Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just taking aye , just songs that I liked and I just er take them off tapes and , and records , and I just write them down , |
| 2 | The ant repays the tree by sweeping it leaves free of fungi , by assaulting any leaf-eating animals that it encounters and by attacking any competing plant that dares come within chewing distance . |
| 3 | When we stopped and slowly turned , with our bulging eyes in place , the gang scattered with such blood-curdling screams that we wondered if we had n't overdone it , and felt sufficiently ashamed of ourselves never to use the eyes again . |
| 4 | But the important point to remember is that we do not observe these sociolinguistic patterns directly : it is the speech of individuals in conversational settings that we observe and describe , and it is by analysing a large quantity of spoken language from many speakers that we can then demonstrate the patterns that emerge from our data . |
| 5 | It 's about lifestyles that I 've lived and lifestyles that I respect and that I can speak for because I 've been there . |
| 6 | General practitioners ' threshold for visiting is probably lower for patients on lists that they cover than for their own patients . |
| 7 | Designed to make the most of your hair 's natural movement , it can be sprayed on wet or dry hair and will encourage any natural curls or waves that you have and add body and shine . |
| 8 | First , it can reinforce our intuitions that you know that you are sitting reading etc. , that you know that if you are sitting reading etc. you are not a brain in a vat , and that you do not know that you are not a brain in a vat . |
| 9 | So marked were my anxieties that I buried that experience for several years . |
| 10 | There they spend the summer in a state of suspended animation , sustained by the fat reserves that they accumulated when they were caterpillars . |
| 11 | Joanne 's commitment to the next 12 months will leave her little time for the hobbies that she enjoyed before tennis came along . |
| 12 | Although a library committee of some sort existed before the project invitation , the head reports that : It was no more than three of four people who were simply monitoring the use of the library and keeping an eye on the books that we needed and the way children used the library . |
| 13 | I like the books , the original books that I had when I was a little rather than the new books . |
| 14 | We then moved on and expanded we expanded we brought with with a minimum of two words to do with each of those twelve words that we generated and we did this in a much faster way a much more creative way a right brain activity . |
| 15 | However , it may incidentally erm come into the words that I use that erm er I 'm referring to the washed-over or other status of these two sites . |
| 16 | Erm and I think it 's exactly the same with some of the words that you know that I quoted earlier . |
| 17 | Some of us also may have pictures that we like but can not use because of lack of space , changing decor or whatever . |
| 18 | With his old-fashioned grace Murphy even mentioned in at least two speeches that he wondered whether the World Cup , and the impassioned pursuit of it by some countries , was really a good thing after all . |
| 19 | A lot of clients that I had when |
| 20 | In other words , sticking to those sectors that we know and understand and which we chose for the nineties because we believe they had good growth prospects . |
| 21 | Her ears are so stretched by ornaments that they flap as she leans towards me . |
| 22 | These are states that we acquire as life 's internal and external pressures take their toll . |
| 23 | They are also happy to accept that it is only because we have these mental states that we behave as we do . |
| 24 | What are the skills that we need when we stand up in front of people to actually deliver what we have to say |
| 25 | Bloomfield states that librarians have so constructed tests on library skills that it appears that ‘ we librarians have a poor understanding of the value of the library for our students ’ . |
| 26 | Later reports from the IBM Corp annual meeting in Tampa , Florida on Monday stress the anger of shareholders that we forecast when we mentioned that the meeting was to be held in America 's retirement capital : ‘ IBM stock no longer provides for your old age , but it certainly hastens its arrival , ’ one irate shareholder told Louis Gerstner during the annual meeting ; some 2,300 shareholders , mostly elderly investors and current or former IBM employees , crowded into the Tampa Convention Center for the meeting . |
| 27 | In everyday conversation , this rarely happens , and even if it does , there is certainly no guarantee that the sentence will have come to an end — because , after the pause , there may be a conjunction , such as the word because — or one such as or — which , as in the case of relative pronouns , can keep a sentence moving on , along with any parentheses and subordinate clauses that the speaker thinks fit to introduce , and of course not forgetting the coordinate clauses which in fact make up the vast majority of the cases that we encounter when we start analysing real conversational speech , and which , as I said at the outset , provide a great deal of the interest when we go in search of English — if you recall . |
| 28 | And I 'll just , just discuss briefly two of the cases that he uses and they 're , you know , they 're , they 're old now , I have n't read the most recent edition of his book , he might have updated his case studies but it does n't really matter he takes two cases er one relating to erm the conduct of the Korean war in the nineteen fifties , and the other relating to the desegregation of southern schools , also in the nineteen fifties , as examples of presidential power . |
| 29 | The Government 's emphasis is on practical measures , on changes that will work to improve the hours that we sit and the effectiveness of parliamentary procedure . |
| 30 | They were the sorts of contacts that you have when you 're signing on at the Employment Benefits Office , when you 're going to a job interview erm and often these are very negative because the experience of signing on is n't a very pleasant experience at all ; most job interviews , unfortunately , end with a rejection erm so a lot of these non-routine contacts were quite negatives ones for people . |