Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] that [verb] [pron] " 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 | The Iranian policies that frighten its neighbours and the wider world are said to include the promotion of international terrorism , attempts to obstruct peace between Israel and the Arabs and a burning ambition to acquire long-range missiles and weapons of mass destruction . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Come and see the sorcerer 's kitchen where I brew up the grotesque potions that make me a legend here . ’ |
| 9 | Graham calling from in Sussex , is it the economic aspects that concern you most ? |
| 10 | He had spent some time alone after talking to her father , had changed his clothes and had a shower , trying to clear his mind of all the stuff of history , the political necessities that ruled their lives , the reasons he must lie . |
| 11 | She thought of him as a big tree , with strong branches that enabled her to climb him , which she did when he was home . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We give up seeing ourselves as ‘ the dream child ’ , ‘ the shadow child ’ , ‘ the rejected child ’ , or any of the other wounded images that affect our relationships with others . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Such criticism leads us directly to the higher plains of aestheticism from where it becomes possible to adopt a universal outlook , a point of view based on the sort of timeless values that enable one to study objectively ( unsentimentally , unemotionally and ‘ without rancour ’ ) the lower depths of social reality . |
| 16 | My grandmother is a keen birdwatcher and she 'd already introduced me to a lot of the different birds that visited her bird-table , telling me what they ate and showing me their nests and explaining how they were made and what they were made of . |
| 17 | American banks will need years to recover from the now souring loans to property developers and leveraged buy-outs that followed their third-world lending . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Inside , her organs twined about each other unnaturally , her bones softened and grew functionless knobs that breached her skin . |
| 20 | By the time I see her put on her high heels that make it worse though . |
| 21 | Hastings Sea Life Centre takes you on a journey beneath the crashing waves that surround our coastline to discover a whole new world … |
| 22 | Trent was reassured by the absence of hate in the dark , watchful , Latin eyes that faced him . |
| 23 | We publish all our own books , and our list of titles reflects the wide range of powerful , amusing and entertaining subjects that interest our Members . |
| 24 | Neither was she aware of the mumbled words that passed her lips as the hours went by , nor of the method he used to warm her when she started to shiver again . |
| 25 | old tunes that soothed my baby sister |
| 26 | They need a new identity , but in seeking it they find themselves competing for the same political space with social movements that share their radical vocation . |
| 27 | ‘ I attended various social functions that required me to have a female escort , ’ he said through clenched teeth . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |