Example sentences of "[noun] that form " in BNC.

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1 These are the tracks to which a whole generation dated and danced , the driving rock numbers and sweet teen love songs that formed such an unforgettable soundtrack to our lives .
2 Hence character combinations that form words are considered to be more probable than character combinations which are not words .
3 Chapter 7 shows how the nature of management strategy has been influenced by the success of the government in changing the ‘ rules of the game ’ — the set of political signals that forms the environment for managerial decision-making and determines the broad costs and benefits of different courses of action .
4 In real time , the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down .
5 Because one is using Euclidean space-times , in which the time direction is on the same footing as directions in space , it is possible for space-time to be finite in extent and yet to have no singularities that formed a boundary or edge .
6 In addition to rate and resource limitations there are contradictions and conflicts within the set of jobs and goals that form a teacher 's working agenda .
7 The Harwell scientists , headed by Chris Lambe , have produced a machine that will separate large protein molecules from the complex soupy mix that forms the product of many biochemical reactions .
8 The drawing that forms the frontispiece to this book is poised on the borderline between fact and fiction .
9 The need for such detail , however , is not confined to Americans interested in the subject ; it encompasses all those who seek to make some sense of the institutions and complex relationships that form the British polity in the 1980s .
10 The presence of words that form a compound in consecutive positions other than by intention is improbable , hence from knowing the existence of a compound tennis courts one would give priority to these individual words over their alternative candidates .
11 But she clung on to the post , her body sinking to the floor , oblivious to the groans that issued from her own throat , and the words that formed on her lips .
12 In the process , a slurry of ore and water is mixed with a chemical that forms a layer around tin oxide particles , preventing them from getting wet .
13 The branches that form the walls are light and springy but they are backed by stout tree trunks .
14 The queer feeling came over her , that choking feeling in her throat which she experienced in the night , when she was lying awake trying to recall and piece together dim , fleeting memories of another time in which she had lived , when things had been both happy and sad , when angry broken sentences would not meet and so explain the odd pictures that formed in her mind .
15 The prediction that Poisson deduced from Fresnel 's wave theory of light in 1818 , namely , that a bright spot should be observed at the centre of one side of an opaque disc suitably illuminated from the other , was novel because the existence of that bright spot was ruled out by the particle theory of light that formed part of the background knowledge of the time .
16 If the rays of light that form the event horizon , the boundary of the black hole , can never approach each other , the area of the event horizon might stay the same or increase with time but it could never decrease — because that would mean that at least some of the rays of light in the boundary would have to be approaching each other .
17 There are a few exceptions : one selective insecticide , diflubenzuron , affects the synthesis of chitin , the tough protein that forms the insect exoskeleton .
18 Its official name is atheroma , and its three main ingredients are platelets , the tiny blood cells that are the raw material for any blood clot ; fibrin , a stringy protein that forms a three-dimensional mesh to entrap the platelets ; and cholesterol , which binds the whole lot together and sticks it to the sides of blood vessels .
19 We assessed whether DP-1 was present in DRTF1/E2F complexes that form on different E2F binding sites using the class 1 and class 2 consensus E2F binding sites which were defined by binding site selection and occur in the transcriptional control regions of certain cellular genes .
20 d , DP-1 is in DRTF1/E2F DNA binding complexes that form on divergent E2F binding sites .
21 It is important to begin with this sense of perspective , lest the impression be given that politics exists only for the benefit of those who practise it — a kind of hobby ( or , better still , paid profession ) for an educated élite who compete among themselves for the ‘ prize ’ of being on the winning side that forms the next government .
22 Whilst recalling his early hardships Chaplin also provided a clue as to how he had overcome them for he spoke of how he had ‘ slaved like a nigger to master the difficult steps that formed the routine of the eight Lancashire lads ’ .
23 Word level restrictions may be imposed on the lattice by only allowing character sequences that form words ( thereby allowing semantic and other higher-level to be applied ) .
24 A complete Pterygote ovipositor , according to the interpretation of Scudder ( 1971 ) , consists of ( 1 ) a pair of small coxites of the 8th abdominal segment , each bearing ( 2 ) a gonapophysis , which forms an anterior ( ventral or first ) ovipositor valve ; ( 3 ) a pair of small coxites of the 9th segment , which bear ( 4 ) the paired gonapophyses that form the inner ( posterior or second ) ovipositor valves , as well as ( 5 ) a coxal extension or gonoplac , forming the dorsal ( lateral or third ) ovipositor valve .
25 Naturally the inherent constraints of the archaeological evidence , our caution about the relationship between the archaeological record and the activities that formed it , and the limited research which has been carried out determine the cohesion and balance of a work of this type .
26 The nights grew colder , but in the early morning the rising sun was caught a thousand times in the droplets of moisture that formed in the webs that spiders wove across the bars of Creggan 's cage .
27 At several points the route was unclear , where the buffalo and other animals had churned the grass into a mass of muddy trails , so we trended upwards , away from the boggy sections and towards the crest of a broad ridge that formed one side of the river valley .
28 To my left the shallow ridge that formed an edge of the valley rose up to finish at a shallow bump .
29 Chippenham lies on the chalk ridge that forms the north-eastern part of the county .
30 Solid baulks pegged into equally stout legs form the seat and the no-nonsense trellis is the perfect host for climbers that form a frame for the composition .
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