Example sentences of "and [noun] that [verb] [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 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 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 .
7 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 .
8 ‘ I was young and hot then ’ , she says , talking of her dancing days in LA , and later in the famous European tour of the 1950s of Gershwin 's Porgy and Bess that took her to La Scala .
9 The latter become the ‘ mensonge vital ’ of fantasy and fiction that provides her with a means of coping in a hostile world .
10 Children are not , however , independent of the nexus of expectations , attitudes and values that surround them .
11 Despite so much storm and stress in his early life , Gavrilov remains cheerfully outgoing and resilient , relishing the controversy and point-counter-point that surrounds his performances .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 In the absence of any serious challenge to the wealth and institutions that reproduce them , the upper class will survive , adapt and thrive .
15 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 .
16 Did you not yourself say that our love must be holy ? ’ or when she pointed out that his ‘ lovely poems ’ would have been less lovely if she had not pro vided ‘ the unrest and storm that made them possible ’ : ‘ Beloved I will pray with my whole strength that suffering and temptation may be taken from you as they have been taken from me and that we may gain spiritual union stronger than earthly union could ever be . ’
17 Its aim , he says , is not to become a commercial body but to point users towards products and technologies that support their interests .
18 The Cheshires enjoyed no such luxury and had to control the anger and revulsion that engulfed them as they experienced the horror for real .
19 ‘ Since being born in 1981 , Cheek by Jowl has gained a reputation both in Britain and abroad for the extraordinary verve , versatility , devotion and inventiveness that characterises its style ’ .
20 At just over six foot , with thick curling brown hair and eyes that owed their startling blueness to his Irish ancestry , Tom was used to being the object of female appreciation whilst being slightly puzzled by it .
21 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 .
22 They can see and smell lines and shapes that lead them through the darkest night , point out lines of demarcation , isolate territories .
23 The General wore white tie and tails that accentuated his normal elegance .
24 I provided the calm , the cleanliness , the order and nourish-ment that made it possible for him to work .
25 Understood the dreams and images that tormented him , the listless refusal of his shrouded days .
26 Because someone told you something and your imagination got to work , generating negative thoughts and images that gripped you .
27 If she stayed here , there would always be the torment of running into Rourke , and stirring up all the pain and unhappiness that loving him had brought .
28 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 .
29 Collecting Lustreware will be of enormous benefit to this and future generations wanting to know more about the pottery and porcelain that comes their way .
30 The agent stopped struggling and hung there , aware of the pain in his wrists and the rasping against his skin , but even more conscious of the massive welts and blisters that covered his throbbing hand .
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