Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To remedy this , they designed a motor in the driver 's wiper pivot that increases pressure on the screen as the car increases its speed . |
| 2 | It will inevitably be a political process but it will be a more informed political judgement , the reformers claim , than the pure bargaining process that preceded it . |
| 3 | Thus it is plausible to view science as an enormous cluster of innovations , of which the most successful are diffused by means of a contagion process that produces a logistic curve in all facets of scientific activity . ’ |
| 4 | Its crust was already thick and rigid enough to hold open huge basins as early as 4.2 x 109 years ago ; and the great floods of mare basalt that filled the basins apparently ceased to erupt about 3.1 x 109 years ago . |
| 5 | This time it was the specialist defence press that placed the construction of military adaptation on the venture . |
| 6 | Thank God , it was n't he who had to break the news to the woman that her husband and her daughter had both been killed in the car crash that had fractured her skull . |
| 7 | GAME show host Leslie Crowther is fully conscious again , five weeks after the car crash that put him in a coma . |
| 8 | A fiver will open a National Savings investment account that pays 6.25 per cent gross . |
| 9 | Suzie Chamfer demanded during the animated dormitory chatter that characterised the first night of the new term at the larger boarding school to which at least half their class at Great Stourford had progressed en bloc . |
| 10 | By the time the spring arrives , the region is ideally pre-conditioned for chlorine to break loose from CFCs , halons , methyl chloroform and carbon tetrachloride that has accumulated in the atmosphere . |
| 11 | Various people answered , and no one knew where anyone was , and only three or four times was Alistair successfully connected to the apparently permanent coughing fit that crackled away at the other end of Smith 's extension . |
| 12 | MDC 's success or failure will inevitably be judged on its ability to develop quite different approaches to urban development than the physical regeneration process that has been the hallmark of its achievements to date . |
| 13 | People can find out if they have HIV through a blood test that determines whether they have developed antibodies to HIV . |
| 14 | The Inland Revenue say that carrying on business for the purposes of this section continues until all the debts of the business incurred in the course of trade have been paid , and that includes the liability for tax . |
| 15 | She lifted her face to the sun , half closing her eyes against the silver dazzle that bounced across the water , breathing deeply on the tangle-scented air . |
| 16 | In sum , community empowerment , therefore , becomes a social action process that promotes participation of people , who are in positions of perceived and actual powerlessness , towards goals of increased individual and community decision-making and control , equity of resources , and improved quality of life ( Wallerstein , 1992 ) . |
| 17 | In other words " T " seems to mean that the event described took place in the largest unit of the daylight span that precedes the unit which contains CT , whether or not night intervenes . |
| 18 | No one can be in any doubt now that she was pulling the strings behind the royal side show that has preoccupied Britain for the past six months . |
| 19 | It is true that the Romans had constructed two or three artificial waterways in this country large enough to be regarded as canals : Car Dike that winds from Peterborough up to Lincoln , the Foss Dike joining the Witham and the Trent , and perhaps the Itchen Dike from Winchester to the Itchen . |
| 20 | And in a few moments she would be in the privacy of her own cabin , snuggling into a warm sleeping-bag on a thick foam mattress with a fabric cover that matched the padded headrest . |
| 21 | Tall , he suffered the sunken chest of a consumptive , and had a hooked nose and eyes that , though hidden behind dark lids , were too big for his face — it was the starving poet look that enslaved self-sacrificial women . |
| 22 | It was a DEA drug-bust that went wrong . |
| 23 | It was followed by a hammer blow that echoed like thunder through the steel hulk . |
| 24 | Some teachers have a liaison brief that brings them into contact with other services and parents . |
| 25 | Further , the Vienna Convention does not specify how long the obligations under Article 18 continue , although at some point a signatory State that does not ratify a treaty must surely be in the same position as non-signatories . |
| 26 | Here the detector is connected through a second closely coupled low-loss transformer , the primary of which has an adjustable tapping X' that divides it into sections with turns N' 1 and N' 2 . |
| 27 | I eventually retrieved my five pound note that had , luckily , not made it to the duck 's mouth but had got caught on the bank . |
| 28 | She was wearing a black and white sharkskin dress that did n't make you wonder whether she was the same shape the whole way down . |
| 29 | Kate smoothed down the deep red pure new wool dress that hugged her figure , and smiled at her daughter . |
| 30 | Measurement , and the reason why Lazarsfeld was so insistent on developing a social research format that permitted even a modest level of quantification , is one of the procedures that facilitates the mathematisation of theory , a feature which is the hallmark of the most advanced of the natural sciences , such as physics . |