Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as the academic and professional qualifications , accountants who aspire to the de rigueur red braces must also have personal characteristics that set them apart . |
| 2 | These divergent states are often subjectively perceived as having distinctive characteristics that mark them out as discrete varieties : people can recognize regional varieties such as ‘ Birmingham ’ English , ‘ Yorkshire ’ English and so on , and they often have a fairly clear idea of how such varieties are distinguished from one another . |
| 3 | In the process of sexual selection , certain males were said to develop characteristics that gave them the edge over other males in the competition for females . |
| 4 | In this particular instance it is representational , as the ‘ performance mode ’ is , for the child is required to describe in action whatever the teacher suggests ( as in the example above , ‘ So you go to the bathroom and turn the doorknob ’ ) , but the ‘ exercise mode ’ has other characteristics that give it a special mental quality . |
| 5 | We have begun to measure these trees , noting characteristics that give us clues to their genetic relationships : these trees , growing under plantation conditions , will eventually tell us whether we really have collected new genes useful to farmers who grow cocoa . |
| 6 | He joked with them like a cheerful , older brother and sang one or two shockingly rude Army songs that made them both giggle . |
| 7 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 8 | Filled with windswept harmonies , stripped , emotional guitar playing and the kind of plaintive , country-tinged songs that niggle you from here to the grave , the latest offering from Nebraska-born songwriter Matthew Sweet will win the favour of anyone whose tastes lie somewhere north of Gram Parsons , south of The Beatles , east of CSN&Y and west of the Pixies . |
| 9 | Steven continues : ‘ There 's a complete balancing out of all the different musical influences which enables us to write songs that make us sound like no-one else . |
| 10 | Their new LP ( their best since their first , Psychocandy ) is good for different reasons : because it has the sort of rumbling guitars and invigorating , climbing , bittersweet songs that make you jump out of bed and open up the curtains in the morning . |
| 11 | They nearly all contain the extraordinary adrenalin tug that marks pop off from everything apart from the madder bits of techno — songs that make you feel like you are on speed are harder to write than ones that make you cry — FACT . |
| 12 | but it cracked , cracked me up is these fucking songs that make you take and he keeps hiding behind the oil can |
| 13 | And , in the end , feckless ones , it is , as we must always say , the songs that prove it all . |
| 14 | Forced to listen to all those hoary chestnuts that cast me and my kind as the bad guys , and the butt of all the jokes . |
| 15 | Christ be in all my thinking about me , Christ be in all , Christ be the with eyes that see me , with ears that hear me , Christ ever be . |
| 16 | Our limited ambition can , therefore , only be to sustain a reasonable quality of life for ourselves and for those animals that serve us . |
| 17 | Similarly , although they show remarkable powers of regeneration in the aquarium , there is a better chance of success if the animal is undamaged when purchased , so it 's wise to look for cuts and splits of any kind , and reject animals that show them . |
| 18 | The species of plants and animals that inhabit them today have adapted , where adaptation was needed , only during the current ice age . |
| 19 | Because fruit is not very nutritious in proportion to its bulk , animals that eat it must consume a lot . |
| 20 | This is an adaptation to survive predation from the many animals that hunt them — not least man for the cooking pot ! |
| 21 | To the animals that do it , there is nothing particularly special about using tools : it is a piece of behaviour much like any other that the animal performs . |
| 22 | He despises the human race and the combinations that make it tick ; the human race in its present state , he 'd qualify — he 'd like to send us all back to nursery school — so he has to behave as unlike his fellow beings as he can . ’ |
| 23 | Great houses did not of course cease to be built ; on the contrary , almost as many were erected in the nineteenth century as a whole as in the three centuries that preceded it put together . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She ran , fleeing the demons that pursued her , dragging in great gasps of cold air as if they were her last . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | a ) Heres that book you asked me to bring ( The fact that you asked me to bring it is not new. ) b ) Ive got to take the dog for a walk ( ‘ For a walk ’ is by far the most probable thing to follow ‘ I 've got to take the dog ’ ; if the sentence ended with ‘ to the vet ’ the tonic syllable would probably be ‘ vet ’ . ) |
| 28 | But er all of the main organizations that have you know World Wide and Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth and so on and Age Concern . |
| 29 | But it soon became apparent to the pioneering voluntary organizations that established them , such as the Richmond Fellowship , that patients who had been mentally unwell for years did not miraculously become capable of independent living in a short space of time ; they often needed permanent help and support and coped particularly poorly with changes in their environment and lifestyle . |
| 30 | But there was something about them , maybe their mohair suits , maybe the hard men they imported from Glasgow or maybe their bonding as brothers that made them seem glamorous . |