Example sentences of "[noun pl] [that] [vb base] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In this particular instance it is representational , as the ‘ performance mode ’ is , for the child is required to describe in action whatever the teacher suggests ( as in the example above , ‘ So you go to the bathroom and turn the doorknob ’ ) , but the ‘ exercise mode ’ has other characteristics that give it a special mental quality .
2 We shall , of course , send a copy of our final report to all institutions that return us a completed questionnaire .
3 The result is a database on which you can search for a favourite author or publisher , or search for packages that give you the required level of coverage of particular elements ( or units ) of competence .
4 The leaves of this tree are rather common fossils , striped with longitudinal veins that give it a superficial resemblance to the leaf of an iris .
5 As a bonus , water has particular electro-chemical qualities that make it an ideal reagent in many of life 's metabolic processes .
6 At the Pattmore project in London and the Rosemount project in Glasgow for example , mothers are provided with adequate child care and it enables them to attend courses and gain skills and qualifications that give them a better chance in the job market .
7 A combined series of moves that give it a keen cutting edge ; an experience to be remembered and savoured ; a problem that takes both skills and nerve to solve .
8 Somewhere in this range , too , are those coincidences that give us an eerie spine-tingling feeling , like dreaming of a particular person for the first time in decades , then waking up to find that they died in the night .
9 No excessive exercise regimes that leave you an aching wreck .
10 They take jobs that allow them the maximum time at the waters edge , or they do not work at all .
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