Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most other weapons can not be considered to have characteristics that make their use illegal whatever the circumstances ; although some others perhaps do — for example , bacteriological weapons , which can equally be argued to be per se illegal . |
| 2 | Television news has three significant characteristics that affect its ability to influence the electorate . |
| 3 | Other stands that caught my eye on my tour were Johnny van Haeften 's very fine paintings , Wartski 's exquisite objets d'arts , David Messum 's fine painting , Bernheimer Fine Arts , and Garrard the Crown Jewellers ' silver . |
| 4 | These were songs that laced their natural exuberance with a strain of English satire that was remarkable because it seemed so unaffected . |
| 5 | He writes songs that bare their roots with an unsubtle pride , and in choosing to cover both a Ron Wood song and a very Clash-version influenced ‘ Pressure Drop ’ , he has outlined his mission very clearly ; namely , to be the sort of rock musician who thinks that Keith Richards is a force for change in the world and that Los Angeles poodle metal is bollocks . |
| 6 | But I also have in mind the massive destruction of delicate , irreplaceable ecosystems ( the rain forests of the world are the most obvious example ) , the massive pollution of the waters of the earth , the massive loss of top soil , the massive contribution to the greenhouse effect , and — lest we forget — the massive assault on human health that can be attributed directly and indirectly to the massive production and consumption of so-called ‘ food ’ animals that characterise our times . |
| 7 | Specialized ornithischians in the late Cretaceous were the remarkable duck-billed dinosaurs , animals that lost their front teeth and had arrays of tiny grinding teeth at the back of the jaw that were continually replaced , like those of the shark , and must have been able to cope with tough vegetation . |
| 8 | Demons of unbelief , demons responsible for masturbation , demons responsible for unhappiness and depression , demons that control our cities — all these and many more seem to have popped up with alarming regularity in recent years . |
| 9 | There has been much comment by Cleese , as well as others , about how being 6ft at the age of 12 ( he 's now 6ft 5in ) , and not being made a prefect at his public school , and being the only child of older , lower middle-class parents , set for a career as a solicitor , began the problems and embarrassments that inspire his comedy . |
| 10 | Excitement spread tentacles that fastened round her heart , squeezing it mercilessly so that it was unable to beat , tentacles that compressed her lungs so they were unable to breathe . |
| 11 | For organizations that want their employees to give of their best the conclusion must be that ‘ we can not afford not to have an effective communication policy ’ . |
| 12 | Once you are up and going , you should select your course out through the waves aiming to jump on only one or two waves that take your fancy . |
| 13 | Hastings Sea Life Centre takes you on a journey beneath the crashing waves that surround our coastline to discover a whole new world … |
| 14 | It was n't easy to tell , from the filthy and shapeless rags that covered their filthy and shapeless bodies , but I guessed that there was a man and a woman and some smaller ones that were children . |
| 15 | Blue eyes that made her heart give an alarming little lurch . |
| 16 | Naylor Massingham enquired , but while his handsomely defined mouth moved in a pleasant upward curve , the hard-as-flint eyes that pierced her large green-eyed look told a very different story . |
| 17 | He saw the calculation at the back of Weis 's eyes that greeted his comment — saw how he looked for a trap in every word of his — and smiled inwardly . |
| 18 | The dark grey eyes that glanced her way just before they moved across the chaotic intersection seemed to mirror that hatred , and she recoiled slightly . |
| 19 | Lisa blinked up at him , for a moment wondering if he was joking , but there was not a shadow of humour in the dark eyes that met her own . |
| 20 | At just over six foot , with thick curling brown hair and eyes that owed their startling blueness to his Irish ancestry , Tom was used to being the object of female appreciation whilst being slightly puzzled by it . |
| 21 | It was fitzAlan , looking down at her with eyes that ripped her heart into pieces , speaking to her in a voice so hard that the words were like blows . |
| 22 | But it was the eyes that drew her attention , dark and smouldering with lovely long lashes . |
| 23 | Quickly she looked away , fiddling with papers on her desk , not sure she could cope with the anguish in his eyes that mirrored her own , but David lingered . |
| 24 | Amusement veiled the sharpness of the ice-blue eyes that held her own astonished grey gaze . |
| 25 | It was his eyes that riveted their attention . |
| 26 | Eyes that turned her insides to jelly , scrambled her mind , made her feel dumb and stupid and childish . |
| 27 | But it was his eyes that compelled her gaze ; between generous lashes they glowed with an amber back-light . |
| 28 | And they had eyes , bright and pricking eyes that shredded her clothes and burrowed to the soft underwear she had purchased in the Centrum store on Magdeburg 's Karl-Marx-Strasse . |
| 29 | Their pupils were covered with red mud from slips and falls , but the teachers were unmarked except for ochre spatters that streaked their mailed tunics |
| 30 | The man was slight , with stooped shoulders , a pink face and thick spectacles that magnified his eyes , making the sockets look like deep pits in his skull . |