Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] that [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opponents argued that teaching other languages , especially those spoken at home , would impede the ability of children to speak and write English . |
| 2 | Of the Persil soap powder offers that enabled two passengers to travel for the fare of one and of the utter complexity of offers and restrictions that taxed the ingenuity of many booking clerks and ticket collectors until the Blue ( cheaper ) and White ( all Fridays and occasional other days ) Savers were standardised as BR 's on the whole highly successful marketing tool against coach competition . |
| 3 | A simple savings account that lets each person choose their own level of saving and which pays an attractive rate of interest free of all income tax . |
| 4 | A spokesman for Midland said : ‘ They are technical rule breaches that happened three years ago . |
| 5 | No one can be in any doubt now that she was pulling the strings behind the royal side show that has preoccupied Britain for the past six months . |
| 6 | Tall , he suffered the sunken chest of a consumptive , and had a hooked nose and eyes that , though hidden behind dark lids , were too big for his face — it was the starving poet look that enslaved self-sacrificial women . |
| 7 | The result shows that head neural crest is from the very beginning different from neural crest in other regions , and any other neural crest placed in the head leads to abnormal head development . |
| 8 | Funds on particularly favourable terms are available for investment projects that serve environmental protection in the Federal Republic of Germany and in regions bordering on the Federal Republic . |
| 9 | Humpbacks are thought to be mostly solitary creatures , though such songs indicate that close physical proximity is by no means necessary for social contact of a vocal nature . |
| 10 | As in the UK , outside organisers sponsor special research projects that need bigger wodges of money than the university can provide . |
| 11 | We now consider some aspects of nationalized industry pricing that deserve special attention . |
| 12 | Hence Durkheim insisted that to understand one set of social phenomena we must see them in the round — in their wider , social context . |
| 13 | The dynamic WCOMP term means that lagged relative returns have a negative coefficient . |
| 14 | Of all the agencies , only the Manpower Services Commission has had the control of the purse strings that allows positive steering ; with the exception of educational support and in-service training grants administered by the DES , the other agencies ' role has been confined to offering advice and expertise . |
| 15 | Having smilingly watched Palmer acknowledge his footsoldiers , then go through a practice swing that bears little relation to the actual flurry and flourish , Wolstenholme 's start was nervy , understandably , and inauspicious . |
| 16 | The singer and actress admits that conducting any romance has become almost impossible due to the jibes about her taste in younger men . |
| 17 | ( It is , by the way , exactly the implicit reference to an extraction set that distinguishes English superlatives from forms considered broadly equivalent in some other languages , for instance those designated by the same term " superlative " in Latin . ) |
| 18 | Where does the fault lie that produces that outrage ? |
| 19 | The authors concluded that increased antral gastrin is important in the pathogenesis of an increased maximal acid output in smokers with a duodenal ulcer . |
| 20 | Investigations show that replacing arable land with woodland would probably reduce the amount of nitrate leached to groundwater , but perhaps by less than was expected , since natural forest processes themselves release nitrate into the ground . |
| 21 | The computer keyboard also has a Delete key to delete letters in front of the cursor , a Backspace key to delete letters behind the cursor , a set of Cursor Movement keys that move the cursor up or down one line or side to side one space , a set of Function keys that perform preset functions with a single keypress and an Escape key that is normally used to reverse or undo the last action . |
| 22 | The clause among the Fourth Lateran Council decrees that proposed regulated taxes for the churches and provinces of Christendom suggests as much . |
| 23 | DARWIN believed that elaborate ornamental traits expressed in both sexes might be favoured by mutual sexual selection driven by both female and male mate choice . |
| 24 | The alteration in 1983 in DHSS benefit rules that enabled older people living in private residential care to claim their fees from the DHSS brought dramatic increases in the number of private residential homes , and in the number of older people living in them . |
| 25 | One senior consultant stated that taking this hour to reflect on his role as a teacher and trainer was a unique experience in his career . |
| 26 | It is worth growing for the effect of its foliage alone , but doubles its value as a garden plant in late summer with graceful pale green stems that grow some 5ft tall . |
| 27 | Despite a sure-handed debut against Brazil in the 1–1 Washington draw that restored English pride , the Southampton player will be asked to make way for the third goalkeeper on the trip , Crystal Palace 's Nigel Martyn . |
| 28 | The VHPB hopes that providing independent information to such bodies will encourage equally successful initiatives across Europe . |
| 29 | Then , coupled with the telecommunications advances that popularised wide area networks ( WANs ) by easing access to remote information sources ( such as private and public databases ) , the LAN helped provide the infrastructure necessary for the MIS to be developed into the executive information system ( EIS ) . |
| 30 | Midge answered the telephone call that came next morning . |