Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | From a policy perspective , it may be considered propitious that the patterns of fertility that impair the health of infants and young children are the same reproductive characteristics that bear in a maleficent sense upon the well-being of mothers . |
| 2 | Methods that rely on a kind of regimented subjectivity , directing observers to rate relation ships along scales from ‘ warm ’ to ‘ cold ’ , ‘ responsive ’ to ‘ unresponsive ’ and so on , have proved useful in distilling lasting qualities of individual personality . |
| 3 | Industrialization , urbanization , extension of education , etc. then gradually erode the old , traditional social institutions , customs , norms , etc , that regulated fertility and create new conditions conducive to small family ideals realizable through birth control methods that lead to a decrease in fertility and , finally , to the restoration of the balance between birth and death rates on a lower level , when the demographic transition is considered as completed . |
| 4 | Waves that break into a heap , waves that break and |
| 5 | Turning her , he stared down into her eyes that shone with a hint of tears . |
| 6 | The Rockingbirds then play the heartfelt ‘ Standing On The Doorstep Of Love ’ , the anthemic hero-tribute ‘ Jonathan Jonathan ’ , and a run of crowd-pleasers that culminates in a cover of ‘ In Tall Buildings ’ which is plain perfect . |
| 7 | But in South Africa today , and surely for a good many years to come , there are also additional considerations that demand from a large company actions and policies that go beyond its immediate business interests and seek to ameliorate the excessive social and economic imbalances that have developed in our society . |
| 8 | This behaviour is a consequence of the structure of the model and of the fact that the model processes inputs and generates outputs that vary as a function of time . |
| 9 | Just voices echoing in the dark ; images that burn for a few centuries and then fade ; stories , old stories that sometimes seem to overlap ; strange links , impertinent connections . |
| 10 | Contemporary science is revealing complex symbiotic relationships that contribute to a shared environment to establish a balanced ecology . |
| 11 | Not even a control tower , just a grass runway , with a wind-sock at one end , three old pre-war hangars and several huts that looked like a Luftwaffe addition . |
| 12 | Then he turned to his wife and addressed her in words that cut like a knife . |
| 13 | You may omit from this count words that begin with a capital letter , words that are long because they are hyphenated and verbs whose third syllable is " -ed " or " -es . " |
| 14 | He argues convincingly that loan-words from Old Norse which had final inflectional syllables ( vowels ) retain such syllables as -e into ME ; similarly , Old French loans which had a final vowel in the accusative singular retain final -e into ME verse ; and native OE words that ended in a vowel in the nominative singular retain final -e in non-genitive singular usage ( see the summary on p. 78ff . ) . |
| 15 | The table 's steel surface was ridged with a network of channels that led to a drain-hole in one corner . |
| 16 | Ebony and Ivory is a celebration of the ever popular black and white fashion , with designs that vary from a striking oversize plaid sweater , an ivory design with unusual slip stitch yoke , bands and Swiss-darned abstract art , to child 's ‘ blackboard ’ with a stimulated chalk drawing of a tipsy looking cat . |
| 17 | Like many institutions that live in a permanently impecunious state , Blackheath Concert Halls rely greatly on goodwill . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm sure I do n't know for what act of yours the Deity has seen fit to bless us with mounted Normans , and shiploads of mercenaries , and woods that burn in a trice , but you must have dropped a word somewhere that commended itself . ’ |
| 19 | Richard Pryor ( who was never given another chance to explore this side of his acting ability ) , Yaphet Kotto and Harvey Keitel star as the workers who attempt to break the chains that bind with a break-in at their corrupt union 's headquarters . |
| 20 | Changing its name in 1949 to the Taxation and Research Committee , the committee continued to make its influence felt in Institute publications , and in 1954 issued notes that explained to a still somewhat conservative profession the nature and purpose of management accounting ! |
| 21 | On this aspect of his collection he has said : ‘ Within this field , I try to obtain beautifully bound copies that belonged to a royal library , to a prince , or to a famous bibliophile . |
| 22 | Choose flowers that complement your outfit , as well as blooms that clash for a startling effect . |
| 23 | The purpose of an experiment in fluid mechanics may range from direct verification of a theory ( as in Figs. 11.2 , 15.12 and 17.19 ) to a general exploration of the phenomena that occur in a given situation . |
| 24 | As Ayer said , ‘ what is required to verify a statement about a material thing is never the occurrence of precisely this or precisely that sense-content , but only the occurrence of one or other of the sense-contents that fall within a fairly indefinite range ’ ( Ayer , 1946 , p. 12 ) . |
| 25 | Realism is a technique which , being known from childhood reading , never needs to be consciously studied , and certainly the effort required to compose a corpus of novels , like the noteworthy succession of Anita Brookner romances that began with A Start in Life ( 1981 ) , is always more likely to be emotional than technical . |
| 26 | These were 100-page educational comics that dealt with a broad range of topics from the history of making . |
| 27 | During the trial , the mean fibre score in the diet group rose to 33.6 and over the three years for which reliable results are available , compliance in taking the high fibre diets seemed good with very little ‘ drift ’ in mean values that ranged from a minimum of mean ( SEM ) 31.0 ( 3.7 points ) at 36 months to a maximum of 325.5 ( 2.2 ) at 12 months . |
| 28 | Wedgwood firmly believes that its wide choice of merchandise gives the right marketing mix and enables the Group to provide products that appeal to a broad section of the world public . |
| 29 | Although programs such as PageMaker and Ventura continue to steal the headlines as being the driving force behind desktop publishing there is a whole raft of alternative products that operate at a much lower level . |
| 30 | Indeed , food requirements can rise anywhere from five to ten times that needed for a similar ectotherm . |