Example sentences of "[noun] that [vb base] [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 The personal , ‘ background ’ characteristics that make one person 's voice recognisably different from another .
3 But the mirror has two characteristics that indicate those ways in which Thru goes beyond the self-reflexive novel .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 The kind of songs I sit there and enjoy singing are like ‘ Eternal Flame ’ , songs that have rich melodies . ’
7 Chital are extremely wary animals that alert each other to danger with a whistling call .
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 In America the neo-Lamarckian zoologist Alpheus Packard ( 1839–1905 ) studied the blind animals that inhabit many caves .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 I mean it 's the individual animals that have these properties are the ones that survive .
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 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 ) .
17 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 .
18 Signals that use reflected light , for instance , can not be used in the dark .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 …
24 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 .
25 To create databases that contain local statistics and are tailored to the needs of particular units of work within the curriculum .
26 [ 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 .
27 The Department of the Environment has a system of regional offices that handle many aspects of relationships with the local authorities .
28 But those mythic monsters were as dwarves to the waves that inhabit other oceans .
29 Some of the characteristics of primates are flexible fingers with nails rather than claws , and forward facing eyes that give binocular vision and are vital for judging distance .
30 Practice and research are intertwined ; good doctors have an obligation to inquire as well as to provide a clinical service , and codes of conduct and ethical guidelines that recommend different rules for practice and research create an undesirable dichotomy that itself has ethical implications .
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