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

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1 They have the highest income-tax and VAT rates , the harshest drinking laws , the dreariest bars , the dullest restaurants and television that makes you feel as if you are warming up for a coma .
2 These works make explicit what is only suggested in this livret the opening number of the work serves as a processional for the instrumentalists and some or all of the singers and dancers that brings them into the performing space .
3 There is a convention among psychologists and neuroscientists that leads us to refer to ‘ the ’ brain , no matter whether we are talking about hamsters or humans .
4 But underneath all the tough-talking , cryptic statements and pipe-lighting that allows him time to carefully think out his replies , there is another Bill Morrison , a schoolboy at heart , who is happiest sitting in the stands at Lord 's or Twickenham swapping cricketing and rugby stories , who idolises sporting heroes like cricketers Denis Compton and Gary Sobers , four-minute miler Roger Bannister , and former rugby international Gerald Davies , and who is in a fever of excitement over the arrival of his new MG RV8 , a ‘ reincarnation of the old MGB ’ , only ‘ more powerful , more comfortable ( I hope ) and certainly more costly ’ .
5 For Adorno and Horkheimer science becomes ideological because of the change in the relationship between humans and nature that accompanies it .
6 But modern children have a lot of facts and it 's the interpretation of facts and feelings that makes them civilised . ’
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