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

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1 There would be revealed the incredible amount of effort which in the name of ‘ god ’ , has been expended on all those evil things that it should be the objective of the kind of religion that the human race hungers for , to banish from the face of the earth .
2 One of the arguments against decentralisation is that the peripheral units can become complacent and lazy and unwilling to take the risks that the financial resources of the centralised company make possible .
3 She had known the risks that the average cigarette shortens life by seven minutes , and smoking takes six years off the average life .
4 All the same , there may be one or two risks that the Royal Society 's Group have not taken into account .
5 it 's not a reflex action that the Labour Party somehow engages in , but there are things that we need to rave raise revenue for , such as investment in the economy , like our social policies , and that the way that we will raise revenue is that we we will have a fair taxation system , that is very straightforward , and agreed by the Party , unlike the Conservatives who firstly do n't recognize there is any purpose in investment in the economy , public investment , or investment in social policies they do n't agree with , and secondly , when they do have to raise money they do it in the unfairest possible way , penalizing most those who can least
6 In his reply , the Chief Executive told Councillor Matheson that the Social Work Department had been in the process of compiling guidelines when ‘ the present difficulties ’ arose .
7 Draper says , ‘ the dice are loaded against the parents ’ ; Holman that the 1975 Act ‘ concentrates exclusively on facilitating the removal of children from their families and on reducing the rights of natural parents ’ .
8 It was perhaps with the expectation that food rioting sometimes secured short-term remedy that the eighteenth-century crowd resorted to it so frequently .
9 An examination of the naming patterns used by the Titfords of Frome would suggest at a cursory glance that every eldest son was named after his paternal grandfather , as a matter of course .
10 When Monday came , her misery gave her a new edge of ruthless efficiency , so that she hardly hesitated in rejecting some of the more out-of-condition stock that the retiring owner tried to include in the valuation .
11 The typical business card that the non-Japanese businessman should have will have the Japanese translation of the individual 's name on one side , along with his company , its address and the person 's title .
12 There 's a great deal that a competent d-i-y enthusiast can undertake himself : the majority of it is hammer-and-saw work .
13 It can be a year from signing the deal that the first single is released .
14 If it can be established by observation in some test experiment that a 10 lb. weight and a 1 lb. weight in free fall move downwards at roughly the same speed , then it can be concluded that the claim that bodies fall at speeds proportional to their weight is false .
15 On many occasions in our study we found a sharp contrast between the professionals ' perception that a high degree of consensus had been reached and the parents ' perception that they had agreed to a course of action because they saw no other real choice , particularly if the urgent needs of the child and other family members were to be quickly met .
16 he contends , America did not maintain a permanent arms economy due to the desire to reduce unemployment ; it was because of a real perception that the Soviet Union was a threat to the West .
17 ‘ There is a popular perception that the monetary authorities dictate the general level of interest rates , and of course it is true that we are able to exert a very considerable influence on it .
18 Yet still they work in improving the mood from where it is now and still there may be no perception that the depressed mood and damaging consequences of use could possibly be the responsibility of the very substances and processes that seem to be the only things that can make life better .
19 A key factor behind the superficial perception that the new arrivals are ‘ taking jobs ’ from West Germany 's 1.8million unemployed is that West German workers are less mobile and flexible .
20 There is a popular perception that the modern family has become a problem , that increasingly the family renounces its former responsibilities towards the care and maintenance of older relatives .
21 At the start , this strategy was to show the electorate that the Prime Minister was ‘ a very nice person ’ , tell them of the horrors of Labour 's tax policies and hope that in the twinkling of Mr Heseltine 's eye — aided by the applause of some celebrities and a giant ( and inexplicably awful ) stage set — the Conservatives would be back in government .
22 Tony Wedd taught me to spot them as possible ley markers , and the sight of a clump or an individual pine standing alone on a ridge still fills me with excitement , perhaps a resonance with the ancient traveller to whom such a sight meant the security and guidance that the straight tracks provided .
23 The powerful pictures in this new IMAX have a force that no other medium can convey .
24 For example , five levels of management were cut ; this development sent a message to the work force that the required reductions were not to take place only at the lower levels of the hierarchy .
25 And then something was coughed out of that blackened spot with a sound like liquid choking ; coughed out from a hole where there was no hole , with such force that the jumbled shape landed with a slap on the corridor floor , five feet from the wall .
26 He brought his talons and beak down on the bars with such force that the very Cages themselves shook with the power of it .
27 What is the vital ingredient that a dead planet like the early Earth must have , if it is to have a chance of eventually coming alive , as our planet did ?
28 It is only with thought , practice and feedback that the necessary skills can be acquired .
29 The Chancellor , Norman Lamont , told the Commons on Tuesday that the current zero rating would be swept aside from April next year , when domestic fuel and power would be subject to 8 per cent VAT , with the full 17.5 per cent applied from April 1995 .
30 SUICIDE was thought damnable in the Middle Ages , and I expect there are those who have been brought to feel by a book called The Monument that the Middle Ages had a point .
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