Example sentences of "[art] [noun] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally the inherent constraints of the archaeological evidence , our caution about the relationship between the archaeological record and the activities that formed it , and the limited research which has been carried out determine the cohesion and balance of a work of this type . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The dominant tone is of jubilation , not the hysteria that makes me swoon in Prince . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | In other words , in each image Picasso synthesizes information obtained from viewing the subject from various angles , and , relying on his knowledge and memory of the structure of the human figure , he gives a complete and detailed analysis of the nature of the forms that compose it . |
| 6 | There they give just the same protection to their new owners as they did to the jellyfish that developed them . |
| 7 | ‘ Then it was the horse-riding that brought you here ? ’ |
| 8 | After the prayer that ended their silent repast that evening , the cadets were filing out of the refectory to return to their barren cells . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There was something about the wizard that irked Him beyond measure . |
| 13 | The blackbirds that saw it quickly treated this bird as though it were potentially dangerous and mobbed it , even when their fellows could not see the owl and so were making no noise . |
| 14 | I 've cut the ropes that bind me to the shore , she thought , and sinking down onto the arm of Meredith 's chair she listened , smiling , to one of the pirates confiding that when he was in town he consulted the same dentist as dear Johnny . |
| 15 | ‘ What are you doing ? ’ he shrieked , twisting about madly on the ropes that suspended him . |
| 16 | He moved at once , for he would not lie here on the floor before this ancient evil creature and , although it was awkward and painful to stand up because of the ropes that bound his arms , he did so in a swift fluid movement and stood eyeing the Robemaker . |
| 17 | Then they cut the ropes that tied me and I was able to get to my feet . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The rink 's owners say it simply is n't making money — the clubs that use it are trying to form a consortium to keep it open . |
| 20 | We believe in citizenship , not subjecthood — in the ability of all individuals to exercise power over the institutions that govern their lives . |
| 21 | The hasty note , the spluttering pen , the exasperated correction , the careful clerkly hand , the grandiloquent flourish , the obsequious subscription , the torn seal , the glint of sand still held in the writing from the hand that strewed it centuries ago — all these and much else bring me into close company with the past , more than the rooms in which men sat , the streets they walked , the clothes they wore or the trinkets that adorned them . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was her patina of sophistication , the shell that encased her inexperience in dealing with men of Rune Christensen 's calibre . |
| 24 | The bosses of a troubled firm and the shareholders that appoint them choose between chapter 11 and workouts . |
| 25 | Only 14 days for the seven years to be increased to the sentence that fits his crimes and his evil — life . |
| 26 | Secondly , if it is not the rules of the sentence that enable us to be meaningful and to perceive meaning , then what is it ? |
| 27 | What are the signs that tell us whether or not we are making genuine progress in a particular area of study ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | First , the hon. Gentleman is terrified of saying anything that would upset his trade union paymasters ; secondly , he is afraid to do anything that would remind the electorate of the chains that bind his party to those paymasters — the bosses of the trade unions . |
| 30 | When we escape from the physical and the chains that bind us , we see the eternal and infinite being within us , then suddenly the mirror lake shivers and the images are stilled in frozen crystals . |