Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through this relationship , they can also be a record of the life force that exists at a certain site . |
| 2 | He might try to justify the principle by appealing to logic , a recourse that we freely grant him , or he might attempt to justify the principle by appealing to experience , a recourse that lies at the basis of his whole approach to science . |
| 3 | In sharp contrast to Blauner , who argues that this ‘ objective integration ’ will lead to social integration of workers and management , Mallet argues that this objective integration has the opposite effect , leading to a new form of revolutionary consciousness that aims at the overthrow of the existing pattern of social relations in the enterprise . |
| 4 | They achieved this by combining two different methods : a longitudinal study , following the same children for four years from before they were able in read until they had been at school for two or three years ; and a training programme that looked at the effect of giving pre-school children specific training in categorising sounds . |
| 5 | The plateau we crossed before the final pyramid was hostile , the snow wind-beaten to a hard , glittering crust that squeaked at the approach of our boots and then gave a satisfying crunch as we went through it . |
| 6 | Marian made a bed of dry bracken for Hugh while Allen lit a fire and fetched water from a brook that ran at the foot of the bank on its way to swell the nightmare of the Swamp . |
| 7 | Marian made a bed of dry bracken for Hugh while Allen lit a fire and fetched water from a brook that ran at the foot of the bank on its way to swell the nightmare of the Swamp . |
| 8 | Well that 's it , it ca n't be right , it ca n't be right , because what you would expect in there , is another sort of perspex piece that comes at an angle like that . |
| 9 | What the maker has done has been to start with a 12-fret guitar design ( not a guitar with only twelve frets , but a guitar with a neck that joins at the 12th as opposed to the 14th fret ) and then he 's combined this with a deep cutaway on the treble side to open up the whole fingerboard for exploration . |
| 10 | Stone House is the silent grave of an active industry that died at the turn of the present century . |
| 11 | The innocence that prevailed at the School concerning sexual matters was symbolised by the fig leaves which had been attached to the plaster casts of male nudes and which eventually the girls removed . |
| 12 | Robert James Waller Love in Black and White ( Mandarin ) A soaring love story that pulls at the heart-strings . |
| 13 | Slowly the stillness rose in a tide that lapped at the rage within her ; her breathing steadied . |
| 14 | PONCE : The bit that goes at the end of ‘ Res ’ to make up the word ‘ Response ’ . |
| 15 | But she had a better way of relaxing the tightness that started at the back of her neck and spread across the crown of her head than attempting sleep . |
| 16 | Their movements were deliberate and careful and Wycliffe had the impression of figures in slow motion , indeed of a whole existence that proceeded at a slower pace , muted , subdued , and infinitely depressing . |
| 17 | Rich hauls of lead weights also come from beneath the matted seaweed that grows at the foot of harbour walls and breakwaters . |
| 18 | Keynes summarized the fallacy that lay at the heart of the classical theory of labour market adjustment : |
| 19 | It was as if nothing special had happened the night before — no more than a bad dream that stays at the back of your mind long after you have woken up . |
| 20 | Sir Leon was defending the compromise proposal that emerged at a meeting of the Community 's industry ministers this week , whereby the Commission might grant temporary exemptions to countries facing problems in opening their markets . |
| 21 | The gall bladder is a reservoir that empties at a slow pace . |
| 22 | But the model of management that lay at the heart of this strategy was narrow , both in its conception of what makes the management of public services distinctive and in the lessons it chose to draw from the business world . |
| 23 | The general climate of gradual relaxation of constraints against foreign ownership that prevailed at the end of the decade has probably extended to the Chinese and the smaller Indian local population . |
| 24 | The girl that works at the garage , sh next door to that . |
| 25 | We shall see that although the uncertainty principle places limitations on the accuracy of all our predictions , it may at the same time remove the fundamental unpredictability that occurs at a space-time singularity . |
| 26 | Bob , the old bum that sleeps at the bus station , just stared . |
| 27 | Not only was the advent of computing perhaps rather longer and more protracted than in some other disciplines , but invariably it is the case that the very nature of computer application in history is rather different , and it is this difference that lies at the root of the oncoming problem . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ We want an inquiry that will deal with the most important thing of all — that is an inquiry that gets at the truth . ’ |
| 29 | Cynics of course would hold that the power potential and the danger that exists at the interface of the physical and the metaphysical exists only in the human imagination . |
| 30 | If the sense of the magnetic field is irrelevant , but the same physics applies as for the first reversal , the pole that starts at the North Geographic Pole must once again pass through the Americas . |