Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [vb mod] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps , for instance , a case could be made for discouraging risks that might lead to a person 's loss of employment , if their chances of gaining another job were remote . |
| 2 | There will , of course , always be certain competencies or aptitudes that may need to be tested , e.g. colour blindness or spatial awareness . |
| 3 | A further difficulty concerns the sheer numbers of such spores that would need to be involved . |
| 4 | As the number of people in Europe has increased , animals that could cohabit with humans thrive while others are marginalised . |
| 5 | It 's bad enough trying to persuade 168-pin chip to part company with its socket — I ca n't imagine the grey hairs that 'll result from trying to insert an expensive 238-pin one in its place ! |
| 6 | An informal collaborative project between BGS and the Observatório Nacional ( part of the Brazilian Research Council , CNPq ) is examining new geophysical methods that may help in the exploration of the vast basalt-covered basins in the interior of Brazil . |
| 7 | Charcoal will not adsorb nitrites , ammonia or nitrates , but is useful in removing chlorine , and substances like dyes and pesticides that can occur in untreated tapwater . |
| 8 | And she knows that the secret of laughter is shared experience — laughing together at disasters and embarrassments that can happen to us all . |
| 9 | Parallan , a $10m-a-year , three-year-old private company , will sign a joint development agreement with IBM , paving the way for production of servers that will fit between Parallan 's System 290 OS/2 application superservers and the two new high-end IBM PS/2 Model 95s announced last week . |
| 10 | It can also be shown that smooth-fronted electromagnetic waves would generate smooth-fronted or step gravitational waves that would persist through the interaction region . |
| 11 | For Frith has given the fox and the weasel cunning hearts and sharp teeth and to the cat he has given silent feet and eyes that can see in the dark and they are gone away from Frith 's place to kill and devour all that belongs to El-ahrairah . " |
| 12 | A tall , prematurely white-haired man in a navy blue suit , with eyes that could focus on you as if you were a fly that had settled on a distant door-knob , he could dominate a large room while seated behind a desk at one end of it and without raising his voice above a conversational level . |
| 13 | She studied his profile in the dim light , his firm jaw and sensitive mouth , his brown eyes that could freeze in anger and burn with emotion , those incredible eyelashes ; in that moment she knew what love was , knew she wanted to spend the rest of her life with him . |
| 14 | A further recommendation is for the setting up of an independent body of journalists that would abide by an agreed code of conduct . |
| 15 | On the shores of the lake , or on one of the little islets that may form in the middle of it , they build their lodge , a great dome of sticks , poles , branches , reeds and mud within which they have their living chamber . |
| 16 | It will be of immense help to people who need to discover who owns a particular property or piece of land and to solve any disputes that might occur over ownership . |
| 17 | Mike Sullivan , department manager of Books Etc , Charing Cross lists new and old authors that will sell in 1993 |
| 18 | So none of the experiments take account of the possible errors and ambiguities that can arise as a result of processing the acoustic waveform by the acoustic-phonetic front-end . |
| 19 | The search for subjects that would appeal to audiences narrowed the range of films made , and resulted in a sometimes excessive reliance on stories involving naughty boys , magic drinks , plucky dogs pursuing criminals and clothes left lying around for tramps to pick up . |
| 20 | Because this to me is really one of the key subjects that can lead to either the success or failure of an interview . |
| 21 | It is a well-established convention that a minister should be an MP or a peer ; the Ministers of the Crown Act , 1964 ( in limiting the number of ministers and parliamentary secretaries that can sit in the Commons ) forces the Prime Minister to select a nucleus of ministers from the Lords ; leading figures in the majority party practically demand a Cabinet place — and a ministry of their choice ; new young members need to be nurtured ; and even leaders of factions within the party might have to be given office if only in the hope of softening their opposition to the broad drift of government policy . |
| 22 | The clauses in the bill and the Government 's proposals for the regualtions that will follow from them , raise some fundamental issues . |
| 23 | SCIENTISTS at Kyoto University , Japan , have built a prototype optical transistor which could form the basis of computers that will run on laser beams instead of electric signals . |
| 24 | The report called for £200 million of government spending on fifth generation computing , that is computers that can think for themselves and get along with humans . |
| 25 | But the first computers that can learn by discovery are with us ; the Fifth Generation computers in Japan ‘ understand ’ rather than just process information . |
| 26 | Greater fuel efficiency is essential and there are now prototype cars that can travel between 52 and 100 miles per gallon . |
| 27 | Elsewhere Salim separates himself from the doers and makers of the big world beyond him , of whom it is said : ‘ They 're making cars that will run on water . ’ |
| 28 | This chapter examines a study , where , at the outset , the analysts were not entirely clear what could be achieved by using soft systems analysis , but felt it would provide an overview of the situation , enabling ideas to be formulated about new relationships that would arise from a fundamental change in role . |
| 29 | They are also prepared to contemplate discussing possible relationships that might exist between an individual 's language and his or her cognitive functioning . |
| 30 | The process is thus based on an ability to define and interpret the many possible and desirable relationships that can exist between two orthogonal domains . |