Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's the drivers that run this town , ’ muttered one politician as he tripped off into the driveway . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Obviously , these tigers have to be able to make regular contact with each other , yet there are very few reserves that satisfy this requirement . |
| 6 | Halve our ships , ground the fighters that defend this country and disband half the regiments of the British Army as well . ’ |
| 7 | The books that follow this pattern are at first sight attractive , ideal for ‘ face-on ’ displays , and can even seem to have some serious purpose . |
| 8 | In most cases of the conversion of schools that incorporate this feature , the owners have wisely left space between the edge of the added floor and the window to give a mezzanine platform overlooking a ‘ double-height ’ living-room , as in the arrangement adopted at the west end of the main wing of Airton school . |
| 9 | Think-tanks , sitting uneasily half-way between government and universities , are institutions that embody this ambiguity . |
| 10 | In the essay on ‘ Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses ’ ( Althusser 1971 : 123–74 ) Althusser starts to describe the reproduction of the means of production and to articulate the form of the institutions that achieve this reproduction . |
| 11 | In theory , with a certain knowledge of future events and a perfect capital market , it should be possible for a firm to borrow sufficient funds to finance all those projects that meet this acceptance criterion . |
| 12 | There are several trees known as the snake-bark maples that have this effect . |
| 13 | WACC should promote the use of inclusive language and endeavour to unmask the patriarchal cultural patterns that maintain this bias . |
| 14 | Our present study supports the view that whole protein based diets are clinically effective , as suggested in three previous trials that compared this type of diet with elemental formulas , although in one of them the sample is small and the conclusions are only indicative . |
| 15 | There are obvious additional tasks to be carried out , such as de-blocking , overflow calculations and efficient packing of the file storage areas that make this limitation understandable . |
| 16 | There may be some interaction between the edges and corners that prevents this split but it is a reasonable split to start with . |
| 17 | John Gorst , Conservative MP , intimate of Samuel Barnett , and a supporter of this programme , captured the emotions that motivated this ideology when speaking at Glasgow University in 1894 . |
| 18 | The companies that follow this principle often do n't shout about it , but they are easy to recognise . |
| 19 | Long before the Savorys started their manufactory , pins had been produced ( during the 1850s and 1860s ) at such places as Painswick and Rock Mills , and quite possibly it was the success of these other concerns that prompted this venture . |
| 20 | It was the circumstances that made this achievement even more outstanding . |
| 21 | ‘ Lord you are so precious to me … . ’ are appropriate here , with lines that express this intimacy . |
| 22 | It 's these little planes that make this gold rush possible . |
| 23 | The days that followed this discovery saw a steady increase in activity , with the town of St Pierre now being showered with light falls of ash and subjected to unpleasant wafts of sulphurous fumes . |
| 24 | The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal . |
| 25 | The question of how we are to construct explanations that reflect this insight is not swept away by the conclusion that one approach to the task is inadequate , and the problem therefore remains as pressing as ever . |
| 26 | David Cooper of Genetic Resources Action International , based in Barcelona , pointed out that it was farmers in West Africa who first noted the resistance of some varieties of cowpea to insects and who nurtured superior varieties that carried this characteristic . |
| 27 | nevertheless , there are many films that undermine this argument , suggesting that British character wo n't do as an explanation of poor filmmaking . |
| 28 | If the powers that prowled this world tonight wanted him dispatched , nothing short of intervention from the Unbeheld Himself , Hapexamendios , the all-powerful occupant of the First Dominion , would save him . |
| 29 | The only things that unite this class are the slowly conducting axons , the large receptive field sizes , and their poor sensitivity and resolution . |
| 30 | For the changes that threaten this country , either from a majority Labour government or one kept in power by the Liberal-Democrats , are of an enormity that still has not sunk in . |