Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] that [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lee Rodwell on the conflicting views that leave her feeling muddled and guilty |
| 2 | What are the characteristics of stressed syllables that enable us to identify them ? |
| 3 | And while such mundane things as fluctating interest rates and ever-increasing gas , electricity , water bills remain on the scene , it 's a strong possibility that ‘ wider and deeper ownership ’ will be hampered by thevery economic policies that spawned it . |
| 4 | What is it about local economic policies that make them ‘ local ’ ? |
| 5 | Presumably it was both practical and political reasons that led him to the subject working party strategy . |
| 6 | They are experiencing what women have always known — that the life-sustaining relationships that enable us to grit our teeth and pick our way through the mess made by men , to endure and to survive , are those we share with other women : our mothers , our sisters , our neighbours and friends . |
| 7 | Come and see the sorcerer 's kitchen where I brew up the grotesque potions that make me a legend here . ’ |
| 8 | Graham calling from in Sussex , is it the economic aspects that concern you most ? |
| 9 | She thought of him as a big tree , with strong branches that enabled her to climb him , which she did when he was home . |
| 10 | By the time they are mature , hedgehogs can have several thousand of the modified hairs that give them their prickly appearance and an ideal form of defence against attackers . |
| 11 | Their new LP ( their best since their first , Psychocandy ) is good for different reasons : because it has the sort of rumbling guitars and invigorating , climbing , bittersweet songs that make you jump out of bed and open up the curtains in the morning . |
| 12 | It was proving to be an ideal choice of holiday with a programme of free activities that gave us an easy opportunity to make friends with the guests form other nations who gave the Club such a cosmopolitan atmosphere . |
| 13 | By the time I see her put on her high heels that make it worse though . |
| 14 | Trent was reassured by the absence of hate in the dark , watchful , Latin eyes that faced him . |
| 15 | ‘ I attended various social functions that required me to have a female escort , ’ he said through clenched teeth . |
| 16 | The leaves of this tree are rather common fossils , striped with longitudinal veins that give it a superficial resemblance to the leaf of an iris . |
| 17 | One is astonished , for instance , at how the daughter of Olivia Shakespear , no ordinary mother , was restricted , even in the arty society that she and Olivia frequented , by the still rigid conventions that wheeled her , uncomplaining but always chaperoned and often bored to tears , through a round of pointless visitings . |
| 18 | It might seem a bit bleak , a bit inhuman ( ‘ antihumanist , yes ; inhuman , no , ’ she would interject ) , somewhat deterministic ( ‘ not at all ; the truly determined subject is he who is not aware of the discursive formations that determine him . |
| 19 | The set is created in the bifurcation that occurs as r passes through r* , and we can now mention some of the interesting properties that lead us to call it " strange " . |
| 20 | The origin of some of this waste is obscure ; so are some of the British firms that handle it . |
| 21 | The US International Trade Commission has upheld the ridiculous decision that Japanese manufacturers are dumping active matrix liquid crystal displays on the US market to the detriment of a handful of tiny US manufacturers that could never meet the demand from the likes of Apple Computer Inc and IBM Corp , but that alleged dumping of electroluminescent displays has not hurt the US electronics industry ; the active matrix displays carry prohibitive 62.7% tariffs , which apply to imported screens but not to assembled machines that include them , while the electroluminescent displays carried only a 7% tariff . |
| 22 | It was quiet , but there was different things that amused us that the bairns would just laugh at today , I mean , there was no pictures or things like that . |
| 23 | This argues against many of the palaeo. magnetic reconstructions that put them far apart . |
| 24 | Although all this assured him a footnote in the history of British science , it was his intimate association with one of the most celebrated scientific forgeries that rescued him from relative obscurity . |
| 25 | This view is commonly known as Positivism and , in its heyday , was so widely diffused among social scientists that to spell it out would have seemed a mere statement of the obvious . |
| 26 | People who are concerned to preserve their own well-being , and also to strive to do a better job , need to look in two directions for help : they must look inwards , to gain insight into the dynamics of their own stress ; and they must look outwards , to understand better the social forces that surround them . |
| 27 | Deviants can not be viewed as billiard balls inescapably moved by the social forces that surround them . |
| 28 | It was one of the magnetic forces that drew them overseas , and led them to disappointment quite as often as to wealth . |
| 29 | For some , the reason is one of choice ; they do not have a job or social links that tie them to a 24 hour day . |
| 30 | She does n't avoid the painful issues that divide us — but , as few writers can , she makes us laugh at them and bring them down to size . |