Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [verb] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1 A gardener planted a special kind of water lily in the middle of a lily pond that measured 1 5m across . |
| 2 | You lead life , it seems to me , like some ritual that demands unerring performance. , |
| 3 | Tony , 22 , suffered brain damage when he was crushed at Sheffield Wednesday 's football ground in the tragedy that killed 95 people . |
| 4 | ‘ It is by far the most common cause of asthma in Britain , the allergy that kills 2,000 people a year , incapacitates hundreds of thousands and costs £450 million a year in NHS prescriptions and billions in hospitalisation and time off work . |
| 5 | She was part of an evangelical crusade that claimed many people were trapped in the occult . |
| 6 | The pension would be paid on an individual basis and at a level that enables older people to participate in the normal life of the community . |
| 7 | Similarly , requests for calculations or analysis will generate a response that requires mass data to be extracted from the model on the designing workstation . |
| 8 | The decisive battle for control of Panama was fought at the building that houses military headquarters . |
| 9 | In that work it is possible to see clearly the relation between his insistence on totality and the Romantic aesthetic of totality as the inner necessity that moulds all works of art . |
| 10 | And motorway tragedy … witness relives moments before crash that killed three people . |
| 11 | Left : If you want to replace a dishwasher that 's over 10 years ' old , or want to fit one into a kitchen with imperial size 500 mm wide base units , you 'll need a machine that measures 50 cm rather than the usual 60 cm wide . |
| 12 | A : We want a law that states young people under 16 years old do n't ever take dogs out . |
| 13 | The sport itself and the money , shelter them from the kind of rough-and-ready exchange that brings ordinary people back from the brink of conflict and leads them to see their adversaries as people . |
| 14 | The interviews were around a series of suggested topics : ‘ The say that you have in decisions which affect young disabled people 's education and lives , and what limits the say that you have ’ ; ‘ The say that others have ’ ; ‘ The say that young people themselves have ’ ; ‘ The implications of ‘ disability ’ on the decision-making that determines young people 's education and lives ’ ; and ‘ What you see as the main priorities in terms of who has what say and in working with others in future decisions . ’ |
| 15 | Does that have to mean coldness , reserve and a frowning aloofness that drives ordinary people away ? |
| 16 | Glasgow took to the subway with a will , but an unexpected flood of passengers and an accident that injured 19 people , closed the circles until January the following year , when the Glasgow Subway Railway Company began operations in earnest . |
| 17 | SURVEY ( DEMOGRAPHIC ) — An inquiry that employs statistical data collecting and processing operations to provide information on a particular demographic subject ( e.g. fertility or human reproductive behaviour ) or on several topics ( multi-purpose survey ) . |
| 18 | Offering a varied diet that includes fresh fruit and vegetables can be difficult when a child is faddy . |
| 19 | Barry Cryer and Willie Rushton disgrace themselves with the kind of behaviour that gets other people put into homes . |
| 20 | But this is hardly a convincing argument when produced by an organisation that collects some £130 million , even if it also proposes to give those of its members whose works are performed outside ‘ significant venues ’ a flat fee of £75 a year . |
| 21 | From this altitude their instruments view a swath of the Earth 's surface that extends 1500 km to either side of their suborbital tracks , so that a picture of the globe over a 24-hour period is built up . |
| 22 | John Ross , formerly from Fast Drains , and Kevin Stone from the Hygiene branch at West Hoathly braved the bitterly cold and freezing rain to operate the high pressure Rota blast jetter which has a rotating head that produces 10,000 lb per square inch of water pressure . |
| 23 | RNA instability may have caused the low level expression of protein , so we generated a deletion mutant that eliminated 0.5 kb of 3' untranslated sequences of the cDNA ( Figure 3b , plasmid IV ) . |
| 24 | The formal institutions in society provide the individual with a framework and , within this , he/she can choose with whom to interact , thus setting up a dyadic contract , that is , an informal relationship that binds two people . |
| 25 | The vote came just five days after the United Nations-appointed ‘ Truth Commission ’ report blamed the army for the vast majority of war crimes in a conflict that killed 75,000 people , most of them civilians . |
| 26 | Although most of the work has been done at concentrations of less than 500 ppm , the LLNL workers have found that the same dose that destroys 500 ppm of TCE will reduce 10,000 ppm to 500 ppm — in other words the X-rays are more effective on higher concentrations . |
| 27 | The indignity of peering into other people 's intimacies had appalled me , quite overpowering the acquired , accepted knowledge that reading other people 's letters was one of the things that was n't done . |
| 28 | The Origin of Species was not the first book to suggest a natural explanation of how life has developed , but its publication in 1859 precipitated the debate that converted most people to evolutionism . |
| 29 | That is why we are absolutely determined to make sure that the advice that reaches young people is correct . |
| 30 | If Saddam Hussein or Colonel Qaddaffi were bidding for control of a firm that employs 130,000 people , makes explosives and could be made to make chemical weapons , that would be reason for concern . |