Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] that [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Churches are best for prayer that have least light … . |
| 2 | Besides which , what is so attractive about this surrendering of unitary identity , this fetish for fragmentation that characterizes so much of modern intellectual life ? |
| 3 | Does it mean that anti-fashion , that healthy disrespect for clobber that has always thrived in Britain , is taking hold in menswear 's twin capitals ? |
| 4 | A volatile demand for money that shifts about as expectations change can cause severe fluctuations in interest rates if the supply of money is kept constant . |
| 5 | Basically , water passes through a coarse strainer which needs a weekly rinse ; through foam that needs a weekly rinse and changing every four months ; through carbon that has only a two week life ; through two ceramic sponges that need rotating and one discarding every six months ; through the reusable Hex-Nodes and through a final polishing screen . |
| 6 | A matching spinning frame will also be kept , making an independent unit for research that does not affect routine production . |
| 7 | McMurdo never made the grade but like many Scots his early interest in the game ignited a flame of passion for football that has never been extinguished . |
| 8 | Another is pain after stroke that does not respond to narcotics but in some cases is reduced by the opioid antagonist naloxone . |
| 9 | And we had expected rather a slump after Christmas that has n't happened really so that er you know we 're just so busy I mean one thing to the next really . |
| 10 | They are not so insignificant that they can be ignored ; but nor are they so important that they can be allowed to kill the only prospect for peace that does not involve a fight to a standstill . |
| 11 | They went through a field where sheep grazed , and then through bracken that sloped down steeply to the River Dyn . |
| 12 | It is a large species of owl that preys exclusively on small rodents , mainly voles — see Table 2.3 and the Appendix . |
| 13 | RCA had agreed to certain kinds of support that got out of hand . |
| 14 | The therapist 's task is to be sensitive to these differences and work with the parents to devise strategies of change that fit in with their cultural viewpoint . |
| 15 | A style of Champagne that has slightly softer bubbles and marginally less " fizz " than ordinary Champagne . |
| 16 | In quite outrageously comic and very skilful sequences of movement , mime and clowning , they attempt courtship , and in a shower of champagne that misses more often than it hits the glass , approach the great unknown of the wedding night . |
| 17 | His arms hardly move at all — just the legs move , and his bare feet on the ground as he jumps up and down , and the long tuft of hair that bounces back and forth over his shoulder . |
| 18 | Turning from the window , she gazed on the face of her husband , a kind face and not unattractive , with its straight features and good skin , and the unruly mop of hair that tumbled over his forehead ; he stirred in her arms , whimpering like a child , and pressing himself against her . |
| 19 | He had simply run in a direct line from their holes to his own , passing on his way through the narrow strip of woodland that lay between . |
| 20 | Vertiginous horror swirled up around her , the riptides of chaos that lay out where decisions spun . |
| 21 | I think this is one of the essentials in Harlow and something that people should not forget , that is that , although there is a great deal of criticism possibly of the standard of building that went on over the years of the Development Corporation , compared with what most people came from , there was a very great elevation both in quality and in ideas . |
| 22 | We want , above all else , a system of inspection that does not derive from ideology , that is not a quick fix , that does not represent a commitment to privatisation on the ground that the Department of Education and Science must deliver its element of privatisation . |
| 23 | Gilligan sees this as a morality of responsibility that stands apart from the morality of rights underlying Kohlberg 's conception . |
| 24 | Cocaine is the kind of drug that does not have to do you harm — unless you 're stupid with it . |
| 25 | Before we leave Glamorgan , a word of congratulation to Stephen James , who has been opening in place of Butcher and compiling runs with the kind of technique that reveals how earnestly he is trying to establish himself this summer . |
| 26 | Matthew Arnold , staring out at the Channel , thought of Sophocles and the sea of faith that had since receded . |
| 27 | Of course that had always been the case , the young always did set the fashion ; but never before did it change so rapidly , never before were the older generation so pathetically afraid of being left behind . |
| 28 | Uncle Bill had run a car for her on his company while he was alive but of course that had all stopped when he died . |
| 29 | They require very little attention — the only pruning needed is the removal of old barky wood , and of course that cut back by wind . |
| 30 | Now in fact what that means for me is that actually we 're all programmers — we always have been — but we have n't been used to explaining it in quite the way that computers need us to explain it , and of course that goes back to this question of understanding English that we were talking about last time . |