Example sentences of "[noun] that [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | A golf swing is a dynamic action that demands good balance at all times . |
3 | The kind of songs I sit there and enjoy singing are like ‘ Eternal Flame ’ , songs that have rich melodies . ’ |
4 | The Banks have totally rejected IBOA members ' concerns and have advised the Association that Extended Opening Hours are working without any difficulties . |
5 | So far , though , Pool Re has raised far less cash than was expected , according to AIRMIC , an association that represents corporate buyers of insurance . |
6 | They have reflected the wishful thinking that informed liberal development politics in the post-War period . |
7 | Animals that produced insufficient milk were sold . |
8 | Remarkably , most animals that reach old age have each had , on average , the same number of heartbeats in their life . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | There will probably be a small range of settings that give satisfactory results . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Students of the subject are trained to regard self-interest as the force that decides economic choices . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Signals that use reflected light , for instance , can not be used in the dark . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | In the shooting that followed Special Constable Goodman was killed and Pc Kelly wounded . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 ) . |
30 | 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 . |