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Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that [verb] [pers pn] be " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ The right hook that finished him was the best body punch I 've ever thrown ’ said Damien with the air of a winner .
2	The two grand old men of Arcueil , and , and the entire cult of French physics that surrounded them are entertainingly dissected through the period when French physics moved from uncompromising support of newtonianism to its near rejection with the wave theory of light .
3	I was on a local council for some years that thought it was well run , but we still found it possible to get rid of a tier of management .
4	‘ I ca n't face that girl , I ca n't tell her the sadistic bastard that raped her is going to be let loose . ’
5	Another thing that surprised me was the manager 's quotes after the defeat at Spurs .
6	Another thing that struck me was the difference in sexual attitudes between Germany and Britain .
7	Another thing that drew her was what was called the ‘ power house ’ .
8	Another thing that interested me was a comment from an ex-Liverpool defender who said , and I quote : ‘ If Alan Shearer had joined Manchester United , it would have been a question of who finished second ! ’
9	But nothing much has happened this year that suggests he is about to start firing .
10	Well this feller that rung me was sixty three .
11	Another flower that astonished me was the bloom of the Golden Abutilon .
12	But behind everything she did was a raw power that emphasised she was her own woman .
13	The second point that worries me is also a minority concern .
14	The second theme that interests me is implicit in the opening paragraphs of the third of the published papers , ‘ Grounds of Validity of the Laws of Logic ’ .
15	‘ The real thing that shocks me is my own stupidity , ’ Sabine said curtly , brushing away the caressing hand .
16	The second thing that struck her was on a different plane , but was another restriction .
17	Indeed , Blundell fears that UK food surpluses may be transient because the intensive agriculture that produced them is not sustainable .
18	The eyes of trilobites include some very sophisticated structures that show they were far from primitive visually .
19	He had a sing-song voice that suggested he was thing of more important matters .
20	Sometimes they would read our palms , finishing by giving them a little scratch that signified they were available — one scratch twenty douros , two scratches fifty douros and so on up the scale from an ‘ in and out ’ in the toilets or a ‘ short time ’ in a back room to a whole night in the brothel , with champagne and bath .
21	With each minute that passed he was getting less and less extraterrestrial .
22	I am a thousand winds that blow I am the diamond glint on snow .
23	It was cold but not too cold , and dammit , I had caught four fish with hardly any effort ; fish that had taken a big crust with a savage bite that suggested they were very hungry .
24	The great hand that held me was a mottled blue , crusted and filthy .
25	In those days that meant he was rarissima avis .
26	He reached into a drawer down to his left and produced a cheque-book , one of the big fat jobs that meant it was a company one , not a personal account .
27	I saw no one on the long lonely road home , and the only enemy that attacked me was the midges .
28	That 's been sort of revolutionized , when you when you think that you used to have to buy , did n't have to buy your tea , but you used to buy a tea from the chemist shop and the only person that sold it was a chemist , that was .
29	The call from the former Yugoslavia that said they were safe an well .
30	But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could .