Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He now sat slumped in his chair , fate having painted a faintly mocking smile on to his clammy skin that spoke of joy at having outwitted his executioner . |
| 2 | We followed him across the street and down crumbling cement stairs into a fetid basement that stank of excrement , a place two feet deep in sodden papers , envelopes , parcels and stained government forms . |
| 3 | Now that type of exception would mean that the practical difficulties to which he referred would not arise except in the comparatively few cases that arise of the particular type . |
| 4 | The painstaking task is finally rewarded , however , by the detailed picture that emerges of an ‘ ordinary ’ family of farmers , craftsmen and labourers over a century and a half . |
| 5 | On the few stumps that remained of Verdun 's noble forests on the Right Bank , the bark either hung down in strips , or else had long since been consumed by half-starved pack-horses . |
| 6 | As I looked at the few stones that remained of the castle , I learned from the magazine that the Irish-built castle of the local kings , the O'Rourkes , had once towered over the local countryside . |
| 7 | And the dark farmhouse that smelt of bread |
| 8 | Similarly , in the Philippine language Samal , we have a four way distinction based on four kinds of participant role : ( i ) close to speaker , ( ii ) close to addressee , ( iii ) close to audience ( other members of Conversational group ) , ( iv ) close to persons present but outside the COnversational group that consists of speaker , addressee(s) and audience . |
| 9 | She wrote to Carrie and Nick and said she was living in a boarding house in a street near the docks , in a dark little room that smelt of kippers . |
| 10 | Think of how surprised the well-heeled audience beyond the velvet curtain would be if it could see what was going on back here , the last-minute mayhem that came of packing a dozen models and heaven only knew how many assistants , hairdressers , make-up people , and general , all-purpose ‘ gofers ’ into the cramped space that lay backstage at the Sala dell'Arte . |
| 11 | As they bundled her down the stairs she must have fainted , because the next thing she could recollect was being wheeled along an endless corridor that smelled of disinfectant . |
| 12 | He peeled off his T-shirt , revealing a chunky tanned torso that reeked of Lifebuoy soap . |
| 13 | We passed a clump of eucalyptus trees that smelt of tom cats . |
| 14 | HOUSEHOLD — A socio-economic unit that consists of persons who share the same living quarters and at least one principal meal . |
| 15 | He says that automatic alarms that warn of radioactivity on clothes have been ‘ arbitrarily ’ adjusted so that the alarms do not go off too often . |
| 16 | Patches of scorched earth are the only physical evidence that remains of the invasion that took place on Castlemorton Common . |
| 17 | Some companies will transfer from the Third market to the USM , some will go to the over-the-counter market ( OTC ) , which is an informal market that consists of trading in small business shares by a group of brokers and licensed dealers to the public . |
| 18 | In addition to an absorbing interpretation of Winterreise , which comprises the second CD , we have a strange mélange on the first disc that consists of some of the songs arranged for viola and piano , some for piano alone , and some of the poems merely being read by Peter Härtling , who ends the disc with a 12-minute Epilogue , discoursing on Müller 's life . |
| 19 | Within the excised matter were the small particles that remained of eight inches of lower spine , which had come straight through the body and the ventral wall to lodge in the front of the jeans . |
| 20 | He opened his eyes upon discreet candle-light , upon a small room hung with tapestries and green fir-boughs that smelled of spice and resin and open air ; and upon a girl 's face bent solicitously over him . |
| 21 | What is it that links the baseball players , boxers and other athletes , drawn with hyper-realist attention to detail , that people the canvases of Jessica Gandolf ; a combination of sexual imagery and social tension that characterises the work of John Carey ; strident colours and hand-written captions that tell of love and men in the paintings of Irène Hardwicke ; the domestic interiors and nature studies for which Katherine Spitzhoff uses egg-based tempera to give a high-gloss finish ; the pictures of John Spinks , a professor of linguistics , that incorporate printed paper , old book bindings and letters from his father ? |
| 22 | Their progeny were all lovingly adopted and transformed along with a truckload of DB 's own tunes that smelt of sex and lies in Baton Rouge . |
| 23 | And yet , the same science and the same technology that contends of the inviability of the natural laws , the same time is able to set it , one law against it , another itself , and he can do what he wants . |
| 24 | He looked forward to rare trips through the city in a dirty truck that stank of oil and pig-swill , the occasional shared chore , the songs , the rough companionship . |
| 25 | ‘ We have not researched the phenomenon extensively , ’ Malengin replied ponderously , ‘ but there are certain aspects that speak of legend rather than fact . ’ |
| 26 | Vadim Medvedev : ‘ His grossly sententious remarks and stale vocabulary that reeked of hack journalism were unbearable . ’ |
| 27 | These notes constitute in many ways the best statement that exists of Babbage 's views on the general powers of his engines . |
| 28 | Immediately , they began to throng and dance , the accompanying drums thrashing out a fervent beat that spoke of the fulfilment of man 's base desires . |
| 29 | Crossing for the last time that stretch of dusty plain which lay between Krishnapur and the railhead , the Collector experienced more strongly than ever before the vastness of India ; he realized then , because of the widening perspective , what a small affair the siege of Krishnapur had been , how unimportant , how devoid of significance . |