Example sentences of "the [noun] that [vb base] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The birds that do it are the oilbirds of South America , and the cave swiftlets of the Far East , the ones whose nests are used for birds ' nest soup . |
| 4 | The energy thus captured by the atom will be discharged into the molecules that surround it . |
| 5 | There is no organising principle beyond the energy of interaction of the molecules that form it . |
| 6 | The thing to avoid or at least cut down on is refined sugar and the products that contain it . |
| 7 | If your standard way of eating ( or your slimming diet ) includes a mix of proteins , complex carbohydrate , and fresh fruits at each meal , you are much less likely to eat large amounts of refined sugar or the products that contain it . |
| 8 | Promises to ‘ delegate ’ have , therefore , to be seen against a long-established trend , with no obvious change in the reasons that underlie it . |
| 9 | At the end of the day a company is no more ( but even more importantly , no less ) than the sum of the people and the skills that comprise it . |
| 10 | So are the policies that affect it |
| 11 | Beautiful though your age is , many though the intellects that adorn it , and ugly though my age is , cruel many of its leaders , I believe that the period from which I come is to be preferred to yours in this respect . |
| 12 | Formal education is important in political socialization , less for its effect on partisan support ( family remains the predominant influence ) than for helping shape awareness of the political system and explicitly or , more often , implicitly , the values that underpin it . |
| 13 | To the animals that do it , there is nothing particularly special about using tools : it is a piece of behaviour much like any other that the animal performs . |
| 14 | He despises the human race and the combinations that make it tick ; the human race in its present state , he 'd qualify — he 'd like to send us all back to nursery school — so he has to behave as unlike his fellow beings as he can . ’ |
| 15 | The common European toad , when it meets a snake , inflates its body and stands on tip-toe , a procedure that makes it appear to have grown suddenly and that seems to baffle most of the snakes that encounter it . |
| 16 | This missile is not particularly clever , but the computers that control it and the radar are . |
| 17 | And , in the end , feckless ones , it is , as we must always say , the songs that prove it all . |
| 18 | I 'm afraid it 's mainly a matter of waiting until their own natural defences beat off the viruses that cause it . |
| 19 | Like solid fuel and lpg , you need to store it — in a tank accessible for refuelling by tanker — and the boilers that burn it must have a flue . |
| 20 | ‘ The only people doing any laughing are the gypsies that sell it to you , ’ she 'd retort . |
| 21 | The control over text and graphics it allows is immense , and some of the functions that differentiate it from the rest of the Windows word processor league are particularly appropriate for a word processor — sentence selection being a case in point . |
| 22 | I wonder what they pay the chaps that shovel it up ? |
| 23 | Role conflicts within individual marriages are taking place in a context of rapid social change and all the uncertainties that attend it . |
| 24 | For a start , it would leave EMU an option for the countries that want it , and a cause of no bother to those that do not . |
| 25 | As noted above , the mother 's education has a profound influence on the probability that her children will survive early childhood , yet her opportunities to obtain schooling are compromised by early marriage and the conventions that prescribe it . |
| 26 | To advertise the fact , they surround the pollen and the anthers that produce it with the vivid petals of a flower . |
| 27 | These findings serve to demonstrate the vital importance of technology transfer , and the organisations that encourage it , to the success of UK business . |
| 28 | If the entity model is inaccurate so will be the database and the applications that use it . |
| 29 | But the Turkish government keeps slapping extra taxes on the crop that make it less than competitive . |
| 30 | The wench that drink'st it will to love incline . |