Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mansfield Park , for example , is no less a great house because it has recently arrived , or because the income that supports it is drawn from the West Indies and not from its own land . |
| 2 | The dominant tone is of jubilation , not the hysteria that makes me swoon in Prince . |
| 3 | ‘ Second , once sterling left the ERM , and with inflation sharply down , we were right to take the opportunity that gave us to relax policy and get interest rates down . |
| 4 | ‘ Then it was the horse-riding that brought you here ? ’ |
| 5 | After the prayer that ended their silent repast that evening , the cadets were filing out of the refectory to return to their barren cells . |
| 6 | Outside on the terrace , at the point from where Francis used to dive , and made the dive that killed him , I looked down into the moon-flecked pool . |
| 7 | It is what leads her to animate the inanimate in her descriptive passages , and it is the child-in-the-adult that moves us in her most memorable characters ( often male ) : Denisov , Kissov , Gruishunya , Peters . |
| 8 | It was the veil that told it was not the garden , then the hat that went to race-meetings and the dressing-case made up the rest of the story : Maman was going away . |
| 9 | There was something about the wizard that irked Him beyond measure . |
| 10 | If he shies away from them , he should reflect that this Autumn Statement will be the tonic that saves his Government or the poison which finally destroys it . |
| 11 | It was the folds of the banner , lying thick and cold in the shelter below , that saved his life , but not his skull from the blow that deprived him of consciousness . |
| 12 | It was her patina of sophistication , the shell that encased her inexperience in dealing with men of Rune Christensen 's calibre . |
| 13 | Only 14 days for the seven years to be increased to the sentence that fits his crimes and his evil — life . |
| 14 | Secondly , if it is not the rules of the sentence that enable us to be meaningful and to perceive meaning , then what is it ? |
| 15 | Kit Everard would not own to the baby either ; and Ariel 's changed body , the milk that rounded her breasts and the infant 's leaky , necessitous presence filled Kit with a deeper fear of his transgressions . |
| 16 | It 's simply the tiredness that makes me so unresponsive on many occasions . ’ |
| 17 | It 's not the money that makes me happy . |
| 18 | Beyond the long line of windows , past the Conservatory and the Laburnum Walk , they came to the winter-bound Pleasure Garden where yellow jasmine crawled over a tree stump , hamamelis , the wych-hazel shrub , thrust out golden hedgehog flowers along its leafless branches , and the stream coming from the kitchen garden — a winter river now — hurried into the culvert that carried it on into the baby lake in the field outside the Pleasure Garden . |
| 19 | ‘ That headache has tightened you up all over — or perhaps it was the tightness that gave you the headache in the first place . ’ |
| 20 | As she stepped over the threshold of Rose Cottage , the smell that met her was not that of her own living space . |
| 21 | I thought about that scent ; there was something about it , something extra besides the smell that reminded me of Marcus 's bathroom . |
| 22 | It was the smell that alerted him . |
| 23 | It was the smell that alerted her and gave her that first sudden awareness of danger . |
| 24 | Everyone wants to avoid the chaos that surrounded its predecessor JET . |
| 25 | It would also leave Lewis as possibly a minor player in the world heavyweight scene which could be returning to the chaos that surrounded it before Mike Tyson brutally united sports richest prize . |
| 26 | Those in the East End included a half-share in Chandler 's Wiltshire Brewery in the Hackney Road , Bethnal Green ( via the Lion brewery , Lambeth , the brewery that gave us the South Bank lion ) ; some of the pubs belonging to the Commercial Brewery Co in Commercial Road , Stepney , in 1927 ( the rest went to Hammerton 's brewery , Stockwell ) ; and West and Co , of the Three Crowns brewery , Hackney Road , Bethnal Green , with 60 pubs , in 1929 . |
| 27 | ‘ Probyn had something to prove and he proved it — the guy is a world-class scrummager , ran around like a 21-year-old and scored the try that brought his side back into the match at 20–23 . ’ |
| 28 | Despite the piece of paper he was waving this week , committing nine of the 15 republics to keep on talking about the preservation of the union , he has lost the confidence of much of the Communist Party he leads and of the parliament that elected him president . |
| 29 | He was asked to mike the case that supports his belief |
| 30 | The answer is that even if everyone playing cards always had a certain sort of feeling when they trumped an opponent 's card and had another , different , feeling when they revoked , it would still be the case that to understand what it is to trump , and to revoke , we would have to look at the game itself , that is , at the use of trump-cards in the game . |