Example sentences of "that [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … We depend on the media for our life-blood , the stream of information , the adventures , the violence , the romance , … the eternal commentary that lines our lives like a loving companion , a double , making sense of it for us. ( 30–1 ) |
| 2 | Our knowledge of this comes very largely from David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel , who worked together for twenty years at Harvard Medical School , recording from single neurons of the visual cortex — the part of the neocortex that receives its input mainly from the eyes . |
| 3 | Many donors lay down more or less stringent rules about the use of their funds and these are legally binding on the body that receives them . |
| 4 | A lot of their songs have so much personality that Mike has to be the one that plays it live . ’ |
| 5 | What we have there is nothing strikingly original , just a fantastically good club record that enforces nothing more than that irresistible urge to jack your body . |
| 6 | They create a drag-like static that slows him down and pollutes what you would have to call his aura . |
| 7 | Image , hyperbole , parallelism , comparison , repetition or any other trope are potentially all equally effective in committing poetic violence on ordinary language , and it is this differential function and not any inherent quality that constitutes their interest for Russian Formalism . |
| 8 | It will be recalled that , according to this theory , a stimulus is held to be fully effective only when it is able to generate the Al ( primary activation ) state in the node that constitutes its central representation . |
| 9 | The New Critics did not believe , of course , that the value of poetry lay in isolated metaphors or similes ; on the contrary , they insisted that in good literature all the components of the text contributed to the reconciliation of opposites that constitutes its poetic function . |
| 10 | Is there anything here that constitutes anything approaching a confession ? |
| 11 | For Althusser both history and the subject are equally decentred : his attack on Sartre 's claims for a unitary history ( however complex its textual elaboration may have proved to be ) was therefore accompanied by a critique of the notion of the unitary human subject that constitutes it . |
| 12 | The emotion that goes into art is subtle and it is the faculty of being able to feel this emotion that constitutes our appreciation of art . |
| 13 | We are helping the individual , whether adult or young person , to gain meaning from the vast display of information , opinion , and activity that constitutes our daily lives . |
| 14 | ACT is now a separate computer maintenance company that was split off from Apricot before it was bought by Mitsubishi , the Japanese conglomerate that produces everything from the four-wheel Shogun to equally rugged Nikon cameras . |
| 15 | For the ‘ dogmatic dialectic ’ , as he describes dialectical materialism , the whole question naturally poses no problem , for each person or group simply constitutes a partial moment of an already operative movement of totalization that produces them and then goes beyond them . |
| 16 | Remember however that current affairs and news programmes are rooted in the moment and the particular local concerns of the country that produces them . |
| 17 | Would it not be killing two birds with one stone for the West to purchase the remaining MiGs , together with the factory that produces them , and then close it down ? |
| 18 | In any case it is important that librarians remain in close touch with the industry that produces their raw materials , through the literature , and through formal and informal contacts . |
| 19 | It is one of our most valuable assets , like the land that produces our food . |
| 20 | ‘ How are the characters of an organism represented in the germ that produces it ? ’ |
| 21 | They are not sufficient to justify the portrayal of Scotland as being out on a limb from the rest of Britain , either in its voting behaviour or the thinking that produces it . |
| 22 | And so has the team that produces it . |
| 23 | This whole ethical dilemma — and the technology that produces it — has taken on a male viewpoint : egg , sperm and genes are centre stage . |
| 24 | The initial form of a volcano is very closely related to the nature of the eruptive activity that produces it . |
| 25 | She hopes to encourage other farmers to follow suit and help teach as many children as possible about where their next meal comes from and to respect the countryside that produces it . |
| 26 | If you 're with someone that pinches you 're a girl you just walk away . |
| 27 | Of phrase that lights your face , |
| 28 | It 's believed the attacker used the public footpath that crosses her field . |
| 29 | The main thing that upsets me is the fact that she 's a bastard . |
| 30 | The thing that upsets me when I see all these pregnant people walking around is that I did n't do it . |