Example sentences of "the [det] [that] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the few that returned to Britain , life would never be the same |
| 2 | The few that exist offer specific system-built houses that allow variety , flexibility and individual design . ’ |
| 3 | The majority of housing is provided for this group-housing schemes for single people being rare , and the few that exist being blatantly restricted and cut at the present time . |
| 4 | Farmsteads are still rare outside the villages : the few that exist were mostly built after the parliamentary enclosure of the parishes . |
| 5 | South Korea 's reafforestation and erosion control programme is one of the few that has enjoyed considerable success . |
| 6 | Some are so strongly aromatic as to be spicy , and tarragon in particular is one of the few that has such a strong taste it does need adding in minuscule amounts to meat or fish dishes . |
| 7 | All have made the three-year commitment to the project and , excepting the few that have managed to get various forms of sponsorship , all but the wealthiest will have to make some financial sacrifices . |
| 8 | In the disposable , flippant world of pop , people do not tend to write earnestly about the real world and the few that do are seen almost as gurus or counsellors . |
| 9 | In the evening , before a roaring open fire , we read ; and talked endlessly about the ones that got away , and the few that did n't . |
| 10 | It was not a good year for them to start with , and this year 's explosion in grey squirrel numbers seems to have put paid to the few that did form . |
| 11 | The few that did live near the quarry tended to wander off hurriedly in the opposite direction whenever they saw a nome . |
| 12 | The few that remained squatted out in the open or tucked themselves into tiny holes , often with their hindquarters clearly visible . |
| 13 | It to , i she 's babysitting the these that go to college that have got college classes so she |
| 14 | F/L Selwyn Alcock was a pilot with 83 ( PFF ) Squadron , he was never famous , never a national hero , just one of the many that came from obscurity and passed into oblivion . |
| 15 | Vegetation is composed of the few plants that survive and grow : to explain that vegetation it may be more important to study the many that die . |
| 16 | Nevertheless it is fitting that we should add our tribute to the many that have been made throughout the country . |
| 17 | Although they are welcome as an attempt to rationalise clinical practice , we believe the bulletin and leading article to be greatly misleading in implying an overperformance of surgery since it starts from the premise that grommet insertion is performed predominantly for hearing loss , which represents only one debilitating symptom of the many that glue ear may produce . |
| 18 | Perhaps his most popular work , the Turangalîla-symphonie , was a commission from Koussevitzky , fusing his rich and instantly identifiable harmonic language with complex Hindu rhythms : it was his study of the latter that led to his formulation of ‘ total ’ serialism , first seen in his Studies in Rhythm of 1949 . |
| 19 | It is sufficient to say that in broad definition the former term applies to the language used up to the twelfth century , and the latter that given to the language between the twelfth and the fifteenth , when Modern English started to emerge . |
| 20 | It was the plumbing of the latter that required some thought . |
| 21 | And it is the latter that preoccupies her in Playing in The Dark , a slim , supple volume of three essays exploring ‘ whiteness and the literary imagination ’ . |
| 22 | but he 's , he 's the more that has all the qualifications , he has more than any of the others |
| 23 | It is the former that constitute the ‘ classical perspective ’ and , in this final section , I want to try and extricate them and look at some of the problems that Beccaria 's version of them encountered . |
| 24 | ‘ It was not Mrs Greville 's word , ’ said Sally-Anne , goaded unwisely into further indiscretion , still trying to break free , ‘ it was your handwriting — the same that told me that I was the light of your life and that you loved me dearly . ’ |
| 25 | It is impossible exactly to define what is modern dance because the body is the same that has danced for hundreds of years . |
| 26 | The place is no longer there now , but it was n't one of the several that fell down after being abandoned . |
| 27 | she said there 's a delay on them but the any that went , they 'll definitely be in tomorrow . |