Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are many , priests too , who would wipe out in a day all the familiar things about Mother Church that endear her to us all , even the precepts and practices that are the reason she has survived for all these nineteen hundred years . |
| 2 | WHAT IS it about Frank Oz that leads him constantly to make so-so films with fabulous trailers ? |
| 3 | I 'm not interested in you telling me what those meaning are or coming out with kind of y'know ideas that crossing your arms means that you 're defensive or anything like that . |
| 4 | The essential property of carbon atoms that makes them so suitable for life and for industrial synthetics , is that they join together to form a limitless repertoire of different kinds of very large molecules . |
| 5 | One or two odd shapes were found , but most authorities dismissed these as patterns produced by the physical processes of rock formation that had nothing whatever to do with living organisms . |
| 6 | Vadinamia has spent lavishly on all kinds of state-of-the-art technology There are no longer any bribable Vadinamian in direct contact with the stored valuables — just servo-mechanisms , including mandroid guards and Intelloid overseers with multiphase fail-safe level of programme reinforcement that make them incorruptible . |
| 7 | The local police had had a busy evening with an exceptional number of hoax calls that led them to non-existent road accidents drunken brawls and even — a touch that showed a nice appreciation of British susceptibilities — a rabid dog on the loose . |
| 8 | The studies on which these theories are based , incidentally , have involved the use of test procedures that make it possible to assess the relative contribution of the two hemispheres to psychological performance , usually on tasks that demand the processing of linguistic information . |
| 9 | Most girls were aware of the realities of household labour and the difficulties of household management that awaited them after marriage . |
| 10 | This problem is n't exclusive to Dublin , of course , but the endemic mistrust of dance music that makes it a rock and roll island also means that the new noises of the Eighties hip hop , house , techno et al have been , at best ignored , at worst patronised . |
| 11 | His voice was quiet , not like her own , which had been rising with every syllable , but he was angry all the same , she could feel it , even down the miles of telephone cable that separated them . |
| 12 | It is this increasingly autonomous nature of population change that prompts us to tackle this subject first in our review of the broad geographical patterns underlying the changes affecting individual places . |
| 13 | The same reader also saw the conga-line of Repo Men that followed him , tittering into their hands and nudging one another . |
| 14 | Harvard Graphics Windows is one of the latest generation of presentation packages that make it easy for anybody to produce a stylish and professional looking presentation suitable for any type of audience . |
| 15 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
| 16 | It is not to be doubted that there are still thousands of mainframe users that want nothing more than to continue with the kind of computing they have always known , using the environment with which they are familiar , and in which they have invested a large part of their lives . |
| 17 | Our house backed on to Cefn Leyshon , part of the ridge of Mynydd Eglwysilian that separated us from Senghenydd . |
| 18 | Sets of boundary conditions that tell us the state of some regions of the universe at a certain time and what effects propagate into it subsequently from the rest of the universe . |
| 19 | So if you 've built an item of farm equipment that helps you do your job better , then let us know . |
| 20 | These individuals are then subjected to differential survival through the operation of a range of mortality factors that eliminate them either before or after reproduction . |
| 21 | One of the features of Candida albicans that makes it such a tiresome organism is its ability to ‘ sensitize ’ individuals . |
| 22 | They remember , acutely , the blank cheque that Lyndon Johnson got from Congress in the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution that allowed him to fight in Vietnam . |
| 23 | He walked on , climbing the flight of stone steps that brought him up into the Strand itself . |
| 24 | With the mass of press acclaim that greeted their early shows , and the ‘ Abstain ’ single , they seem to be able to do no wrong . |
| 25 | With the mass of press acclaim that greeted their early shows , and the ‘ Abstain ’ single , they seem to be able to do no wrong . |
| 26 | He falls off his chair in paroxysms of laughter , pointing to the gallery of gold discs that adorn his office wall . |
| 27 | On the other hand , if the single-minded pursuit of profits ( as constrained by external regulation ) is liable to damage the public interest , then this will require a modification of the existing set of shareholder rights and the framework of company law that upholds them . |
| 28 | The fact remains that it will be a long time before the legal profession properly shakes off the constraints of client expectation that force it to underplay its modern role . |
| 29 | A safe , a filing cabinet , a window that was curtained against the dusk of the camp and the reef of arc lights that surrounded it . |
| 30 | There must have been something about Sir Paul that gave him confidence . |