Example sentences of "[adj] that [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the white paper makes clear that expanding its market will depend on success by the Scottish generators in exporting power to England , Wales and Northern Ireland . |
| 2 | Tossing this first layer of skin aside , he attempted to burrow deeper , only to discover yet more skin , though whether this was the outer skin that had slithered back through his advancing fingers , or a whole new layer was not apparent , but it was pretty clear that finding her windpipe , let alone getting hands round it and squeezing it , was a two-person job . |
| 3 | It was not merely the weather that made the Decoy Lodge feel gloomier , more shadowy than Louisa remembered , not merely the damp that left her bones so chill . |
| 4 | Laura was never one to swim with every fashionable cross-current that came her way . |
| 5 | The good honest that kept your master 's worship house when he requires . |
| 6 | Right , but perhaps what we should do now is in-bill that get your policy group member to agree it , even line your video up and so they are committed and you put it on paper so all the form tutors see that |
| 7 | She wore her lilac coat and skirt , braided with deeper lilac ; the skirt widened at the hem and floated out over thin boots , the tidy laces criss-crossing on shadowy ankles there was something playful in Maman 's way of walking , something jaunty that swayed her hips , and made her straw hat tilt up on her frizzed curls … |
| 8 | She was wearing something pink and pretty that covered her body in soft folds . |
| 9 | Another empty day with none of the jobs she had carried out day after day for so long that filled her time with things she enjoyed . |
| 10 | Something dreadful that warrants my being at his side ? |
| 11 | It 's unlikely that asking my help will be approved by your masters . ’ |
| 12 | She could n't help the tinge of pink that flooded her cheeks at his expression as those blue eyes studied her with contempt . |
| 13 | She changed her mind and put on her black velvet skirt and a fairly new satin blouse in kingfisher-blue that matched her eyes . |
| 14 | In Bosnia itself the Serbs said they would open an air link to the besieged Muslim enclave of Srebrenica and halted an offensive that brought their forces within a mile of its outskirts . |
| 15 | Creggan had felt the coming of spring before , a coming that overtook his spirit and made it busy and turbulent , but he had never witnessed it so well . |
| 16 | The result was last spring 's ‘ Sunburst ’ , a single that put his ‘ group ’ Tangerine ahead of the indie pack , though no one noticed ; it was not hardcore dance and the flip was superior , a bizarre Tommy James freak-out cover ‘ I Am A Tangerine ’ . |
| 17 | Carolingian influence on Wulfstan 's thought seems to have been marked , and doubtless increased his desire for a more peaceful society , but his aims and methods were so common that identifying his precise source on particular matters is difficult . |
| 18 | Except that it was only the wealthy that did their two years . |
| 19 | Lissa 's lashes swept downwards , hiding the hurt that filled her eyes . |
| 20 | Dressed in a gown of deepest blue that complemented her dark eyes and rich hair , she was the loveliest creature he had ever seen . |
| 21 | Some of her hair caught inside it and she flicked it out , a careless fall of dark blonde that framed her even-featured face . |
| 22 | The prelude to this was set by another psychoanalyst called Otto Rank one of Freud 's er early followers who had published a book called the Myth of the Birth of the Hero and in this book what Rank did was to trawl through world folklore and literature , from myths of heroes , and of course there are a lot of those books , and dozens and dozens of them and what he does in the book is he distils all these dozens and dozens of myths and he finds that there 's a common pattern emerges and it 's , it 's pretty stereotypical actually and the common pattern is the hero is born of royal or divine parents , the hero for some reason or other that loses his parents or is cast out by them or is er exposed in some way , erm the hero is often threatened by some outside force and then rescued by er humble people . |
| 23 | Everywhere there was a reek of something acrid that made their eyes smart . |
| 24 | The daughter , Marjory was small , dark-haired and so bow-legged that to quote my father , ‘ she would never stop a pig in a passage ’ . |
| 25 | He got to his feet , pushing the chair legs against the floor tiles with a grating that set her teeth on edge . |
| 26 | It is doubtless true that following his realisation in 1934 that even in post-revolutionary Soviet society men and women were ultimately not liberated from the anguish and fear of individual death and obliteration , Nizan was forced to adopt a more modest , less euphoric tone when praising Soviet achievements . |