Example sentences of "the [noun pl] that govern [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We believe in citizenship , not subjecthood — in the ability of all individuals to exercise power over the institutions that govern their lives . |
| 2 | He would have been at home as a sixteenth-century Elizabethan , categorizing people according to their essential natures ; choleric , melancholic , mercurial , saturnine , qualities mirroring the planets that governed their birth . |
| 3 | Individually we are very much the same , but the circumstances that govern our lives might be quite different . |
| 4 | Since the 1970s physicists have had a ‘ standard model ’ of the fundamental particles of matter and the forces that govern their behaviour . |
| 5 | She is no more the cause of life than any of the other eight ; she is a representative of the forces that govern our lives in terms of the feminine psyche . |