Example sentences of "[noun] that [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The crumbling of the old idea of a state based on obligations and obedience may have helped increase the dynamic force that enabled European countries to spread their authority over most of the world ; the very widespread acceptance of the new idea of a state based on independence and equality gave people outside Europe political principles which helped them in the later struggle to dismantle the European empires . |
| 32 | Students of the subject are trained to regard self-interest as the force that decides economic choices . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | But in the Philosophie zoologique Lamarck had subordinated this to his belief in a progressive force that pushed living things steadily up the scale of organization . |
| 35 | Some thoughtful Germans , such as Volker Rühe , general secretary of the ruling Christian Democrats , argue that now more than ever the Europeans should speed moves to form a multinational force that includes German soldiers . |
| 36 | In this study , two immunocytochemical methods that measure different components of the cell cycle were compared to assess cell proliferation on biopsy samples from human colonic mucosa . |
| 37 | The ingredient that causes this effect is the solvent contained in many brands of glue as well as many other household and industrial products . |
| 38 | After 113 minutes of attacking football that had Second Division Swindon reeling from the start , Third Division Bolton finally took the lead through Brown . |
| 39 | Signals that use reflected light , for instance , can not be used in the dark . |
| 40 | The system will handle not only telephone calls and data messages but other signals that need high bandwidth , for instance those that encode TV pictures or large stores of computerised information . |
| 41 | On the contrary , a great deal of communication is to do with signals that carry real information — even in conflicts — and with co-operation in which all the participants benefit by working with each other . |
| 42 | In the shooting that followed Special Constable Goodman was killed and Pc Kelly wounded . |
| 43 | If you have a small bathroom , look for manufacturers that make fitted bathroom furniture , with the washbasin , toilet ( and sometimes bidet ) set into storage cupboards . |
| 44 | Stamford , Connecticut-based General Signal Corp signed a letter of intent to sell its Integrated Solutions business to the company 's management on undisclosed terms : the Andover , Massachusetts company provides support services to semiconductor manufacturers that use General Signal 's microlithography equipment and also provides third party sales and support services . |
| 45 | But it was skewed development priorities that forced people into a continued dependence on livestock in the first place and huge , often foreign-owned ranches that pushed those people and their herds onto fragile , marginal land . |
| 46 | The speculation about Dido that accompanies this view has a gossamer base , but I wanted to accept it . |
| 47 | Until well into the 1970s , the almost universal conventional wisdom — except perhaps in the United States — was that the government should stand ready to act as a deus ex machina , stepping in to save the capitalist system from its inherent defects of inequality in the distribution of the wealth it created , of unbalanced investment that created private affluence and public squalor , and or vulnerability to cyclical downturn , slump and unemployment ( for example , Shonfield , 1965 ; Galbraith , 1956 ) . |
| 48 | For after the rain came hail , to batter and crush what the water had left undamaged , and after the hail , snow , sudden freezing squalls that piled white drifts in every cranny and across every open space . |
| 49 | Rita : You know , the old story , my first thoughts when I had her , well one of my first thoughts , was Oh , I 've got one of them kids that have silly haircuts , silly anoraks , spend all day on buses or all day in a home , weaving baskets , and that was my first thought … |
| 50 | TransTools ' latest product is MultiBase , an applications development tool for relational databases that took four years to develop . |
| 51 | The centre also has access to a number of marketing-oriented databases that contain full-text market reports , company information and extracts from trade journals and the press . |
| 52 | To create databases that contain local statistics and are tailored to the needs of particular units of work within the curriculum . |
| 53 | Eyes ( are they cloudy , or sunken , or affected by the parasite that causes pinhead-sized pupils ? ) |
| 54 | England 's 16-man squad is well balanced to cope with an itinerary that includes three Tests and six one-day internationals , as well as the Sri Lankan leg in March . |
| 55 | [ 7 ] The survival of documents has always and substantially will still depend upon the needs and compulsions of the document creators , as well as upon the survival of the organizations that guard these documents . |
| 56 | The Department of the Environment has a system of regional offices that handle many aspects of relationships with the local authorities . |
| 57 | But those mythic monsters were as dwarves to the waves that inhabit other oceans . |
| 58 | this water was full of waves — small ones from the stiff breeze that destroyed the reflections , larger waves that had recognisable reflections in each of their troughs . |
| 59 | So we 've combined them in a shampoo that makes dry hair lustrous and more manageable . |
| 60 | But it was her eyes that drew most attention . |