Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pattern shop was a haven of relative peace and quiet , reminiscent of cottage industry , a place where carpenters fashioned the wooden shapes that contributed the first stage of the moulding process . |
| 2 | But it was neither safety , monopoly nor dangerous debt loads that precipitated the first major intervention in the industry by Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner last week . |
| 3 | Lakatos offers Marxism and Freudian psychology as programmes that satisfy the first criterion but do not satisfy the second , and modern sociology as a programme that perhaps satisfies the second but does not satisfy the first . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ A place with corners that resemble the Third World ’ was his verdict this year on the city 's mixture of new private affluence and public squalor , its Mafia-like interest groups and its grotesque inefficiencies . |
| 6 | While the company has still not announced how much vendors will have to pay in royalties on top of the $400,000 licence fee for buying the 135,000 lines of code , it did say that royalties had been reduced significantly , and the second release of the code will be free to those companies that buy the first . |
| 7 | The biggest Complication of mid-Cretaceous times were the circumstances that produced the first great spasm of the Alpine orogeny . |
| 8 | Reviewing the four decades that followed the Second World War , Rowthorn and Wells concluded : |
| 9 | The language is accessible mid-European , direct and diatonic , confident — perhaps most of all the buoyant theme and variations that form the last movement . |
| 10 | Further evidence in support of this comes from studies that introduced a third term , in the form of a nonsense word , in contrast to more and less . |
| 11 | Third , there have been suggestions that to avoid the third party problem with respect to the deep seabed the operation of Part XI might be suspended . |
| 12 | But his playing was studiously uncommunicative and prosaic , unresponsive to the poetry behind the notes — e.g. in the cool Bartokian chords that closed the eighth study . |
| 13 | There was again strict security at the court building in Liverpool town centre but there was no repeat of the noisy scenes that accompanied the first two remands. — PA |
| 14 | They occur much more frequently in the case of mergers and takeovers that represent a second best to internal expansion , and the situation is much worse in the usual case where businesses are acquired with no manufacturing rationale at all . |
| 15 | But theorists have already been busy for the past few years working on schemes that incorporate a third force , the strong nuclear force , with electroweak theory . |
| 16 | Childhood instincts caused the individual to turn , on those occasions when his self-confidence failed him , to animate and inanimate objects to which he ascribed comforting powers similar to those originating in his parents , and these real objects eventually gave way to the imaginary ones that became the first ‘ gods ’ . |
| 17 | According to Les Echos that could not be corroborated with information from Bull , employees that choose the first option will get three months salary for agreeing to reduce their work time for two years . |