Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] that [vb -s] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the place of the correlation of knowledge with vision and light , the visual metaphor by which the adequation of the idea with the thing has been thought from Plato to Heidegger , Levinas proposes language , which in the form of speech enables a kind of invisible contact between subjects that leaves them both intact . |
| 2 | Better performance in 1993 must be everybody 's objective and despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth that surrounds us there has been plenty happening in our Division in 1992 to put us in good shape for the challenge of 1993 . |
| 3 | If we carefully analyse the frequencies contained within speech it is possible to devise a system of rules that allows us to create any given sound from its basic frequencies . |
| 4 | It is only the natural caution of paleontologists that prevents them from jumping to startling conclusions . |
| 5 | Is it the fear of wearing in that stout new pair of shoes that keeps us in our old battered brogues ? |
| 6 | This feeling is only likely to be reinforced by the realisation that the underlying technology used by most players — the set of chips that makes them tick — comes from a very limited number of sources . |
| 7 | They will pour forward with so many bodies , banking on the law of averages that says they will pick up 50 per cent of what falls into the box . |
| 8 | It 's the promise of guns that makes them co-operate with Midwinter . |
| 9 | So how can you as a daughter find a way through the maze of difficulties that confronts you when you undertake the care of an elderly parent ? |
| 10 | So far as the attitude to his obstruction is concerned , the essence is that it must be shown that the defendant has deliberately brought about the state of affairs that makes it more difficult for the police to do their duties , and is aware that he has done so . |
| 11 | A combination of features that makes it possible to use our products one-handed . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , here 's a delightfully low-key set of instrumentals that suggests he should write the score for one of those film noir remakes set in small town America . |
| 13 | He argues that standards may be rendered more precise by ‘ criteria ’ , facts that are to be taken into accounts but that ‘ the feature of standards that distinguishes them from rules is their flexibility and susceptibility to change over time ’ . |
| 14 | Starting early , I traverse the long ridge of hills that separates me from Isafjördur , arriving late in the afternoon . |
| 15 | We have proper birth certificates , because my mother must have told a simple lie to the registrar , a discovery about the verisimilitude of documents that worries me a lot as a historian . |
| 16 | In modern times , we have effectively removed the third possibility above by redefining the goal of science : our aim is to formulate a set of laws that enables us to predict events only up to the limit set by the uncertainty principle . |
| 17 | What does Mr Hattersley know about rights that sets him above the wisdom of the ages ? |
| 18 | It is his obsession with figures that leads him to make the crucial economic mistakes that he made . |
| 19 | Erm so if they do something with , with windows that makes them actually the , the open way they can break in is to break all the glass out , and the way you would do that is to fit a window lock . |
| 20 | There is a poison in potatoes that turns them green , which is very dangerous to pregnant women . |
| 21 | If we see something in others that makes us angry , if they are causing hurt or pain , then our first task is to look at ourselves . |
| 22 | Often the thing about others that makes us angry is a fault we have in ourselves . |