Example sentences of "that [am/are] characteristic of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't think the same way as other designers , ’ he shrugs , shuddering at the billowing skirts , fussy bows and complicated ornaments that are characteristic of the set-piece ball gowns of the Paris couture . |
| 2 | This is probably because they are all adapted to forest or woodland conditions and none of them has developed the close-knit social formations that are characteristic of open-country animals . |
| 3 | ( vi ) In the context of their own writing , pupils should learn to organise subject matter into paragraphs , recognising that these enable readers to identify relationships between ideas , events , etc and to follow the structure of a story , account or argument , etc. ( vii ) Through reading , listening to and talking about a wide range of texts , pupils should gradually be enabled to use , in their own writing , those grammatical structures that are characteristic of written language and an increasingly varied and differentiated vocabulary . |
| 4 | Neither are Norway spruce ( P. abies ) and lodgepole pine ( Pinus contorta ) which are also widely used in forestry programmes because they grow relatively quickly and can tolerate the poor soils that are characteristic of British uplands . |
| 5 | These you will recall are the ones that are characteristic of the disease in general in everyone and not the disease in the individual . |
| 6 | Hybridisation may result in the expression of traits that are characteristic of one or the other parent , but genome mixing occurs regardless . |
| 7 | But it is largely because Loch Ness is so biologically unproductive that it is also biologically stable : it is spared the seasonal booms and crashes in the populations of living things that are characteristic of more productive lakes . |
| 8 | Hot ionised gases , and the impurities they contain , also produce spectral lines that are characteristic of the plasma temperature . |
| 9 | When grown in the absence of FCS , many of the cells died asynchronously over several days , with morphological features that are characteristic of apoptosis : when viewed by time-lapse video recording , the cells showed active surface blebbing and then shrank and often fragmented ( not shown ) , and when stained with propidium iodide or viewed in an electron microscope , the nuclei of the dead cells were condensed and often fragmented ( Fig. 2c , f ) . |
| 10 | The drivecharts ( see reference 7 ) , which we have described fully elsewhere , are an example of this approach being specifically adapted to the sorts of decisions that are characteristic of a program used in class- or group-teaching . |
| 11 | The markers that are characteristic of a variety perform social functions at lower and higher levels of generality . |
| 12 | Rather , being quasi-research activities , they are a means of promoting in students the higher-order thinking and reflection that are characteristic of a higher education . |
| 13 | All have the banded or varved iron formations that are characteristic of this episode in earth history . |
| 14 | Four issues stand out as being of crucial importance : how many distinct ‘ modes of production ’ are there ; in what order do these modes of production succeed each other and how is their sequence to be explained ; what forms of society necessarily correspond with , arise from , or are determined by the different modes of production ; and lastly , what are the forms of state , or political systems , that are characteristic of , or produced by , different economic structures and forms of society ? |
| 15 | Dietary protein , together with the high activity levels that are characteristic of the illness , exert a nitrogen-sparing effect , and initial weight loss is due almost entirely to loss of adipose tissue . |
| 16 | Speakers 9 and 10 are more interesting in that neither of them used Creole syntactic features or any of the segmental phonological features that are characteristic of Creole , or are identifiably part of the " Patois " stereotype . |