Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luke shook his head , his mouth curled into the kind of annoying smile that made her fingers itch to slap it away . |
| 2 | The railways in both Britain and Spain are in theory governed by the principle of the autonomy of public enterprise management from the sources of political authority that formulate their objectives . |
| 3 | As a result , there has been a demographic and social differentiation of rural areas that reflects their economic and social functions . |
| 4 | He was still looking at her ; appraisingly , with a sort of lazy sensuality that made something inside her twist tight . |
| 5 | Most of the people in Bonanza 's outfit had been aware that Mahoney was up to some kind of private business that kept him in the bucks more than whatever he earned from Bonanza . |
| 6 | getting ten pence of each person that buys it |
| 7 | What are the characteristics of stressed syllables that enable us to identify them ? |
| 8 | She wore a fetching , knee-length black dress and a kind of Spanish headdress that made her look a little like a sherry advertisement . |
| 9 | When the three of them got up to leave , Melissa glanced across at Dora and met a look of concentrated malevolence that took her by surprise . |
| 10 | ‘ Cake ’ craftily samples Kate Bush and is the sort of subtle start that makes you pant for more . |
| 11 | Many men ( but few women ) deny the existence of subtle impediments that make it particularly difficult for women , blacks , Hispanics and even those talented Asians to make it to the top . |
| 12 | Undoubtedly we have lots of anecdotal evidence that links it with terrorist activities in Northern Ireland and other types of criminal activity like drug dealing . |
| 13 | It 's the second mix on the B-side most spinners are plumping for , riding into tranceland on a deep repetitive bassline and helped along by fountains of floaty keyboards that wash you away into hypno-city . |
| 14 | He was perceptive enough to know that she was suffering from some sort of emotional wound that had nothing to do with him . |
| 15 | They suffered the kind of cruel teasing that drew them together , regardless of past differences , into closely knit little groups sharing a common stigma . |
| 16 | There was something about the memory of that evening that made him uneasy . |
| 17 | Severed as I was from Father and from Helmut , living in a foreign country , was it the fear of further severance that kept me in this unequal concurrence ? |
| 18 | And , perhaps , with this act of treachery I can finally buy my freedom from the burden of buried horror that bound me to Andy twenty years ago , so that — dispossessed of that trespass — I 'm left free to betray him again , now . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Together Bryn-Julson and Oppens reinforce the visionary quality of music that enters fully into the new Schoenbergian world of atonality without losing contact with the great expressive tradition of German song that nurtures it . |
| 21 | Such criticism leads us directly to the higher plains of aestheticism from where it becomes possible to adopt a universal outlook , a point of view based on the sort of timeless values that enable one to study objectively ( unsentimentally , unemotionally and ‘ without rancour ’ ) the lower depths of social reality . |
| 22 | Their feedback-drenched fog makes it almost impossible to discern anything resembling a tune , and each song coasts along for upwards of five minutes — but it 's precisely their avoidance of career-minded polish that makes them so invigorating . |
| 23 | It was proving to be an ideal choice of holiday with a programme of free activities that gave us an easy opportunity to make friends with the guests form other nations who gave the Club such a cosmopolitan atmosphere . |
| 24 | He had a sense of humour about him and , I suppose , a kind of lesser quirkiness that made him very natural in the part . |
| 25 | The Royal Commission on the Press ( 1977 ) wanted to ‘ transplant the public service rationale of broadcasting to the press , but was opposed to the framework of public regulation that underpins it ’ ( Curran and Seaton , 1985 , p. 297 ) . |
| 26 | As Curran and Seaton observed , the Commission wanted to ‘ transplant the public service rationale of broadcasting to the press … but was opposed to the framework of public regulation that underpins it ’ . |
| 27 | These large fish are called ferox , a distinct species of brown trout that make their living by eating their smaller brethren . |
| 28 | What then , are the significant features of British history that help us understand the contemporary political system and the political culture . |
| 29 | Have you made a note of some kind that reminds you to research the blank spots further ? |
| 30 | The conference theme ‘ A Better Mousetrap ’ , ties in with the centenary of crime novelist Agatha Christie , who turned up at The Old Swan after her own mysterious disappearance , and the titles of some of the papers will reflect the investigation , detection and arrest of some villains that threaten our property , our health or our lives . |