Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun pl] that [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What are the cultural or historical forces that contribute to these problems ? |
| 2 | The cottages were small and damp , with earth floors and none of the cooking or sanitary arrangements that make for domestic comfort . |
| 3 | The video camera scans photographs ( or , of course , a real person ) and encodes the image into pixels — picture elements or numerical values that correspond to the lightness or darkness of the image . |
| 4 | The department welcomes applications from graduates , particularly those with a veterinary degree , to undertake postgraduate studies in the veterinary clinical sciences , or basic sciences that relate to clinical disciplines . |
| 5 | When I was a union official , most — if not most , a good part — of the serious or fatal accidents that occurred at my pit involved men who were working excessive hours . |
| 6 | This does separate members of a run of keys , but it fails to separate two or more records that randomize to a particular storage position . |
| 7 | Even so , considerable errors can build up over the period of ten or more years that elapses between one Census date and the time when the finalized results of the next Census can be used . |
| 8 | ARC is a term commonly used to describe one or more illnesses that occur during HIV infection which are not formally regarded to be AIDS . |
| 9 | To prove whether a place is ‘ public ’ could necessitate taking a statement from a person who had authorised access to a normally private place ; enquiring about and keeping observations on the place to show actual usage ; or describing any permanent or temporary signs that relate to who had access . |
| 10 | A person must also have adequate notice of any charges to be brought against him or any matters that have to be taken into account . |
| 11 | But little of all this results in rational or systematic debate about what people should study during the three or four years that lead to their first degree . |
| 12 | We have explored a general , if somewhat schematic , framework which allows us to analyse rather than simply describe what undergraduates are taught during the three or four years that lead to their first degree . |
| 13 | ‘ I think , Dr Markham , ’ she said firmly , ‘ if we are to improve the atmosphere around here and have a reasonable working relationship , there are one or two things that need to be said to clear the air . ’ |
| 14 | the Humanities Faculty , having been rather disturbed by one or two things that emerged from the study , decided to meet in someone 's house the day after the end of the Christmas Term . |
| 15 | ( 2 ) Straight or curved lines that radiate from a common centre , but do not necessarily pass through it . |
| 16 | Make sure you understand any exclusions or special conditions that apply to your policy . |
| 17 | Macdonald suggests that foxes account for just one in every 15 or 20 lambs that die on Scottish hills . |
| 18 | He says that automatic alarms that warn of radioactivity on clothes have been ‘ arbitrarily ’ adjusted so that the alarms do not go off too often . |
| 19 | Although all firms that go into IVAs are automatically referred to the Institute 's Investigation Committee , the Committee 's policy is that it will adjourn consideration of their cases to give the arrangements time to work , unless there is evidence of fraud , falsehood or gross recklessness . |
| 20 | These two sources have together provided mankind with a viable concept of a ‘ god ’ by decreeing that all changes that contributed to ultimate human happiness were ‘ good ’ , and can be conceived within the human mind as persisting forever to build a vast ‘ granary ’ of ‘ goodness ’ . |
| 21 | I am saying that Lord Justice Woolf , who produced an authoritative report on prison riots and the improvement of prison conditions — admittedly , a report that does not recommend the one thing that the Home Secretary has chosen to do , but a report which the Home Secretary wrongly described as comprehensive — draws attention time after time to the simple fact that all prisons that rioted in 1990 and were the subject of the inquiry were so overcrowded that many of the proper duties that prisons should perform were not being and could not be performed . |
| 22 | So the Government supports Percent for Art and I would have hoped that it would have at least done a little bit of er work little bit of homework and I would have hoped that those members that went to the Percent for Art seminar would have stood up and said something positive about what it 's about . |
| 23 | If Ministers are serious about wanting us not to be governed by unaccountable bureaucrats , why are they not leading in the argument that those decisions that have to be taken at European level are fully accountable to a stronger European Parliament that is elected by a fair system ? |
| 24 | It is well known , indeed , that Charles Darwin accepted these Lamarckian notions , but what Lamarckism stands for today is the notion that adaptive changes that occur within an animal 's own lifetime somehow are imprinted upon the genome and thus become part of its heritage . |
| 25 | He used his fingers and the stick , he scuffled food into his mouth from the pan which he held close by his mouth so that any pieces that fell from his fingers or lips would go back into the container , not onto the ground . |
| 26 | There are moral and political implications that follow on such a stance . |
| 27 | For all the surface change that accompanied the industrialisation of Prussian and German society the social and political pressures that emanated from the Junkers on these issues remained uniform and constant . |
| 28 | Perhaps it is better , rather than roaming back into the recesses of geological time to consider the sudden and simultaneous extinctions that happened in Our geological yesterday . |
| 29 | Mr Hunt has replied as follows : ‘ Whilst I acknowledge that there is merit in the concept of a single , universal agri-environmental scheme for the whole of Wales , there are many complex legal , resource and administrative matters that need to be properly and fully addressed before I could consider whether to proceed in this way . |
| 30 | Although countries like Mexico , Chile and Brazil have budding film industries , the products of which are now reaching the industrialised world , it is still North American and European films that predominate in the cinemas of Mexico City , Santiago and São Paulo . |