Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] of [noun] [that] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | actors ( including Chaplin ) , cricketers and cricket-writers provide snippets of humour that mix into a rolling chuckle . |
| 2 | By proposing discourse as the object of analysis , Barthes shows that language , when it is used in certain ways ( in this instance a story ) , has levels of structure that operate beyond the level of structural linguistics or even semiology . |
| 3 | In a somewhat similar vein nuclear physics contains examples of processes that appear to have little in common , but which may be unified . |
| 4 | Transverse Sections through a typical ganglion show the outermost perineurium and neural lamella enclosing groups of neurons that form the ganglionic cortex and enclose a central neuropile . |
| 5 | Like many of those discussed in this book , Foucault endorses the ethico-political project of establishing forms of knowledge that do not simply turn the other into the same : as he put it in 1968 , he wishes to find another politics than that which ‘ since the beginning of the nineteenth century , stubbornly persists in seeing in the immense domain of practice only the epiphany of a triumphant reason , or in deciphering in it only the historico-transcendental destination of the West ’ . |
| 6 | Medical literature quotes instances of penises that have barely reached half-an-inch when fully erect — organs that have been labelled with the somewhat insensitive but nevertheless appropriate term ‘ micro-penis ’ . |
| 7 | For instance , Alex was shown pairs of objects that had nothing in common and asked ‘ What 's the same ? ’ |
| 8 | The reaction against this structure has produced forms of politics that do not fit into traditional political categories . |
| 9 | In common with any other community , the Deaf Community has had its share of people who have performed deeds of bravery that earned them recognition from the appropriate authorities . |
| 10 | Any teacher could write their own long list of countermanding pieces of advice that have come their way . |
| 11 | We have striven to avoid statements of attainment that require assessment which might have undesirable effects in the classroom , for example the use of language exercises out of context or other activities of an arid kind . |
| 12 | The campaign to save a local arts centre starts innocently enough , but soon becomes the target for intimidation , and Jane finds herself in increasing danger as she uncovers layers of corruption that spread from an Oxford college to the Houses of Parliament . |
| 13 | This tradition that the redemption brought by Christ has abolished laws of purity that distinguished between clean and unclean animals , clean and unclean foods , clean and unclean people ( Jew and gentile ) and clean and unclean physical states ( women during menstruation ) restrained Christianity for several centuries from applying laws of impurity to women . |
| 14 | The therapist 's task is to be sensitive to these differences and work with the parents to devise strategies of change that fit in with their cultural viewpoint . |
| 15 | The medieval church , to which Will Marks carries the corpse of a hanged man for burial ( MHC 3 ) , featured a clock with moving figures of giants that struck the hours and the quarters , BR 40 ; DC 23 . |
| 16 | These are computers containing sets of rules that approximate to those people use during the thinking process . |
| 17 | As well as vetting projects , the MOI ran an Ideas Committee to notify filmmakers of issues that needed developing into film narratives . |
| 18 | At the end of the day , however , all the programs produce pieces of paper that need to be reproduced in quantity . |
| 19 | Quite apart from what the organisers tell him of their intentions , he may have sources of information that have a bearing on how he comes to a conclusion about predicted outcomes . |
| 20 | A global perspective allows firms both to spot opportunities faster than others and to build networks of supply that combine the strengths of various locations and so further reduce total supply costs . |
| 21 | If the Government want to fetch every one of those issues to the Floor of the House , I am quite prepared to do exactly the same , and every day we shall have points of order that go on for half an hour — |
| 22 | The rain started , a few heavy drops at first and then hissing spears of water that struck her sharply on the head , on her neck , pricking through the thin stuff of her dress . |
| 23 | Instead of hearing blocks of questions that used only more , or only less , they had to respond to such questions as ‘ Does this set of lollipops have more lollipops , less lollipops , or the same number of lollipops as this set ? ’ |
| 24 | The parthenogenesis/incompatibility Wolbachia are cytoplasmically inherited symbionts of insects that have evolved mechanisms of altering mitosis in their insect hosts . |
| 25 | In addition there are the individual , mixed styles of decoration that contain elements from several sources and are often called ‘ eclectic mix ’ . |
| 26 | I seem to be doing nothing but making lists of things that need fixing . ’ |
| 27 | Species , according to this view , are continually shuffling collections of genes that meet each other within the species , but never meet genes of other species . |
| 28 | We must criticise explanations of difference that treat gender as something obvious , static and monolithic , ignoring the forces that shape it and the varied forms they take in different times and places . |
| 29 | But the serrated gratings must have sufficiently broken the crust of the brick-broken mutilated plastimetal that covers a great deal of the world that is an eyeball , and little light yellow-green stubs poked through , cos the Sun was still up there , way up there , even though someone had devised a new kind of force of matter transference and was attempting to move the Sun to his laboratory-country where it would be used to grow humlants — in which the old human brain was to be stretched in durable fibrosity and connected inextricably to root and flower , making rings of energy that took their partners for a whaltz or a flexitrot and multiplied their species by being fried on a plasetal plate whose temperature was so great that they never actually touched it but skimmed over , coming off the other side as a more-than-when-they-started . |
| 30 | An appendix to the book lists resource centres in different areas of South Africa and gives details of organisations that offer training to community organisations . |