Example sentences of "[noun] that have [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are Chinese Muslims whose ancestors came to China from Arabia as long ago as 651 and who still live scattered throughout the People 's Republic , preserving a way of life , a language and a religion that has more in common with Mecca than with the Orient . |
| 2 | There are ways in which mutation and natural selection together can lead , over the long span of geological time , to a building up of complexity that has more in common with addition than with subtraction . |
| 3 | Oldtimers will remember the famous panel from the US comic strip Pogo that had one of the cartoon 's forest creatures utter the immortal words , ‘ We have seen the enemy and he is us . ’ |
| 4 | While the colonies looked to Englishmen like a widely diverse collection of territories with widely differing religious and economic foundations that had little in common , the other colonizing powers of Europe probably noticed their similarities rather than their differences . |
| 5 | He took it and started to put into action a plan that had half-formed in his mind during the run from the stranded Cortina . |
| 6 | The new pattern of variety was an adornment to what Michael Chanan has called ‘ the night-time city ’ , and the whole beauty of the format was that everything took place not in sordid cellars or popular drinking places but in buildings that had much of the appearance and many of the conventions of legitimate theatre . |
| 7 | But now Duvall had the time , the training , the balance and the strength to deliver a kick to Jimmy 's midriff ; a controlled kick that had all of Duvall 's force behind it , from the hip . |
| 8 | Er , at some time during the course of tomorrow morning , I 'll try and bring you up to date as to where we are in terms of the items that have fell off the agenda so far . |
| 9 | Artists ' impressions show a tram that has more in common with the flat-faced , characterless light trains of the toy-like Docklands Light Railway . |
| 10 | This concept has been refined over the years into ‘ How well do our Raphael holdings reflect his styles from the varying stages of his career ? ’ , leading in a recent , and extreme case , to the Italian government spending $1.5 million at Christie 's in 1991 on a St Catharine , a badly damaged sliver of a juvenile Raphael that had most of its surface paint washed away in the 1966 Florence flood . |
| 11 | Instead , the Commission indulged in some verbal gymnastics with : ‘ This work is beginning to suggest that some types of tree grow better in air that has most of the pollution removed from it . ’ |
| 12 | Urgently needed is the same kind of attention paid to the literature of the western country that has one of the most resilient Africanist populations in the world — a population that has always had a curiously intimate and unhingingly separate existence within the dominant one . |
| 13 | Another element that has some of these same properties is silicon . |