Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The personal , ‘ background ’ characteristics that make one person 's voice recognisably different from another . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Chital are extremely wary animals that alert each other to danger with a whistling call . |
| 5 | Animals that produced insufficient milk were sold . |
| 6 | Remarkably , most animals that reach old age have each had , on average , the same number of heartbeats in their life . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Signals that use reflected light , for instance , can not be used in the dark . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But it was her eyes that drew most attention . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Treves wrote : ‘ As a specimen of humanity , Merrick was ignoble and repulsive ; but the spirit of Merrick , if it could be seen in the form of the living , would assume the figure of an upstanding and heroic man , smooth browed and clean of limb , and with eyes that flashed undaunted courage . ’ |
| 19 | The aim is to construct a set of modules and utilities that provides user-oriented software tools for laboratory applications of computers . |
| 20 | The difference between tactics and strategy " is that tactics covers what you need to do at the moment and strategy provides the broad guidelines that determine over-all direction . |
| 21 | The management of this type of change is distinctly different in a number of ways from the management of change in many other arenas that concern human resource development ( HRD ) practitioners daily . |
| 22 | We think it would also be useful if the Director General of Fair Trading made it clear to traders that advocating follow-on credit is unfair , and expect ( from what they told us ) that the National Consumer Credit Federation and Consumer Credit Association would support him in persuading traders to abandon the practice . |
| 23 | There are also worries that increased public spending not only pushes up government borrowing to fund a high PSBR , but also leads to higher taxes , thereby reducing the incentives to work , save and take risks . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's the drivers that run this town , ’ muttered one politician as he tripped off into the driveway . |
| 25 | The domes that dominate these holiday villages are maintained at sub-tropical temperatures , and there is a full range of sporting and other facilities , mostly on site . |
| 26 | The moral or ideological considerations that inform domestic politics provide an inappropriate basis for action , whether in relation to Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s or Yugoslavia in the 1990s — particularly when a positive outcome in terms of power and prestige can not be assured . |
| 27 | It was the opposition of the clergy that gave this resistance of the privileged orders a country-wide leadership and a cause equal in emotive appeal to the myth of the sovereign people . |
| 28 | On the other hand , parties that jettisoned old-fashioned socialism have fared better . |
| 29 | Because 74.3 per cent of the Scottish people who voted , opted for parties that supported constitutional change , and if they all blew hard enough in the direction of St Andrew 's House , the walls were eventually bound to fall down . |
| 30 | Obviously , these tigers have to be able to make regular contact with each other , yet there are very few reserves that satisfy this requirement . |