Example sentences of "and [noun pl] that [verb] [pers pn] " 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 | But it was the glory of Sgurr an Lochain , faceted and sculpted in ice and snow and with golden light gleaming from its snowfields and cornices that entranced me . |
| 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 | They recorded information on the circumstances of the death and the symptoms and signs that preceded it on a form that included both an open history of the final illness and screening questions for the presence of common symptoms , followed by the application of appropriate modules with precoded answers . |
| 9 | The particular forms adopted by Greenfield , Hildyard and Olson can be related to the social formations and institutions that generated them , in this case specific academic institutions , just as in oral societies statements about truth are expressed and validated in terms of such complex forms and institutions as witchcraft , religion , cosmology and ritual . |
| 10 | In the absence of any serious challenge to the wealth and institutions that reproduce them , the upper class will survive , adapt and thrive . |
| 11 | As such , the continued separate attitudes of Nottinghamshire miners towards the working practices implemented by the NCB ( see Krieger , 1983 ) point to the fact that the Dukeries culture has lasted long after the events and institutions that created it , and provide a basis for appreciating why Nottinghamshire was different in 1984–5 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They can see and smell lines and shapes that lead them through the darkest night , point out lines of demarcation , isolate territories . |
| 14 | Understood the dreams and images that tormented him , the listless refusal of his shrouded days . |
| 15 | Because someone told you something and your imagination got to work , generating negative thoughts and images that gripped you . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | That is getting away from the old system whereby the County Council held a vast store of advisers in Macclesfield House , stacked up , and schools that needed them requested them and off they went , but schools in fact that wanted perhaps a different sort of advice , was n't able to get it from Macclesfield House , and could n't buy it outside because it did n't have the money to do so . |
| 19 | The species of plants and animals that inhabit them today have adapted , where adaptation was needed , only during the current ice age . |
| 20 | but I can not emphasize too strongly that you should only choose furniture and furnishings that make you feel comfortable . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He saw the tree rise up off the stage and did not see the rope and pulleys that raised it . |
| 23 | This system produces white cells and antibodies that help us resist infection . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | There is a convention among psychologists and neuroscientists that leads us to refer to ‘ the ’ brain , no matter whether we are talking about hamsters or humans . |
| 26 | It is not only the environment but also the animals and plants that inhabit it that display rhythms . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But modern children have a lot of facts and it 's the interpretation of facts and feelings that makes them civilised . ’ |
| 29 | Another approach which is complementary to this is to encourage the patient to examine the questions and assumptions that prevent him getting started on anything . |
| 30 | For winter barbelling potential then it 's the deep slacks and eddies that interest me . |