Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh det] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Will he take particular note of the excellent report on reading by the Select Committee on Education , Science and Arts which established that reading standards have certainly not fallen and that teachers of reading should be congratulated on the excellent job that they do ?
2 Yet this America gave the world hip hop : arts which brag that ghetto values can equal their middle class opposites ; music which takes pride in the language of the marginal .
3 If Thompson is correct , then such presentations are as simplistic as many of the police images which imply that society is consistently under attack from rampaging and ubiquitous criminal enemies , and which ( it follows ) only they can fight off and defeat .
4 For example Camden social services department made public the findings of an independent review of their homes which revealed that lack of recreational activities and opportunities for choice , lack of training for staff and management difficulties were all interwoven ( Booth , 1987 ) .
5 What is often called public ‘ ( mis ) understanding ’ of scientific knowledge ( eg about technological risks ) thus may be more to do with public judgements about the credibility of the institutions which control that knowledge , or with the pragmatic translation of scientific information .
6 Presidential elections on March 20 brought into focus the conflict between , on the one hand , Taiwan 's claim to embody the legitimate government of mainland China , and , on the other hand , the problem that the ossified political institutions which sustained that claim lacked credibility and acceptance among the younger population in particular .
7 Unemployed women are often defined out of the labour market by structures and ideologies which regulate that market .
8 Why is the task force in consultation with the Housing Corporation but refusing to consult the local authorities which have that power ?
9 Even in a legal system which had the narrowest of definitions of murder — say , premeditated intention to kill — there would still be an argument that some cases which fulfil that criterion should have their label reduced from murder to manslaughter because of extenuating circumstances .
10 It was an instructive couple of hours which showed that sport can cross any barriers .
11 It offended nobody but like most policies which achieve that result , it did not greatly please anyone either .
12 The new board is able to award itself performance bonuses based on monopoly profit and to take share options on share values which reflect that monopoly profit .
13 It would mean accepting that an assault could exist without any of the elements which comprise that term ; no one would , for example , have to be placed in fear for their bodily safety .
14 But the circumstances of its failure , and the manoeuvrings of politicians and judges which accompanied that failure , combined to produce a calamity which went far beyond the collapse of a doomed policy , for the failure directly resulted in a deep distrust of the judicial system .
15 Now select a colour — red , for example — and pick up and remove all the pieces which contain that colour .
16 That means that those coal-fired power stations which use that fuel need FGD retrofitting .
17 With interactive use of LIFESPAN , if a module is updated and approved in one package , it is likely that the task for managers of other packages which contain that module will , at some time , be to embody that change within their package .
18 On these grounds ( but not on others ) , the implications of objectification have much in common with a whole series of critical writings which argue that representation or symbolism , as a relation between signifier and signified , tends to promote the unproblematic assertion of the signified ( for example , the modern conception of the self ) rather than investigating the mechanisms by which these are constructed in the symbolic process itself ( e.g. Coward and Ellis 1977 : 122–52 ) .
19 In Difficulties with girls there are passages which recall that lift of the old proud head .
20 Slim Gaillard 's Civilisation begins on 22 October on BBC 2 GIVEN the renewed popular interest in bebop , it might be supposed that drummer Max Roach , who came to prominence playing it , would take a pragmatic view of two movies which helped that resurgence : the Charlie Parker film Bird and Round Midnight , loosely based on the life of the pianist Bud Powell .
21 The immediate catalyst for his removal was an inept press conference on Dec. 5 in which he declared the recession to be abating , only hours before the publication of official figures which showed that GDP had declined 0.3 per cent in the three months to September , the sixth successive quarter for which it had been either static or negative .
22 Unlike Lucas , these writers rarely attempt to justify this conviction formally , preferring instead to allude vaguely to the Walrasian model of general equilibrium and to the behavioural assumptions which underpin that model .
23 That assertion of professional autonomy was thought to be reinforced by studies which stressed that curriculum development should be school-based , rooted in the professional context of teachers rather than in distant centres such as Whitehall or Edinburgh .
24 He merely condemned the actions which preserved that regime , and then only the worst .
25 Ross has taken this line of reasoning further by arguing that because managers ' remuneration is linked to the value of the firm , they will make decisions which maximize that value .
26 Miki , who died fourteen years ago , was obsessed by the form of the ear , producing casts which endowed that organ with symbolic complexity and mythological significance .
27 The UN Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , was notified that military action had begun under the terms of UN Security Council Resolution 678 of Nov. 29 , 1990 , which authorized UN member states to use " all necessary means to uphold and implement Security Council Resolution 660 [ of Aug. 2 , 1990 , demanding an immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Iraqi forces which had that day invaded Kuwait ] and all subsequent relevant resolutions " .
28 The neo-classical assumption of an underlying tendency towards equality is , however , most hotly disputed by a school of thought which would argue , by contrast , that the very fact of uneven development at any one time creates further processes which make that inequality hard to counter .
29 The first crossing of the Atlantic entirely under steam power was made in 1833 and the ships which travelled that route were among the most famous in the history of steamships : the Mauretania held the Blue Riband or the fastest Atlantic crossing , but after twenty two years it was won by the Queen May .
30 The future lay with minds of a different type — minds which saw that government was a matter of administration , and not an attempt to reproduce on earth a pattern of things laid up in Heaven .
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