Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | To create databases that contain local statistics and are tailored to the needs of particular units of work within the curriculum . |
| 32 | [ 7 ] The survival of documents has always and substantially will still depend upon the needs and compulsions of the document creators , as well as upon the survival of the organizations that guard these documents . |
| 33 | The Department of the Environment has a system of regional offices that handle many aspects of relationships with the local authorities . |
| 34 | But those mythic monsters were as dwarves to the waves that inhabit other oceans . |
| 35 | this water was full of waves — small ones from the stiff breeze that destroyed the reflections , larger waves that had recognisable reflections in each of their troughs . |
| 36 | But it was her eyes that drew most attention . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . ’ |
| 39 | The aim is to construct a set of modules and utilities that provides user-oriented software tools for laboratory applications of computers . |
| 40 | Practice and research are intertwined ; good doctors have an obligation to inquire as well as to provide a clinical service , and codes of conduct and ethical guidelines that recommend different rules for practice and research create an undesirable dichotomy that itself has ethical implications . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | It is as though the information , induced and deduced by the techniques , were observed through tinted spectacles that obscure certain types of information . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | This approach , while including elements of problem-solving , focuses particularly on the thinking style and negative self-ideas that perpetuate affective disorders . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | In the half-fictional The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans , and in the pruned record of The Childhood , Thomas has left detailed accounts of his extending interest in ‘ Butterflies , Moths and Pigeons ’ , in fishing , in birdnesting of all kinds , with the skills and making of implements that accompanied these activities . |
| 48 | ‘ It 's the drivers that run this town , ’ muttered one politician as he tripped off into the driveway . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | Like Irving Berlin , Fain became part of that group of early 20th-century American songwriters with a talent for producing simple melodies that remained popular decades after they were first heard . |
| 53 | Generally , unripe fruits are rendered unpalatable by the tannins that precipitate salivary mucoproteins and cause astringency . |
| 54 | On the other hand , parties that jettisoned old-fashioned socialism have fared better . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | Obviously , these tigers have to be able to make regular contact with each other , yet there are very few reserves that satisfy this requirement . |
| 57 | Halve our ships , ground the fighters that defend this country and disband half the regiments of the British Army as well . ’ |
| 58 | When legering from a punt you do n't want to be messing about with indicators that require two hands to set . |
| 59 | The fox said " In the town they kill all foxes that have three balls . |
| 60 | Prussian canal-building projects meant that by 1914 Danzig was linked to a network of waterways that allowed inland trade with the Rhine , Bordeaux , Le Havre , Brussels , Antwerpen , and northern Germany up to the Danish border . |