Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun pl] that [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 They did not have the money to stay out on strike or take other sorts of actions that their employers opposed … .
2 Mum gets ill with all sorts of problems that her doctor ca n't quite pin down .
3 They exchanged addresses , bits of old sausage , gave each other presents of socks that their wives and sweethearts had knitted , and hoped and pretended , that it was all over .
4 So it was — as Steve Gould put it — that Charles Lyell " managed to convince future generations of geologists that their science had begun with him " .
5 Eco says that ‘ Semiotics is mainly concerned with signs as social forces ’ ( Eco 1977 : 65 ) which indicates that it is the mechanics of signs that his ( and Pierce 's ) semiotics describes .
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