Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [noun pl] that [be] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 However , once divisions are given some independence they may make decisions that are not in the best interests of the group as a whole .
2 This may include sections that are not part of the main rulebook , eg as contract terms .
3 As we noticed in chapter 3 , vernacular vowel systems such as the Belfast one may display patterns that are not comfortably accounted for by standard or traditional methods .
4 To be effective , an organization must possess attributes that are simultaneously contradictory , even mutually exclusive , ( Cameron , 1986 , pp. 544–5 ) .
5 cos Gary sort of said we should set prices that are too low
6 One Latin American country drew up guidelines which specified that torturers must be able to control themselves ; must go as far as is necessary and no further ; and must have goals that are both important and impersonal .
7 One of the reasons for studying miocenia gravis , where the disease processes are beginning to be understood more clearly , is the hope that this might elucidate diseases that are presently more obscure , like multiple sclerosis .
8 Then the lady in charge asked if I could alter garments that were too long or too short and , mug that I am , I agreed .
9 Old colliers used to say that in the mines sometimes you could hear noises that were not just the noise of settlement or movement but something different , the feeling that someone else that you could n't see was working near you .
10 In originally filling our tank , and every time we make a water change — which is a vital part of the filtration process — we could add substances that are potentially lethal to our fish .
11 We come to the living world with senses adapted to primate life , and we may miss things that are too fast , too slow , too big or too small .
12 She used to make things that are now quite commonplace but which at the time seemed really exotic — fabulous cakes like kugelhopf and filled croissants which were wheeled in on a trolley for tea .
13 Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests .
14 It would link countries that are almost all big international debtors — and so need to increase exports to third countries , not to each other .
15 We now have to alter the old consequences and make it quite clear to him that his bad behaviour will have results that are not only not rewarding , but also unpleasant enough to make him relinquish his tantrum .
16 At times when the satellite is not involved in surveying , for example when passing near the poles , IRAS will observe objects that are particularly interesting astronomically .
17 How could it be that the cells that will form the gut and the bones and muscles are on the outside of the early embryo , yet they will form structures that are clearly on the inside of the animal ?
18 Although we only have 48 eyeshadows , any woman will find colours that are just right for her .
19 We may find things that are best kept locked away . "
20 At other times we will focus only on the instruments , and here you can make effects that are almost abstract .
21 Armed with this information they can design molecules that are even better at the job .
22 For example , we can prevent factories that are obviously discharging their waste into rivers , from doing so ; and there is virtually no kind of effluent nowadays that can not be safely treated and disposed of , if we are prepared to spend the money .
23 A PC is no substitute for artistic ability , but with the aid of a suitable package you can achieve effects that are neither too time-consuming , costly or just plain impossible by hand .
24 It makes sense in what I said earlier about if you can identify numbers that are very seldom chosen , because when those numbers do come up then you 're one of a small minority of winners and therefore your stake is larger .
25 Unlike the original metal-insulator-metal technology , the new Super-MIM can provide pictures that are just as good as those using thin-film transistors , the firm claims .
26 A strange attractor of a four-dimensional system can have two positive Lyapunov exponents , and so can have solutions that are more irregular than chaos .
27 One of its principal aims is to make sure that those with disabilities can lead lives that are as normal as possible .
28 But those bands can write songs that are very moving in a different way .
29 This is more like , he 's trying to describe a scene to you or pictures to you , whether , whereas you can get poems that are just like emotional poems .
30 And radiation , like many of the drug treatments used for cancer , can cause side-effects that are almost as unpleasant as the disease itself .
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