Example sentences of "[noun pl] [that] [vb -s] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But just below the layer of gently folded limestones that contains the earliest of the invertebrate fossils , the strata change radically . |
| 2 | To assist in the development of an approach to school internal evaluation in Strathclyde Catholic schools that considers the distinctive philosophy of the Catholic school as a basis for review and development . |
| 3 | In the banking sector , the Commission imposed fines on Eurocheque International ( EI ) and Groupement des Cartes Bancaires ( CB ) , a group of French financial institutions that operates the Eurocheque payment system in France . |
| 4 | In the Dance for the Haymakers that follows the comic Dialogue between Coridon and Mopsa , only the outer parts have been copied — but all the way through this movement the copyist has provided staves , complete with clefs and key- and time-signatures , for the second violin and viola parts without which it manifestly does not present a complete texture . |
| 5 | Paszti-Bott 's Conceptualist roster is impeccable it includes such artists as Hans-Peter Adamski , Peter Bömmels , Walter Dahn , Martin Gostner , Martin Kippenberger and Jürgen Klauke yet selection of works is guided by a rare concern for materials and aesthetic values that flouts the Deconstructive ban on real presences . |
| 6 | Is there an optimum payout ratio or range of ratios that maximizes the current worth of shares ? ’ |
| 7 | Guinness Brewing Worldwide has gained access to an important blond beer market , and a powerful portfolio of brands that meets the varying needs of the consumer . |
| 8 | One of the areas that shows the first signs of body ageing is the upper arms — they can become thick and flabby and as a result shapeless . |
| 9 | He carries a picture taken by anti-abortionists that depicts the decapitated head of a fully formed foetus , recovered from a rubbish bin behind a clinic in New York . |
| 10 | Carter remained loyal to the 1960s ethos , and there 's an elegiac tone to some of these pieces that suggests the necessary work of iconoclasm had already passed into other hands . |
| 11 | It is this same difference of angles that makes the current stunt kite so stable and controllable , though Don used the Conyne planform . |
| 12 | The shifting and complex web of relationships and powers that forms the British Constitution is not an easily discernible one . |
| 13 | THE SORT of things that puts The Late Show set into raptures ; politely rocking , coffee table country with ‘ searching ’ lyrics and nice tunes . |
| 14 | This is one of the things that makes the 486 so fast . |
| 15 | The rest of the melted material reaches the surface and is erupted as lava and ashes , building up the narrow chain of volcanoes that runs the whole way up the South American continent . |
| 16 | The famous St. Ursula winery at Bingen-am-Rhein in Germany produces this attractive blend of wine and natural waters that retains the typical Germanic style . |
| 17 | Erm I think that in in broad terms that covers the architectural aspects we we have of course , as er , Paul mentioned at the beginning erm talked the these designs through with the Clark Hill , Honey Hill and Fern Hill Resident 's Association and they have erm been , been shown the exhibition on the estate and er we believe that they 've been well received towards seeing what |
| 18 | One of the major discoveries of the last two decades has been the mosaic of visual field representations that bounds the primary visual cortex in all of the mammals that have been studied so far . |
| 19 | To watch a firm , the subscriber would issue a set of instructions that loads the relevant disc onto the player . |
| 20 | Non-linearity is in fact also needed to provide the coupling between the x- and y-motions that produces the latter . |
| 21 | If the net encircles , it becomes necessary to fasten it to the top and the bottom of each of the stakes that holds the net erect . |
| 22 | This inevitably means that in each generation the loss of individuals from the population through mortality prior to breeding or through failure to breed , eliminates not isolated genes but sets of associated genes from the pool of genes that represents the total population of that species . |
| 23 | These semiconductors have been selected to respond to infrared radiation in four different wavebands , around 10 , 20 , 50 and 100 micrometres , a range of wavelengths that covers the maximum emission from bodies radiating at temperatures from 400 down to 40 K. ( ‘ Room temperature ’ is just below 300 K. ) The array will be used to pick up infrared sources within the telescope 's field of view of half a degree , that is , about the size of the Sun 's diameter as seen from Earth . |
| 24 | When the River Erne reaches Fermanagh , it broadens out into immense Lough Erne , a fragmented inland sea of a thousand islands that bisects the whole county and reaches clear to Cavan in the south . |
| 25 | The result is often a series of complex compromises that obtains the theoretical advantages of neither system and forms the basis for further argument . |
| 26 | Concern about the disease has also been strengthened by reports of the death of a British dairy farmer from Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease , a rare dementia in humans that causes the same kind of brain damage as BSE . |
| 27 | The roots of Habermas 's concept of lifeworld clearly lie with the phenomenology of Schutz and Berger and Luckmann ( see Chapter 3 ) but his concept is closely related to a theory of social systems that includes the institutional structure of society . |
| 28 | It is the possession of a common culture and the ability to communicate and pass it on to others that distinguishes the human being from other animals . |
| 29 | It is the shift from fully erect ears to fully flattened ones that transmits the all-important social signal . |
| 30 | The campaign director , Chrissie Maher , says , ‘ If you come across an unnecessarily complicated piece of jargon , you can either forget it or send them one of our cards that carries the pointed message : Gobbledygook can damage your business . ’ |