Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A state religion that included all others obviously conduced to this objective . |
| 2 | The Banks have totally rejected IBOA members ' concerns and have advised the Association that Extended Opening Hours are working without any difficulties . |
| 3 | So far , though , Pool Re has raised far less cash than was expected , according to AIRMIC , an association that represents corporate buyers of insurance . |
| 4 | A proper respect for the Modern thinking that underlay such tools of social and economic experiment as the centre of Zlin , the original Bauhaus buildings , the Weissenhof , the Maison Savoye and many more , demands that their documentation should be preserved , but they themselves should be allowed to die . |
| 5 | He too is a newcomer to Portrush , but who would have guessed it from a three-under card that showed 16 pars , one eagle and one birdie . |
| 6 | He needs at all rimes to be in full possession of his faculties , or that extra , unpredictable poetic thrust would never declare itself — that heart-lifting boost that rockets mere words into the outer spaces of true poetry . |
| 7 | These names have a personal connotation and , according to Gandhi , are simply man 's attempt to define the mysterious , invincible force that pervades all things . |
| 8 | In the field of professional qualifications , a directive is now in force that obliges professional bodies to recognise diplomas awarded in other member states after three years ' training , when granting membership to a particular profession . |
| 9 | The crumbling of the old idea of a state based on obligations and obedience may have helped increase the dynamic force that enabled European countries to spread their authority over most of the world ; the very widespread acceptance of the new idea of a state based on independence and equality gave people outside Europe political principles which helped them in the later struggle to dismantle the European empires . |
| 10 | Students of the subject are trained to regard self-interest as the force that decides economic choices . |
| 11 | The PLO escorted the British through west Beirut and they were replaced at Khalde by Major Hassan Kassar of the Libyan army , a reconnaissance officer for a Libyan-sponsored Arab League peace force that disintegrated some days later . |
| 12 | But in the Philosophie zoologique Lamarck had subordinated this to his belief in a progressive force that pushed living things steadily up the scale of organization . |
| 13 | Some thoughtful Germans , such as Volker Rühe , general secretary of the ruling Christian Democrats , argue that now more than ever the Europeans should speed moves to form a multinational force that includes German soldiers . |
| 14 | Eyes ( are they cloudy , or sunken , or affected by the parasite that causes pinhead-sized pupils ? ) |
| 15 | England 's 16-man squad is well balanced to cope with an itinerary that includes three Tests and six one-day internationals , as well as the Sri Lankan leg in March . |
| 16 | For Washburn 20 years of visual carnage has meant increasing mental instability and a compulsion to uncover the truth behind a murder that occurred 120 years before . |
| 17 | There used to be a programme that introduced new records on the radio , and my father was sailing somewhere and he had this little transistor all primed up , and he said proudly to his friend , ‘ This is my sons ’ record' and at that moment a wave hit the boat and the radio went overboard . |
| 18 | But it is the one part of the European Community 's I 992 single-market programme that stirs real passions . |
| 19 | But the definition of a drug is much wider than that : a textbook definition would be ‘ any chemical agent that affects living processes ’ . |
| 20 | Ireland was already there with its litany of laments , not thinly preserved , like the cultural echo that accompanies some exiles and émigrés into a new country where time will absorb the native generation 's traces of foreign identity and dispel them . |
| 21 | Describes a cell that has two sets of homologous chromosomes . |
| 22 | But the potency with which c-Myc induces apoptosis suggests that deregulated c-Myc expression by itself is likely to be lethal because it kills any cell that encounters growth-limiting conditions , an almost invariable outcome in vivo . |
| 23 | ( For a distributive study that allocated all taxes and public expenditures in the UK , see O'Higgins and Ruggles 1981 . ) |
| 24 | Gooch has led the way with monumental batting efforts and a strict diet of training and practice that leaves younger men breathless . |
| 25 | Gooch has led the way with monumental batting efforts and a strict diet of training and practice that leaves younger men breathless . |
| 26 | One reason was that it incorporated a most-favoured-nation rule that precluded bilateral deals and thus limited collective agreements to the willingness of the least cooperative member . |
| 27 | On January 22nd Britain 's Civil Aviation Authority called for the rule that stops new airlines from using London 's Heathrow airport to be scrapped . |
| 28 | Scientists have stumbled across a chemical that caused Parkinson-like symptoms in six heroin addicts who were admitted , desperately ill , to the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center 's neurology unit last summer . |
| 29 | In addition , although they are almost blind the Harpies are scared of bright lights and fire in particular ; they are treated as being subject to fear of any magical effect that involves large amounts of light or fire ( such as a Fire Ball ) in addition to the spell 's more usual effects . |
| 30 | There are other arguments that have been made along the same general lines , to the effect that to capture regular processes ( e.g. syntactic regularities ) one must refer to pragmatic concepts ( see e.g. Ross , 1975 ) , arguments that will arise from time to time in the Chapters below . |