Example sentences of "[n mass] and [noun pl] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some companies give such a high priority to the rapid and secure transmission of voice , data and documents that they have built private telecommunications networks in preference to using public systems . |
| 2 | All too often , students engage in study that only results in shallow or superficial learning of the first type — for example , the rote learning of names , dates , superficial factual data and characteristics that you hold in your short-term memory just long enough to pass an examination and that are then rapidly forgotten , because they have not been internalized — perhaps because our psyches know they are not of much use in the long run . |
| 3 | They come here to make a success of their lives , which suggests to me that , despite all the gloomy statistics and stories that we hear from the Opposition , this is still a country of enterprise and opportunity , if one really wants to find that opportunity . |
| 4 | All day long I felt calm and joy , and it was the same when I went to the town and talked to the serving people and friends that I met , for I looked at people from the universal viewpoint of the Eternal . |
| 5 | We need to retain the choice to present ourselves to the world as ‘ not-beautiful ’ , to prevent suffocation and keep up a satisfactory interaction with people and tasks that we encounter . |
| 6 | I was very pleased ; I loved to hear about the people and places that she saw . |
| 7 | I find it very difficult to accept the immigrant people and children that I come into contact with . |
| 8 | Check any impatiens and begonias that you intend to over-winter indoors . |