Example sentences of "[be] those that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best British films have always been those that transcended these artificial oppositions . |
| 2 | " Cloudy " phrases are those that obscure the precise meaning of a sentence . |
| 3 | Anxious , because you know from past experience that when the convenient moment arrives for you to sow , the weather will turn wet or cold , even snowy , and effort and seed would be wasted , yet time is slipping by and the crops most worth raising are those that come first . |
| 4 | people I know and the only ones I really know are those that come in the shop . |
| 5 | Other examples from his list of claimed sense-qualifiers turn out to belong , instead , to a class of peculiarly restrictive adjectives which we discuss elsewhere ( Chapter 7 and also Ferris , in preparation ) : ( 31 ) their main faults our prime suspect he was named first citizen These adjectives , unlike most , are inherently restrictive , and select the particular entity to be identified by a speaker out of an already assumed body of entities ; thus the faults in the first example are not main faults in any general sense , as would be required if they were to be sense-qualifiers ; they are those that come out in front , relative to the background group of all their faults , relevant on the particular occasion where the expression is used . |
| 6 | Non-qualifying trusts are those that hold more than 50% of their investments in holdings outside the UK or EC . |
| 7 | For the sake of clarity , one possible solution is to provide that the SSAPs to be used are those that applied at a specified date even if changed subsequently between exchange and completion . |
| 8 | I could enjoy being ‘ half in love with easeful death ’ , or telling myself , ‘ I have not loved the world nor the world me ’ , or agreeing that , ‘ our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought ’ . |
| 9 | As he explained it at the briefings and again at his trial , three years later , ‘ The only people in the conflict in Nicaragua that are today buried beneath a cross are those that fight for the resistance . |
| 10 | There are those that relate directly to particular teaching subjects — new teaching packages and teaching methods in history or French or integrated science . |
| 11 | Good examples of intractable causal variables are those that relate to genetic make-up . |
| 12 | Hysteresis effects are those that remain after the initial causes are removed . |
| 13 | While many companies have a specific department with this title , there are those that take the view that marketing is the concern of all , while agreeing that the major role in providing market intelligence and identification is a commercial one . |
| 14 | Among the most painful objects of the present are those that tackle the evanescence of contemporary life with something only too material : fibreglass , life-size millworkers in industrial theme parks ; Tudor-style triple garages . |
| 15 | Stage 3 Making Operating Decisions — Operating decisions are those that focus on the efficient use of resources available to the firm in the short term and will be embodied in plans , conventionally referred to as budgets . |
| 16 | In an industrial economy , the growing services are those that support manufacturing , such as transport , distribution and banking . |
| 17 | Unwanted feelings are those that hinder your behaviour such that you are not functioning at the level you are capable of . |
| 18 | Though , on the face of it , the effects that cause pleasure in the short term are those that cause addiction in the long term , there is a lot of variability in the system that might be exploited . |
| 19 | Generally speaking , the most important rules in society are those that make up the law , with laws decided upon by powerful and influential groups in society . |
| 20 | The most terrifying ants of all are those that make no nest but wander through the countryside seeking prey . |
| 21 | The rules of the STV game decree that the only ballot papers needing to be considered for transfer are those that came along last , i.e. in the present case those that lifted Craig 's votes from below to above the quota . |
| 22 | In a true thermonuclear reaction , the ions taking part in the reactions are those that form part of the classical Maxwellian distribution of particle energies . |
| 23 | They claim to have discovered a close relationship between the rate of growth in Gross National Product and the type of college education favoured by Britain 's economic competitors , arguing that the nations that prosper most are those that prepare their students best for the " enterprise culture " of the late twentieth century . |
| 24 | Such errors show up from time to time as inconsistencies in the records , but much worse are those that go undetected , and which could lead to the wrong conclusions being drawn when the records are analysed . |
| 25 | There are a few that are changed before that and there are those that go beyond the legal limit . |
| 26 | Blessed are those that listen intently , yes even with their eyes on the president 's face , for they can be conned into volunteering . |
| 27 | Exercises that increase stamina are those that require you to breath slightly more heavily than usual for a prolonged period of time ( say , an exercise session of thirty minutes or so ) . |
| 28 | We all know that the best dishes for entertaining are those that require little last-minute attention , and they 're better still if they can be prepared in advance and frozen . |
| 29 | He has no hesitation in saying that the most difficult aspects of management for him are those that involve making decisions about people , whether it be a question of promotion , demotion or making somebody redundant . |
| 30 | The internal motions are those that involve no overall translation or rotation of the molecule . |