Example sentences of "the [adj] that [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | even though there was a bit of grey in it , it was the , really the brown that predominated it , I said it , it , the grey suite would n't go with it |
| 2 | What is it about the British that makes them confuse service with servility |
| 3 | what Chodorow retains of the psychical that makes it impossible for her to consider social relations in any but the most simplistic way . |
| 4 | What happens is that although it does tend to decay it builds a crust on the outside that stops it eroding . |
| 5 | The composite that reached us was not attractive : to wear gloves , to redecorate and to pursue vicious joyless affairs under false names in highway motels . |
| 6 | As she uncovered herself to him — ‘ for I love , and there is no loneliness , no misery , no doubt and ignorance , no hoping for that which seems vain as there used to be , but never will be again ’ — one glimpses the ideal that enabled her to accept without question the life that lay before them . |
| 7 | And it was not helping the poor that kept me going , but the thought of having to admit that I had no stomach . |
| 8 | It was precisely their erudition , their cultivation , their financial security , their disdain for the mediocre that led them to the gas chambers . |
| 9 | It 's the mediocre that drags us all down to a common denominator ; … that deprives us of judgement ; … that particularly deprives us of a sense of humour . |
| 10 | But it was Susannah 's passionate appeal to the girls to support her party because she believes the Liberal Democrats care about the homeless that made her the winner . |
| 11 | I think it 's the walking that did it , I do n't know |
| 12 | Hypothalamus and mid-brain glow together in radical synchronization , and above everything else — you — now a couple — feel the desire to eradicate every feeling of loss and separation , the desire to find the other that began it all . |
| 13 | Most discordant twins had one or other antigen , Identical twins who are discordant for diabetes start out with the same susceptibility ; it is only the action of an environmental stimulus on one twin , and its absence on the other that makes them discordant . |
| 14 | This is what applied mathematics should be about ; not the fallacious misproofs of Stoke 's theorem or the relentless linearisation of the nonlinear that put me off applied mathematics for 15 years . |