Example sentences of "that [verb] [verb] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intention movements are activities that tend to precede some other activity , which is presumably why they often evolve into signals . |
| 2 | Despite its obvious importance , however , crowd violence is an issue that has received little academic attention in this country , particularly with regard to long-term trends . |
| 3 | Anorexia nervosa patients seem unable to identify and to respond accurately to their emotional state , a deficit that has received some empirical support . |
| 4 | This is a style of abuse that has excited some natural envy among professional satirists . |
| 5 | By exempting pension funds and unit trusts from income tax on trading profits from futures and options dealings , he has managed to clear up an uncertainty that has kept many investing institutions shy of London 's derivatives markets . |
| 6 | The paper by Wells reports some findings from a British longitudinal study of child language acquisition that has made extensive naturalistic recordings of adults and children 's speech both at home and school . |
| 7 | Mr Coleridge inherits a market that has made some sensible moves to improve its competitive edge . |
| 8 | Exactly what it told us that has made any marked difference to Europe , or even Austria , as we see it today is another matter . |
| 9 | Gazza had to call a halt before a 46,000 crowd here in the Olympic Stadium when a challenge from Mario Bortolazzi stretched the right knee that has undergone two major operations . |
| 10 | One of the main characteristics that has distinguished all radical art , from that of the Soviet revolution to the art of South Africa , from the art of our movement to the work of the AIDS practitioners in the United States , is its proximity to an active audience . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | That is , when success occurs occasionally , not every time , and in a fairly random fashion , the behaviour that has produced this variable success becomes very ingrained and is difficult to eradicate . |
| 13 | As with other examples of apparent technical brilliance , it is natural selection that has produced this innate behaviour , rather than any genius on the part of the house martin . |
| 14 | The decision to drop the hit that has won 26 Emmy awards has shocked viewers . |
| 15 | At a superficial level , this failure to meet housing needs could be attributed simply to ‘ the recession ’ that has afflicted western capitalist economies since the early seventies . |
| 16 | Indeed , it was the pressure from this large and disadvantaged constituency that helped to establish vernacular literary education . |
| 17 | Finally , there are clauses that seek to make generalised advance disclosures of material interests which the fiduciary might have , or of possible conflicts of interest and duty which might arise during the course of the relationship with the customer . |
| 18 | Thus , an illness that tends to require frequent short spells in hospital will appear to have a high incidence . |
| 19 | And indeed , there are many lineages in nature that seem to show this steady improvement in adaptation ; modern horses are more beautifully fitted to running on the open plain than ancient ones ; modern monkeys more agile than their predecessors . |
| 20 | On the basis of these split-brain studies , the most general statement that has been made about right hemisphere specialisation is that they are non-linguistic functions that seem to involve complex visuo-spatial processes . |
| 21 | On the basis of these split-brain studies , the most general statement that has been made about right hemisphere specialisation is that they are non-linguistic functions that seem to involve complex viso-spatial processes . |
| 22 | Even so , she had tied her hair back and simply slammed it on top of her head , If it had n't been for the few feminine wisps that escaped to frame that beautiful face she would have looked forbidding . |
| 23 | Men are all little boys at heart , when all 's said and done , and it 's not only women that like to have these little playthings about to make a break in the daily round . |
| 24 | That having taken this momentous decision to join the Exchange Rate Mechanism , we have taken a step of the most important step towards economic monetary union from which there can be no turning back . |
| 25 | It is not the entirely understandable worries about the choice of South Africa as the tournament venue when that country is in so delicate a political — and hence economically sensitive — state , but rather the veil of secrecy that seems to shroud all commercial aspects of the next World Cup event . |
| 26 | City Hall has a bureaucracy that seems to leave most private-sector people who brush with it utterly dispirited . |
| 27 | One therefore has a theory that seems to predict that certain quantities , such as the curvature of space-time , are really infinite , yet these quantities can be observed and measured to be perfectly finite ! |
| 28 | But , in pointing out the inequities in the situation , the CEOs have raised a dust storm that seems to obscure other important issues relating to corporate auditing and accounting . |
| 29 | Dolphins interact with each other and with their environment primarily through the use of sound , and their manipulation of sound greatly surpasses the control shown by any human musician or that needed to operate any human device . |
| 30 | Sometimes in drama a teacher deliberately sets up a structure that appears to lack any obvious game element . |