Example sentences of "[adj] that [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ However the document granting the Licence gave Mr Manners the right to exclusive occupation of the land and it was this that persuaded the High Court that occupation rights under Licence are no different from those under tenancy , ’ explained Mr Hewitt . |
| 2 | Even if we had no standard semantics to characterise , it would still be necessary to investigate the structure of the classes of inter-transformable programs , because it is only this that reveals the true power of a set of laws . |
| 3 | It is this that explains the sharp opposition which developed between the two contrasting attitudes , and the antithesis that came to be sharply drawn between ‘ reason ’ and ‘ authority ’ . |
| 4 | First , it is clear that putting the National Union of Public Employees , the National and Local Government Officers Association and the Confederation of Health Service Employees back in the driving seat will never solve the problem . |
| 5 | It was seen to be not an excrescence on the body politic , having no bearing upon its general health , but an organic disease … a running sore that affected the entire fabric of society , a morass exhaling a miasma that poisoned the healthy elements of industry . |
| 6 | But although the name Roath is an ancient one — it means , in Irish , the forest and therefore dates back to a time when Welsh was borrowing words from Irish , around the 5th century — there was little that surrounded the young Cottle which was in fact medieval . |
| 7 | John Finnis criticizes positivists for attributing to natural law thinking a wholly deductive methodology such that given the fundamental principle as major premise and a statement of fact as minor premise the one right answer pops out auto-matically . |
| 8 | It has also been pointed out previously that coordinate singularities necessarily occur in the regions II and III that contain the approaching waves . |
| 9 | Aerobic thermophyllic bacteria thrive between 41°C and 54° , and it is these that cause the rapid breakdown of cellulose . |
| 10 | There were several tree-roots running across the roof and it was these that supported the unusual span . |
| 11 | Jack Delano was never an invisible photographer — his subjects were always aware that they were being photographed — in fact he had acquired so many friends during the early stages of the project in the 1940s that approaching the same people in the 1980s was a mere formality . |
| 12 | The Mystical Theology of Dionysius the Areopagite had also dwelt upon a thick cloud of unknowing that separates the ineffable God from mankind and this image dominated Greek theology . |
| 13 | One scene among many that captures the ironic mix of commonplace and macabre has two kids battling over a football , just a few feet away from a dead body . |
| 14 | It is the combination of verbal and visual that has the desired effect . |
| 15 | Right , and if the slope of that average product curve , right is negative that implies the marginal product of labour is less than it 's average product hence if the slope of the average product curve is zero that implies therefore the marginal product equals the average product of labour . |
| 16 | A short side road branches off to a passenger ferry across the Kyle , linking the opposite shore with a narrow strip of tarmac eleven miles long that provides the only access to the lighthouse at Cape Wrath . |
| 17 | It is the angle of this part of the dance with respect to the vertical that tells the other bees the direction to the food . |
| 18 | " Cloudy " phrases are those that obscure the precise meaning of a sentence . |
| 19 | The time was ripe for such an approach , because progress in chemistry was just beginning to make possible the effective study of very large molecules such as those that formed the main constituents of chromatin . |
| 20 | Limiting the studies included to those that use the same measure of quality of life might lend a table some face validity . |
| 21 | The only ‘ foreign ’ Protestant churches in which Laud took any real interest were those in Charles 's other kingdoms of Scotland and Ireland , and those that served the American colonists and the English émigrés in Holland . |
| 22 | Clarke would do us all a big service if , in his next book , he could produce a law that sorts out the predictions that are too spineless from those that assume the human race to be capable of too much , |
| 23 | The women 's event is being staged in two pools of five followed by semi-finals and a final so it promises to be a tough weekend for those that reach the latter stages . |
| 24 | The most straightforward mechanical models of uplift are those that involve the isostatic adjustment that takes place when a load is removed from the crust ( see Section 2.2.4 ) . |
| 25 | If we look at the whole population of beavers , those that possess the mutated gene will , on average , tend therefore to rear more offspring than those not possessing the mutated gene . |
| 26 | It is fortunate that the physical features that render a site suitable for overwintering are identical to those that offer the best conditions for hatching success . |
| 27 | Those that study the informal aspects of organisations tend to do so from perspectives drawn from the social sciences , particularly sociology and psychology . |
| 28 | Those that inherit the new State and come to constitute its new ruling order are some . |
| 29 | We do n't know how they do it , but high-ranking females in the best harems , that is those that have the best feeding grounds on run , produce significantly more males than they do females . |
| 30 | On this definition , sexist language might not mean only expressions that exclude , insult or trivialise women , but also those that do the same thing to men . |