doing so they offer , it seems , their most conclusive definition of the word that has inspired their fiction : |
| 9 | ‘ Unfortunately my wife could n't come because she teaches , but I expect that has curtailed my sightseeing and increased my output . ’ |
| 10 | So when we come across one that has reached its sixth , we must sit up , take notice and ask why market forces have singled it out for special success . |
| 11 | This is the more remarkable since by this time , its mother may have already given birth to another tiny baby that has made its way to the pouch and is fastened on to a teat imbibing milk of a quite different composition . |
| 12 | Last September the Hungarian-born American financier George Soros executed a financial coup that has made his humanitarian cup run over . |
| 13 | On the other hand , we tend not to see the intense depression in a motionless and unresponsive horse , or the annoyance in one that has turned its back on the horse or person offending it , or the anxiety in the tightened abdominal muscles of the showpony expecting the pain of the spur . |
| 14 | You can so aim your plot that the events you will have to describe reflect on whatever current preoccupation of society it is that has fired your imagination ; your theme . |
| 15 | And the particular incident that has aroused his fearsome wrath is the departure from Granada Television of Mr David Plowright , a man who knows about TV programmes , at the behest of Mr Gerry Robinson , a man who knows about balance sheets . |
| 16 | DAVID HIRST last night cleared Arsenal 's Steve Bould of blame for the challenge that has destroyed his England recall hopes . |
| 17 | It is not any sense over-engineered in the manner of some US made exotica that has crossed my path , but over-engineering is not necessarily good engineering — it can be more correctly seen as wasteful engineering — it can be more correctly seen as wasteful engineering , which is a quite different thing . |
| 18 | But the cost of his doing so has been revealed in all its starkness in the unseemly scramble for the succession that has followed his departure . |
| 19 | pastiche is black parody , parody that has lost its humor . |
| 20 | It is particularly illogical that this kind of argument should be coming from politicians who , in other contexts , would be the first to argue , and rightly , that Vietnam is not some kind of monster State , but merely a ramshackle and inefficient one that has lost its way . |
| 21 | It is particularly illogical that this kind of argument should be coming from politicians who , in other contexts , would be the first to argue , and rightly , that Vietnam is not some kind of monster State , but merely a ramshackle and inefficient one that has lost its way . |
| 22 | Hay that has lost its colour has a lower nutritional value and is less palatable . |
| 23 | The Flight-Lieutenant became suddenly petulant , like a child that has lost its toy . |
| 24 | Some scientists suggest that the procaryote is a degenerate eukaryote , one that has lost its unique features . |
| 25 | The 31-year-old Yorkshireman 's enthusiastic work in the back four , his surging runs on the overlap and his ferocious shooting have all been badly missed in a side that has lost its heart and its way in a disastrous plunge down the table . |
| 26 | In his letter to shareholders Alan Sugar paints a bleak picture of a company that has lost its way by becoming too big . |
| 27 | His hands shake ant his balance is cruelly uncertain , a fly wheel that has lost its rhythm . |
| 28 | a scissors that has lost its middle screw , |
| 29 | We know nothing of his being or his nature , except that he is a created spirit that has lost his relationship to the Godhead . |
| 30 | Their change of mind came after the president 's aides had said that if denied a referendum he would carry out a non-binding plebiscite anyway to settle the power struggle that has paralysed his reform programme . |