Example sentences of "[noun] and [noun pl] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stars of the show here just have to be the aged scratchplate , covers and knobs that I mentioned earlier . |
| 2 | ‘ We must reassure our Protestant brothers and sisters that we will never be made to suffer for the British-sponsored murders of Catholics ’ . |
| 3 | Catrain first wrote to the French embassy in Moscow in 1980 asking it to tell his brothers and sisters that he was alive . |
| 4 | Whatever happens , the Botswana conference will affect the status of so many important animals and plants that it should put CITES well and truly on the map . |
| 5 | Inevitably , princely trains grew to expect more lavish hospitality from the castles and monasteries that they visited . |
| 6 | He went to all the openings , parties and dinners that he wanted to and frequently did not see Constance for several days . |
| 7 | The PR department endorses this : ‘ You can not develop a love of writing them if you have not loved reading them ’ ; the conventions of the form are internalized to such an extent by both authors and editors that they are no longer acknowledged as such ; they are simply assumed . |
| 8 | Although much of his historical writing depended on oral testimony , he is of all ancient historians the one who most frequently cites the authors and documents that he has consulted . |
| 9 | The Napier Business School gave the Princess a video demonstration of the range of courses , research and services that they offer and she saw new materials developed by the Department of Applied Chemical and Physical Sciences . |
| 10 | Even music is so often used as a ‘ background noise ’ in shops and restaurants that it sometimes seems that we have forgotten how to listen to it . |
| 11 | In particular we want to provide inspiration and ideas for the public , showing methods and techniques that they can adopt . |
| 12 | As I mentioned at the beginning , many of the methodological problems are faced by other social scientists , and , of course , sociologists of religion will also employ other sociological methods and techniques that I have not specifically mentioned ( it was , for example , important to use a pilot questionnaire to test my questions for ambiguities and so on ) . |
| 13 | She could hardly hear them because of the din , and the few words and phrases that she did catch — ‘ tolerances to five thou ’ , ‘ cross-boring ’ , ‘ CNC machine ’ , ‘ indexes round ’ — meant nothing to her . |
| 14 | Cohesion is a surface relation ; it connects together the actual words and expressions that we can see or hear ( cf. coherence , Chapter 7 ) . |
| 15 | Through radical ‘ reflexive ’ spectacles , all this excavation work occurs so late in the process of constructing crime and criminals that it never gets to the foundations . |
| 16 | " The tomato " , says M. Verdier , " imparts its delicious taste , at the same time acid and slightly sweet , to so many sauces and dishes that it can fairly be classed among the best of condiments . |
| 17 | Monsieur Venet , the proprietor 's son is the chef and cooks with a passion , creating dishes with wonderfully rich sauces and flavours that we 'd never savoured before . |
| 18 | The three Service Chiefs welcomed his preference for evolution rather than continuing and abrasive revolution , but the doubts and suspicions that they had about Mountbatten 's impartiality made it difficult for him to rebuild complete confidence between his staff at the Ministry of Defence and the Service ministries . |
| 19 | He added : ‘ Our members find that they are not the only ones out there with Parkinson 's Disease and they are eager to find out more about the condition and ways that they can be helped . ’ |
| 20 | In later academic criticism , it is only among Marxists and feminists that we had an overt evaluative pressure . |
| 21 | The only good that may result from this modern-day flood may be the removal of the barrier that has prevented people from discussing the humiliation and tortures that they endure . |
| 22 | But , on the face of it , the perfect little couplets about twigs and foxes that he wrung out of his gargantuan walks justified the form of their lives as fully in her eyes as in his . |
| 23 | With , with both of you we talked a lot about delegation and things that you were doing that maybe you should n't be doing , erm |
| 24 | In May 1937 street fighting had broken out in Barcelona and was used as an excuse for outlawing the " Trotskyist " POUM , not in fact Trotskyist but a breakaway from the Spanish Communist Party in close touch with the British ILP.6 By 1938 the Communist Party had so entrenched itself through the use of Soviet aid and advisers that it was able to force the resignation of Prime Minister Prieto and to improve its position in the Cabinet . |
| 25 | As an academic critic and university teacher specializing in modern literature and literary theory , I spend much or my time these days reading books and articles that I can barely understand and that cause my wife ( a graduate with a good honours degree in English language and literature ) to utter loud cries of pain and nausea if her eye happens to fall on them . |
| 26 | Then there were the bruises on his knees and elbows that he 'd received from the fall over the trip-wire at Jacqui 's . |
| 27 | Some companies give such a high priority to the rapid and secure transmission of voice , data and documents that they have built private telecommunications networks in preference to using public systems . |
| 28 | All too often , students engage in study that only results in shallow or superficial learning of the first type — for example , the rote learning of names , dates , superficial factual data and characteristics that you hold in your short-term memory just long enough to pass an examination and that are then rapidly forgotten , because they have not been internalized — perhaps because our psyches know they are not of much use in the long run . |
| 29 | Talking to members of the Education Area about their researches , I was struck by the constructive relationships that they built up with the schools and groups that they studied . |
| 30 | Yet , given time , he could roll back any given scene like a film and look at it again , stopping and starting the images at will , examining areas and details that he had n't noticed at the time . |