Example sentences of "the [noun] that [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the trick that modern fish , other than sharks , have perfected . |
| 2 | I mean the the money that some people spend on on a wedding i I mean it it 's just one day and then you got yo it 's your life afterwards that really counts . |
| 3 | Although one might suppose that the creation of a new party offers attractive opportunities for people previously excluded from local élites to establish themselves as leaders , it is often the case that such people do not obviously possess the right qualities . |
| 4 | The triceps make up 60% of the upper arm while the biceps make up only 40% and yet it is still the case that most people tend to have overdeveloped biceps . |
| 5 | the case that most people regard the way in which the National Library has been built and planned as a total national disaster and a vast waste of public money . |
| 6 | According to Gary Crocker of the State Department , government scientists tested the hypothesis that these species of Fusaria occur naturally in the region , but rejected it . |
| 7 | Well in a modern world we 've lost the faith that certain people are appointed by God to do this for us , or especially naturally fitted to do it , so how are we going to accept the rule of some people rather than others ? |
| 8 | This is the bit that some people find extremely exciting . |
| 9 | To her , the building was endlessly exciting , and she liked it for all the reasons that most people would specify as particular causes for dislike . |
| 10 | ‘ I am willing to be identified in the hope that more people who may have information will contact the police . ’ |
| 11 | I wonder if any Golf Monthly readers could explain to me why golf manufacturers and club professionals are under the illusion that left-handed people do not want to play golf ; or , if they do , then they are able and willing to use right-handed clubs . |
| 12 | The strengths that these people show are an ability to command respect , and to inspire enthusiasm . |
| 13 | The strengths that these people show are that they have an ability to combine a sense of concern , with a sense of order and purpose . |
| 14 | More positively , it is the recognition that all people should have the right to live within the community — to contribute to it and benefit from it , and simply to be a part of it , except in very rare circumstances . |
| 15 | He suggested that I spoke to the department that approved aircraft radio equipment , and I was duly transferred to that department . |
| 16 | The Minister must be aware of the shortage of affordable housing in villages and towns in rural areas , with the result that young people have to leave those areas to find suitable accommodation . |
| 17 | In the neotropical Lecythidaceae for example all species have large circumscissile capsules , but such uniformity disguises a wide range of variation in the texture of the mesocarp , degree of dehiscence , and development of the aril into a fleshy or winged structure , with the result that different species are dispersed by birds , bats , monkeys , rodents , wind , water and possibly fish . |
| 18 | The average size of each plot of land available rose , with the result that fewer people could benefit . |
| 19 | I remind the Opposition that many people come to this country to persuade businesses here to make their products abroad . |
| 20 | What makes a fanatic is not having strong and extreme ideals oneself but taking no notice of other people 's — not seeing the considerations that other people are concerned about . |
| 21 | With the repeal of the rule that certain sales had to be evinced in writing , and following the enactment of the SGSA 1982 , the importance of the distinction is less acute . |
| 22 | He could do the bits of the words that Japanese people were supposed to find difficult . |
| 23 | The loneliness that bereaved people feel can be intense . |
| 24 | In most cases the reasonable answer will be along the lines that those people who give information for the survey will be contributing to an overall study , the results of which will be useful for a better understanding by everyone of the general problem and will also particularly help specialists who might be interested in ( in this case ) the housewife 's day . |
| 25 | It is understandable that the previous isolation of the disease results in a sense of amazement in early recovery on the discovery that other people have not only shared similar experiences but also similar thoughts and feelings . |
| 26 | erm well I mean I think there 's a problem for adults as well as children in that we I do n't think it 's helpful to cover ourselves in guilt about erm what happens to the suffering that other people experience , arguably erm in order to maintain us in the living standards , you know , we 've learned to expect , but at the same time I think that the situation in the world is only tolerable to us psychologically because on some level we convince ourselves that erm those people who are starving and those children who are in a hysterically trying to keep themselves out of the way of shrapnel and hiding night after night in freezing cold shelters in Baghdad are not really people and not really children in the same way that we 're people and our children are children , and do n't feel things in the same way . |
| 27 | Upwind sailing is a part of the sport that many people ignore , concentrating instead on reaching and gybing all the time . |
| 28 | Either they are doing the work that younger people could and perhaps should be doing ; or they are part of a growing population of retired people whose idleness is creating social and financial difficulties for the rest of the productive population . |
| 29 | During the first day the new members of the group followed the programme , which focused on the barriers that disabled people face in society . |
| 30 | To that of justification by faith he added the corollary that good works were a necessary expression of thanksgiving on the part of a Christian for unmerited justification by a merciful God . |