Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Imperial Governor could only ever heed truly weighty wasps that sought to tear that web apart — not the myriad mites that bit one another . |
| 2 | The board favours a more ‘ cost-effective ’ approach that involves strengthening several existing regional centres and enhancing clinical research at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith , west London . |
| 3 | Her mouth was opening and closing , spewing words at him that failed to make any contact in his mind . |
| 4 | Therefore , in this variant , the politician will indulge in promoting regulatory activities that tend to do this ; the MP of a farming constituency promotes tighter regulations on imported meat and so on . |
| 5 | [ I ] n the structure of the politics the presence of men with such a mind-set , most usually middle-class moderates , has the effect of inhibiting the self-destructive proclivities that tend to afflict most regimes . |
| 6 | Intention movements are activities that tend to precede some other activity , which is presumably why they often evolve into signals . |
| 7 | There are other important questions , such as the general characteristics of behaviour that tends to get identified as child abuse and the social conditions that tend to make such behaviour more or less likely . |
| 8 | Not surprisingly , those of them that tried to reverse this fate have sometimes prospered . |
| 9 | Well that needs a check that needs needs another check I I would guess . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Gliclazide is the sulphonylurea that has received most study in terms of possible effects on platelet function . |
| 12 | Perhaps the region that has received most attention in the press in this context is Amazonia . |
| 13 | Anorexia nervosa patients seem unable to identify and to respond accurately to their emotional state , a deficit that has received some empirical support . |
| 14 | It is my belief that teachers are doing remarkably well in an era of prolonged attack upon state education that has led many consumers to come to believe that schools and teachers have somehow failed , by producing children ill equipped for their roles in society . |
| 15 | Perhaps it is the extraordinary popularity of The Color Purple that has led some critics to accuse it of being an uncontentious , sentimental and harmless piece of libertarianism , a family homily that is not just optimistic but eventually even utopian . |
| 16 | This is a style of abuse that has excited some natural envy among professional satirists . |
| 17 | Then disaster struck for the second time when he pulled a tendon in his left leg , an injury that has ended many a greyhound 's racing career . |
| 18 | As a result , Kaliber retains brand leadership and is improving market share in a fluctuating market that has seen many casualties . |
| 19 | A good example of this would be a site that has seen some activity in Saxon times , and where scarcity of metal finds would be normal . |
| 20 | Obviously , this is too valuable a tradition to be allowed to die out in the century that has seen more restriction of public access to land than any previous period of history , including the Enclosures . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | the person that has to implement these things they do n't and I said |
| 23 | It is this grey area that has engendered much of the confusion that beclouds the issue . |
| 24 | It is this sector that has suffered most from the low pay strategies of the Conservatives and from unemployment . |
| 25 | The political reality is that Connecticut is suffering from the economic slowdown that has hit most of the north-east . |
| 26 | It is this complicated self-regulatory process that has made such a profound impression on the Gaianists ; i.e. the notion that living matter itself both defines and maintains the conditions necessary for survival , and that the chief physical features of the Earth are biologically controlled . |
| 27 | There have been few serious attempts to break away from this restrictive framework ; it is the absence of the application of any theoretical framework that has made such work so sterile , and it is doubtful whether evidence will be found for the social and economic developments during the period by studying art-styles , date and distribution alone , unless specific questions are formulated first . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Perhaps that is one of the safeguards that has made this country such a successful and stable parliamentary democracy . |
| 30 | It is this that has made some Americans say that , if Iraq agreed to withdraw from Kuwait , it must abandon its tanks and other heavy equipment . |