Example sentences of "[art] [adj] that [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The women are shutting themselves off , choosing the high that comes from writing instead of accepting their place as bearers and nurturers of children . |
| 2 | It described the high that ensues from smoking crack ( 'Crack is both spacey and intense' ) and the downs that follow ; it told his readers how he bought it and what the morning after was like . |
| 3 | He drew one hand to his lips and kissed it , but his fingers left her other hand to trace the wet that trickled over the blue smudges under her eyes . |
| 4 | He had seen pride and admiration in her eyes , and love — and that protectiveness of the young for the old that came with love . |
| 5 | The need in the case of the Oedipus myth to resolve the contradiction between two pieces of knowledge that are in conflict can be comfortably taken as the signified that lies behind the significations that make up the various versions of the myth . |
| 6 | Most of the other metopes are fragmentary , and it is hard to say if they carry out this distinction , though the little that remains of the lion suggests that it went well with the other western ones . |
| 7 | The only light comes from a metre-wide strip of sky fifty feet above , and the little that falls through the arch at the end . |
| 8 | ‘ I saw him on the television the other night it was his run and cross down the left that led to the Americans ’ first goal against England . |
| 9 | ‘ I saw him on the television the other night it was his run and cross down the left that led to the first goal against England . |
| 10 | Fortunately , being a nurse , she had the built-in weakness for the sick that belongs to all nurses . |
| 11 | The Good That Lives After |
| 12 | May we nurture the good that lies within us and seek to overcome the seeds of violence and hate . |
| 13 | May we learn to cherish the good that lies within us . |
| 14 | It was this feeling of injustice on the part of the poor that brought into being the guilds , secular organizations of the laity whose members ' contributions were pooled to endow masses to be sung for the souls of the poor . |
| 15 | It , it 's the poor that go into mutual aid teams |
| 16 | Barthes 's S/Z brings the reader into particular prominence first in its concept of the scriptible that calls for active involvement on the part of the reader in the production of the text ( which is not to forget that in Critique et vérité Barthes had already described the critic as someone who has actively to produce a meaning for the polysemic text ) ; and second , in its thoroughly intertextual view of literature . |
| 17 | He drove back and parked outside number three — at the top of the arm of the U that stood opposite Annie 's cabin . |
| 18 | This hardly counts as internal fertilisation , but the sea-horse , a shorter relative of the pipe-fish that swims with its body held vertically and not horizontally , has taken the principle of male-brooding considerably further . |
| 19 | She found out there was a swimming pool on the far side of the common that stretched beyond the railway line . |
| 20 | Apparently , it is group care for the young that leads to the higher rank of younger rather than older non-reproductives in the group . |
| 21 | However it is not merely the invisible that points to our ignorance . |
| 22 | In the mid-1990s , object-oriented programming promises to bring the next irresistible revolution , but until that happens , no-one should be too surprised if the mass of desktop users splits into two camps , one that goes down the Unix-with-everything route , the other that decides as a matter of policy to remain in the ‘ do n't know ’ came , judging MS-DOS with a touch of Windows here and there to be good enough for the next three or four years until the picture of the future becomes a bit clearer . |
| 23 | Noise/horror undoes the self by confronting it with the other that dwells within it , the monstrous potential latent in us all , waiting to be catalysed by an extreme predicament ; what I 've called the new psychedelia undoes the self by letting it drift off and disappear into the otherwordly . |
| 24 | Her flippancy helped her distance the odd reality of the blue that wove through her vision . |
| 25 | Oh , she had the chic that seemed to be the birthright of all French women , but she had nothing else at all , unless it was the rather fine dark eyes , the only thing she had in common with her tall and impressive son . |
| 26 | The show gathered momentum quickly and finished on a high that lasted through the party held afterwards at the neighbouring Holiday Inn . |
| 27 | Different sections can be masked off in various ways ( for example , by a black card or a partial image painted on glass , partly left clear ) and exposed separately — either to give a composite that looks like a single image , or to show multiple images at once . |
| 28 | The administration 's strongest criticism to date of Mobutu came in testimony to the Senate foreign relations committee on Nov. 7 by Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Herman Cohen , who accused Mobutu of " an apparent unwillingness to distinguish between state finances and his own , a failing that lies at the heart of Zaïre 's dismal economic record " . |
| 29 | From this secure position , it extends a long tube , its siphon , along the tunnel and into the open water to suck in a current that brings with it minute particles of food . |
| 30 | For Gharr , still laughing , swung a backhand that smashed into my face with the force of a Kefridian ramwhale . |