Example sentences of "[that] [vb base] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that trajectories which wander out of the region may later return ( after wandering chaotically near the strange attractor ) is of no concern ; we are concerned only with trajectories that remain forever within the small region , and a strange collection of these is removed . |
| 2 | The Times Higher Education Supplement began an editorial on the CNAA in 1972 with the statement : ‘ The Council for National Academic Awards must be one of the few unqualified success stories in higher education in the past eight years — sharing that honour perhaps with the Open University ’ . |
| 3 | Waterfalls of varying kinds can be constructed that vary considerably from the traditional form . |
| 4 | The consumer-oriented image has been enhanced by stylish new brochures and a credit card ordering system — devices that owe more to the commercial sector than to industry . |
| 5 | Wherever the conditions for life are difficult , we find , typically , that the number of species is low ; and so it is in the world 's great deserts that lie just outside the wet equatorial regions , in Africa , Central Asia , North America and Australia . |
| 6 | Today , her Royal Highness Nick Hinton and his team will talk about the very impressive work and the tasks that lie ahead in the fifty countries and the U K in which Save The Children operates . |
| 7 | Decca 's principal mid-price label in terms of size is ‘ Ovation ’ , an extensive repertoire with something for everybody , in performances that stand confidently against the latest full price issues . |
| 8 | They are boring , grey-coloured , hamster-like devices that scurry away at the first sound of our Michelin Interroutes ; I suppose I would leg it too if some mad giant was riding his bike over my roof . |
| 9 | Many such creatures contain nervous organelles that operate independently of the other systems . |
| 10 | This produces early colours that go well with the wax-polished timbers , and accumulates to give the finish a smoothness and richness of texture impossible with more modern paints . |
| 11 | The linguistic model will provide the basis of the narrative model , and Todorov justifies this procedure by making claims that go far beyond the usual assumptions of structuralism . |
| 12 | It gets a little complicated when you have currency fluctuations that go together with the lower volumes and some of the higher costs … so I think you will continue to see a difference between English and European software , ’ he said . |
| 13 | In other words , the theme of eleven bars has rhythms that turn backwards at the mid point . |
| 14 | Each section of the report will give greatest attention to environmental issues that score highly against the following tests of significance : |
| 15 | Chapters should give particular attention to environmental threats that score highly against the 3 tests of significance in Section I. |
| 16 | Some competitor nations — Japan , in particular — have created relationships among engineers , managers , production workers , and marketing and sales people that do away with the old distinction between entrepreneurs and drones . |
| 17 | Lights that peak strongly in the blue and pink , resembling sunlight , encourage algae . |
| 18 | These tubes have to be fitted with high-polish reflectors , and should not be tubes that peak strongly in the blue colour spectrum . |
| 19 | It was one of the hardest battles of her life to drop that remark lightly into the charged atmosphere between them . |
| 20 | It believes that one-tier authorities would be better than the two-tier authorities that exist everywhere except the metropolitan areas . |
| 21 | It is these eddies that relate particularly to the brief discussion above of the correlation measurements in Fig. 21.9 . |
| 22 | It therefore seems appropriate to restate the need for students in initial teacher education to have some knowledge of the current issues and debate that relate specifically to the linguistic needs of ethnic minority pupils , in particular , Mother Tongue Teaching , Bilingual Education and English as a Second Language . |
| 23 | Monogamy also leads to marriages being part of property deals among the ruling classes since marriage becomes part of the process of securing heirs to private property , and once marriage is seen as a matter of passing on property , it rapidly takes on that form exclusively among the propertied classes . |
| 24 | Linear chains of oceanic volcanoes , such as the Hawaiian and Society Islands , that occur when lithospheric plates drift over a ‘ hotspot ’ , are now widely thought to be the surface manifestation of mantle plumes , columns of hot rock that rise buoyantly from the deep mantle . |
| 25 | This list includes eight marginal species — mountain and forest mammals that occur only on the arctic fringe — and over a dozen others that seldom penetrate far and are never found in the northern zones . |
| 26 | These figures include only the spontaneous abortions that occur late in the first trimester , so that an even higher proportion of conceptuses are probably at risk but die soon after the egg is implanted and are therefore difficult to detect . |
| 27 | Big cats such as the tiger employ stripes that work well in the grassy undergrowth . |
| 28 | Earthquakes , especially the big ones , are caused when two tectonic plates — segments of the earth 's crust that float freely on the molten magma beneath — come into contact with one another and one plate bangs into another or rubs alongside it or dives under it . |