Example sentences of "[noun] that [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 Consider each impasse that you meet as a stepping stone along the path to eventual happiness and fulfilment .
2 Sometimes I go out and pick up strange men in clubs because that seems to fit the self-image that I 've adopted — I do n't know if that makes sense .
3 If the mother objects to abortion on moral or religious grounds , the tests are virtually pointless , and certainly not worth the additional risks that they raise .
4 It seemed to professionals and parents that there are certain ways in which young people can be helped : regimes they should follow ; treatments that are essential to their well-being ; skills and knowledge they require ; and risks that they need to be sheltered from .
5 However , I would disagree most strongly with the suggestions for future action that they draw from their results .
6 Critics argue that because of the control of information officials are in a position to slant their recommendations to one course of action that they prefer rather than one they do not prefer .
7 Indeed , and to allow them to take that sort of action that they feel allows them , or enables them to express what they 're feelings are , but to assume that they can take the sort of action that we as adults have not been able to take , i.e. to find different ways and more mature ways of resolving conflicts is putting expectations on children that we as adults have n't been able to achieve ourselves .
8 I would suggest that is the action that we take .
9 The churn rate is now down to eleven percent , the result of positive action that we 've taken there and we expect to add a million homes during this year and the cable audience I am pleased to say is growing still very very slowly er but that should help as well .
10 So I hope that you will agree or confirm the action that we 've taken in expressing those sorts of views .
11 Erm , in the point that was raised from the London region , talking about resources in dealing with er regional health and safety officers and their time , part of the er document itself , is looking at consultation , so that the resource implications and the necessary action that we have to take in identifying priorities , deals with those things and those things are now opened up to discussion , er by accepting the report , and we 'll be looking at that over this next year .
12 He has not got the freedom of action that I have .
13 My whole understanding of the human world requires that in thought and imagination I am constantly shifting between and responding from different viewpoints , here or there , remembered or anticipated , individual or collective , my own or someone else 's , hypothetical , fictional , or simply indefinite ; it is only in action that I have to settle in a present viewpoint , whether personal ( ‘ I ’ ) or social ( ‘ We ’ ) .
14 They would highlight certain characteristics of human beings , such as emotions or the capacity to make moral choices , as characteristics that they wish to value above all others .
15 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 .
16 Almost all the characteristics that I enumerate apply to other nations in one way or another .
17 He went on : ‘ Every gratutitous headline that you put out is money into Noraid 's collecting boxes in pubs here and on the east coast of America .
18 We should n't adopt stands that we try this now and try something else next time round , which I believe is what the C E C is recommending .
19 The most you can hope to do is to record the songs that you like , and that is as much ‘ planning ’ as there is in Kiss .
20 What , how did how did you collect the songs that you sing then , I mean were they just things that
21 But it 's rather surprising that is n't it cos er a a lot of these er songs that you sing actually came from America .
22 Are you happy to sing the songs that you sing ?
23 Your worships , er , there 's nothing at all more sinister in the failure to stop and failure to report than than that , i th that is a a true record of the er er er of the incident as far as Mrs was concerned erm and it is something which erm comes about an accident which came about probably through the inexperience of the children er , running across the pedestrian crossing thinking that they have priority erm and not having regard to other road users er , and Mrs was travelling at slow speed but it was she was put in a difficult position by the the way in which the children ran across the road .
24 I 'm only thinking that you 've got somebody counting ?
25 The insecticidal activity of most strains of Bt arises mainly from the proteinaceous δ-endotoxins , which are produced in such large amounts within the cell when it forms spores that they produce a characteristic crystal ( Fig. 3 ) .
26 And I I really do n't think they have any business without consulting you and me , as the peoples that they represent , because I 'm I 'm a voter in North Yorkshire too , so I do n't think they have any business actually doing this without consulting us first of all .
27 And are those hot chestnuts that I see ? ’
28 It 's only on Innsbruck that we 've done it because that 's what the market demands .
29 As we have seen already when we have to cope with a large number of losses in a short time , it becomes much harder to deal with the grief that we feel .
30 I 'll be all sweet penitence and grief that I 've dared set my will against his .
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