Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] that [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the carrier 's standpoint , these as well as any other clauses or notations that indicated apparent irregularities made legal sense because they protected it from the allegation that the goods had been delivered in a sound condition and could have been damaged only because of improper loading , stowing , or care . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So it can receive , or pick up , moods or emotions that convey simple ideas like , ‘ There 's good grass here ! ’ or , ‘ There 's something frightening over there ! ’ |
| 4 | Cluster analysis is used to group variables , objects or individuals into groups or clusters of variables , objects or individuals that have certain similarities with each other . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ( 5 ) Metaphor : substitution of objects or actions that emphasises selected characteristics ( Chagall , Gauguin , Magritte ) . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | The second point is crucial for the reason that if we include in the set items that can not undergo the variation in question , or items that undergo different patterns of linguistic variation , the quantitative results will be false . |
| 9 | Excessive humidity is a trigger — especially if you use any rich face creams or cosmetics that contain comedogenic ingredients . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There they are safe from the gulls or skuas that harry other nesting sea-birds . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | The Bank of England places restrictions as to size , etc , on SCP issuers , but any company listed on the International Stock Exchange or USM that has net assets of over £25m can in principle issue SCP . |
| 14 | Dressed in well-cut suits , and hats that cover shaven heads , they hawk copies of their newspaper , The Final Call , and hand out petitions calling for Louis Farrakhan 's right to enter Britain . |
| 15 | One important structural relationship is that between bureaucracies and groups that represent particular interests . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Then , suddenly , when a manager had responsibility for tasks and projects that exceeded five years in scope , everyone seemed to perceive a difference not only in the scope of responsibility but also in its quality and in the kind of work and worker required to discharge it . |
| 18 | It is this combination of method and values that underpins conservative normativism . |
| 19 | Largely missing from de Gaulle 's account were the dilemmas , ambiguities , illusions , deceptions , and self-deceptions that gave these years their poignancy . |
| 20 | The most extreme of these predator species are comparable with the breakage caused by the small mammalian carnivores ( Andrews & Evans , 1983 ) , with some degree of overlap with the carnivores like mongooses and genets that do least amount of damage . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The aim is to construct a set of modules and utilities that provides user-oriented software tools for laboratory applications of computers . |
| 25 | Gooch has led the way with monumental batting efforts and a strict diet of training and practice that leaves younger men breathless . |
| 26 | Gooch has led the way with monumental batting efforts and a strict diet of training and practice that leaves younger men breathless . |
| 27 | Then take out thin , twiggy wood and branches that cross each other — you 're aiming for a goblet shape . |
| 28 | Rather , the differences must be sought in the regulatory genes and proteins that control spatial organization . |
| 29 | This brief excursion through the advent of rock ‘ n ’ roll , drugs and sex — in that order — is an over simplification of serious underlying trends and tensions that gripped western youth , but more especially , American youngsters faced with the prospect of being drafted . |
| 30 | 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 . |