Example sentences of "that [vb base] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an article in the TES ( 14/9/90 ) Mary Castle claimed that there are fourteen local authorities that insist their schools should have no direct contact with journalists , so one needs to be clear about the LEA regulations before giving a story about the school to the press . |
| 2 | Statistics already show that black women , less susceptible to the street violence and drug problems that undermine their brothers , are now more likely than black men to matriculate and graduate from university . |
| 3 | It is as if we have frozen the beauty or anaesthetized it in an image ; but the images are like the humming birds of a museum case , the real and living beauty is incomparably brighter for those birds are gems that flash their iridiscent colours in a tropical forest . |
| 4 | But this poses a problem : if ‘ crimes ’ are diverse , changeable and selective , how can we expect to be able to make any general statements about the conditions that influence their prevalence ? |
| 5 | They also include species that eat their way through enormous quantities of sediment , extracting edible particles from it , and in the process reprocessing all the sediment ; some of the fossil heart urchins probably had this habit ( see p. 128 ) . |
| 6 | Like mantises that eat their mates , or are eaten by them during intimate congress — even knowing that such a fate must occur — they were fraternally drawn to one another , obeying a bizarre tropism . |
| 7 | It would , note , generally fall not on the individual household , but on whichever public authority is responsible for waste collection — and thus on local taxpayers — and on companies that bring their rubbish straight to the dump . |
| 8 | Experimenters , who approach an experiment with a belief that their hypothesis will be borne out by the experiment , tend to make mistakes of interpretation that favour their hypothesis and tend to overlook interpretations which are unfavourable to it . |
| 9 | The fear is that indiscriminate Bt spraying and widespread use of genetically transformed crops that make their own Bt toxin will reduce the product 's effectiveness and accelerate the spread of resistant strains . |
| 10 | These large fish are called ferox , a distinct species of brown trout that make their living by eating their smaller brethren . |
| 11 | Moreover , he urges his readers not to join sects that make their adherents abandon their families , give up their money and worldly interests , and lead restricted lives that are ordered entirely by the rulers of the sect . |
| 12 | The duo 's set seemed lethargic , a muddy mix robbing them of the textured subtleties that make their records so invigorating . |
| 13 | Most other weapons can not be considered to have characteristics that make their use illegal whatever the circumstances ; although some others perhaps do — for example , bacteriological weapons , which can equally be argued to be per se illegal . |
| 14 | What most managers want to know is how they should juggle what Mr Stark calls the ‘ confusing mix of self-interest , altruism and other influences ’ that make their businesses tick . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , Dr Mowery and Dr Teece have varied sources that make their picture of Japan convincing . |
| 16 | I have a streak of economy in me , even when contemplating how to épater les bourgeois , and recipes that make their sauce out of a stock made at an earlier stage tend to appeal most . |
| 17 | The gods that make their careless journeys across the world , playing with science or magic as they will , create thousands of everything , of sea almonds , of waves , of days — of words . |
| 18 | All of them sheep and cattle yes , even the savage beasts birds of the air and fish that make their way through the water . |
| 19 | Apparently we 're one of the few beer hostelries , so to speak , like pubs and clubs and things like that , that make their profit purely |
| 20 | What happens to ITV firms that lose their franchises ? |
| 21 | Emergency vehicles can be supplied with computers that track their spatial location . |
| 22 | • Aqua-Soil products Ltd are forming a register of all retailers that sell their products . |
| 23 | Weingast , Shepsle and Johnsen ( 1981 ) explore the implications of projects , programmes and grants that concentrate their benefits on specific geographical constituencies but are financed through general taxation . |
| 24 | At Business Superstore specially trained staff help customers to buy the systems that fit their needs . |
| 25 | They 've found that training with the Open Business School offers managers courses that fit their needs and their work experience . |
| 26 | These bodies produce voluminous reports crammed with data on subjects that interest their sponsors . |
| 27 | Second , it ca n't support applications such as Video for Windows that build their own extensions to the Windows application binary interface . |
| 28 | Second , it ca n't support applications such as Video for Windows that build their own extensions to the Windows application binary interface . |
| 29 | Where are the books that celebrate their stories ? |
| 30 | The greater the openness of the boundary , the greater the potential capacity to negotiate across it ; the greater the number of open boundaries , the greater the potential power available to the social actors to promote a dialectical relation with the outside world , to actively influence the processes , policies and events that touch their lives Conversely , the fewer open boundaries there are perceived to be and the more closed , the more powerlessness and passivity is likely to be manifest in relation to the outside world . |