Example sentences of "[noun] and [noun pl] that [vb base] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Er Trading Standards Officers have been helping the police have made a large number of visits to sales in recent months targetting those where we know or suspect there will be concentration of counterfeiter goods and these stolen items we 've been taking and seizing items , we 've been making inspections and er we will also be distributing some leaflets to try and advise people of some of the risks and dangers that face them at this sort of event .
2 Today 's agricultural and forestry methods have caused a decline in broadleaf woodlands and coppices , affecting the animals and birds that inhabit them and the general landscape .
3 It is not only the environment but also the animals and plants that inhabit it that display rhythms .
4 At a time when a good public image is essential for universities , English is unable to explain itself in ways immediately intelligible to the outsider , is notoriously riven with doubts and disagreements that prevent it from having a shared sense of purpose , and may at intervals erupt into crises that attract the wrong sort of publicity .
5 Loathing the expressionism and abstractions that surround him during his time at Newcastle , where he studied in the late Sixties , he believes ‘ you have to pick up the traces .
6 In the absence of any serious challenge to the wealth and institutions that reproduce them , the upper class will survive , adapt and thrive .
7 They can see and smell lines and shapes that lead them through the darkest night , point out lines of demarcation , isolate territories .
8 At the Pattmore project in London and the Rosemount project in Glasgow for example , mothers are provided with adequate child care and it enables them to attend courses and gain skills and qualifications that give them a better chance in the job market .
9 The greater the openness of the boundary , the greater the potential capacity to negotiate across it ; the greater the number of open boundaries , the greater the potential power available to the social actors to promote a dialectical relation with the outside world , to actively influence the processes , policies and events that touch their lives Conversely , the fewer open boundaries there are perceived to be and the more closed , the more powerlessness and passivity is likely to be manifest in relation to the outside world .
10 He is held personally responsible for complying with the many rules and regulations that govern its use .
11 Its aim , he says , is not to become a commercial body but to point users towards products and technologies that support their interests .
12 Children are not , however , independent of the nexus of expectations , attitudes and values that surround them .
13 The clay tiles that surround this text are just a taste of the wealth of colours , forms and textures that await you .
14 Owen and Roger , the two heads of centre , have developed their respective strategies in response to the broadly similar sets of expectations and demands that confront them .
15 Kids too sick to raise their heads , lying soft and limp beneath the burden of heart disease , kidney failure and cancers that eat everything but innocence .
16 Dressed in ponchos with colours and stripes that announce their village of origin , troupes of pipe and drum players frequently converge from distant villages to celebrate local religious and agrarian festivals .
17 The species of plants and animals that inhabit them today have adapted , where adaptation was needed , only during the current ice age .
18 There are the Welsh Road , the Salt Way , the Port Way , Akeman Street , Traitor 's Ford Lane and Banbury Lane ; and besides these named roads a considerable number of roads , lanes and paths that excite our curiosity by their directness for miles across almost uninhabited country , or by their association with parish boundaries or ancient earthworks ( like Aves Ditch ) , or some other suspicious circumstance .
19 Even if teachers were given the time and opportunity to develop their professional lives in the ways they felt most suitable , the questions and dilemmas that face them are so many and so deep that it is indeed a daunting task .
20 Another approach which is complementary to this is to encourage the patient to examine the questions and assumptions that prevent him getting started on anything .
21 This , I want to submit , is far more important than many of the material questions and issues that fill our waking hours — questions of food , jobs , ambition and human happiness .
22 There has been much comment by Cleese , as well as others , about how being 6ft at the age of 12 ( he 's now 6ft 5in ) , and not being made a prefect at his public school , and being the only child of older , lower middle-class parents , set for a career as a solicitor , began the problems and embarrassments that inspire his comedy .
23 A more crucial issue concerns the use of the technology by other firms and organisations that have nothing to do with electronics .
24 The belief that agricultural technologies will be developed for marginal , ecologically fragile areas , and for the marginal poor farmers and pastoralists that live there is , it will be argued , a trifle heroic .
25 ‘ About schools , no doubt , they know something-perhaps they have schedules and inventories that tell them in wearisome detail what they should look for in the structure , the physical fabric .
26 This is the idea that crime and deviance have positive qualities and consequences that make them necessary for the healthy functioning of society .
27 I am not convinced that this issue should be on the political agenda at all , not at this time , not at any time , in fact I am pretty convinced that this is a Tory agenda , a media agenda , why they do they not want to talk about crooks and spivs that support them , that donate thousands of pounds into their coffers ?
28 This picture frame moulding came complete with all the scratches , dents and marks that make it look old , although it was in fact new .
29 In the centre of Bishkek , formerly Frunze , where grandiose marble buildings intrude into the paradise of fir trees and mountains that surround them , Alexandra bemoaned the end of empire .
30 It is assumed that there is sufficient uniformity to facilitate the specification of situations and circumstances that make it more , or less , likely to occur .
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