Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has the Liberal party broken a convention , or was it merely a display of bad manners that they left the Chamber immediately after their spokesman had finished ? |
| 2 | If the mother objects to abortion on moral or religious grounds , the tests are virtually pointless , and certainly not worth the additional risks that they raise . |
| 3 | It seemed to professionals and parents that there are certain ways in which young people can be helped : regimes they should follow ; treatments that are essential to their well-being ; skills and knowledge they require ; and risks that they need to be sheltered from . |
| 4 | They would highlight certain characteristics of human beings , such as emotions or the capacity to make moral choices , as characteristics that they wish to value above all others . |
| 5 | All too often , students engage in study that only results in shallow or superficial learning of the first type — for example , the rote learning of names , dates , superficial factual data and characteristics that you hold in your short-term memory just long enough to pass an examination and that are then rapidly forgotten , because they have not been internalized — perhaps because our psyches know they are not of much use in the long run . |
| 6 | Almost all the characteristics that I enumerate apply to other nations in one way or another . |
| 7 | We should n't adopt stands that we try this now and try something else next time round , which I believe is what the C E C is recommending . |
| 8 | The sounds that Angus heard and the sounds that his wife heard and the songs that they sung . |
| 9 | Then all of a sudden these strange people started coming out of record companies who were involved in the video end of it and deciding this is what we should do with that song and sort of you know these were songs that we had planned and recorded and and all of a sudden these people were changing them . |
| 10 | Just taking aye , just songs that I liked and I just er take them off tapes and , and records , and I just write them down , |
| 11 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
| 12 | The most you can hope to do is to record the songs that you like , and that is as much ‘ planning ’ as there is in Kiss . |
| 13 | What , how did how did you collect the songs that you sing then , I mean were they just things that |
| 14 | But it 's rather surprising that is n't it cos er a a lot of these er songs that you sing actually came from America . |
| 15 | Are you happy to sing the songs that you sing ? |
| 16 | A repertoire of songs that it has heard |
| 17 | The insecticidal activity of most strains of Bt arises mainly from the proteinaceous δ-endotoxins , which are produced in such large amounts within the cell when it forms spores that they produce a characteristic crystal ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 18 | And I I really do n't think they have any business without consulting you and me , as the peoples that they represent , because I 'm I 'm a voter in North Yorkshire too , so I do n't think they have any business actually doing this without consulting us first of all . |
| 19 | And are those hot chestnuts that I see ? ’ |
| 20 | Mr Delors abandoned a semi-social engagement in Watford to return to Brussels after a brief visit to Oxford , with accusations ringing in his ears that he had sabotaged the talks . |
| 21 | It is a universal characteristic of higher animals that they senesce ; that is , the likelihood of their dying in a given time interval , say a year , increases as they grow older , and often fecundity declines . |
| 22 | And when they are fleeing it is , of course , the rump regions of the other animals that they see most clearly . |
| 23 | Now sheep are animals that we tend to regard as being pretty stupid and most of the time they 're timid creatures who will run away at the slightest sound or sight of something strange in their midst . |
| 24 | The greater understanding of the minds of our common farm animals that we gain from these experiments will undoubtedly be of use in designing housing systems which allow the animals both increased freedom , and increased control over their own lives . |
| 25 | There are also several creatures which , while they seem to be related to the segmented worms , are rather more complex in structure and quite unlike any other animals that we know , living or fossil . |
| 26 | Well looking at the individual breeds of animals that we 've got here , tell us about the basic breed line that you you keep on the farm here . |
| 27 | With the change from a nomadic and food-gathering to an agricultural and more highly organized form of society , man 's anxiety about himself and the animals that he hunted merged into a wider anxiety about nature . |
| 28 | Animals that you have captured specially for testing should be set free immediately afterwards in the place from which they were taken . |
| 29 | If you walk into the centre of the triangle the animals that you find there , for instance the spider with a Jewish seven-branched candelabra on its head , will be various " genetic compromises " between the three anchor biomorphs . |
| 30 | As the ash dries hard it is dug out for sale for the construction industry , yet another habitat is created With the layers of rock compacted over millions of years , this soft ash forms perfect artificial gifts for burrowing animals like rabbits For this young fox , what better place to practise digging than a soft cliff of ash , watched nervously by potential lunch Another predator not necessarily fond of the ash , but very keen on the animals that it attracts , is the polecat ferret Once used by poachers many of these agile hunters are now wild and range freely over the rough ground near power stations in search of prey Round at the top of the ash are the nest borrows of one of Britain 's rarest bird , the sand martin the monitor of this power station has ensured special in there so the birds can find ideal nest sites . |