Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [that] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the carrier 's standpoint , these as well as any other clauses or notations that indicated apparent irregularities made legal sense because they protected it from the allegation that the goods had been delivered in a sound condition and could have been damaged only because of improper loading , stowing , or care . |
| 2 | So it can receive , or pick up , moods or emotions that convey simple ideas like , ‘ There 's good grass here ! ’ or , ‘ There 's something frightening over there ! ’ |
| 3 | Cluster analysis is used to group variables , objects or individuals into groups or clusters of variables , objects or individuals that have certain similarities with each other . |
| 4 | ( 5 ) Metaphor : substitution of objects or actions that emphasises selected characteristics ( Chagall , Gauguin , Magritte ) . |
| 5 | The second point is crucial for the reason that if we include in the set items that can not undergo the variation in question , or items that undergo different patterns of linguistic variation , the quantitative results will be false . |
| 6 | Excessive humidity is a trigger — especially if you use any rich face creams or cosmetics that contain comedogenic ingredients . |
| 7 | There they are safe from the gulls or skuas that harry other nesting sea-birds . |
| 8 | The report states that rates of child poverty ’ remained constant in the 1980 's for most countries , but doubled in the United Kingdom The results of longitudinal studies suggest that countries that have more child poverty and do not provide universal child care or other programmes to reduce inequalities before the child goes into the school system will have more crime . |
| 9 | In any event , few parents and teachers would be satisfied with a system with such weak powers of discrimination that it could detect nothing more detailed than changes that take two years to occur . |
| 10 | Dressed in well-cut suits , and hats that cover shaven heads , they hawk copies of their newspaper , The Final Call , and hand out petitions calling for Louis Farrakhan 's right to enter Britain . |
| 11 | One important structural relationship is that between bureaucracies and groups that represent particular interests . |
| 12 | Then , suddenly , when a manager had responsibility for tasks and projects that exceeded five years in scope , everyone seemed to perceive a difference not only in the scope of responsibility but also in its quality and in the kind of work and worker required to discharge it . |
| 13 | It is this combination of method and values that underpins conservative normativism . |
| 14 | Largely missing from de Gaulle 's account were the dilemmas , ambiguities , illusions , deceptions , and self-deceptions that gave these years their poignancy . |
| 15 | The most extreme of these predator species are comparable with the breakage caused by the small mammalian carnivores ( Andrews & Evans , 1983 ) , with some degree of overlap with the carnivores like mongooses and genets that do least amount of damage . |
| 16 | The aim is to construct a set of modules and utilities that provides user-oriented software tools for laboratory applications of computers . |
| 17 | Then take out thin , twiggy wood and branches that cross each other — you 're aiming for a goblet shape . |
| 18 | Rather , the differences must be sought in the regulatory genes and proteins that control spatial organization . |
| 19 | This brief excursion through the advent of rock ‘ n ’ roll , drugs and sex — in that order — is an over simplification of serious underlying trends and tensions that gripped western youth , but more especially , American youngsters faced with the prospect of being drafted . |
| 20 | The adhesion molecules and receptors that mediate cell-matrix binding can be divided into two groups , the integrin and the non-integrin matrix receptors . |
| 21 | Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister Liu Huaqiu expressed unease at the situation , stating that " China 's reunification is an irresistible historical trend " and that the Chinese government was " opposed to any official relations , contacts and exchanges of an official nature between Taiwan and countries that have diplomatic relations with the People 's Republic " . |
| 22 | No body established by the two parties will do anything outside the law to halt any sell out ; what they will do is to engineer situations and emotions that lead other people to break the law . |
| 23 | There may be some interaction between the edges and corners that prevents this split but it is a reasonable split to start with . |
| 24 | The boards and commissions that run these organizations are commonly appointed by ministers and so provide an increase in ministerial patronage . |
| 25 | Any bill proposed must navigate a complex network of committees and sub-committees that offer innumerable opportunities for delaying , diluting or defeating legislation . |
| 26 | This leads to further guilt , producing a network of family duties and expectations that cause considerable unhappiness and distress , but which produce homeostatic mechanisms which ensure that the situation continues . |
| 27 | In different parts of the world I have seen many gardens and sometimes the most delightful aspect has been the sounds of birds and insects that add another dimension to the colours and fragrance . |
| 28 | More representatively there can be a sneaking hope that to explain is somehow to justify ; and the novels , plays and poems that depict British self-sufficiency and its lapses often smack , like Larkin 's poem ‘ Vers de société ’ , of a sort of rueful mock-modesty : a determination to put a case for oneself as well as to record a mood . |
| 29 | It is the accounting system that is charged with ‘ keeping a record of all legal authorisations as well as commitments , agreements , encumbrances , obligations , and expenditures that use any part of the authorisation granted ’ ( AAA , 1970–1 , p. 81 ) . |
| 30 | A common approach can not be assumed : most district and regional managers have spent their careers in the acute sector , and have little understanding of the interlocking network of roles , relationships , and agencies that constitute primary care . |