Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Containing the first studio cut of ‘ No Woman No Cry ’ , versions of early Jamaicans singles ‘ Belly Full ’ , ‘ Bend Down Low ’ , ‘ Natty Dread ’ and ‘ Lively Up Yourself ’ , this is , superficially , a simple set of songs that went against the grain of the mesmeric dub that was then dominating reggae . |
| 2 | While many of the older songs that survive in the new set — ‘ Big ’ , ‘ Fishes Eyes ’ , ‘ Partial ’ — hang on to Justin 's overweight basslines for their effect , newer material enjoys a much broader baseboard . |
| 3 | " The Unquiet Grave " , " The Grey Cock " and " She Moved Through the Fair " are just three examples of folk songs that deal with the subject . |
| 4 | They were large animals that lived at the same time as the forerunners of the dinosaurs , the petrolacosaurs . |
| 5 | The rivers of Europe and America contain animals that look like the lancelet , though they are somewhat larger , up to 20 centimetres long . |
| 6 | And , all run here , everything was run here , and animals , animals that won here , well er well I think they put them down as better animals than animals that raced before the war , you know , cos they had to do such a lot in a short time . |
| 7 | They were prominent in the Silurian and Devonian , where they can be found with the fish-like animals that abounded in the fresh- and brackish water deposits of the time , although some of the Ordovician ones are in marine sediments . |
| 8 | The ancestors of practically all the animals that live on the vast plains of western India originally came from the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East . |
| 9 | The really big egg-producers , however , are the simpler animals that live in the sea , such as corals , jellyfish , sea-urchins and molluscs . |
| 10 | However , King also believes that traditional agroforestry led to the establishment of plantation forestry because of colonial timber requirements in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that culminated in the separation of agricultural and forestry interests . |
| 11 | Young men and women , not so young men and women , wended their way across Cambridge to sit for an hour with Esther Breuer , sipping coffee , tea , or , if they were favoured , vermouth or wine , as they gazed at the red-draped walls , the crowded bookshelves , the umbrella stand , the hatstand , the cabin trunk , the medley of different-patterned fabrics , the little figurines that marched along the shelves in front of the books , the carefully assembled strip of photographed Roman frieze , the little glass doves in front of the tiny mosaic fountain . |
| 12 | He was very aware of her body beside his , of the long legs that shimmered in the semi-darkness , and of the smell of her perfume . |
| 13 | She was wearing something lime-green and minuscule , with silver sandals adorning bare legs that looked like the stems of a slender plant . |
| 14 | The maggot-bearing stapelia from southern Africa not only reeks dreadfully of carrion but reinforces its appeal to flies by producing flowers with wrinkled brown petals covered with hairs that look like the decaying skin of a dead animal . |
| 15 | Léonie wheeled , scrambled back past the baker 's , and fled along the boulevard edged with limes that led to the church and the walled cemetery , to the lane beyond . |
| 16 | Basically the procedure involves monitoring biological signals that come from the central nervous system , the autonomic nervous system , the musculoskeletal system and the cardiovascular system . |
| 17 | It 's still a hot air story , and we give most hot air stories — some dignitary with no power to do anything to change the situation has ‘ called for ’ , ‘ demanded ’ , ‘ warned ’ or whatever — but the issue is so serious that it deserves notice : we have frequently highlighted the manner in which US — and European — anti-dumping measures that supposedly benefit a tiny minority are to the detriment of the vast majority , and there is now a groundswell of opinion at the US Department of Commerce that the International Trade Commission 's brief in considering charges of dumping should extend to a review of the impact of duties on consumers ; the current issue is the anti-dumping duties likely to be made permanent today on memory chip imports from South Korea , which are sought by Micron Technology Inc but opposed by both all memory chip users and by the US chip capital equipment manufacturers that sell to the South Koreans . |
| 18 | The little Austers removed a significant amount of the in-flight workload imposed on the Lincoln navigators , however the frequent rain squalls that came over the jungle limited their use and as such the heavy bomber crews had to carry out operations with the required precision in dangerously adverse weather conditions . |
| 19 | He stared at it , puzzled , deciding it was pulsating , with red lines swelling and diminishing in the self-same rhythm ; tentacles that throbbed with the heart beat of the central creature . |
| 20 | Corporatism thus implies an ‘ institutional fusion ’ , whereby organizations that developed for the representation of interests become instruments of state intervention ( Jessop 1979 ) . |
| 21 | Many countries have organizations that belong to the Seeds Action Network ( SAN ) which exchanges information about seeds and related topics . |
| 22 | Check the files on those British right-wing organizations that flourished before the war , the ones that sometimes had Members of Parliament on their books . ’ |
| 23 | She shifted from foot to foot and stared up impatiently at the gallery of offices that ran around the walls . |
| 24 | With the companionway protected from the wind , only the waves that broke over the cabin top burst into the saloon . |
| 25 | The bacterial reduction of organic materials to simple compounds that dissolve in the water content of the soil is a long and slow process . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've never seen the church so crowded for a funeral , ’ said William 's nan proudly , though there was a hint of suspicion in the eyes that gazed around the congregation . |
| 27 | All have the ability to change shape at will , most assuming icy fingers and yellow eyes that glow in the dark . |
| 28 | His strong face , lined by age and illness , framed a pair of kindly eyes that softened at the sight of her . |
| 29 | Something as tall as a steeple , in a trailing black dress , fair hair cascading ; a face turned , looking down at Ruth , with long mocking green eyes that glimmered like the sea . |
| 30 | In so far as the auditor in the public sector is expressing an opinion on financial statements , then the Auditing Standards and Guidelines that apply in the private sector also apply in the public sector , absent specific statements to the contrary ( Auditing Guideline 416 , 1987 ) . |