Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this chapter , then , the term ‘ permissiveness ’ is subjected to further critical scrutiny , and an attempt is made to isolate those ‘ factors ’ or characteristics that are most usually invoked by moral entrepreneurs in their discussions of the ‘ permissive society ’ . |
| 2 | The project is concerned with identifying those household characteristics that are systematically related to their position in the income or living standard distribution . |
| 3 | They might , therefore , reasonably be expected to share characteristics that were also possessed by those common ancestors , even if they have unique characteristics as well . |
| 4 | Characteristics that were significantly related to increased mortality included diastolic blood pressure less than 60 mm Hg ( p=0.01 ) , haematocrit of less than 35% ( p=0.0001 ) , and a body-mass index of less than 22 kg/m ( p=0.001 ) . |
| 5 | Erm , like this country Germany has , not only a National Anthem , but it has various songs that are also nationalistic . |
| 6 | But those bands can write songs that are very moving in a different way . |
| 7 | Hundreds of morons ( supporters of both sides ) always did their best to spoil the day by singing songs that were either anti-Papal or pro-King William of Orange . |
| 8 | Well they did a lot of them are actually country songs that were like Old Flames and and even the Black Sheep was was an American song which we you know and yes you know if you send them back to America , Old Flames for instance is often back on the American those that played on the Irish programme . |
| 9 | And erm on some of those er there was a whole spate of songs that were really naff dancers were n't there as well ? |
| 10 | It is more than a year since the red and white surveyors ' poles glinted above the reeds , blazing a trail for the draglines that were soon to follow . |
| 11 | This leads us to study animals that are most like humans and to restrict our studies to these animals , like the chimpanzee . |
| 12 | Natural selection does favour those animals that are most successful in the competition for resources , but that does not mean it favours unrestrained aggression . |
| 13 | Animals that are too aggressive , too daring , or too timid for their own good in terms of reproduction are gradually eliminated so that in a stable environment the median values tend to become the population norms . |
| 14 | Furthermore , there is opportunity for multicellular plants to grow , firmly anchored to the rocks , but still exposed to the light ; and many animals — sessile mussels and barnacles ; anemones , which are almost sessile ; and animals that are only modest movers , such as starfish , winkles , and limpets — find a handy substrate and convenient grazing . |
| 15 | There is no point in explaining behaviour patterns in animals that are extremely difficult to observe . |
| 16 | To find out if inhibition of the proliferative effects of histamine also occurred by cimetidine blockade of histamine 2 receptor , the experiment will need to be repeated with animals that are further immune depleted such as severe combine immune deficiency mice or with nude mice treated with anti-asialo GM1 antiserum , which is known to eliminate natural killer activity in nude mice . |
| 17 | In other words , when the disaster came , it was the big animals that were most vulnerable , and at the time the big animals were all , as it happened , dinosaurs . |
| 18 | Syntactic knowledge may be used to identify those word combinations that are grammatically acceptable . |
| 19 | Most common are settings that are both urban and domestic , events taking place in or around private homes in the towns . |
| 20 | But the moment passed , for there was something in her grasp of his legs that was so awkward , so inexperienced , and the pitch of her entreaties remained so anguished that he knew she was only doing what she imagined might persuade him to help her ; and a wave of self-loathing washed over him , that a woman like her could think of a man like him in such a light . |
| 21 | With a stifled cry , she dropped the bolt , stepping back on legs that were suddenly made of water . |
| 22 | Great creatures roamed the forest , some like bears , others like cattle , reaching up on hind legs that were as thick as oaks to chew leaves and berries from the tops of the trees . |
| 23 | Thucydides credited the Minoan kings with organizing the first naval fleet , and it is possible that the Minoans did indeed have a squadron of specially designed and equipped warships that were ahead of their time . |
| 24 | Some short-haired breeds have guard hairs that are less than 2 inches in length , sparse awn hairs and no down hairs . |
| 25 | I often used to go fell walking but can not ever remember seeing the deep ruts caused by walkers that were all around , in some cases up to 12–15in deep . |
| 26 | So he turned to other forms of theatre , directing operas , writing and staging revues and musicals , to which he brought new ideas and methods that were widely admired . |
| 27 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 28 | The thematic maps were computer generated , using information brought together from a number of databases and processed through a Geographic Information System with methods that were specially developed during the project . |
| 29 | This year seventy five jobs lost at last week and there 's four hundred job losses that are currently being negotia negotiated in United Engineering Steels in Sheffield and Rotherham . |
| 30 | The empowered organisation , emphasises Kinsley Lord , is held together by forces different from those that bind the command organisation : ‘ If the conventional metaphor for the command organisation is a dinosaur , with the brain at the top issuing instructions to the ponderous body , then that for the empowered organisation might be a shoal of fish , moving rapidly and constantly adjusting its shape through signals that are instantly understood . ’ |