Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] that [vb base] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll enjoy the advantages of Britain 's most local and convenient stores with opening hours that suit you and a huge range of all the products you 'll need . |
| 2 | Steven continues : ‘ There 's a complete balancing out of all the different musical influences which enables us to write songs that make us sound like no-one else . |
| 3 | They want ties that link them more to each other — through mutual defence pacts — and to the West , if it can be done without infuriating the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | EVERY version of Educating Rita has ingredients that set it apart from all others . |
| 5 | While there are many circumstances in which that is true , it seems important to acknowledge that the political system contains biases that make it much easier for some groups to secure influence than others . |
| 6 | And fax machines that enable you to send and receive pages of information anywhere in the world — in seconds . |
| 7 | I do n't think humans want to know things that disturb them . ’ |
| 8 | He says dozens of children are injured in accidents on the inflatable castles , and he wants firms that hire them out to be licenced . |
| 9 | Some of the culture-based arguments clearly have political ingredients , but one strictly political argument , or rather political-system argument , is equally applicable to any new political movement ( whether left , right or centrist ) seeking long-term viability — that the British first-past-the-post electoral system has features that make it extremely difficult for a new party to ‘ break through ’ . |
| 10 | The powerful have a way of establishing contracts that suit them . |
| 11 | Imagine , if you will , one Aztec priest arguing with another in the year 1452 : ‘ I have made calculations that indicate it is nearly impossible for intelligent beings to exist in this hypothetical world you call Europe . |
| 12 | Does education prepare people to be objects of learning and to accept their place within the status quo , or does it encourage people to question the critical issues of the day and challenge forces that keep them passive ? |
| 13 | Nutty said icily , ‘ Not everyone can afford made horses that do it without any effort on the part of the rider , like yours . |
| 14 | We have begun to measure these trees , noting characteristics that give us clues to their genetic relationships : these trees , growing under plantation conditions , will eventually tell us whether we really have collected new genes useful to farmers who grow cocoa . |
| 15 | Owls ' eyesight is good in dim light but not so good in total darkness ; it is their acute hearing and the accuracy with which they can pinpoint sounds that make them such successful hunters . |
| 16 | They read publications that keep them abreast of market trends , personalities , lawsuits and prices — rather than delving into art history as do their counterparts in Europe . |
| 17 | In one of those disarming quotes that make him both loathsome and likeable , he once said ‘ I 've been in more courts than Bjorn Borg . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't like novels that tell you about things . ’ |
| 19 | Nature has produced stones that show us what the earth 's magnetic field has looked like for millions of years . |
| 20 | It is not only knitting machines that do it . |
| 21 | Then , by putting my ear to the handle , I hear sounds that tell me whether or not the blade is close to either rabbit or ferret . |
| 22 | I mean you very rarely get things that close you see . |
| 23 | And once you make the joke , and I always tell jokes that make them laugh . |
| 24 | Mr Sugar said it was the machine 's ability to recognise handwriting that set it ‘ worlds apart ’ from technology already available . |
| 25 | I do n't see the point of doing things that make it sound completely unlike a guitar . |
| 26 | Erm , that is kids may express curiosity , kids may even be doing things that imply they 're getting some sort of pleasure out of their bodies y'know they may be , as we used to call it when I was a child , playing with themselves , um they may be erm doing various things that er that give them some sort of bodily pleasure . |
| 27 | So what makes us want to read stories that frighten us ? |
| 28 | While new organizations may possess a strong commitment to a new policy , and may have powers that enable it to bring together the resources for its implementation that were not possessed by any single previous organization , it still has to relate to a world in which other agencies have a great deal of power to influence its success . |
| 29 | A child may ‘ disclose ’ abuse ; a paediatrician may spot signs that indicate it ; abnormal behaviour may alert a social worker , teacher , GP or health visitor to the possibility . |
| 30 | We can learn to develop our personal power through identifying the resistance we have to using certain types of behaviour and learning skills that make us more adaptable . |