Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 It is a low repetitive moan that she keeps up for the rest of the afternoon .
2 Pearce encapsulates it as each generation ensuring that it passes on to the next an undiminished stock of assets , including environmental as well as man-made capital .
3 Cramp the workpiece to the upper board and by means of a wood block ensure that it lines up with the edge of the top board .
4 Apparently , in the movements before a 360 ° loop the board is headed into the wind so that it takes off from the wave at an oblique angle .
5 Divide mixture between tins , so that it comes up to the same level in both .
6 Add a length of plastic pipe over the top of the funnel so that it comes up to the top of the bottle .
7 civilization come about , and in this book he gives part of the answer , and concentrates on that , and part of the answer he gives is , that it comes about through the institutions of religion .
8 Some stars will become so small that their gravitational fields will bend light to that point that it comes back toward the star .
9 They 've brought it forward a little , so that it comes out in the last week of April — after the newspaper pieces .
10 At the top the beetles have discovered the dead mouse ; they bury it by tunnelling beneath it and removing the earth from below so that it drops down into the excavation ; at the bottom as the mouse sinks down into the earth the beetles roll it into a ball ready for the reception of their eggs .
11 Mortars are shorter , heavier weapons than cannons , designed to lob an explosive shell high into the air so that it drops down on the target from the sky .
12 But the more one looks at the character of the prison population the more one is struck by the magnifying mirror that it holds up to the inequalities of our society .
13 When wallpapering a room , pin a left-over length inside a wardrobe or cupboard door so that it ages along with the paper on the walls .
14 The carer stands with her legs on either side of the patient 's knees , places her hands under the patient 's seat , pulls his body-weight forward and in one movement lifts his pelvis and pivots him so that he sits down onto the chair .
15 Many legends are told of Barbarossa ; it is said that he is not dead , that no true Emperor has ruled since his reign , and that he lives on until the Day of Judgement .
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