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

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1 A state religion that included all others obviously conduced to this objective .
2 Thus , since it is large ‘ failures ’ that are easily detected and that , as a consequence , reap penalties , methods are sought to ensure that large risks that entail high probabilities of failure are not undertaken or , if undertaken , that responsibility does not rest on any single individual , for example by requiring consultation among a number of individuals .
3 A golf swing is a dynamic action that demands good balance at all times .
4 The personal , ‘ background ’ characteristics that make one person 's voice recognisably different from another .
5 But the mirror has two characteristics that indicate those ways in which Thru goes beyond the self-reflexive novel .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 The kind of songs I sit there and enjoy singing are like ‘ Eternal Flame ’ , songs that have rich melodies . ’
9 The Banks have totally rejected IBOA members ' concerns and have advised the Association that Extended Opening Hours are working without any difficulties .
10 So far , though , Pool Re has raised far less cash than was expected , according to AIRMIC , an association that represents corporate buyers of insurance .
11 They have reflected the wishful thinking that informed liberal development politics in the post-War period .
12 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 .
13 Chital are extremely wary animals that alert each other to danger with a whistling call .
14 Animals that produced insufficient milk were sold .
15 Remarkably , most animals that reach old age have each had , on average , the same number of heartbeats in their life .
16 To find the most advanced animals that show regular regeneration of lost organs , we must turn to the reptiles and , in particular , to the lizards .
17 In America the neo-Lamarckian zoologist Alpheus Packard ( 1839–1905 ) studied the blind animals that inhabit many caves .
18 We shall have to reconsider how Darwin 's theory should be applied to animal fighting , to see whether natural selection might in some circumstances favour animals that avoid aggressive conflict .
19 You know this sort of thing and all British wildlife has got its own little characters , every species is different er and you know thousands of animals we 've taken in over the years we 've just learnt different things about different animals that suit different animals .
20 I mean it 's the individual animals that have these properties are the ones that survive .
21 He too is a newcomer to Portrush , but who would have guessed it from a three-under card that showed 16 pars , one eagle and one birdie .
22 From his small office , the solicitor explains that deals similar to that offered to the Salvation Army — where they invested $10 million in a deal that promised high interest returns — are kept secret among high-ranking individuals in the world of finance .
23 By default he alerts us to the fact that it was the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that saw individualist arguments gravitate to the political right and become , however marginally at first , a vocabulary and strategy available to the Conservative party .
24 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 .
25 The general approach adopted in the current research is to discover the task settings that maximize young children 's spatial performance , and to investigate the degree to which performance transfers from these to other settings .
26 There will probably be a small range of settings that give satisfactory results .
27 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 ) .
28 He needs at all rimes to be in full possession of his faculties , or that extra , unpredictable poetic thrust would never declare itself — that heart-lifting boost that rockets mere words into the outer spaces of true poetry .
29 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 .
30 In the field of professional qualifications , a directive is now in force that obliges professional bodies to recognise diplomas awarded in other member states after three years ' training , when granting membership to a particular profession .
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