Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that [modal v] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | The money men who keep Formula One afloat want to stave off commercial backlashes that could cost them millions of pounds and hard-earned goodwill . |
| 2 | Men who believe themselves out of all danger may grow careless , and make some foolish move that can betray them . |
| 3 | For four weeks Charlie and his section endured such conditions , waiting for fresh orders that would allow them to advance . |
| 4 | We have spent a good part of the last decade in a long and often rather frustrating attempt to identify them ( most recently by trying to make specific antibodies that will recognize them ) . |
| 5 | ‘ That remains my purpose and I believe what we will come forward with for the future of local government will lead to the kind of strong , robust single-tier authorities that will enable them to fulfil their important democratic functions and deliver quality services to their local residents . |
| 6 | It does not seem possible that such women just were not able to have part-time work that would enable them to keep house for an elderly parent , and do their own thing as well . |
| 7 | When Northern crops crash up against a new pest or a new processing requirement , breeders hightail it back to the gene pool in search of the genetic variability that may help them . |
| 8 | EIGHTEEN large American companies , are now testing prospective employees for genetic traits that might put them at special risk in their work . |
| 9 | This separation breeds prejudice ; worse , it isolates young blacks from the white world that will judge them when they leave school . |
| 10 | It also means that the feral dogs are acquiring genetic material that could turn them into dangerous carnivores in grand style . |
| 11 | What the students want her to do is to give them some basic facts that will enable them to read the novels as simple straightforward reflections of ‘ reality ’ , and to write simple , straightforward , exam-passing essays about them . |
| 12 | What the students want her to do is to give them some basic facts that will enable them to read the novels as simple straightforward reflections of ‘ reality ’ , and to write simple , straightforward , exam-passing essays about them . |
| 13 | They also sensed that it would help them to make sure that managed competition was made to work ; they feared that , if it failed , politicians might opt for a government-run programme that would cut them out entirely . |
| 14 | Chapman had put the Town on a firm footing that would see them to a third championship the following year to become the first club to win the title three years in succession ; and two years after that they were runners-up . |
| 15 | In Japan the influential Federation of Employers ' Associations ( Nikkeiren ) draws up wage-bargaining guidelines which are often worked out by bodies where the major undertakings that will apply them are represented . |
| 16 | Gang names and nicknames of gang members were spray painted on walls , gates , garage doors , mail boxes , stop signs , nearly every flat surface that would take them . |
| 17 | The American scene should be a piece of cake for these lads after several years of sharing a camper and traversing huge chunks of arid land to play in one-day pro-ams that may net them a couple of hundred pounds . |
| 18 | The principal concern for companies is first that they should be kept in touch with prevailing opinions on environmental issues that could affect them ; second , that any misconceptions on technical or other matters should be corrected . |
| 19 | In exploring such environments pupils will experience the type of argument and logical analysis that will prepare them for the real-life problems they will tackle outside . |
| 20 | It is important that they slowly build up a historical vocabulary , and learn some of the technical terms that will allow them to talk about what they can see . |
| 21 | A teacher whose classes include visually handicapped pupils is unlikely to welcome the prospect of trying to engineer an elaborately contrived environment that will single them out unduly from their classmates , and yet may experience apprehension about their safety as they move about the school and within the classroom . |
| 22 | In the big American museums you no longer have brilliant ‘ star ’ directors the way you had them in the Sixties and Seventies people like Sherman Lee at Cleveland , Fred Cummings at Detroit , Tom Hoving at the Met who could manage 5,000 projects at once , either making brilliant acquisitions , or putting on unusual or daring exhibitions , or making outrageous statements that might get them censured today . |
| 23 | Also , bear in mind that the components removed from circuit boards are likely to have very short leadouts that might prevent them from fitting into the component layouts of your projects . |
| 24 | Failure could create a social time-bomb of disillusionment and despair , and the political forces that would exploit them are awaiting their chance . |
| 25 | Robert Harris established his name many years ago as a designer of sound blue water cruising yachts , so it was no surprise when a couple tackled him in the late 1960s to design for them a small yacht that would take them from Canada to New Zealand in both comfort and safety . |
| 26 | The libraries with the most extensive training programmes were most likely to be the ones who had clearly identified their training needs , and who were looking for ways of either increasing or maintaining the effectiveness of their training by developing methods that would enable them to get round the restriction of decreasing staff ‘ mobility ’ . |
| 27 | You see I would like to see people at the end of this programme to have some idea , not just of fancy figures in the air , but of practical effects that will affect them on the ground . |
| 28 | Although we can not expect them to become typographers or graphic designers , we do believe that even in the short time available during our course we can give them what might be called an aesthetic awareness that will enable them to make reasonable decisions in their future work . |
| 29 | ‘ The only thing that might make them move after three years here is Italy . |
| 30 | The only thing that would change them , he commented savagely , was when he became someone who earned a thousand guilder a year . |