Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During other attacks , Abbey Hill provided warning soon enough for ships to fire rockets full of chaff — metallic strips that produced false echoes on Exocet 's radar . |
| 2 | But in South Africa today , and surely for a good many years to come , there are also additional considerations that demand from a large company actions and policies that go beyond its immediate business interests and seek to ameliorate the excessive social and economic imbalances that have developed in our society . |
| 3 | These motives , by dint of repeated presentation to the mind , counterbalance the powerful impressions of the private passions that oppose the common good ( Beccaria , 1963 , p. 12 ) . |
| 4 | Less accomplished lecturers repeated the message at meetings of the second-rate institutions that infect academic life . |
| 5 | And the world over there are Alfa Romeo dealers who share a passion for fine cars and the highly refined technical skills that go into them . |
| 6 | Then there arrived a rainbow of stronger colours and she could have wept for its strident spectrum that came to disturb the pastel gavotte of suns , but it had a strength she could not resist and a hundred thousand pullulating meanings that tugged at her . |
| 7 | The regional policies that have been developed , refined and improved in Britain in the past quarter of a century owe a great deal to the foresight of then Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in deciding to send Lord Hailsham , as he is now , to the north-east to make some progress . |
| 8 | Whereas Philip V succeeded ( where two hundred years of Hapsburg effort had failed ) in dismantling the political institutions that gave Catalonia , Valencia , and Aragon a quasi-independent status his successors failed to diminish the fueros of the Basque Provinces — Guipúzcoa , Vizcaya , Alava — and of Navarre . |
| 9 | She looked at Tommaso Talvi in her mind 's eye , she adjusted her image of him to fit with her sister 's , she inventoried his features , beginning with the eyes , and redrafted them in order to see them as ‘ pretty ’ , she scanned his caffelatte pallor and his big hands , grasping the bread she had cut for him , she looked at his mouth , the purplish fullness of his lips and the strong teeth that showed when he grinned , as he had done , often , but without laughter , when the men were disagreeing about the possibilities of change , the chances of the election on returning the Socialists , of bringing about improvements for the labourers now that the franchise had at last been widened to include some people who were n't bosses , like her father , a music teacher with a sense of honour , of justice . |
| 10 | This will suit most bulbs , and annual or late-flowering perennial climbers that use the hedge for support . |
| 11 | The essence of the British suggestion was that the time had come to rationalise the proliferation of European institutions that had sprung up over the past decade , most specifically by introducing a single European assembly which , unrelated to any one organisation , would serve them all . |
| 12 | THE devastating flames that swept through Windsor Castle did not simply damage part of Britain 's heritage . |
| 13 | Under Franco , they used to be distributed among representatives of the different political groups that made up the regime 's base of support ; under democracy , incumbents in such posts have tended to be replaced with each change of government . |
| 14 | It is clear that this change is highly evaluated in Belfast in terms of social class hierarchy and status , as it is the more prestigious groups that tend to adopt it and the more ‘ advanced ’ ( generally female and younger ) group who introduce it to the conservative inner-city communities ( which are characterized by dense and multiplex network ties that tend to resist innovation and maintain conservative forms ) . |
| 15 | Erm you know , almost you have to go too far or to go such er an extent it would be erm and the force simply to erm stop counter-revolution and , and to overthrow all , you know , deep seated authorities that had lasted thousands of years , I mean to , to overcome that you do need a revolution . |
| 16 | At this level , focus is on the acquisition and retention of the more subtle skills that produce fluency . |
| 17 | But beneath it all , beneath the strange rituals that passed in this milieu for normality , there was an undercurrent of fear , of latent panic . |
| 18 | Lee Rodwell on the conflicting views that leave her feeling muddled and guilty |
| 19 | I thought that maybe Elsie went under finally sickened and stifled by the righteous attitudes that prevailed at the time . |
| 20 | I was sure he knew I could barely contain myself or restrain my trembling fingers that longed to run their tips along the insides of those meaty thighs that were spreadeagled enticingly over the edge of his seat . |
| 21 | In others the seeds hang out on funicles and are dispersed by bats ; others have persistent calyces that allow the fruit to float . |
| 22 | to identify the political and economic groups that have an incentive either to promote and support particular prevention policies or to obstruct and oppose them ; |
| 23 | The actual surface consisted of a flimsy 6-in ( 15-cm ) layer of concrete , a far cry from the resilient surfaces that take today 's high-speed cars . |
| 24 | That applies equally to eastern European states that become members of the European Community in the meantime . |
| 25 | They were breeding in huge numbers in all the hollows of the tall eucalypti that grew on the banks of the Mokai , and fed in flocks of many hundreds upon the grass seeds on the plains , descending in great noisy crowds on the pools by Gould 's tents to drink . |
| 26 | They were accused of belonging to Islamic groups that attacked Israeli soldiers . |
| 27 | There has indeed been an obvious effort by Mr Rabin 's government to bolster the Palestine Liberation Organisation at the expense of the Islamic groups that reject the notion of peace with the Jewish state . |
| 28 | What are the characteristics of stressed syllables that enable us to identify them ? |
| 29 | When we made available the special allocation of £3.5 million earlier in the year , eight authorities in Scotland came forward with specific projects that resulted in 700 extra housing units being made available . |
| 30 | And while such mundane things as fluctating interest rates and ever-increasing gas , electricity , water bills remain on the scene , it 's a strong possibility that ‘ wider and deeper ownership ’ will be hampered by thevery economic policies that spawned it . |