Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Well , oh yes , I 'm sure I 'm not saying that 's the only thing that controls people 's food intake I mean clearly there are things cultural some cultures , the Japanese seem to love eating raw fish , I mean how they can bring themselves to do it I do now know , I mean the raw is I do n't think I 'd want to eat again , but er erm not always if they were cooked either , but erm the , the er and certainly if you look at the Australian Aborigines even though we take the Australian Aborigines as our kind of primeval people , they have astonishing food taboos , I mean their attitudes to food are very very culturally er effective to , to a quite extraordinary extent , some so that somebody somebody discovered that eating a tabooed food by accident , they 'll get very ill , a kind of psychosomatic illness . |
2 | The men and women I met often spoke of regret and loss — not a nostalgia for the past , those glazed memories that falsify the hard history of the working people by claiming that the past was better . |
3 | Strategies that maximize the individual fitness component may be termed selfish . |
4 | One of the most important aspects of domestic security , yet one that receives the least attention , is that of key security . |
5 | The average adult spends up to 300 hours a year in the bathroom , yet surprisingly , it 's often the room that receives the least attention . |
6 | Latest results from Europe 's centre for particle physics point to the possible discovery of the W , a particle that plays a key role in theoretical attempts to unite two of nature 's forces |
7 | You could see a band that plays the same type of music as us on TOTP but they would n't look like us … |
8 | Third , and most important , the quinte part in the ballet is not playable by a late 17th-century oboe band : it lies too high for the bassoon and too low for the taille de hautbois , the tenor oboe that plays the third line . |
9 | These various factors combined to ensure that the local elite ( even if they were capable of considering it ) would not attempt to kill the goose ‘ that laid the golden eggs ’ . |
10 | But , knowing that a great war would kill the goose that laid the golden eggs , the bankers could probably be relied upon to use their enormous influence to prevent it : |
11 | If it develops too fast York may kill the goose that laid the golden egg and no one will want to live there — just as tourists are beginning to avoid Lake Windermere because of its commerciality and crowds of people . |
12 | Are n't you worried that you 'll kill the goose that laid the golden egg ? |
13 | All of them around they kill the goose that laid the golden egg . |
14 | In the end , as we shall see , the cost of decommissioning became a vital part of the accountants ' nightmare that laid the nuclear beast to rest . |
15 | In order to resolve that dispute the High Court of Justice , Queen 's Bench Division , referred the following questions to the Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling : |
16 | Asked to select all the objects in an array that shared a particular attribute and to name the attribute , these children could provide an answer but the grammatical form revealed , according to Greenfield , inferior cognitive facility . |
17 | From Los Angeles came a report of a film theatre that shared the same building with an undertaker and where the hall itself was squalid and narrow with grease spots on the wall where ‘ delighted spectators have leaned their enraptured heads ’ . |
18 | Althusser termed such a view ‘ historicism ’ : an abstract philosophical scheme that imposes an overall process of transformation upon historical events . |
19 | Using the information in Fig. 7.2 for BP and assuming a risk-free rate of interest of 10 per cent we may estimate the call values for an in-the-money option expiring in October with an exercise price of 220p , and an out-of-the-money call with an exercise price of 260p expiring in April : Using Table A1.2 ( page 269 ) we may convert d 1 and d 2 into cumulative probabilities : ( the figure of 0.1819 is arrived at by using the two values in the table that bracket the real value and employing straight-line interpolation ) . |
20 | Nevertheless , failures will be encountered and such failures can eventually attain a degree of seriousness that constitutes a serious crisis for the paradigm and may lead to the rejection of a paradigm and its replacement by an incompatible alternative . |
21 | But what we find in the resurrection of Jesus is not something that originates from the natural processes of life , but something that constitutes a unique event . |
22 | ‘ The best design strategy is not to program a computer directly with the wealth of descriptive detail that constitutes a natural language but rather to give it the basic set of expectations and abilities that are needed to learn a language . ’ |
23 | Those concepts have not evolved from the old ones , for it is precisely their radical difference that constitutes the new science , the new ‘ positivity ’ , produced by what he termed an ‘ epistemological rupture ’ . |
24 | The stimulus that the experimenter regards as the CS might interact with features of the context in which training is given to form a unique cue that constitutes the effective CS ( see Rescorla 1972 , 1973 ) . |
25 | It is precisely this formal disturbance in the texture of Nizan 's fiction that constitutes the very essence of his project as a communist novelist . |
26 | Toxic chemicals are assigned a ‘ no observed effect level ’ , a dosage that produces no apparent harm in a certain percentage of lab animals . |
27 | A dreadful pregnancy or birth that produces a healthy baby can make it difficult for a mother to allow her baby to cry even for a few minutes . |
28 | An important complement to lemon grass is kaffir lime leaf , the leaf of the tree that produces a wrinkly lime . |
29 | As Theroux commented , ‘ There is something about the very fact of survival that produces a greater vitality . ’ |
30 | The structure of the turbulence is thus changing in a way that produces a faster approach to laminar motion , perhaps because the generation of eruptions ( Section 21.6 ) is suppressed . |