Example sentences of "of [noun] that [verb] [prep] " 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 | His letters to Helen , in particular , uncover the head for business , the punctilious sense of irritable rightness , and the concomitant sudden bouts of self-distrust that marched alongside his desire for an extended life of idealized perfection , similar to the intense moments of joyful peace he had discovered for himself during walks . |
| 3 | Expert classifications of disability and difficulty , and the apparatus of assessment that goes with them , appear to be scientifically objective . |
| 4 | Secondly , this is not a comparative evaluation of different models of service , since the standardised diagnostic assessment carried out in this study by the research psychiatrist is not the same process of assessment that occurs in domiciliary visits performed by psychogeriatricians in more traditional services . |
| 5 | The particular set of values that comes to be enshrined in a constitution or code reflects the preferences of the groups in power at the time of their drawing up . |
| 6 | It 's the no visible means of support that gets to people . ’ |
| 7 | In the present perspective , I would propose that resistance to merger , lexical transfer and restructuring is promoted by the existence of strong network ties , and that types of change that result in simplification are encouraged by weakening of ties . |
| 8 | Member states may , however , demand standards which are more stringent than the ‘ essential ’ standards , but only for their own domestically produced products or services ; they can not prevent the importation of products that comply with Community essential standards even though they may fail to comply with the more stringent domestic standards . |
| 9 | Countries must maintain water quality and limit the amounts of nitrates that leach into rivers . |
| 10 | It came in mid-morning , and brought them all slipping through the branches and the coarse grass to lie hidden on either side the narrowing of the path with their bows strung and their shafts fitted , listening for the soft thudding of hooves that came as a reverberation along the ground rather than a sound . |
| 11 | Their clothes and bare feet , their hands and faces , the wisps of hair that strayed from their shawls were stiff with slowly drying mud . |
| 12 | Esther shook her head , oblivious of the stray wisp of hair that fanned to and fro across her forehead ; hair that had once been a soft shade of brown , but which now was streaked iron grey . |
| 13 | As Dan stated , ‘ The target was under a patch of woods that looked like all the other woods around , so we had to drop on some co-ordinates by a railway track . |
| 14 | The sound of footsteps on the rickety staircase leading to her workroom made Theresa look up from her drawings , a small ray of hope that refused to be extinguished flickering to life . |
| 15 | It was a sort of story that started with an aeroplane made by children in a garage . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Eventually these ideas coalesced into the belief that Germany 's rise as a new state and as an industrial power was being hampered by uncertainty over the unreliable national loyalties of the Slav peoples in the east , by the back-stabbing machinations of the Jews inside Germany , and by the threat of communism that came in both Slav and Jewish forms . |
| 18 | She was used to her old mistress 's pallor , to the skeleton thinness , to the heavy , bruised-looking eyes but walking into her bedroom on the beautiful summer 's morning and looking towards the bed she was stopped in her progress and forced to control the exclamation of horror that rose to her lips . |
| 19 | He was charming and bolshie , but that sort of bolshiness that come with insecurity . ’ |
| 20 | In the latter , it is ‘ public opinion ’ — ‘ a scattered discourse that in part belongs to each of the individuals of a society but of which none may claim ownership ’ — which underwrites the verisimilitude of the text , allows its relationship to its referent to be probable , necessary , and therefore true , and naturalizes its conventions : ‘ public opinion therefore functions as a rule of genre that relates to all genres . ’ |
| 21 | He could still recall the sense of dread that hung over him for days as he waited to be thrashed for that escapade . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In an introductory discussion of the kind undertaken in this chapter it is simply not possible to discuss comprehensively the various forms , spheres and agencies of racism that operate in British society , for example , those deriving from the state 's implementation of increasingly tighter immigration controls as well as nationality legislation , or We activities of some sections of the police ( Dummett , 1982 ; Gordon and Klug , 1985 ; Benyon , 1986 ) . |
| 24 | She let go of the cabinet , coughing in the dust of ages that appeared to be lurking behind it , and smiled back at him as the February sun shone through the small window behind her , throwing into sharp relief the patches on the wall where her predecessor had hung posters , and the ingrained dirt on the flaking paintwork round the mean , narrow , metal window . |
| 25 | At best they furnish little more than an outline guide to the interpretation of the numerical data , a hint of the kind of hypothesis that needs to be tested . |
| 26 | But that 's perfectly OK for the American administration 's ad hoc knee-jerk set of reactions that passes for their foreign policy . |
| 27 | As the feminist and structuralist critiques remind us , liberal pluralist models also fail adequately to conceptualize political and economic power , and the patterns of inequality that result from its operation . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In its original form the Pearce-Hall ( 1980 ) model applied this analysis only to the loss of associability that occurs with CS-US pairings , but it is a straightforward matter to deal with orthodox latent inhibition in the same way . |