Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun pl] that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His attitudes towards nature Cosslett presents as very close to those of the popularisers — ‘ from a heroic facing of facts that seem to destroy his dearest dreams , to an imaginative perception of harmonious law and organic pattern pervading the constantly changing universe ’ . |
| 2 | The corrie is an awe-inspiring amphitheatre below a ring of peaks that rise like cathedrals , their rock architecture being very spectacular . |
| 3 | The antiprotons travel in the opposite direction to protons around the ring of magnetics that steer the particles on a circular path , so they pass many times through accelerating electric fields . |
| 4 | Today , under the leadership of Dr Alberto João Jardim , President of the Autonomous Regional Government , Madeira is responsible for most of the administration of affairs that affect the Region and can initiate legislation in certain areas . |
| 5 | Editor , — Albert Figueras and colleagues describe 17 cases of acute motor polyneuropathy presumably associated with the administration of gangliosides that have previously been reported to the Spanish drug surveillance system . |
| 6 | It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being but on the contrary ; their social being that determines their consciousness . |
| 7 | It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being , but , on the contrary , their social being that determines their consciousness . |
| 8 | This can be reckoned to contain the succession of anecdotes that occurs and the fine detail of working-class life that is provided . |
| 9 | The very large collections of rocks , minerals and fossils from many parts of the world demonstrate the succession of changes that have taken place throughout the Earth over the vast span of geological time . |
| 10 | In comparison to his contemporaries in 1967 he had completed a lot more films than most ; the difference was that his were a succession of B-movies that paid him little . |
| 11 | They took desultory notes throughout the succession of witnesses that took the stand , They were profoundly bored . |
| 12 | There is often considerable contrapuntal interest , although not always : some of the arrangements degenerate into a languid succession of chords that do little to retain the interest of at least this listener . |
| 13 | The identification of the nucleotide sequence recognized by a protein generally relies on the characterization of mutations that interfere with binding of the protein , analyses of protein-DNA complexes using various footprinting techniques and on a comparison of the sequences of different binding sites . |
| 14 | For each year of the forecast the previous year 's level of service is taken as the base ; that is then modified by additions representing new policies and subtractions reflecting the closure of activities that have already been agreed to during the year . |
| 15 | Two and a half years ago Camel Laird started a campaign to gain access to the intervention funding and because of the total lack of any sort of industrial policy by this government , and their refusal to support the Camel Laird application to the E E C , next month will see the closure of Camel Lairds which will lead to a loss of skills that amounts almost to a criminal act on the part of this government , who seem prepared to allow this country to become a skill-free zone in order to drive down wages and conditions to a rate comparable with some Third World countries . |
| 16 | ‘ It is a command of idioms that makes the difference . |
| 17 | So far there have been no serious incidents as a result of lights that have been out of action , but there is a possibility of accidents occurring . ’ |
| 18 | Sometimes the movement of farmers into these regions is actively encouraged by government policies ; elsewhere it is an indirect result of policies that have forced peasants off their lands in order to develop cash cropping and ranching , a process that began with colonial settlement ( section 4.4 ) . |
| 19 | The pope 's tribunal was the highest tribunal for all , but why should this tribunal not be extended in practice by the delegation of cases that came to it from all over Europe to judges , acting on behalf of the pope , in the countries from which the appeals came ? |
| 20 | Thus , social deixis can be systematically restricted to the study of facts that lie firmly within the scope of structural studies of linguistic systems , leaving the study of usage to another domain . |
| 21 | And for a moment Lisa was suddenly so overcome by the confusion of responses that went rushing through her that she almost failed to pick up what he said next . |
| 22 | With the increasing growth and concentration of activities that accompanied urbanization , pollution nuisances occurred more frequently and affected larger numbers of people , yet pollution was essentially perceived to be a problem of dense smoke emission to be dealt with at the local level ( figure 8.1 ) . |
| 23 | The tight intra-system cycling of nutrients that occurs in tropical rainforests between the biomass and the litter means that soils are rapidly depleted of nutrients once the vegetation is removed , as illustrated in Fig. 7.5 . |
| 24 | That 's erm a fairly series erm vision of the future of schools that have opted out . |
| 25 | It was less crowded at the rear of the room and he thought of pausing there , where he could watch la Principessa and still draw a breath of air that was not perfumed half to death , but then he patted the slender cigar in the breast pocket of the dinner-jacket that had been hand-tailored to fit his sinew-hardened body and decided that only a whiff of tobacco would fully cleanse his nostrils of the mix of scents that hung in the over-heated room . |
| 26 | Defries hardly noticed the lakes and the vegetation : she was studying the strange complex of structures that had been built on a vast slab of rock in the centre of the fertile valley . |
| 27 | This was part of a huge complex of buildings that had been owned by the Bulgarian Communist Party . |
| 28 | The horizontal arrow shows the effect of mutations that reduce only adult survival ( when the net rate of mutation exceeds a threshold ( U0.067 ) , these accumulate indefinitely , and the life history becomes semelparous . |
| 29 | While Beer 's hypothesis is plausible as to the effect of institutions that fail to meet new expectations on legitimacy in government , it is arguable as to the extent to which such a failure to meet expectations has taken place . |
| 30 | It leaves precious few clues for anyone in search of lines that trace directly back to Gedge 's own life . |