Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It happened when I was forced on to a very low fat diet for health reasons ( I had a gall bladder that grumbled very painfully when I ate fatty food ) . |
| 2 | Every heresy and man-made religion that has ever been invented presents a fractured picture of Jesus Christ . |
| 3 | Yet Christianity is a religion that has always been open to rational criticism when its critics have been granted the freedom to make their challenge known . |
| 4 | Any steps with respect to the performance of the Peace Treaty taken by the United States under its letter to Egypt and Israel would be binding upon them both , while any action that fell only within the terms of the Memorandum could be objected to by Egypt as a third party . |
| 5 | The conscious intent , and the time taken to perform an action that had clear symbolic content , drew our attention and created an out-of-the-ordinary impression . |
| 6 | PLAYER : Well , it 's a device , really — it makes the action that follows more or less comprehensible ; you understand , we are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style . |
| 7 | The emission standards were set without regard to the constraints of technological or economic feasibility that had previously influenced policy-making . |
| 8 | He sang the songs that related quite indirectly to the next mime that took place and there was a slight story linking the whole thing — very slight harlequinade story — but it hardly mattered at all . |
| 9 | All have songs ranging from fast to slow , and also songs that incorporate both ends of this range . |
| 10 | All have songs ranging from fast to slow , and also songs that incorporate both ends of this range . |
| 11 | But it is surely silly to deny that it has thrown politicians and television journalists together in an association that remains totally invisible to the public . |
| 12 | Exposure to the context alone given after latent inhibition training will , according to the theory , allow extinction of the context-stimulus association that has already been formed . |
| 13 | As he values the entire UK direct sales market at about £1,000m , this means his association already represents 20% of the total — ‘ not bad ’ , he reckons , ‘ for an association that has just been launched ’ . |
| 14 | William Osborne 's project manager , Steve Answell , who was responsible for master-minding the nine-month building phase , commented ‘ The amount of detailed investigation and the thoroughness with which it has been done represents the most comprehensive thinking that has ever gone into a new lifeboat in all the thirty years I have been associated with building them . ’ |
| 15 | But if I , with the very same eyes and brain , am walking through a forest at dusk , I may well fail to distinguish almost any dull-coloured insect from the twigs that abound everywhere . |
| 16 | The old man 's name was Brenner and he chose a Dunkel and a Korn — a very dark beer plus a chaser of the local heart-stopper that tasted somewhere between very young whisky and vodka . |
| 17 | Too much apple pie ’ , kicked its way into many ears that had previously been unaware of the band 's existence . |
| 18 | He managed to turn Llewelyn 's imposing new title , compounded of the old sacred name for a reassurance to the Welsh , and the added flourish for English ears that had scarcely heard of Aberffraw , into a satirical comment , but he did it with great delicacy . |
| 19 | It is the animals that come here , and the Lapps just follow . |
| 20 | Natural selection would then favour the animals that fought dangerously , which would increase in numbers . |
| 21 | On most of the walls there were stuffed heads ; lion , tiger , deer , something with horns like long corkscrews — and animals that looked so small and delicate … |
| 22 | They are small , dark animals that move very quickly , always under cover . |
| 23 | And , all run here , everything was run here , and animals , animals that won here , well er well I think they put them down as better animals than animals that raced before the war , you know , cos they had to do such a lot in a short time . |
| 24 | At the top of the scale come the predators , animals that live largely by killing other animals . |
| 25 | The actual animals that have ever lived on Earth are a tiny subset of the theoretical animals that could exist . |
| 26 | Official figures for manufacturing show a capital stock that increased gently but persistently throughout the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 27 | Next , in the order in which she would need them , were her flannel petticoats , her cotton bodice and frilled drawers , her black woollen stockings , her long boned stays and the combinations that had so irritated her skin when she was small . |
| 28 | Phrase structure rules would implicitly have been adopted , legitimating certain combinations that have successfully occurred , as well as others that had not yet occurred but might very well have , and with similar success , had the choice of words and message had to be different . |
| 29 | The agouti , a long-legged rodent that forages nervously on the forest floor , has chisel-sharp front teeth that can cut right through the Brazil nut shell and extract the rich kernel . |
| 30 | Originally intending to go on stage , drop ten poems and have them recorded for vinyl , Galliano have enlisted the help of former Style Council keyboardist Mick Talbot to come up with a calling card that bodes well for the future . |