Example sentences of "that [verb] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , it is his questions , his ways of telling and , for want of a better phrase , his search in life that make Lepage the avant-garde artist he is . |
| 2 | They remain the orientations that converge to form the predominant element of the British political culture . |
| 3 | His early work about the alleys of Gamalliyya was fundamentally on the side of the revolution-the one that failed to dislodge the British in 1919 , and that finally threw out Farouk and brought Neguib and later Nasser to rule Egypt . |
| 4 | In a sense , then , survival into old age is a triumph , but a triumph that brings with it many problems , problems that tend to increase the longer one survives , the greater age one attains . |
| 5 | ‘ Short-term that may be fine , but shipping is a long term business that needs to ride the historic cycles . |
| 6 | To know this is useful , but to identify those media is to identify the means for transmitting the values and beliefs that coalesce to form the political culture , and not to identify the political culture itself . |
| 7 | Of all the elements that go to make up the accident causation system , the one that has received the least attention in residential areas is the design of the road network itself . |
| 8 | It is certain , though , that the constructivism that has received the most attention in psychology and philosophy has been the developmental theory of Jean Piaget . |
| 9 | The group of researchers that has seen the first indications of a Z particle is code named UA1 , and is one of the two teams that reported the evidence for the W particle earlier this year . |
| 10 | The involvement of additives may explain why the incidence of hyperkinetic syndrome seems to have increased dramatically in the last 20 years — a period that has seen the meteoric rise of ‘ junk food ’ , take-aways and instant-everything . |
| 11 | In effect this has meant approximately 400,000 new and inexperienced customers coming on to the overseas market each year , and it is this that has kept the traditional inclusive tour package alive . |
| 12 | Now , as socialism knocks on the door of Number 10 , the Hoorays are preparing to go back underground , adopting once again the protective colouring that has kept the British upper classes safe and sound while heads have rolled all over Europe . |
| 13 | Since the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD , it has been the synagogue that has kept the Jewish faith alive throughout the centuries even to the present day . |
| 14 | The island is seen as a microcosm of the world and this is part of Golding 's style that has remained the same throughout the book . |
| 15 | In many ways , the issue of knowledge acquisition has been one that has separated the practicable representations of natural language semantics from those that can only remain as theories in textbooks . |
| 16 | It now , persists , it may be said , because of a non-rational or irrational longing on the part of philosophers to have order in the universe , a longing that has replaced the lost comfort of a belief in an all-governing God . |
| 17 | Dent is a throwback to medieval times bypassed by modern progress , an anachronism that has survived the passing years . |
| 18 | What must ultimately be recognised is a more profound change that has overcome the cultural sphere , namely the broad and far-reaching symptoms of the ‘ postmodern ’ in culture . |
| 19 | The drivers , now cut up and veering to the Left , find voting for the party that has championed the self-employed harder to do . |
| 20 | Medical advances almost invariably increase the demands on doctors ' time , and it is this increased intensity of working that has made the long hours of many doctors intolerable . |
| 21 | It is all this research into stable fluorescent powders that has made the new compact fluorescents possible . |
| 22 | But it is not just population displacement that has made the High Dam at Aswan such a controversial issue . |
| 23 | But , it is that very fascination — bordering on fanaticism — with the game that has turned the Afrikaner sport into a political football , as the All Black and Wallaby tourists found out . |
| 24 | Clinton has also promised a renewed American effort to end the crisis that has turned the former Yugoslavia into a horrific centre of conflict and atrocities . |
| 25 | If anything it is the managers in family health services authorities and the NHS who have failed to anticipate and plan for the first three of these contingencies that has caused the current workload crisis . |
| 26 | Imaginary time is a difficult concept to grasp , and it is probably the one that has caused the greatest problems for readers of my book . |
| 27 | Texas does not need the economic stimulus offered by Mr Clinton : the state has a muscular economy with an employment-growth rate that has exceeded the national average for the past three years ( see chart on next page ) . |
| 28 | The end-of-term jollity was illustrative of the relaxed atmosphere that has pervaded the final week of the Liberal Democrat election drive — a product not merely of the light-headedness of exhaustion but also of the undoubted success of what has been a well-judged campaign . |
| 29 | The counter-argument is that it is precisely the importation of capital that has prevented the local bourgeoisie accumulating its own on a grand scale . |
| 30 | It 's the sort of performance that has placed the gentle West Indian giant at the top of the bowling averages . |