Example sentences of "and [noun] that [vb base] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a time when a good public image is essential for universities , English is unable to explain itself in ways immediately intelligible to the outsider , is notoriously riven with doubts and disagreements that prevent it from having a shared sense of purpose , and may at intervals erupt into crises that attract the wrong sort of publicity . |
| 2 | She promised herself , however , that she would hold the office only briefly , and now that her husband Stan has retired , she feels that she can no longer involve herself to so great an extent in commitments and activities that take her away from home . |
| 3 | Today 's agricultural and forestry methods have caused a decline in broadleaf woodlands and coppices , affecting the animals and birds that inhabit them and the general landscape . |
| 4 | There has been a consistent failure to direct the fruits of growth to the areas , industries , and groups that need it most . |
| 5 | It embraces the various institutions that make up that the state — the House of Commons , the Cabinet , the civil service and so on — as well as the fundamental practices and rules that identify which institutions have power and how they relate to each other and to the larger political community . |
| 6 | Er Trading Standards Officers have been helping the police have made a large number of visits to sales in recent months targetting those where we know or suspect there will be concentration of counterfeiter goods and these stolen items we 've been taking and seizing items , we 've been making inspections and er we will also be distributing some leaflets to try and advise people of some of the risks and dangers that face them at this sort of event . |
| 7 | Children are not , however , independent of the nexus of expectations , attitudes and values that surround them . |
| 8 | In the absence of any serious challenge to the wealth and institutions that reproduce them , the upper class will survive , adapt and thrive . |
| 9 | Its aim , he says , is not to become a commercial body but to point users towards products and technologies that support their interests . |
| 10 | Owen and Roger , the two heads of centre , have developed their respective strategies in response to the broadly similar sets of expectations and demands that confront them . |
| 11 | They can see and smell lines and shapes that lead them through the darkest night , point out lines of demarcation , isolate territories . |
| 12 | Like so many crafts , if you are to enjoy flower pressing to the full you must find the method , materials and styles that suit you best , and you will only do this through trial and error . |
| 13 | I am not convinced that this issue should be on the political agenda at all , not at this time , not at any time , in fact I am pretty convinced that this is a Tory agenda , a media agenda , why they do they not want to talk about crooks and spivs that support them , that donate thousands of pounds into their coffers ? |
| 14 | The belief that agricultural technologies will be developed for marginal , ecologically fragile areas , and for the marginal poor farmers and pastoralists that live there is , it will be argued , a trifle heroic . |
| 15 | With Digital 's NAS , you have the freedom to choose the systems and solutions that fit your needs most closely — regardless of who supplies them . |
| 16 | There has been much comment by Cleese , as well as others , about how being 6ft at the age of 12 ( he 's now 6ft 5in ) , and not being made a prefect at his public school , and being the only child of older , lower middle-class parents , set for a career as a solicitor , began the problems and embarrassments that inspire his comedy . |
| 17 | The species of plants and animals that inhabit them today have adapted , where adaptation was needed , only during the current ice age . |
| 18 | but I can not emphasize too strongly that you should only choose furniture and furnishings that make you feel comfortable . |
| 19 | In the centre of Bishkek , formerly Frunze , where grandiose marble buildings intrude into the paradise of fir trees and mountains that surround them , Alexandra bemoaned the end of empire . |
| 20 | Kids too sick to raise their heads , lying soft and limp beneath the burden of heart disease , kidney failure and cancers that eat everything but innocence . |
| 21 | This system produces white cells and antibodies that help us resist infection . |
| 22 | We also find that Ito 's response to our Letter contains some omissions and errors that undermine his position . |
| 23 | It is assumed that there is sufficient uniformity to facilitate the specification of situations and circumstances that make it more , or less , likely to occur . |
| 24 | In relation to deserts Cooke and Warren ( 1973 ) provided a standard Geomorphology in Deserts in which they were primarily concerned with desert landforms , the materials that compose them , the processes of debris preparation , erosion and transport that modify them , and the environmental factors influencing all these phenomena . |
| 25 | It is not only the environment but also the animals and plants that inhabit it that display rhythms . |
| 26 | A more crucial issue concerns the use of the technology by other firms and organisations that have nothing to do with electronics . |
| 27 | A calculation is made of the percentage of non-arrivals , cancellations and guests that terminate their stay earlier than expected . |
| 28 | Suffice it to say here that , during enculturation , individuals acquire , first , an image of themselves as helpless and dependent in a hostile and malevolent world that it is largely beyond their ability to control and , second , a set of habits and expectations that lead them to seek and expect aid and comfort from others in times of distress . |
| 29 | The erosion of values and moral standards , the relativism of life , the shocking things that happen , reveal that our civilization is but a veneer that hides a viciousness and rottenness that frighten us all . |
| 30 | All of them sheep and cattle yes , even the savage beasts birds of the air and fish that make their way through the water . |