Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [vb base] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These questions in turn suggest further lines of research that deserve serious attention by historians of both science and art . |
| 2 | Belief in the impassibility of God , it is worth noting , was developed in the early Christian centuries against the background of popular religious belief in the world of that day , where gods were no more than human beings on a large scale , subject to the same contingencies , passions , frustrations and feelings of pain or pleasure that determine human nature . |
| 3 | But evolution , it now seems , must be a complex outcome of all three modes of genetic change : adaptive ( selection ) , accidental ( drift ) and the cohesively driven processes of change that constitute molecular drive . |
| 4 | Interestingly , there are three species of waxbill that share identical mouth markings and all are parasitised by the pintailed whydah . |
| 5 | Immigrants were drawn into semi- and unskilled work and their inadequate housing mainly stems from their weak labour-market position , their low status and the patterns of institutionalized racism that pervade British society . |
| 6 | A purist could argue that it was class and function that set these store owners up for assault , but on the streets , in the full fury of those 48 hours , stretching from the mid-afternoon Wednesday verdict in Simi Valley , any Korean would have been fair game . |
| 7 | First , however , there are some objections to the starting assumption of our ‘ natural ’ criminality that require some attention . |
| 8 | He was elderly , bald , very thin , wearing a striped shirt of the kind that have detachable collars . |
| 9 | Before 1981 the authorities concentrated on a whole range of liquid assets and on broad measures of money supply , like M3 : the argument being that it is broad liquidity that determines credit creation and broad measures of money that influence aggregate demand . |
| 10 | It is possible to think that this plebeian has been lent some part of Naipaul 's aristocratic fastidiousness , some part of his hostility , while also suffering the consequences of an exposure to these qualities , and to recall that both Ahmed and the author of An Area of Darkness are preoccupied with the hanks of human shit that litter certain landscapes . |
| 11 | Rather they derive from associated events in experience that antedate linguistic structure both phylogenetically and , in man , in individual development . |
| 12 | It illustrates clearly the divergent needs of liquidity and profitability that confront most banks . |
| 13 | These findings support the contention that host antigenic variation , through an autoimmune aetiology , is unlikely to make a substantial contribution to differences in liability to develop Crohn 's disease . |
| 14 | You know , the sort that make thick calves look even thicker and are only worn by women with thick calves . |
| 15 | I 'm sure they 're the sort that drop sticky stuff on the top of the car . ’ |
| 16 | This suggests that the main late Preclassic/early Classic occupation sites were in the northern part of the basin and that the thick deposits of colluvium that border this part of the lake have buried their remains . |
| 17 | Secondly , many religions have several tiers of membership that represent varying levels of commitment to the beliefs and/or dedication to a religious life of devotion . |
| 18 | For example , refractive errors ( those defects in the shape of the eye that prevent light rays from being brought sharply on to the retina in a single focus and which include short-sightedness , long-sightedness and astigmatism can often be at least partially corrected by the provision of appropriate lenses in eyeglasses . |
| 19 | Over the volcanic centre of North Island I gazed in wonder on the mighty peaks and craters , remembering some of the Maori tales of love and feuds and jealousy that surround these mountains . |
| 20 | As in his earlier work the aim is to analyse the levels of social process that constitute social formations . |
| 21 | To achieve this they need to be able first to specify the functions of individual components of the nervous system and related mechanisms in the body that have behavioural significance , such as the digestive system , and second to explain how these components , working together in an integrated system , give rise to human behaviour and human consciousness . |
| 22 | There are two groups of middle Miocene hominoid that have unknown relationships with the three subfamilies recognized here . |
| 23 | Bank debts were paid back and replaced with equity in a spate of fund-raising that put French firms ahead of the British as equity issuers ( see chart 23 ) . |
| 24 | The use of both was greatest in both declining and growing ( as opposed to stable ) firms , and this was taken as evidence for the view that it is firms facing fluctuating demand for output that make greatest use of temporary workers . |
| 25 | These places on a water that attract casual anglers and , therefore , receive a lot of bait during the daytime often fish well after nightfall . |
| 26 | If you have an ordinary video recorder which does not have ‘ backspace ’ or ‘ fine edit ’ , you will probably have noticed , when changing from one recording to the next , that for a while the picture is spoilt by various forms of disturbance that take several seconds to clear . |
| 27 | % femur heads digested : the numbers of femur heads present in the sample that show some evidence of digestive corrosion compared with the total numbers of femur heads in the sample . |
| 28 | It has been suggested by Customs and Excise that rent free periods may be the subject of value added tax by virtue of their being treated as inducements . |
| 29 | There are two trusts in my constituency that offer improved patient care and have taken on more staff . |
| 30 | In addition , there is some evidence that thiazide diuretic agents reduce tissue sensitivity to insulin ( Hicks et al , 1973 ) , accelerate the lack of insulin in the prediabetic subject ( Weller & Borondy , 1965 ) and possibly reduce pancreatic insulin secretion ( Shapiro et al , 1961 ) . |