Example sentences of "of [noun pl] that [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Scowcroft was , until his appointment , the co-chairman of a committee drawn from the defence elites of both parties , which in February found a form of words that satisfied its wide range of members and came down gently in favour of Midgetman first and rail-MX only later . |
| 2 | The latest scientific research has revealed that there is a delicate interplay of hormones that affects our sexual desires . |
| 3 | The project will examine how well people can use their judgement to forecast the future behaviour of a system ( eg. a business , economy or traffic system ) on the basis of a series of observations that characterize its past behaviour . |
| 4 | And ‘ Glittering Prize ’ is a timely resumé , a collection of singles that shows their gradual but assured effect on the global mainstream . |
| 5 | Subjective meanings , however , for Weber were the very constituent of actions that made them social and , hence , the subject matter of sociology . |
| 6 | They assembled quickly to hear the brief set of orders that explained their respective tasks in the battle to come . |
| 7 | A combination of features that makes it possible to use our products one-handed . |
| 8 | The boy carried her out into the snow and pushed her into the ground , turning her so that she faced the tent and the cluster of trees that formed their crude and failing shelter . |
| 9 | If you are a small family , look for models with the sort of controls that allow you rinse-and-hold cycles — a short cycle which rinses dishes for a short time to get rid of dried-on food and any smells so that they can then wait till you have a full load to put through . |
| 10 | The New Critics did not believe , of course , that the value of poetry lay in isolated metaphors or similes ; on the contrary , they insisted that in good literature all the components of the text contributed to the reconciliation of opposites that constitutes its poetic function . |
| 11 | It has three main aims : the first is the democratic process of involving people in thinking , dealing , planning and playing an active part in the development and operation of services that affect their daily lives : the second relates to the value for personal fulfilment of belonging to a community : the third is concerned with the need in community planning to think of actual people in their relation to other people and the satisfaction of their needs as persons rather than to focus attention upon a series of separate needs and problems . |