Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [v-ing] [that] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beneath its Olympian surface , Greek culture evinces an unmistakable and unique sensitivity to the painful truth about life : the Dionysiac truth |
| 2 | The chapters in this section of the reader consider various aspects of teaching and learning that have come under increased official scrutiny by central state agencies in recent years , particularly the curriculum of schools , the assessment of pupil performance in school and the quality of teaching itself . |
| 3 | Because the techniques involved imply a separate implementation of the portability software on each different platform — they also mean that what users purchase and what they see on their screen are two different things — there are obvious questions of support and testing that need to addressed . |
| 4 | Higher rates of discount on bills would in turn drive up interest rates on other types of borrowing and lending that compete with bills ( e.g. short-term bank loans ) . |
| 5 | While the construction of dams , reservoirs and drainage channels has changed the character of the landscape , many irrigation schemes , through mismanagement , have created problems of salinisation and waterlogging that counteract the beneficial effects . |
| 6 | BOUTS of nausea and vomiting that accompany the first months of pregnancy may be good news for the mother , according to two new theories on the cause of morning sickness . |
| 7 | people learn at an early age ways of feeling and behaving that tend to become habitual regardless of their continued appropriateness . |
| 8 | Pupils are capable of articulating a need for information and expressing that need in terms of curriculum-based concepts and keywords . |
| 9 | 1977 ) and polynya areas among the channels of the Canadian Arctic archipelago ( Stirling and Cleator , 1981 ) have specially favourable conditions of mixing and upwelling that promote relatively high productivity in summer . |
| 10 | Siward , the man who , had he , Thorfinn , been standing under that cross and issuing that challenge instead of a priest , would have had no hesitation in ordering his best marksman to smite him dead with his bow or his javelin . |