Example sentences of "that [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Strategies that maximize the individual fitness component may be termed selfish .
3 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 ’ .
4 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 :
5 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 .
6 Are n't you worried that you 'll kill the goose that laid the golden egg ?
7 All of them around they kill the goose that laid the golden egg .
8 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 .
9 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 :
10 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 ) .
11 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 ’ .
12 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 ) .
13 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 .
14 This class , whatever we call it , can not be properly understood and its historic role can not be adequately explained , outside the necessity that produces the eternal contradiction of capitalist accumulation on a mass scale .
15 Is there a commercially available package that produces the required format ?
16 Where subducting lithosphere is sufficiently hot , it can melt before it dehydrates , leaving a garnet-hornblende residue that produces the low Yb contents and high La/Yb ratios characteristic of high-Al TTD suites .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 We can only break our of this vicious circle by understanding the factors that influence the dietary choices we make .
21 Fourthly , and last , there are variations in external context that influence the visionary process .
22 POU domain genes encode a family of highly conserved transacting factors that influence the transcriptional activity of several cell type-specific and ubiquitous genes .
23 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 .
24 For the monarch , that became the exclusive role ( that is , in respect of legislation ) .
25 Meteorology is probably the most international of the sciences , and Scott played a significant part in establishing the tradition of ready co-operation between countries that became the accepted norm .
26 Over the aeons they have become so thoroughly integrated into the cooperative unit that became the eukaryotic cell , that it has become almost impossible to detect the fact , if indeed it is a fact , that they were once separate bacteria .
27 During the 1960s , and what became known as the ‘ permissive society ’ , it was perhaps sexuality that became the dominant form of hedonism .
28 It is in the music of his latter years that one can find him reliving an older manner that evokes the comfortable world which Humperdinck , wisely , never left .
29 Willem de Kooning received in absentia an award for lifetime achievement , and Martin Puryear for sculpture ‘ that evokes the human struggle to balance the needs for both the comfort of stability and the excitement of freedom ’ .
30 Financial : Paying for the consequences of the addictive disease of the primary sufferer can be exceedingly expensive and families may even be much more willing to pay Court fines than to pay towards the costs of treatment — The disgrace and deprivation of prison are commonly felt to be consequences that are best avoided whereas they may in fact be the crucial turning point that bring the primary sufferer and the family member into full realisation of the seriousness of addictive disease and the need to seek recovery .
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