Example sentences of "[indef pn] that [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's nothing that happens on the estate which I do n't know about . |
| 2 | Which was why she was checking and double-checking everything that landed on her desk . |
| 3 | The declared results remind us more readily of the spoiled world of Genesis 3 than those of Genesis 1 or 2 : ‘ The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth , and upon every bird of the air , upon everything that creeps on the ground , and all fish of the sea ’ ( 9.2 ) . |
| 4 | The nationalist goes back much earlier , even though , as one of his biographers says , ‘ Everything that touches on his life until 1941 is fragmentary , approximate and controversial . |
| 5 | Everything that happened on Monday reinforced that view . |
| 6 | Because everything that appears on the Macintosh screen is treated as a graphic , even the text is handled this way , life is remarkably easy for the desktop publisher . |
| 7 | Giving what we 're being asked to do we do need to have something that focus on general skills and abilities , we 've got ta decide what they are . |
| 8 | And that was something that went on all year |
| 9 | We have described the policies that we advocate as the ’ ethics of community ’ — as something that calls on what is best and most generous in the human spirit . |
| 10 | What they were doing might concern her , probably did concern her , but the decision , whatever it was , was theirs not hers ; whereas waiting here , feeling the coolness beneath her hands and the softness of the April sun about her face , and being content to feel these delightful sensations flowing through her and to want nothing more — that was something that depended on her and on no on else . |
| 11 | A heartbeat before , he had looked at her with blind passion , then with something that bordered on contempt . |
| 12 | This was an argument between them of which she had no knowledge , but it was clearly a bitter one that rankled on both sides . |
| 13 | You know , the one that gets on your nerves ! |
| 14 | Deserts are the result of a lack of water and if there is a prolonged , fluctuating drought ( like the one that began on the northern fringe of sub-Saharan Africa at the end of the 1960s ) vast sums of money are not going to stop desertification . |
| 15 | Bungay is a , is an historic and a delightful town and one that qualifies on environmental ground alone for a bypass , I refer to paper T one , erm which is er , paper of the ninth of January nineteen ninety two , and if you refer to little B , seven , five bypasses for towns and villages where there is serious and environmental intrusion by through traffic . |
| 16 | Well , one that goes on your shoulder . |
| 17 | The Autumn Statement is the real budget the one that decides on spending . |
| 18 | If the institution … is one that depends on participation , it will reply to our frantic questions : ‘ more participation ! ’ |
| 19 | If it is one that depends on authority , it will only reply : ‘ More authority ! ’ |
| 20 | And the other one that caught on second was which says something does n't it ? |
| 21 | Do you mean the one that starts on the Tuesday ? |
| 22 | That 's the one that appears on television . |
| 23 | Certainly the two definitions ( ( 9 ) and ( 12 ) ) are not far apart ; but it might be claimed that at least the one that focuses on the nature of context makes clear that one of the goals of a pragmatic theory should be to explicate that nature . |
| 24 | We 've got two , we 've got the one that runs on petrol as well but I would n't use that one . |
| 25 | We have n't one that comes on our |
| 26 | And sometimes they 've got one that comes on a test run with a camera strapped onto them and you come |
| 27 | Is there anything that to comment on that ? |
| 28 | Faster than anything that lives on legs , |
| 29 | They knocked , gained entrance and offered the lady a large amount of money if s-he would abide by certain conditions and would never breathe a word of anything that happened on that fateful night . |