Example sentences of "[noun] that [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | The ingredient that causes this effect is the solvent contained in many brands of glue as well as many other household and industrial products . |
4 | The speculation about Dido that accompanies this view has a gossamer base , but I wanted to accept it . |
5 | It is an irony that underlying this kind of dispersal policy , which can of course be criticised , is a reliance on the old skills that the private librarians would have had at their finger tips . |
6 | If it is indeed the loosening of control over associative thought — Woolf 's ‘ Wings in the Head ’ — that is the basic mechanism responsible for autism then the question arises : what is it about the mind that modulates this process , allowing it some free rein , though being capable on occasions of going badly awry , leading to psychosis ? |
7 | ‘ It 's the drivers that run this town , ’ muttered one politician as he tripped off into the driveway . |
8 | It was the opposition of the clergy that gave this resistance of the privileged orders a country-wide leadership and a cause equal in emotive appeal to the myth of the sovereign people . |
9 | Obviously , these tigers have to be able to make regular contact with each other , yet there are very few reserves that satisfy this requirement . |
10 | The mouse has a two-position switch that allows this rodent to be switched between its two personalities — Microsoft or Mouse Systems mode . |
11 | Halve our ships , ground the fighters that defend this country and disband half the regiments of the British Army as well . ’ |
12 | The sort of research that provides this kind of information can come from two or three sources . |
13 | One study that investigated this idea found that there was little difference between first babies and later ones . |
14 | The books that follow this pattern are at first sight attractive , ideal for ‘ face-on ’ displays , and can even seem to have some serious purpose . |
15 | Labour ex-Prime Minister Lord Callaghan said : ‘ The imperative that impels this treaty is the overriding necessity of preserving the peace and security of the European mainland and hence the British Isles themselves . ’ |
16 | We have not addressed whether the protein that recognises this DNA element will also recognise RNA nor have we addressed whether any mRNA molecules are encoded by this region of the PPT promoter . |
17 | In most cases of the conversion of schools that incorporate this feature , the owners have wisely left space between the edge of the added floor and the window to give a mezzanine platform overlooking a ‘ double-height ’ living-room , as in the arrangement adopted at the west end of the main wing of Airton school . |
18 | Yet the club has avoided the kind of foul-up that ruined this year 's Grand National steeplechase because of primitive starting procedures supervised by another archaic British body , the Jockey Club . |
19 | Think-tanks , sitting uneasily half-way between government and universities , are institutions that embody this ambiguity . |
20 | In the essay on ‘ Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses ’ ( Althusser 1971 : 123–74 ) Althusser starts to describe the reproduction of the means of production and to articulate the form of the institutions that achieve this reproduction . |
21 | Whilst Brennan accepted that " desecration of the flag is deeply offensive to many " , he emphasized that punishing such behaviour " dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered and so worth revering " . |
22 | I , I , do not understand Chairman that reading this motion , I 've been trying to think about it , how on earth this is going to be monitored . |
23 | Well I do n't know whether I want let's see what this is in this parcel that came this morning . |
24 | Do n't tell , show — the slogan that keeps this myth from exploding . |
25 | In theory , with a certain knowledge of future events and a perfect capital market , it should be possible for a firm to borrow sufficient funds to finance all those projects that meet this acceptance criterion . |
26 | There are several trees known as the snake-bark maples that have this effect . |
27 | Last Wednesday 's heavy New York papers , the Times and the Wall Street Journal , devoted acres of newsprint to the disastrous turn taken in the tide of IBM Corp 's affairs — but alongside , IBM still ran a chirpy RS/6000 ad with a picture of computer-generated bubbles , with a blurb entitled The Computer That Made This Picture is Also Making History . |
28 | The most memorable thing about the complex power struggle that had this result was the fate of the losers . |
29 | Stead 's dramatisation of the issue of sexual exploitation not only stilled for the moment many fundamental conflicts of interest between participants in the agitation , but it also obscured the contradictions inherent in the ideology that informed this agitation against child prostitution . |
30 | But if you do read the guarantee you will nearly always find a sentence that says this guarantee does not affect your statutory rights . |