Example sentences of "[vb base] [noun] that [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Thus , anti-monotony devises such as theme and variation or gradation of tone , colour , texture , etc , all introduce complexities that demand greater efforts of comparison , thereby making the process more interesting .
2 Avoid spraying your plants with pesticides , grow plants that encourage beneficial insects such as carrots , parsley , parsnips and nettles .
3 We support conversions that offer new job opportunities in rural areas , so we are concerned by the preponderance of current conversions to residential use .
4 At least 1.7 million people consume water that breaks European limits for nitrate , suspected by some scientists as a cause of cancer …
5 They prefer them mainly because they face regulations that reward stable growth in returns from year to year rather than the more volatile — but , in the long-run , almost certainly higher — returns they would earn by holding more equities .
6 Prince does n't so much build bridges between categories as create music that exceeds each category simultaneously .
7 Wear a sunblock cream if you think you may be going to spend any time outdoors and wear clothes that cover sensitive areas .
8 Some Old Testament books describe events that occurred many years before they were written .
9 That said , the new single ‘ You Love Us ’ is pure agitpop , a pleasure-pain guitar 'n' spit opener that saw gallic jaws dropping to the floor followed swiftly by muffled boos from the OAP bar at the back .
10 So , caught between a burgeoning rock and roll infrastructure that highlights Irish rock and roll as industry , and a musical community that puts most of its faith in trad values , Dublin enters the Nineties as meeting place of commerce and culture .
11 Both these studies highlight issues that needed urgent attention from policy and practice .
12 1979 , 1982 ) , not only do stags that hold large harems hold them for longer within particular breeding seasons than those which hold smaller harems ( Fig. 23. 1a ) , but individuals that are consistently successful in securing large harems throughout their lives tend to live longer than their less successful competitors ( Fig. 23.1b ) .
13 For pre-packed foods which contain ingredients that contain copied genes , it recommended that a statement should be required to accompany the name of the ingredient in a list of ingredients .
14 Retaining fertile eggs within her body long enough for them to hatch there does not require major anatomical or physiological changes , so it is not surprising that all the major groups of land-living animals contain species that produce live babies .
15 They recommend measures that make economic sense regardless of whether or not global warming is occurring , such as limiting deforestation and increasing energy efficiency .
16 A third of all women have hair that needs frequent washing or that tends to lack life and body .
17 The large buildings at Zakro , Mallia and Phaistos possess plans that have many features in common , though with significant variations ; their designs may have been based loosely on that of Knossos or they may have evolved independently from a common set of functions .
18 There are other people who have sun-tans that leave white patches on their arms .
19 R&D consortia which include films that produce different products using the same basic technological knowledge may also be able to segment user markets , price discriminating more effectively as a group than they are able to do when they act independently and earning a higher return on their R&D activities .
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