Example sentences of "the [noun pl] that [vb -s] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ He 's one of the blokes that stops me viring ? ’
2 and vote for the parties that excludes them , but that mean the sort of thing he he does n't make much of that .
3 It is caused by a loss of calcium in the bones that makes them become softer , porous and weaker .
4 For here is trance dance grooving at its highest level , a silver drug for the senses that allows you to enter into another dimension of sex and sorcery .
5 ‘ And it 's not just the pace of the serves that does it , it 's also the fact that they go so close to the line . ’
6 Choose one of the beginnings that reminds you of something that happened to you .
7 What bothered me mo well wha one of the things that bothers me is the fact that he said that he would n't like to do hospital chaplaincy because he would n't like to go visiting because he 's got no small talk .
8 Increasingly I find that this kind of exchange — this candour , this reciprocity — is one of the things that keeps me trundling along .
9 This respect is summed up by a quote in In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman : ‘ You know , one of the things that strikes me most about McDonald 's is their people orientation .
10 Erm , one of the things that depresses me , is probably the main thing that depresses me is not being valued for what I am or what I do and I think many women suffer from depression because their strengths and their creativity are not recognised and valued .
11 It 's one of the things that gets me down about it .
12 Hobbes ' solution was , order must be imposed on a recalcitrant human nature , to make society possible , Rousseau 's theory was , if only people could be liberated from the things that makes them selfish , selfish and anti-social , they would come together in a natural social contract , where individuals would spontaneously give up their freedom , in order to gain the benefits of social cooperation , and Rousseau 's view was , if only people were , were fully rational , and could free themselves from the unfortunate effects of , of er civilization , they would enter into a state of erm , perfect society in which they could er , associate er without the , the necessity of things like the state or or whatever .
13 I am sure that one of the things that prevents us from accepting help is that we think other people wo n't do things the way we do them .
14 ‘ One of the things that worries me is too many parents allow their kids to see videos classified 15 or 18 .
15 But I think there is I mean something that ought to be mentioned one of the things that worries me is that there is n't here today a man of the type that I meet every day in Oxford who says ‘ sexual harassment ?
16 Well that 's all the things that concerns us .
17 One of the things that concerns us is provision for people who are unemployed and we are we are speaking and working , speaking to and working with the Labour Group and the Labour Party on establishing a centre for people who are unemployed .
18 Now , if any of you get terribly tense at the back of shoulders which we all seem to do nowadays , if you come for just a back and shoulder massage , we actually work on the back of the neck and along the shoulders using massage movements which helps to relax you , which helps to actually break down the lactic acid that builds up in the muscles that causes you pain .
19 It 's based on the two fingered symbol of peace , and although it was originally designed for lead guitars I eventually scaled it up to use on my basses ; it 's one of the features that makes them instantly recognisable . ’
20 It 's running up the stairs that does it .
21 That 's about ten pounds for every one of the wrinkles that makes them so distinctive .
22 One of the fields that interests me in particular is that of motivic connections .
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