Example sentences of "that [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 : |
| 3 | Setting aside the details of which desktop publishing package you use , the hardware that you run it on and the output device that produces the final pages there is one common element remaining ; fonts . |
| 4 | But Alu sequences are not transcribed by polymerase II : instead they are copied by the enzyme ( polymerase III ) that produces the specialised RNAs — ( ribosomal and transfer RNAs ) that are never translated into proteins themselves but participate in the translation of other RNAs . |
| 5 | And these pains are suffered in houses that are too small , too densely concentrated together ; houses that are in various stages of dilapidation and decay ; houses that lack the basic amenities taken for granted by most people . |
| 6 | We can only break our of this vicious circle by understanding the factors that influence the dietary choices we make . |
| 7 | Dissident chairmen were , however , frequently able to gain the support of other chairmen on specific issues of Area Board independence , and it was these issues that became the substantive ones between the central regime and the Boards . |
| 8 | The mandible of Petrobius and other Machilidae ( Fig. 9 ) has a single posterior articulation and is rotated by promotor-remotor movements that bring the molar regions and the apices of opposite mandibles into close apposition . |
| 9 | Firms that avoided the worst excesses of the wheeling-dealing 1980s are making steady profits , and much of the loss was due to expensive restructuring at Shearson Lehman ( which spent $640m ) and Prudential-Bache ( $370m ) . |
| 10 | Agricultural prosperity rested on secure tenures that made the substantial farmers feel themselves to be full proprietors . |
| 11 | Miss Murdock , who appears to have had a sense of humour , expressed her high regard for the autochrome process , the delights of which she said , were mainly due to the high number of failures that made the occasional successes all the more thrilling . |
| 12 | If redundancy was the leading form of change to 1981 , it was gains in productivity that made the greatest inroads from then . |
| 13 | This is the pencil that his kindergarten teacher possessed ; the pencil that made the blue ticks and the red crosses in the register ; the pencil that he wept for , that his mother went all over town to find , and failed to find , because they were all gone , or not made any more , or kept for teachers , or only imagined ; the pencil which he knew would make him happy , if only he possessed it , for evermore . |
| 14 | The gait of the creatures that made the four sets of trails has been described in detail , two weeks ago , at a conference in Berkeley , California . |
| 15 | Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris . |
| 16 | Those who listened to him critically were dismayed he could not see that it was not disapproval by pacifists , intellectuals or even cowards that made the Nazi assaults an atrocity . |
| 17 | In this case , it would seem natural to establish an accounting system that records the annual debts ( principal and interest ) , in which each year 's debt charges signal the property tax rate ( having taken account of rateable value ) and which subsequently accounts for the actual expenditure and actual revenues ( to determine whether next year 's taxes need adjusting ) . |
| 18 | Their campaign reflected the uncertainties and weakness that led the Financial Times to back Labour . |
| 19 | the light that led The Holy Elders with the gift of myrrh . |
| 20 | There was only one drawback and that concerned the weaker kittens that sometimes found themselves at the bottom of a pile of bodies and unable to breathe . |
| 21 | Competition between the Poles and the Commission had driven up the price of land in Pomerania by over 100 per cent by 1900 , so that land the German farmers did not want to farm cost twice as much as farmland anywhere else in Germany . |
| 22 | Held , allowing the appeal , that in determining the place in which the gross profit from a transaction arose or from which it derived the proper approach was to ascertain the operations that produced the relevant profits and where they took place ; that the relevant business of the taxpayer , the exploitation of film rights exercisable outside Hong Kong , did not amount to the provision of a service or the exploitation of property rights overseas , but was carried on in Hong Kong , and in the absence of any financial interest in the subsequent exercise of the rights , the fact that they were exercisable only overseas was irrelevant ; and that , therefore , the taxpayer 's profits from granting sub-licenses during the relevant years of assessment had arisen in or derived from Hong Kong , and under section 14 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance the taxpayer was liable to profits tax thereon ( post , pp. 444G–H , 445E , G–H , 446E–G ) . |
| 23 | And like the swallows that harvest the thin fields of air , we must become harvesters of ever more intangible fields . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , the complexity imparted by the faithful physicalist version should not blind us to the features that distinguish the causal processes in the bees ' brains or whatever from those involved in the swelling after the swipe . |
| 25 | There are also systems ( e.g. in Australian and New Guinea languages ) that distinguish the three dimensions of space , having demonstratives that gloss as " the one above the speaker " , " the one below the speaker " , " the one level with the speaker " as well as distinguishing relative distance from participants ( see e.g. Dixon , 1972 : 262ff re Dyirbal ) . |
| 26 | Having received many reports of disappointment with West Indian hotels that do n't live up to their high prices we would be interested to know of any that combine the following virtues : immediate access to unpolluted sea ; the possibility of snorkelling and windsurfing ; freedom from background music ; cotton sheets , with no polyester mixture ; edible food , and preferably , cottage-style accommodation . |
| 27 | By contrast there were lots of walkers on our next top which beckoned beyond the shallow , peaty col that separates the two hills . |
| 28 | He said he was with a US Army unit that met the Soviet soldiers who had captured the German fuhrer 's bunker in April 1945 . |
| 29 | I was interested too that got the new phonebooks |
| 30 | Men could and did wear their hair to the shoulders , even wore flowers in it and beads round their necks — that got the pink gins spluttering . |