Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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2 Anything could have sparked the riots , it just happened to be the injustice of Rodney King 's trial that triggered it this time .
3 Perhaps it was Lanyon 's horror that made me feel like that .
4 Then the reader 's fingernail will be able to produce the scent of clematis that wafts in through my window , the foie gras that awaits me at lunch , the liquid inspiration that gets me through the final paragraph .
5 It was Stu 's persistence that wore me down .
6 Although — it had to be said , in all fairness — the Colonel had made it clear that it was Elisabeth 's mind that attracted him .
7 It was not Manvell 's displeasure that worried him , but Jane 's anger .
8 it 's , or , or my driver 's capability that worry me
9 The curvature and stress-energy tensors , and Einstein 's equation that links them , will be discussed in Chapter 7 .
10 He saw the calculation at the back of Weis 's eyes that greeted his comment — saw how he looked for a trap in every word of his — and smiled inwardly .
11 She was small with coarse , wire-wool hair and bright bird 's eyes that missed nothing .
12 Charles told her about his movements on the Sunday night , concluding , ‘ … so it must have been the arrival of Nigel 's car that made me run out of the place . ’
13 Had that been a spider 's web that touched her cheek just now ?
14 General Booth of the Salvation Army , had recognition by the City of London conferring on him the Freedom of the City , in 1905 , which was also the year when Dr. T.J. Barnard ( the founder of the Children 's Homes that bear his name ) , died on 19th , September .
15 His lordship held that , while a provision in a company 's articles that restricted its statutory power to alter those articles was invalid , an agreement outside the articles between shareholders about how they should exercise their voting rights on a resolution to alter the articles was not necessarily invalid .
16 And yet it 's not Yelverton 's poems that win your attention but his performance : he believes in rock'n'roll — Lord Byron style .
17 ‘ I 'm — fond of Travis — very fond , ’ she stated , then caught the dangerous glint in her employer 's eye that assured her that her prevarication was n't going down too well .
18 It was Mr Banzer 's wrath that made him go into exile in Argentina .
19 Warhurst was allowed home from hospital yesterday after the clash with Spora 's keeper that knocked him out and almost cost him his life .
20 In this area , there is a specialization of the tongue 's surface that has nothing to do with taste .
21 Or simply told the truth — told them there and now that it was n't Syl 's smile that repelled me but that I had an intuitive conviction that there was something unsound in him , something unwholesome by virtue of being undeveloped , something that would , sooner or later , cause me to turn on him with bitter cruelty as Nour had turned on me .
22 SIR ROBIN BUTLER has collected a fair number of accolades during his academic and Civil Service career , but none stranger than the stag 's head that decorates his Whitehall office , writes David Millward .
23 IN A short profile of Sir Robin Butler , Cabinet Secretary , last week , we remarked on the stag 's head that decorates his Whitehall office , adding : ‘ The prized antlers were awarded to Sir Robin after a victory in the Treasury 's golf tournament .
24 The latter declares *John was seen leave ungrammatical because the embedded clause seen leave is " unsupported " , i.e. constitutes " a subject — predicate sequence that exhibits none of the internal inflectional structures of a full sentence or clausal complementation " ( i.e. neither tense , nor infinitival to , nor progressive -ing ) , whereas John was seen to leave is said to be grammatical because here leave is " supported " ( by to ) , and can therefore serve as an argument for the verb see ( pp. 123 – 4 ) .
25 Perhaps it was the title of Kate 's paper that befuddled their senses — The Nightmare of Ramsay Street ; Neighbours and sub-cultural imagination .
26 The tale is in fact carefully tied in as the Shipman 's Tale at the beginning of fragment VII , with an endlink that binds it to the Prioress 's Tale that follows it .
27 But it is lang 's eclecticism that defines her career , and this is likewise the hallmark of many new country performers .
28 The jury chose to ignore Mr Justice Drake 's advice that to call someone a queer ‘ may not be defamatory ’ and that the matter was ‘ very debatable ’ .
29 But as she led the way to her car — Harriet had used up some of her precious reserves of petrol for this expedition — there was something about her daughter 's manner that disturbed her .
30 It 's another side to The Coal Porters ' sound and Griffin 's songwriting that shows they have more than one ace hidden up their sleeves .
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