Example sentences of "[noun] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wording similar to that included below may be incorporated with the objective of retaining the benefit of an appointment regarded as quasi-arbitration in circumstances where there are risks that such benefits may be lost during the conduct of the engagement . |
| 2 | Then the risks that Hayzen associates with the ‘ Scramble ’ position may not exist , because rivals have been kept out of the market and it is too late to enter . |
| 3 | If the politicians were to take the drastic action that many voices are calling for , much of our motorised transport would not even get out of the garage . |
| 4 | These principles and these beliefs are such an integral part of each person 's characteristics that few days will pass in the professional life of the librarian when these loyalties do not impinge upon our professional judgment . |
| 5 | Will my hon. Friend discuss with the Office of Electricity Regulation the complaints of the Combined Heat and Power Association that existing regulations contain barriers to the progress of combined heat and power , which should be removed ? |
| 6 | Proposals from the Professional Footballers Association that former players should be promoted more quickly will be considered at an FA referees ' committee meeting on December 19 . |
| 7 | Proposals from the Professional Footballers Association that former players should be promoted more quickly will be considered at an FA referees ' committee meeting on December 19 . |
| 8 | Yet talk to any established composer nowadays , and the likelihood is that he or she is about to be embroiled in some kind of operatic project , perhaps planned for the middle-distant future ( timescales are necessarily generous for opera ) but nevertheless fully engaged in the kind of musical thinking that three decades ago would have beyond the wildest dreams for all but the most exclusive , established few — Benjamin Britten and Tippett in Britain , Hans Werner Henze on the Continent . |
| 9 | And although the head count of ‘ nation states ’ within that organisation is increasing by the year , it is unlikely ever to encompass all the 4,000 or so distinct peoples that UN-sponsored studies have identified as existing in the world . |
| 10 | He had given up years ago the delusion that all men were homosexual at heart , and that it was just a question of finding the key to unlock their repressed desires . |
| 11 | In the procedures of arresting and charging individuals and in their treatment in court , there are clear differences across the middle/working-class divide ; and these serve to reinforce the public 's ( and the police 's ) perception that certain groups are inclined to criminality . |
| 12 | It should not be presumed , however , that the child instantly and readily makes a generalization of its perception that many women possess no penis ; in the way of this there lies the assumption that the absence of the penis is due to a castration performed as a punishment . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , an awareness that Japan was acutely vulnerable to threats of superior force , a resentment that Japan was considered inferior because she did not conform to Western standards and models , and a perception that other nations were prepared to act ‘ unfairly ’ to maximize the advantages that could be gained from any particular situation , made Japan determined to achieve equal status with the so-called Great Powers , or indeed , to surpass them . |
| 14 | Her association with birds and animals is linked with her ability to use natural drives and the type of primitive but effective forms of perception that these creatures possess . |
| 15 | And given the political sensitivity of so much of our work , it is under the secretary general 's guidance that difficult discussions on strengthening the movement 's development and human rights awareness programmes must take place and where the final green light must be given for increasingly complex initiatives to intensify public pressure on governments . |
| 16 | The methods that European governments increasingly use to keep out unwanted foreigners work to the disadvantage of genuine refugees . |
| 17 | Despite the brisk sales reported in the last few days before Christmas , December saw a small decline in retail trade compared with the previous year , according to the Confederation of British Industry 's distributive trades panel , said on Tuesday that many retailers had reported a disappointing Christmas , although the results were an improvement on recent months and sales in January were expected to be up on a year ago . |
| 18 | This , it argues , would minimise the risk of fraud that open borders would generate . |
| 19 | As someone who came through the state school system and benefited from the investment that previous taxpayers spent on our schools , I believe that it is vital that today 's children and their parents get value for money from the present state school system . |
| 20 | It is through other black kids that some aspirations are fostered and others snuffed out by stories of racialism . |
| 21 | So beautiful is this emotion that some scientists and poets regard it as the elixir of life and pursue it for no other reason . |
| 22 | I was also under no illusion that some backbenchers on our side were nervous about the policy . |
| 23 | Walton has commented usefully on this , arguing that the use of the phrase ‘ the best interests of the child ’ has often confused rather than helped child care debates , creating the illusion that these interests constitute an objective fact . |
| 24 | A more accurate way of conveying the thought that men exist or that dragons are fictional would be by saying " For some ( at least one ) x , x is a man " and " Nothing is a dragon " ; employing expressions , that is , that correspond to what logicians call , " quantifiers " , and enable us to dispel any lingering illusion that existential propositions might have a subject/predicate structure . |
| 25 | What elevated Griffith above his fellow technicians was that his sense of what a camera should record and his appreciation that new dimensions of filmic space could be appropriated were given meaning by their constant reference to central themes of American life . |
| 26 | ‘ … a more meaningful and relevant physical geography may emerge as the product of a new generation of physical geographers who are willing and able to face up to the contemporary needs of the whole subject , and who are prepared to concentrate on the areas of physical reality which are especially relevant to the man-oriented geography It is in the extinction of the traditional division between physical and human geography that new types of collaborative synthesis can arise . ’ |
| 27 | There can be no doubt that the heliocentric astronomy of Copernicus did pose a challenge to a cosmic geography that Christian theologians had largely taken for granted . |
| 28 | And not just Ford buyers : Options instantly touched such a sensitive nerve that other makers rushed to promote similar schemes . |
| 29 | It was not only to meet the argument of demographic decline if the trade stopped but to avoid the embarrassingly radical charge that they wanted rapid emancipation that antislavery reformers argued the consequence of abolition would be virtually automatic improvement in the conditions of slaves . |
| 30 | It was again noted that he did not deny the wider allegation that other members of the Reagan election campaign had been involved in such a deal . |