Example sentences of "[noun] that [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 A state religion that included all others obviously conduced to this objective .
2 They are Chinese Muslims whose ancestors came to China from Arabia as long ago as 651 and who still live scattered throughout the People 's Republic , preserving a way of life , a language and a religion that has more in common with Mecca than with the Orient .
3 Indeed , agricultural equipment data should have unusually favourable characteristics that avoid some of the problems that some manufacturing investment data exhibit — most notably the conceptual and estimation problems that occur when there is a long lag between the placement of a new order and its subsequent delivery sometime in the future .
4 But the mirror has two characteristics that indicate those ways in which Thru goes beyond the self-reflexive novel .
5 solids Some of the characteristics that distinguish these three states of matter are shown in table 3.1 .
6 Aching in bones as if they would break is the main feature of this remedy that accompanies all of its complaints .
7 These are the tracks to which a whole generation dated and danced , the driving rock numbers and sweet teen love songs that formed such an unforgettable soundtrack to our lives .
8 These clips are a triumph of form over content , and by the time you reach the four live songs that close this boxful of banging and shouting , it 's a relief to know that at least this is roughly what they 're really like when they 're not busy being hyperactive .
9 The same fragility can be heard in the six songs that complete this issue , and she seems too light a voice for either the humouristic pomp of the Ballade des gros Dindons , or the lovely lyricism of Chanson pour Jeanne and L'île heureuse .
10 A proper respect for the Modern thinking that underlay such tools of social and economic experiment as the centre of Zlin , the original Bauhaus buildings , the Weissenhof , the Maison Savoye and many more , demands that their documentation should be preserved , but they themselves should be allowed to die .
11 Sadly , if it was produced using the SEUCK utility it was n't tweaked enough — there 's no excuse for baddies that use such boring attack patterns .
12 Chital are extremely wary animals that alert each other to danger with a whistling call .
13 In America the neo-Lamarckian zoologist Alpheus Packard ( 1839–1905 ) studied the blind animals that inhabit many caves .
14 Animals that do this include fish such as the cod , which of course are highly mobile even as adults ; crustacea such as crabs and lobsters ; echinoderms such as sea urchins ; gastropod molluscs such as winkles , which are mobile as adults but are not able to travel huge distances ; and also — crucially — most of the animals which are sessile as adults — that is , remain immobile in one place .
15 Fur , which relies on trapped air for insulating efficiency , can not be effective in animals that spend all their lives in water , and rapidly loses effectiveness by compression in those that dive deep .
16 I mean it 's the individual animals that have these properties are the ones that survive .
17 After the war , the succession of plants and animals that colonised these newly wasted sites was studied in detail by the London Natural History society ( LNHS ) .
18 Instead we get polyester and cotton in colour combinations that induce such a bad trip they 'll soon start prescribing intravenous Ketamine as an antidote .
19 ‘ We have a card that says that .
20 In the centuries that followed such shadings were shown to be transitory , and from these and other observations it became clear that Venus is completely and continuously covered in clouds .
21 as they would say in the army she had legs that went all the way up to her bottom !
22 The legs look like the sort of legs that spend most of their time running round after sheep or clasped ( for dear life ) around a large horse .
23 The legs that deliver that blow are in proportion to the rest of the tiger 's body , the circumference of the upper joint often being as much as 21 in ( 54 cm ) .
24 That they 're th No , th I 'm not I 'm discriminating o against them on the grounds that they have legs that do that .
25 The difference in the electrical properties of the metals provides the force that drives such a current . ’
26 These names have a personal connotation and , according to Gandhi , are simply man 's attempt to define the mysterious , invincible force that pervades all things .
27 The PLO escorted the British through west Beirut and they were replaced at Khalde by Major Hassan Kassar of the Libyan army , a reconnaissance officer for a Libyan-sponsored Arab League peace force that disintegrated some days later .
28 The ingredient that causes this effect is the solvent contained in many brands of glue as well as many other household and industrial products .
29 I have one in the bathroom for dirty washing , which doubles as a seat ; I have one in my bedroom for ironing and one in the other bedroom that holds all my sewing materials .
30 IS Scissormen 's first release , a six-track mini-LP that goes some considerable distance towards explaining their steadily-growing popularity in the capital .
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