Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [verb] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 She told Lucien how much the northerners resented the Ixmaritian tithes , and how in some cases people had shed their blood to resist them , a course of action that had been doomed to failure .
2 It was also resolved that this article should appear in ‘ Contact ’ to inform members of Convocation of the course of action that has been forced on Standing Committee by Hong Kong Branch due to their noncompliance with the standing orders of the Branch Constitution .
3 Labour has a clear programme for action that has been endorsed at successive party conferences , including that held last month .
4 As a former reporter I devour newsprint with the appetite of a motorised refuse truck , but some of the garbage that has been written about myself and other women MPs deserves instant binning .
5 Motion pictures were to develop into the great mass entertainment of the twentieth century but they had first been shown in the cities of the late nineteenth century and both as an industry and as a social activity they were never to lose characteristics that had been determined at their birth .
6 The confounding factors were patients ' characteristics that had been shown to be predictive of increased perinatal risk .
7 Legal systems suppliers have recently formed a trade association that has been welcomed in the profession to encourage liaison and co-ordination .
8 No degranulation was noted in either transection or resection animals that had been treated with CR-1409 , but incipient vacuolation of the rough endoplasmic reticulum was a feature of all CR-1409 treated tissues as well as those of the PSBR group ( Fig 8 ) .
9 Since these results are obtained in animals that have been living in a normal environment , they mean that the clock originates , at least in these animals , from an abnormal ‘ internal ’ structure , the chromosome .
10 • In rodents , rhythms continue to develop in animals that have been reared for several generations in constant conditions .
11 Is he a deity bearing off animals that have been sacrificed to him ?
12 There is no doubt about the high quality of housing stock that has been built by the Housing Executive in Northern Ireland and every time I see it I am envious and wish that I had some of it in Wigan .
13 It caps a deal that 's been brewing for some time for the pair to co-develop products this year that let Windows applications run on Unix desktops .
14 It caps a deal that 's been brewing for some time for the pair to co-develop products this year that enable Windows applications to run under Unix on desktop systems .
15 I agree with a great deal that has been said by Mr .
16 By unmasking the circularity of physiological explanations of perception that have been developed within the framework of the idea of the ‘ impingement ’ , I shall show that the a priori principle is upheld .
17 So let me begin this discussion then of of channels by er pointing out the methods that have been used for studying channels , and for some of you who 've done the er neurophysiology course this will er be revision but nevertheless it will be pertinent to today 's discussion .
18 It challenges some of the teaching methods that have been used in recent years and it suggests that schools should concentrate on commonsense , practical teaching .
19 Super Sales Grit — SSG — is a miracle ingredient that has been trained into every Rentokil sales consultant from the very first day out with a sales manager to the final night of introductory sales consultants courses .
20 There is also sound commercial sense in re-investigating well-tried and harmless remedies that have been passed by .
21 The Doctor recognized the signs of an unstable metabolism that had been forced into accelerated decay .
22 Mr Hyde also provided ACCOUNTANCY with a list of 18 KPMG , PKF and Haines Watts offices that had been listed on the system at one time or another .
23 The Committee may have been relieved to hear that in one case at another institution , the Inland Revenue had decided that officers who took round , for sale , firewood that had been chopped by the inmates , were exempt from the need for a hawker 's licence .
24 McCall 's injury has returned because of the insufficient recovery time between matches and the Rangers ' secretary/director , Campbell Ogilvie , is now investigating the matter of what should be done about the free Saturday that has been left in the programme before Scotland 's next World Cup qualifying tie , against Portugal on 28 April .
25 The black eyes that had been sparkling with good humour a moment before had become hard , almost angry .
26 We know that there 's one gipsy site around Wheatley that has been approved by the Oxfordshire County Council and that now awaits the comment of the South Oxfordshire District Councillors .
27 Beside him sat a man of such immense proportions that Eddie Stratton wondered how he could ever fit into the seat that had been booked for him on the flight to Heathrow , scheduled to leave in forty minutes ' time .
28 Of course , pairs of probes that have been hybridised to mutually disjoint libraries can not can not be compared in this way .
29 At the sixth congress , in 1986 , irate delegates rejected a ridiculously optimistic programme that had been drafted in secret by Le Duan , the then secretary-general .
30 As noted earlier , the findings reported here flow from an international comparative research programme that has been sustained over a seven-year period , beginning in 1983 .
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