Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps , for instance , a case could be made for discouraging risks that might lead to a person 's loss of employment , if their chances of gaining another job were remote . |
| 2 | However , the success of the Inuit is based far more on dressing , housing and feeding themselves as well as possible , and avoiding risks that would expose them unduly to cold . |
| 3 | He predicted that it would be those publishers who were prepared to embrace change and take risks that would gain a competitive edge and succeed in the tough marketplace of the '90s . |
| 4 | The problems of the British social formation were sufficiently pressing to demand at least rhetorical radical solutions from the parties ( Wilson 's ‘ planning ’ , Heath 's ‘ free market ’ ) , and governments ' failures to match their promises were of sufficient concern to the people to breed a serious disillusionment with party politics , yet I submit that for most people of all classes the problems were not considered so urgent as to demand a really radical questioning of existing social relations , with all the risks that would entail . |
| 5 | Yet there are strong financial and commercial arguments why , ignoring the hype , any management should take a cool , business-like approach to assessing and where possible minimising the risks that could damage their operations in terms of liability claims , disruption of output or direct financial loss . |
| 6 | These bursts of repetitive non-sequential pressure peaks did not show any characteristics that would suggest a common cavity phenomenon ; they were not preceded by a sudden small increase in base line oesophageal pressure occurring simultaneously at different levels of the oesophagus ; and the shape of the individual waves , although occurring simultaneously at different levels of the oesophagus , was often different from one level to the other . |
| 7 | However , ‘ selective rationalization ’ was sufficiently widespread for Townsend and Peck ( 1985c ) and Watts and Stafford ( 1986 , 216 ) to draw up typologies of plants ' locational and other characteristics that might affect the probabilities of closure . |
| 8 | We do not distinguish experiences from non-experiences as we might distinguish oranges from apples , viz. by indicating certain characteristics that might enable anyone , including those who have never tasted either fruit , to tell one from the other . |
| 9 | Pearson uses the concept of uncertainty to offer a matrix which directs attention to characteristics that might reduce the risks of innovation . |
| 10 | Policies have characteristics that must affect the nature of the implementation process . |
| 11 | Taken at its first test session at Michelin 's Clermont Ferrand test track , they show the car still under heavy disguise but revealing some of the characteristics that should give it a place among the great supercars . |
| 12 | There will , of course , always be certain competencies or aptitudes that may need to be tested , e.g. colour blindness or spatial awareness . |
| 13 | As the trio began mapping out the songs that would fill Kylie 's first album , Stock was among the first to make what was to become a familiar prediction . |
| 14 | A further difficulty concerns the sheer numbers of such spores that would need to be involved . |
| 15 | They had come quietly but Tom had ears that could hear a mouse moving underground , or a squirrel breathing in a tree . |
| 16 | They were the sort of ears that could keep plates spinning at the circus . |
| 17 | I hunt with a camera , to capture images of animals that may become extinct in Indochina if hunting is not either strictly controlled or stopped . |
| 18 | These are animals that would seem to have no chance of survival in the desert — they are toads . |
| 19 | There are a lot of animals that would like to dine off nome , Masklin had said . |
| 20 | There must be enough of the right food , the temperature and habitat must be right , there must not be too many other animals that would parasitize it , or kill it for food . |
| 21 | Dr Piperno studies phytoliths — small pieces of silica that plants lay down in their tissues to discourage animals that might want to eat them . |
| 22 | A short fence prevented the escape of animals that might attempt to swim the river . |
| 23 | A large and heterogeneous collection of organisms are grouped in the Protozoa , including all those animals that can lead an autonomous existence as a single cell . |
| 24 | As the number of people in Europe has increased , animals that could cohabit with humans thrive while others are marginalised . |
| 25 | The actual animals that have ever lived on Earth are a tiny subset of the theoretical animals that could exist . |
| 26 | The people that are in the audience laugh when they see animals that could have been made to do things — just for money . |
| 27 | They may also contain the eggs , spores or pupae of other small animals that will hatch out when you have put the material in your microhabitat . |
| 28 | You 've got two legs that can carry you there and two hands that can pour it into a glass . |
| 29 | ‘ Them stuck in there , all they can see is bars , an' us saying ‘ Look at them , are n't they sweet ’ , and them with legs that can run a hundred miles and skin made for boiling heat standing there in cages in rain and snow and hailstorms and having babies that 've never seen the bush and the jungle and the step — ’ |
| 30 | Hewlett-Packard Co is crossing itself to ward off any demons that would give it the same misery Sun Microsystems Inc is going through moving from Solaris 1.0 to Solaris 2.0 . |