Example sentences of "[noun pl] [that] [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | She emerged at the start of this year with the album Little Earthquakes , a collection of quietly rapturous songs that cast an unflinching eye across such subjects as loss of virginity , shattered romance and kinky sexual encounters . |
| 2 | In the animal kingdom , we find many such examples of signals that play an important role in courtship . |
| 3 | Active since 1987 , it has spent the intervening years seeking solutions that combine an adequate defence of the city against flooding with reestablishment and conservation of the environmental characteristics peculiar to the Lagoon and the safeguarding of economic interests on the surrounding hinterland . |
| 4 | Structural genes code for luxury proteins that play an important role in the life of the cells — haemoglobin in red blood cells , contractile proteins in muscle . |
| 5 | He describes the individual interacting with the social world by filling roles that constitute an identity for her : |
| 6 | Over the three years , schools that register an interest in the scheme will receive regular " theme bulletins " and regional workshops are also planned to provide backup information and support . |
| 7 | But even these are a trifle accommodating : ‘ not on age alone ’ or ‘ provided that the member is still able to grasp and contribute to meetings ’ are riders that have an odd air about them . |
| 8 | Basquiat père was shocked at the depiction of his son 's drug addiction in press accounts of the artist 's death , and the elder Basquiat 's lawyer says the estate may sue to stop the film , invoking laws in at least thirteen American states that enable an estate to stop the showing of a film because of objections to the exploitation of a physical likeness on the screen . |
| 9 | Between the extremes are solid modellers that treat an image as if it were solid — a kind of ‘ clay model ’ in a computer . |
| 10 | While the merits and demerits of this argument have been explored extensively , one major objection to it is that it begs the question of who identifies and defines the ‘ need ’ for an expansion in public intervention , and how a perceived need results in specific policies that produce an expanded state sector . |
| 11 | Now there is a trend to thicker , softer footbeds that have an appreciable cushioning effect . |
| 12 | Barclays also has a special loan scheme which it says is particularly suitable for enterprises starting up in new technologies that involve an element of risk . |
| 13 | It helps cope with specific problems by producing complex maps that include an area larger than your project area . |
| 14 | He could not have endured the clamouring siren bells that marked an alarm and that caused A area to be sealed down , passage in and out of the Citadel suspended until the malfunction was located . |
| 15 | These include the ability to acquire land at values that take an account of development gain arising from their designation and activities . |
| 16 | There has been some increase in equity finance , by listed firms as well as new entrants , but it is restrained by a system giving pre-emptive rights to existing shareholders ( as in Britain , shareholders must be given first grabs at new issues ) , under ponderous rules that mean an issue takes three weeks . |
| 17 | Thus political programmes that envisage an alternative form of society , or even major institutional changes in the way that existing society is constituted , are effectively disenfranchised by the current model of representative democracy . |
| 18 | Groups that ousted an incumbent in the licence auction , such as Carlton Television in London , may buy shares . |
| 19 | 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 ; |
| 20 | For unlike other supposed causal determinants of crime , mental disorder has been accepted by most criminal jurisdictions as taking away some of the fundamental elements that constitute an act as a crime . |
| 21 | The distinction is useful because companies that seize an opportunity in markets outside their domestic base are more likely to be successful than those that react in response to an external factor . |
| 22 | As a result , there has been a steady growth in the number of companies that have an audit committee — around two-thirds of the top 150 UK listed industrial companies and the great majority of UK listed financial institutions now have audit committees , and in more than half these cases , the committees were established within the past five years . |
| 23 | ‘ Are your parents here , dear ? ’ she asked in tones that required an answer . |
| 24 | The others were waiting expectantly , five subhuman looking creatures encased in pitch black rubber wet suits with continuous flipper-like boots , and hoods that formed an evil-looking cowl around faces streaked with black camouflage paint . |
| 25 | Hidden fixings and jointings enable clean , uninterrupted lines that enhance an external facade . |
| 26 | They can go into whatever activity it is in your life that is to do with handling unruly forces : animals , problem children , emergency work , or sports that have an edge of danger to them , such as rock-climbing or hang-gliding . |
| 27 | Some of it consists of streams of charged particles , fragments of atoms that carry an electric charge . |
| 28 | The planting suggestions for this garden include many plants that require an acid soil . |
| 29 | This , Schell et al. believe , may one day facilitate the production of crop plants that have an inbuilt resistance to the specific insects that feed on them . |
| 30 | A third has long pear-shaped apples that have an extraordinary warm , smoky flavour behind the sharpness , as if they had been baked . |