Example sentences of "the [noun] that [vb -s] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The dominant tone is of jubilation , not the hysteria that makes me swoon in Prince .
3 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 .
4 It 's simply the tiredness that makes me so unresponsive on many occasions . ’
5 It 's not the money that makes me happy .
6 The emphasis on God 's revelation and on the faith that apprehends it raised the further question of what theology itself can speak about directly — the revelation , or merely faith 's apprehension of it ?
7 Erm , and neither of them have been brought here , they 've done the bit that suits them , of of of civilianising the the the er crime prevention officers but the bit that actually needed doing they 've not done
8 Because I find that er I can talk to people now , we chat away as I would in a pub , or in someone 's house but then this is the bit that worries me .
9 And the worry that makes you all tense …
10 For ants , matricide is an act of special genetic madness and formidable indeed must be the drug that drives them to it .
11 Much depends on the nature of the training provided , especially the ethos that guides it ; that is , whether it is organization- and profession-centred on the one hand or client- and community-oriented on the other and the degree of commitment on the part of professionals to recognize and affirm the value of indigenous factors and to capitalize upon them .
12 In modern times interest has centred around what it is about the owl that makes it the target for this hostile treatment .
13 It is that conditioning in the cask that marks it out from the rest of the world 's beers .
14 And he oh that 's , that 's a free life for them , you punch it and it 's the ghost that kills him , you ca n't get away from the ghost .
15 ‘ It 's as if the skin that separates you from those horrible things in the newspaper has been ripped away , ’ says Alexandra Campbell , who six years ago was the victim of an attack in her own home .
16 ‘ He 's one of the blokes that stops me viring ? ’
17 THIS is such a delicious offering , of the kind that makes you chuckle in recollection on the way home , that I do not really want to give the game away by saying too much about what goes on .
18 The players become cold and indifferent when they do not follow the soloist directly ; the stick that directs them humiliates them , takes away their natural wish to excel …
19 ‘ We are the part that allows them to retain their customers , ’ Heggie says .
20 That 's the part that gives you sustain and that 's the part that you do n't want to depress to the point that it touches the fret , because otherwise the fretted strings do n't have the clearance to run underneath the slide without touching it .
21 These will have had a firm foundation in play and the talk that accompanies it , particularly if the learner has had the social and material opportunities provided by playgroup or nursery school .
22 We should not be bothered by safeguarding entrenched institutions , nor about winners or losers , but by how better to persuade tourists to come to Scotland and how to help the industry that makes them welcome .
23 It is true that , by contrast with those that constitute ‘ imaginary things ’ , the ideas that constitute ‘ real things ’ are , for Berkeley , independent of the human mind : they are not subject to the voluntary control of the mind that perceives them .
24 Clearly there is a relation between the body and the mind that inhabits it .
25 There is , therefore , a longitudinal dimension to the condition that makes it difficult to arrive at hard and fast diagnostic rules .
26 They could hold the key that saves us . ’
27 Gay sex does n't deserve the obsession that surrounds it .
28 Resolving medical problems , admonishing the transgressors of rules , arbitrating disputes , cracking jokes with a deadpan expression on his face , Guruji is clearly the hub of this community and the force that holds it together .
29 There is an apple-tree up against the fence that separates them from their neighbours , but it has been given a kind of Buddhist monk 's haircut .
30 Hers is a vulnerable yet crucial role as negotiator between difference : typically she is one who refuses to outcast herself from the black community and family , because aware of its value and importance , yet by virtue of that same tact subjected within them to sexual discrimination : ‘ we straddle the fence that says we can not be uplifters of the race and lesbians at the same time ’ ( ‘ Talking about It ’ , 54 ) .
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