Example sentences of "[noun] that [noun pl] [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a somewhat underexploited arthropodan niche that ants have claimed as their domain . |
| 2 | His narrow shoulders had a permanent forward-drooping hunch , with the result that clothes seemed to hang off him in shapeless folds . |
| 3 | It was also estimated that 60 per cent of the fruit and vegetable crop had been lost , although this could be blamed in part on almost continuous rain between late August and October in the main vegetable-growing belt of central European Russia , Byelorussia and the north Ukraine , with the result that crops had rotted in waterlogged fields . |
| 4 | When it becomes trapped in buildings , it is inhaled with the result that particles become lodged in the lining of the lung and irradiate the tissues , increasing the risk of lung cancer . |
| 5 | THE FUTURE of the Channel tunnel was in doubt last night after confirmation that costs have escalated by 50 per cent to at least £7bn and a warning that its bankers may not provide fresh loans unless the financial crisis surrounding the project is resolved by Christmas . |
| 6 | Political parties have somehow got it into their heads that voters want to agree with them , so put up policies with which voters will agree . |
| 7 | If we take the research on goals plus the experience of practitioners in the selection business we will find a high degree of consensus about the more frequently cited goals that individuals attempt to satisfy at work . |
| 8 | Jan. 21 Further reports on Radio Mogadishu that rebels have agreed to a truce , again denied by USC . |
| 9 | We do well to remember that , after all the violence that humans had created on the earth , God surveyed the debris and said ‘ he was sorry he made man ’ ( Gen.6:7 ) . |
| 10 | Cuvier was influential , but he did not have everything his own way , and rival groups such as the transmutationists were able to make their case with a fluency that historians have ignored until recently . |
| 11 | Their constituency was the silent majority of music paper readers that critics love to sneer at : students , ex-students , and those destined to be students ( sixth formers and fifth formers ) . |
| 12 | But whatever the case , tool use is only one of the many varied and complex behavioural adaptations that animals have acquired in their struggle to survive . |
| 13 | The recognition that managers needed training in order to acquire the necessary skills to manage effectively implicitly accepted that such skills could be moved around and injected into businesses when required . |
| 14 | The second place is that probably one of the reasons that physicians feel threatened by these kind of laws is that , without the law , I can cruise along and maintain my patients ' comfort and my sanity to the best of my ability . |
| 15 | Others think that the obligation is based on the sort of reasons that philosophers have adduced in support of an obligation to obey , which have been refuted by various writers in recent years , and will be briefly considered below . |
| 16 | One of the strengths of organisations is the expertise that officials have accumulated over time . |
| 17 | Often , the coping strategies that teachers adopt to deal with contextual contingencies can become so habitual , so routinized , that they seem like coping no more , but worthwhile and valid teaching . |
| 18 | To build times that nurses spent working with patients , into a specification and to , basically to form contracts based upon that time . |
| 19 | It is one of the easiest measures for the government to control , but it has been frequently criticized as being of little use as an indicator of spending power in the economy since it excludes the most important component of money supply , namely bank deposits , and includes money in banks ' tills which is the money that banks need to keep in their tills as a ‘ float ’ . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , that I may be privileged to tread upon flagstones that worshippers have trod for centuries is a joy . |
| 21 | For example , it was no wonder that scholars have searched in vain for Mount Horeb on Sinai since it should be Harib — and this is to be found in the Yemen area . |
| 22 | It is sometimes possible to find a few rare or special examples of an artist 's work that dealers have sold at rising prices , but this is no basis for saying prices for that artist 's work in general have risen . |
| 23 | Secondly , to give the magazine readability , something with lasting value and relevance that readers wish to keep for reference . |
| 24 | An unusual aspect of these dreams is the cautious attitude that dreamers tend to adopt to flying — a rare example of commentary within a dream , of insight or lucidity . |
| 25 | We shall shortly see how the tax system , in this case a tax on cigarettes , may be used to offset externalities that individuals fail to take into account . |
| 26 | These principles essentially define the subject : they are the bearings that teachers need to take in order to plot their course . |
| 27 | A vast number of women do n't appreciate the positive contributions that men have made to the world , such as knitted polyester suits , one-day cricket and the Cuban missile crisis . |
| 28 | The quiteron is not the first superconducting device that engineers have considered for chips . |
| 29 | Even if the software designed is genuinely original and useful , there is a danger that scholars become hooked on the production of software . |
| 30 | This was thought to be the first time for nearly 70 years that police had fired on a white crowd in South Africa . |