Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] that [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Belief in the impassibility of God , it is worth noting , was developed in the early Christian centuries against the background of popular religious belief in the world of that day , where gods were no more than human beings on a large scale , subject to the same contingencies , passions , frustrations and feelings of pain or pleasure that determine human nature . |
| 2 | He argues that all other forms of therapy are simply tranquillizers , helping people to adapt rather than change , or else to find an addiction like meditation or relaxation that offers temporary relief to which we will always need to return . |
| 3 | Wagner states that ‘ cultural integrity is part and parcel of human identity , and any system of thought or behaviour that denies cultural integrity is dehumanising ’ ( Wagner 1979c:97 ) . |
| 4 | I define these as any action or policy that prevents human beings from experiencing negative surprises , embarrassment , or threat , and simultaneously prevents the organisation from reducing or eliminating the causes of the surprises , embarrassment , and threat . |
| 5 | ‘ It is very wrong to teach a five or six-year-old that to have two mummies is quite as right as to have a mummy and daddy , ’ he says . |
| 6 | A purist could argue that it was class and function that set these store owners up for assault , but on the streets , in the full fury of those 48 hours , stretching from the mid-afternoon Wednesday verdict in Simi Valley , any Korean would have been fair game . |
| 7 | It is the vicious downward spiral of drug abuse , drug dealing and violence that terrorises inner city estates , not the police action to free the vast majority of law-abiding residents from a menace caused by a tiny minority . |
| 8 | They start like ‘ Too Tough To Die ’ -era Ramones , with ‘ Deadhead ’ and the tell-tale ‘ Ein , zwei , drei , vier ’ countdown to ‘ Slide ’ — and then pummel through three or four numbers with a brightness and lethal-pop-edge that brings new life to their bludgeoned ‘ Bricks Are Heavy ’ album ( particularly the lurching ‘ Everglade ’ , which as a 45 was as devoid of pizzazz as Catchphrase is of wit and wisdom ) . |
| 9 | Maybe , it is argued , the Creator does not control the day-to-day succession of evolutionary events ; maybe he did not frame the tiger and the lamb , maybe he did not make a tree , but he did set up the original machinery of replication and replicator power , the original machinery of DNA and protein that made cumulative selection , and hence all of evolution , possible . |
| 10 | Gooch has led the way with monumental batting efforts and a strict diet of training and practice that leaves younger men breathless . |
| 11 | Gooch has led the way with monumental batting efforts and a strict diet of training and practice that leaves younger men breathless . |
| 12 | Editor , — A T C Chan and M E R O'Brien describe episodes of bronchospasm and urticaria that developed four days after treatment with oral dexamethasone in a patient with pleural and liver metastases . |
| 13 | It illustrates clearly the divergent needs of liquidity and profitability that confront most banks . |
| 14 | Deer , which were hunted by the rich therefore came to be associated with affluence ; and the peony , which was cultivated in the gardens of the nobility , was thus seen to symbolize the rank , wealth and well-being that accompanied this station in life . |
| 15 | It is a normal reaction to the pain and anxiety that discussing difficult issues will bring . |
| 16 | Is he aware of the concern and indignation that perceived unwarranted delay causes ? |
| 17 | The sense of solitude and peace that surrounds these poems , where Coleridge is either alone , or with his sleeping baby or wife , in comfortable instances of reflection , and finally harmony , rests in contradiction with not only the vitality but more importantly the terrifying power that Kubla Khan possesses . |
| 18 | Education , he believed , should offer a means of escaping from the alienation and poverty that bedevils that area ( Freire 1968 ) . |
| 19 | Over the volcanic centre of North Island I gazed in wonder on the mighty peaks and craters , remembering some of the Maori tales of love and feuds and jealousy that surround these mountains . |
| 20 | The fact , therefore , that much of art education is concerned with a direct pupil/teacher interaction , in which informal discussions about problems , and their possible resolution , establishes a crucial but essentially informal kind of diagnostic assessment , means that many art teachers view any externally imposed structure upon this process as not only irrelevant , but potentially damaging to that very quality of personal involvement and development that characterizes good work . |
| 21 | It has been suggested by Customs and Excise that rent free periods may be the subject of value added tax by virtue of their being treated as inducements . |
| 22 | The descriptive nature of what has been examined here has excluded the self-examination and debate that accompanies all CAB development . |
| 23 | Thirteenth-century sermons illustrate the mixture of credulity , ignorance and superstition that permeated popular belief . |
| 24 | And it is the same attitude of world-weariness and sophistication that socializes each generation of students and new teachers into believing that their own blends of ill-formed idealism , intermittent enthusiasm and nagging doubt about the true value of what they are doing are merely the embarrassing stigmata of the beginner , to be covered up as much as possible , and grown out of as soon as possible . |
| 25 | The hybrid variety ‘ Grace ’ is even better , with huge deep red leaves throughout the spring and summer that turn fiery red in autumn . |
| 26 | They saw the mixture of deterrence and retribution that characterised neoclassical criminology as too soft — favouring criminals ' rights at the expense of the protection of society . |
| 27 | The large increases in plasma concentrations of PYY and enteroglucagon that accompany such conditions as sprue or short bowel syndrome may represent an important adaptive response to malabsorption . |
| 28 | It is likely , however , that factors other than bile salts are responsible for the massive rise in PYY and enteroglucagon that accompany coeliac sprue as bile salt malabsorption is not a feature of that disease . |
| 29 | Breathing in this way will be more efficient if the body is of the size and shape that gives maximum skin area and minimum body volume and this indeed , is just what is found among these lungless salamanders ; their bodies are thin and elongated and none of them grows to more than a few centimetres in length . |
| 30 | Research findings may contribute towards a wider interpretation of Irish economic and social history and extend the methodology of dietary history , whilst throwing light on changes in health and disease that follow dietary changes in countries undergoing economic development . |