Example sentences of "of [noun] that have [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A row of houses that have lain empty for years since being bought by publisher Robert Maxwell look set to remain derelict , after being left out of a plan to redevelop the area . |
| 2 | But as the arguments drew to a close , you could see Justice White — who at 75 is a stern rock of a man , with a detailed knowledge of cases that has terrorised hundreds of lawyers — start to relax . |
| 3 | A moment later the door creaked open and he appeared , or a fair facsimile , a very old man with grey hair down to his shoulders , a black dresscoat of velvet that had seen better days , a pair of very baggy corduroy trousers beneath of the type worn by peasants on the farm . |
| 4 | Thus the structure of spoken sentences need not have derived entirely from combination of words that had replaced single gesture types . |
| 5 | The borderline between ritual and custom is a little blurred ; custom could be said to be a form of ritual that has lost many of its magical or religious overtones , but still retains some of the original intent to transform . |
| 6 | If , if you er go down and visit the toilet block you will see above the doors there are a number of bricks that have come loose on both sides . |
| 7 | If you have ever lamented the biscuit tin school of architecture that has made many of our towns and cities depressingly alike , take a look at the Omani buildings . |
| 8 | This terrain of rocky canyons and dusty valleys is well suited to defence against the Ethiopian army in a war of independence that has lasted 25 years . |
| 9 | The number of countries that have produced full comprehensive environmental strategies like our own can be numbered on the fingers of one hand . |
| 10 | A reason why a number of companies that have adopted some form of matrix management have declared it a failure is to be found in inadequate preparation and briefing of those involved . |
| 11 | This is a style of abuse that has excited some natural envy among professional satirists . |
| 12 | As modernity has progressed in the last one hundred and fifty years , it is not only the world of work that has become secularised , but also government . |
| 13 | Donkeys saluted our passing with those howls of anguish that had made maiden ladies establish animal sanctuaries in Cairo between the wars . |
| 14 | It is quite possible that trace minerals and access to plants not available the rest of the year are essential for the fertilisation , hatching and development of fry in some species of fish that have proved difficult to breed in the past . |
| 15 | As it turns out , a variety of studies that have identified adjacent users or producers in different ways suggest that spillovers associated with R&D expenditures can be fairly large . |
| 16 | We reasoned that a malaria antigen ( or antigens ) which could interact with HLA-B53 and account for the disease association should be expressed early in the liver-stage of the parasite 's life cycle : human erythrocytes do not express class I molecules , and enhanced CTL lysis of macrophages that have engulfed blood-stage parasites is unlikely to benefit the host . |
| 17 | The 1950s saw the birth of the New Novel , more or less in the coronation year of 1953 , with the first published fictions of Kingsley Amis , Iris Murdoch and William Golding : polemical still , but intent now on reviving a tradition of realism that had flourished first in eighteenth-century England , with Defoe and Fielding , and had faded somewhat in critical reputation in the inter-war years ; and a revived realism spread rapidly into theatre , with John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) and the first dramatic experiments of Harold Pinter . |
| 18 | Despite her long-standing affair and rumoured pending marriage to Commander Tim Laurence , Anne has managed to escape the sort of publicity that has dogged other female members of The Firm . |
| 19 | The number of demands that a parent or child will make can depend on their past experience of those demands having been met or be the result of a pattern of behaviour that has evolved due to other problems , that is child 's poor concentration span , or mother 's irritability due to depression or an unhappy marriage . |
| 20 | Discussion of the outcome of experiments that have used this method will be postponed until Chapter 7 as a proper interpretation of the results of such experiments requires consideration of the processes revealed by the second of the two basic training procedures outlined in Chapter 1 . |
| 21 | The project should lead to increasing awareness across disciplines of techniques that have found many successful applications in the physical sciences . |
| 22 | However diverse the animals and plants of the modern world , they were but the last in a long sequence of populations that have replaced one another throughout the earth 's history . |
| 23 | From their own experience of endowments that have proved inadequate , the National Trust has evolved a method of calculation known as the ‘ Chorley formula ’ . |
| 24 | I refer , of course , to manners of thought that have become formalised , certain convolutions , the consistent combination of apprehensions with little twistles of kinaesthetic intimation , d'ye follow me ? ’ |
| 25 | And they were reacting not only against the art of the past fifty years but also against the techniques and traditions of vision that had shaped Western painting since the scientific discoveries of the early Renaissance . |
| 26 | A similar example of a type of assimilation that has become fixed is the progressive assimilation of voice with the suffixes and ; when a verb carries a third person singular ‘ -s ’ suffix , or a noun carries an ‘ -s ’ plural suffix or an' — ‘ s ’ possessive suffix , that suffix will be pronounced as if the preceding consonant is fortis ( ‘ voiceless ’ ) and as if the preceding consonant is lenis ( ‘ voiced ’ ) , thus : |
| 27 | It is also important to perceive the National Insurance Act as the sort of response to the problem of unemployment that has remained dominant in Britain . |
| 28 | While making it easier for people to build up considerable capital assets , and to pass these on intact , the Government has taken a number of measures that have allowed many people to acquire capital assets for the first time . |
| 29 | Thus six out of eight species of radiolarians that have become extinct in the last 2½ million years show a very strong correlation between their last appearance and a reversal horizon . |
| 30 | Both have the effect of weakening still further the synthesis of approaches that have characterized academic English since its inception . |