Example sentences of "[that] [vb -s] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gorbachev on Dec. 4 had announced to the USSR Supreme Soviet emergency plans to import basic foodstuffs to the value of 2,100 million roubles ( US$1,050 million at the new commercial exchange rate ) to ensure that supplies in the first quarter of 1991 were at the levels of the same period in 1990 . |
| 2 | Intensive NMR studies in collaboration with Kurt Wüthrich have led Walter Gehring ( Biozentrum , Basel ) to conclude that the DNA binding specificity of the homeobox genes he discovered ( which are transcription factors specifying segmental identity in metazoans from insects to humans ) is determined not only by the ‘ recognition helix ’ that sits in the major groove of the DNA , but also by a flexible segment at the amino-terminal end of the homeobox which appears to wrap around the DNA so as to contact the minor groove . |
| 3 | We have seen how the impersonalism of public life and changes in the structure and functions of the family have led to an emphasis on self-fulfilment as something that belongs in the private sphere . |
| 4 | The introduction of a local income tax therefore requires a major reform to income tax and one that points in the opposite direction to the recent individualisation of tax — with separate assessment for husbands and wives . |
| 5 | The gopher tortoise that lives in the southwestern deserts of the United States needs one as a shelter in which to escape the worst of the mid-day heat and it digs into the sun-baked ground with slow ponderous sweeps of its armoured fore-legs . |
| 6 | Adam Sedgwick , whose life is commemorated in a fine book by Colin Speakman and in a memorial fountain of Shap granite that stands in the main street , is Dent 's most famous son . |
| 7 | Egglishaw et al. ( 1987 ) , for example , have shown that salmon catches have declined in many Scottish streams and rivers which drain afforested catchments , and Ormerod et al. ( 1987 ) have discussed the reduction in diversity that occurs in the invertebrate faunas of streams in Wales after afforestation . |
| 8 | To him everything that happens in the natural world is rational through and through and subject to a rigid norm . |
| 9 | A positive symptom is something that happens in the brain-damaged animal that does n't happen in the normal . |
| 10 | It provides an interesting reflection on the type of farming that predominates in the various parts of the country . |
| 11 | ( Although in Trob the last word in fact became ‘ a thing which may happen but once in the usable lifetime of a canoe hollowed diligently by axe and fire from the tallest diamondwood tree that grows in the noted diamondwood forests on the lower slopes of Mount Awayawa , home of the firegods or so it is said . ’ ) . |
| 12 | Obviously , then , the fact that 200,000 Greek Cypriots ( a third of the population ) were kicked out of their homes by the Turkish invaders , thus becoming refugees in their own country , is not a crime , according to Mr Gustafson ; nor is the fact that 80,000 settlers were imported from Turkey in an attempt to alter the demographic composition of the island ; nor is the fact that 1,619 people are still reported as missing in action almost 17 years after the invasion ; nor is the fact that the Turks are destroying every trace of the 3,000-year-old Greek culture that exists in the occupied territories , a fact that even the Turkish Cypriot press often reports . |
| 13 | The Home Office agreed , attributing the upsurge to the ‘ general fear of war that exists in the lower middle and working classes , and not to any tenderness for Russia . ’ |
| 14 | The strings provide us with the most expressive and appealing medium ( with perhaps the exception of the human voice ) that exists in the whole range of music . |
| 15 | Secondly , it is possible that costs in the longer term may be ignored . |
| 16 | I am also the Great White Spirit that resides in the fifth dimension , everything is connected to my fingertips — by wires . ’ |
| 17 | " Next week I shall be writing about moorland walks and suggesting an itinerary that takes in the ever-attractive Tower Foin . " |
| 18 | ‘ Raised ’ from the ruck , originally , by his family 's wealth , he does n't want to ‘ sink ’ , and rejects ‘ the idea of defeat ’ that prevails in the Third World : ‘ I 'm tired of being on the losing side . |
| 19 | That may still be true of the set-piece studio interview — though even there the prior indication of ‘ lines of questioning ’ is by no means unknown ( and the viewer would probably be astonished at the general closeness of the atmosphere that prevails in the green room afterwards ) . |
| 20 | This is very different from the situation that obtains in the early stages of language learning . |
| 21 | It should be clear from the above diagram that the sentence which forms the most readily accessible link between ( 1 ) and ( 3 ) is ( 2c ) ( it is also the one that appears in the actual text ) . |
| 22 | The augmented intervals are quite easy because you 're only going one semitone greater than what , than the note that appears in the major scale are n't you . |
| 23 | Anything that appears in the major scale is a major interval or a perfect fourth and fifth . |
| 24 | I can not say that in an administrative context we shall take up every item that appears in the new clauses , at least not in the way that is implied . |
| 25 | For each module that appears in the structured listing in the first section , there will be an entry in the report which will give : |
| 26 | For each SPR that appears in the structured listing , the second part of the report will list : |
| 27 | Alternatively , for each SSR that appears in the structured listing , the second part of the report will list : |
| 28 | They estimated y ( the extra term that appears in the no-arbitrage condition of a geometric index discussed in Section 5.2.9 ) , using the returns for the most recent 20 days , and found the resulting estimate was reasonably stable over time at an annual rate of 5.77% . |
| 29 | She is not allowed her own story , her version is by definition a retroversion , an imperfect , displaced version that appears in the wrong place in the mirror . |
| 30 | Or perhaps it is the Rimbow , the eight-coloured , world-girdling rainbow that hovers in the mist-laden air over the Fall . |