Example sentences of "[noun] that be [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 He ordered two divisions to counter-attack in the centre , an action that was executed with such vigour that the German 20th Corps was brought to a halt for 48 hours .
2 If there is enough to suggest that it is more probable that the offence took place , that is enough for the action that was taken by all the agencies involved in Orkney .
3 In vehicle pretreated rats only about 10% of the sections exhibited histological injury of grade III whereas it was nearly 30% of the sections in capsaicin pretreated animals that was covered by this severe degree of damage ( Figs 3 and 4A ) .
4 Here we can see the paired jointed legs that are attached to each body segment , the feathery gill on a stalk alongside each leg , two feelers at the front of the head , the gut running the entire length of the body , even the muscle fibres along the back which enabled the animal to roll itself up into a ball .
5 It is this feminisation of the labour force that is considered by this research .
6 By simply following the day by day eating , exercise and positive thinking programme that is detailed in this book .
7 He also loved the fear that was emanating from this girl .
8 If we do this often enough , and most of us do , then these ways of being become habitual and eventually the muscle tension that is required for these unnatural positions becomes fixed into our body .
9 It is this more general class of solutions that is considered in this section .
10 In the middle of the spectrum are those rare books that are rooted in some sort of evidence while looking at humans as the fascinating evolutionary product that they are .
11 The second statement sums up the News International ban precisely , and the following sentence reflects the dilemma that was faced by many librarians in the dispute ; though not by all , because for many librarians who supported the ban there was no dilemma .
12 The quality , Q , of each lattice is denoted by the percentage of intended words that are found in that lattice .
13 The rows of each table refer to the spatial entities , whether they be lines , points or polygons , while the columns refer to the variables that are measured on these spatial entities ( Figure 7.6 ) .
14 I just think it was a momentum that was caused by some villages feeling safer from the nationalists as they got further and further from the front and therefore more and more people a bit f erm being willing to sort of talk again , shout up against the , the landlords and as they saw , as they saw that their neighbours were getting land , all the others decided well they 're getting land , we might as well talk to , have a talk about them the problems and the harsh treatment that we 've had in , in years before .
15 Well I suppose a very junior clerk , the first job I was given was , well it 's unheard of in this day and age but what they had was what they call a bundi clock and there every driver and conductor had got a key that was inserted in this clock and on it was his personal number , well when he reported for duty , he inserted this key into the clock , turned the handle and stamped on to a piece of paper , a roll of paper , his number and the time he reported and the next day it was my job to go through and record from this piece of paper how many minutes they were late f reporting for duty and if they erm were more than , I think about three or four minutes we had to send them a memo telling them , that 's how things were in those days that people were , they toed the line or else .
16 However , it should be noted that Blacksell and Gilg ( 1981 , p. 143 ) consider that ‘ in many respects , whether or not an application is granted or refused is less important than the safeguards that are attached to any permission . ’
17 Okay , in terms of the first bit , all it 's completed is the number of quiffs that were raised on each of these audits .
18 Carbon 14 is a radioactive isotope of carbon that is absorbed by all living things ; the proportion of carbon 14 to other isotopes of carbon remains constant , but when something dies , the carbon 14 in it decays at a known rate , while the other isotopes stay the same .
19 The engineering approach not only includes the road system designs that are debated in this book , but also incorporates attempts to modify the vehicles .
20 So in relation to section 13(1) of the Acts of 1974 and 1976 , for a judge ( who is always dealing with an individual case ) to pose himself the question : ‘ Can Parliament really have intended that the acts that were done in this particular case should have the benefit of the immunity ? ’ is to risk straying beyond his constitutional role as interpreter of the enacted law and assuming a power to decide at his own discretion whether or not to apply the general law to a particular case .
21 The Tax Faculty believes that an employer should be able to negotiate a settlement that is binding on both departments .
22 It is a formidable feat of timing , comparable to a clever trick that was used in some fighter planes during the First World War .
23 The raucous croaking of the rooks amongst the tall sycamores and the ruined palaces seemed an appropriate symbol of the ugly story that was unfolding in these peaceful northern islands .
24 What is difficult to monitor is the extent to which ‘ language work ’ for primary teachers is provision of literacy teaching skills that are required for all primary teachers , analogous to the methods work of specialist language teachers .
25 Do you recall any of the activities that were associated with either of them ?
26 It is not likely that an organisation would embrace two plans that were pulling against each other .
27 The science of biomaterials and the success of future applications depends upon the improved understanding of the various phenomena that are associated with these interfacial reactions , collectively described under the heading of biocompatibility .
28 But I think there 's something more important than funding that was realised at that Conference between Eastern and Western Local Authorities and that is that we need to be there to assist because we can assist .
29 Erm at previous County Council and the previous committee , together with the officers , planned extremely thoroughly and er the funding that was provided for this year both internally within the County Council and externally from the government was sufficient to provide the sorts of levels of service that we , we anticipate .
30 These arguments are subject to the same criticisms , regarding ethnocentrism and academic-centredness that were levelled at these writers , both in terms of their assumptions regarding literacy and those regarding ‘ objectivity ’ .
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