Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] that [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | The study of portraits on coins is therefore as much about the political factors that influenced them as about their intrinsic or moral interest . |
| 2 | By the time they are mature , hedgehogs can have several thousand of the modified hairs that give them their prickly appearance and an ideal form of defence against attackers . |
| 3 | It was one of the magnetic forces that drew them overseas , and led them to disappointment quite as often as to wealth . |
| 4 | People who are concerned to preserve their own well-being , and also to strive to do a better job , need to look in two directions for help : they must look inwards , to gain insight into the dynamics of their own stress ; and they must look outwards , to understand better the social forces that surround them . |
| 5 | Deviants can not be viewed as billiard balls inescapably moved by the social forces that surround them . |
| 6 | The muscles of the legs and abdomen , and in many insects all the flight muscles as well , respond synchronously to the nervous impulses that reach them . |
| 7 | Rincewind looked around nervously for a tall figure in black ( wizards , even failed wizards , have in addition to rods and cones in their eyeballs the tiny octagons that enable them to see into the far octarine , the basic colour of which all other colours are merely pale shadows impinging on normal four-dimensional space . |
| 8 | The second is that the experiments we do are only as good as the psychological theories that underlie them . |
| 9 | Eagleton 's Althusserian phase of the mid-1970s was strongly attacked by a Marxist academic , Kiernan Ryan , who has since taken issue with another Marxist , Alan Sinfield , on the extent to which the great literary works of the past can transcend the reactionary ideologies that produced them . |
| 10 | The high proportion of royalists looks embarrassing not only for Merton 's thesis but for variants of it which have claimed that it was the political radicalism ( not the puritanism ) of the parliamentary radicals that made them receptive to revolutionary science . |
| 11 | The formulation of the theory of labour supply violates the classical homogeneity postulate which states that a scalar multiplication of all nominal quantities should leave real quantities , and the functional relationships that underlie them , unchanged . |
| 12 | A profound historical amnesia has come to settle around the Teds whereby rock-and-roll outrages of the past , together with the magnified excitements that accompanied them , have been smuggled out of sight . |
| 13 | The solution to the problem can be found by shifting emphasis from the terminal products , the genetic blueprint and the final cultural product , and concentrating on the developmental procedures that connect them . |
| 14 | It is , in fact , an approach to managing health services and the range of views is largely reflecting just where individuals are within an organisation , the key tasks that concern them and their own approach to implementation . |
| 15 | My soldiers were guarding the master copies of the very instructions that made them do the guarding . |
| 16 | He took immense trouble in preparing his lectures and the experimental demonstrations that accompanied them . |
| 17 | Then in one easy movement his hand slid a little higher , his fingers deftly slipping the bra straps from her shoulders , then freeing her eager breasts from the lacy cups that imprisoned them . |
| 18 | But I would place a somewhat different emphasis , and suggest that in the Chewong case fear is a positive emotion and encouraged in children because to be fearful is to be human , while the arousal of other inner states is negatively valued and discouraged — as manifest in the various rules that forbid them ( see Howell 1981 ) . |
| 19 | Despite the problems in local government , the municipal elections and the general elections that preceded them have provided legitimate government both locally and nationally . |
| 20 | If one can find that the things described by particular words have some common characteristic one ought to limit the general words that follow them to things of that genus ( Lambourn v McLellan [ 1903 ] 2 Ch 268 ) . |
| 21 | The only faces that greeted them belonged to sundry dead abbots glaring down from dusky oil paintings . |
| 22 | The indifference of Limnititzkers to the great outdoors is well-known ; the only landscapes that interest them are the hills of a totally discorporeal Zion . |
| 23 | Evans ( 1979 ) argues that the countries of the capitalist core rely on political stability in the semi-periphery ( the NICs ) , in order to assure the continuing accumulation of capital , and that the triple alliance delivers this , primarily through the ‘ state bourgeoisies ’ and the autocratic regimes that nurture them . |
| 24 | The little things that drive our family mad and the wonderful things that make them love us . |
| 25 | I shall examine in this section the means by which different discourses and public texts are ground together to reveal the common structures that underlie them and the common strategies they employ . |
| 26 | … within the disaster area there are discovered close-knit groups — little communities , families , husbands and wives — all brought into even closer intimacy by the catastrophic events that overtake them . |
| 27 | She ignored the amazed looks that followed them up the long hill out of town , glad to reach home long before the other two . |
| 28 | All of the walking species had the widely-splayed legs that gave them a slow and lumbering gait , but , in the absence of more streamlined animals , they prospered . |
| 29 | They stared at each other in silence for a moment , surprised to find that they shared some fragment of a common cause : the unsolved mysteries that troubled them both , though twenty years and half a world apart , were somehow one and the same . |
| 30 | Exports of Japanese machinery , on the other hand , withstood the downturn quite well because the Asian economies that buy them continued to boom . |