Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | During other attacks , Abbey Hill provided warning soon enough for ships to fire rockets full of chaff — metallic strips that produced false echoes on Exocet 's radar . |
2 | Less accomplished lecturers repeated the message at meetings of the second-rate institutions that infect academic life . |
3 | They were accused of belonging to Islamic groups that attacked Israeli soldiers . |
4 | After all , a government pursuing anti-inflationary policies that cause wide-scale unemployment can point to a thriving underground economy and claim that its policies are working and that jobless figures do n't count . |
5 | At several points the route was unclear , where the buffalo and other animals had churned the grass into a mass of muddy trails , so we trended upwards , away from the boggy sections and towards the crest of a broad ridge that formed one side of the river valley . |
6 | They have reflected the wishful thinking that informed liberal development politics in the post-War period . |
7 | The difference between tactics and strategy " is that tactics covers what you need to do at the moment and strategy provides the broad guidelines that determine over-all direction . |
8 | The Department of the Environment has a system of regional offices that handle many aspects of relationships with the local authorities . |
9 | But in the Philosophie zoologique Lamarck had subordinated this to his belief in a progressive force that pushed living things steadily up the scale of organization . |
10 | Mendel points out that this helped pave the way for economic crises that aggravated social discontent before 1905 . |
11 | The mouse has a two-position switch that allows this rodent to be switched between its two personalities — Microsoft or Mouse Systems mode . |
12 | To find the most advanced animals that show regular regeneration of lost organs , we must turn to the reptiles and , in particular , to the lizards . |
13 | Some thoughtful Germans , such as Volker Rühe , general secretary of the ruling Christian Democrats , argue that now more than ever the Europeans should speed moves to form a multinational force that includes German soldiers . |
14 | Both South Korea and Taiwan have enjoyed all three , sometimes assisted by social policies that raise liberal eyebrows , such as the absence of public welfare spending . |
15 | WACC should promote the use of inclusive language and endeavour to unmask the patriarchal cultural patterns that maintain this bias . |
16 | He had always taken a strong interest in his students but , compared with Camberwell and Central , the College , having more pretensions , had a social side that created greater togetherness . |
17 | The 63 was one of a handful of four-wheel-drive cars that saw brief service in 1969 before they were parked in at the end of the blind alley into which their manufacturers had ventured . |
18 | It is as though the information , induced and deduced by the techniques , were observed through tinted spectacles that obscure certain types of information . |
19 | But it is the one part of the European Community 's I 992 single-market programme that stirs real passions . |
20 | Donating blood was an example of a social institution that embodied non-selfish actions by individuals without demeaning the recipient . |
21 | Ireland was already there with its litany of laments , not thinly preserved , like the cultural echo that accompanies some exiles and émigrés into a new country where time will absorb the native generation 's traces of foreign identity and dispel them . |
22 | You know this sort of thing and all British wildlife has got its own little characters , every species is different er and you know thousands of animals we 've taken in over the years we 've just learnt different things about different animals that suit different animals . |
23 | He needs at all rimes to be in full possession of his faculties , or that extra , unpredictable poetic thrust would never declare itself — that heart-lifting boost that rockets mere words into the outer spaces of true poetry . |
24 | He pulled up his roots a second time and moved to another new land , Germany , where during the twelve years that were left to him he accomplished a ‘ ballet miracle ’ , building not merely a repertory and a company in Stuttgart , but a whole new public attitude that affected other theatres throughout the country . |
25 | Throughout the season the air had the peculiar resonance that attends hot weather , carrying sound from vast distances . |
26 | On the other hand , since most teenage mothers in the great majority of developing countries are married , corrective measures might be concerned first with advancing the age at first marriage through an alteration of the cultural elements that prescribe early marriage and affecting greater use of contraceptives among married teenagers . |
27 | The adoption , for instance , of Darwinian views of evolution depended not simply on the intellectual breakthrough of a brilliant mind but on the conjuncture of social movements that made these propositions more acceptable then than they might have been at other periods . |
28 | Indeed , comparison of managerial facilities and perquisites in the public and private sectors ( such as office furnishings , secretarial support , company cars , expense accounts , etc ) suggest that ‘ it is the private rather than the public sector that offers greater possibilities for at least these kinds of non-pecuniary consumption ’ ( Breton and Wintrobe , 1982 , p. 77 ) . |
29 | It is in this way that Foucault can return to the possibility of doing historical work that has political force through his notion of genealogy , which means , as he puts it , ‘ that I begin my analysis from a question posed in the present ’ . |
30 | The experience of these writers was seen as emblematic of the increased social mobility that characterized post-war Britain . |