Example sentences of "the [noun] that [vb past] [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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | There they give just the same protection to their new owners as they did to the jellyfish that developed them . |
| 4 | ‘ Then it was the horse-riding that brought you here ? ’ |
| 5 | After the prayer that ended their silent repast that evening , the cadets were filing out of the refectory to return to their barren cells . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There was something about the wizard that irked Him beyond measure . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ What are you doing ? ’ he shrieked , twisting about madly on the ropes that suspended him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Then they cut the ropes that tied me and I was able to get to my feet . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was her patina of sophistication , the shell that encased her inexperience in dealing with men of Rune Christensen 's calibre . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Beyond the long line of windows , past the Conservatory and the Laburnum Walk , they came to the winter-bound Pleasure Garden where yellow jasmine crawled over a tree stump , hamamelis , the wych-hazel shrub , thrust out golden hedgehog flowers along its leafless branches , and the stream coming from the kitchen garden — a winter river now — hurried into the culvert that carried it on into the baby lake in the field outside the Pleasure Garden . |
| 18 | ‘ That headache has tightened you up all over — or perhaps it was the tightness that gave you the headache in the first place . ’ |
| 19 | As she stepped over the threshold of Rose Cottage , the smell that met her was not that of her own living space . |
| 20 | I thought about that scent ; there was something about it , something extra besides the smell that reminded me of Marcus 's bathroom . |
| 21 | It was the smell that alerted him . |
| 22 | It was the smell that alerted her and gave her that first sudden awareness of danger . |
| 23 | Everyone wants to avoid the chaos that surrounded its predecessor JET . |
| 24 | It would also leave Lewis as possibly a minor player in the world heavyweight scene which could be returning to the chaos that surrounded it before Mike Tyson brutally united sports richest prize . |
| 25 | Those in the East End included a half-share in Chandler 's Wiltshire Brewery in the Hackney Road , Bethnal Green ( via the Lion brewery , Lambeth , the brewery that gave us the South Bank lion ) ; some of the pubs belonging to the Commercial Brewery Co in Commercial Road , Stepney , in 1927 ( the rest went to Hammerton 's brewery , Stockwell ) ; and West and Co , of the Three Crowns brewery , Hackney Road , Bethnal Green , with 60 pubs , in 1929 . |
| 26 | In America small town-dumps have been closed , or sold by the cities that owned them to private operators . |
| 27 | ‘ Probyn had something to prove and he proved it — the guy is a world-class scrummager , ran around like a 21-year-old and scored the try that brought his side back into the match at 20–23 . ’ |
| 28 | Despite the piece of paper he was waving this week , committing nine of the 15 republics to keep on talking about the preservation of the union , he has lost the confidence of much of the Communist Party he leads and of the parliament that elected him president . |
| 29 | This approach need not replace traditional literary criticism : rather , it should be viewed as a step that may lead naturally , where appropriate , into the development of objective analytical skills as pupils learn to reflect on their own writing — and on the creative process itself — in relation to the text that inspired it . |
| 30 | There should have been a lifespan of twenty years for H3 , but other priorities had been higher , and every four years since 1973 there had been a doctoring of the patient , a new lick of paint on the inside , an attempt to reinforce the roofing against damp , new wiring to carry the power of the computer that ran their lives . |