Example sentences of "that [adv] [vb -s] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There will be no purely logical argument that demonstrates the superiority of one paradigm over another and that thereby compels a rational scientist to make the change . |
| 2 | Earlier manmetric studies of the UOS in children used perfused sidehole pull through methods with sedation , an approach that only gives a few sample values of UOS pressure and these are influenced by the effects of sedation and stress . |
| 3 | Malaria ; a disease that annually kills a million children . |
| 4 | Since rural development here is a major aim of government policy , such research is an essential prerequisite to the formulation of efficient management programmes : clearly , long-term development of this kind is only sustainable if the soil resource is adequate , especially in a country that already has a widespread soil erosion problem . |
| 5 | Bretton concludes that in Africa generally , ‘ the public service , in particular the middle and upper level officials , are turned into a privileged social class that soon develops a vested interest in construction of strong defences against rival claimants from less favoured segments of the population ’ ( Bretton 1973 , p. 222 ) . |
| 6 | Arnold Toynbee once argued that it is the ‘ barbaric ’ vital periphery that finally topples a declining civilization , but this maxim does not hold for the Russian Revolution . |
| 7 | It may be with a contact poison that quickly enters a soft-bodied creature like a greenfly and kills on contact , a stomach poison that works through the digestive system , a neurotoxin that paralyses the nervous system , or an asphyxiant that enters through the creature 's respiratory system , or we could encourage a natural predator . |
| 8 | Brook ruled this out : ‘ I do not , however , favour this suggestion — we could not adopt it without undertaking a review of the Cabinet Committee organisation and that always takes a substantial time , as so many Ministers and others have to be consulted . |
| 9 | Such cross-terms can not occur in a system that directly represents a chemical reaction , and the variables represent concentrations : the concentration of one chemical species can not be directly decreased by a process in which that chemical does not take part [ 36 ] . |
| 10 | Lonesome Snapper Pond is the kind of place that still has a general store . |
| 11 | It then passes near Gate Manor , a fine Victorian mock-Jacobean hall , before crossing the Dee by way of Rash Bridge , a quiet spot with a tiny Methodist chapel and an old mill ( one of three corn mills that at one time ground in Dentdale ) that still has a working waterwheel . |
| 12 | Set in places where many things happen , these films followed multiple story lines in a way that clearly anticipates a later staple of TV drama programming . |
| 13 | A pub that nearly has a famous name comes under the auctioneer 's hammer tomorrow . |
| 14 | So that probably explains a few things . |
| 15 | One area that has since 1972 been recognised as a region of many UFO sightings is in the Pennine foothills surrounding Leeds and Manchester , an area that also has a high concentration of active faults . |
| 16 | The automatic recognition of handwritten words and digits is an important but difficult task that now has a large literature ( see Harmon , 1972 ; Tappert et al , 1990 ) . |
| 17 | The interview analysis , a process that invariably requires a great deal of judgment on the part of the analyst , was even more difficult as a result , particularly when attempting to derive an uncontentious root definition at a later stage . |
| 18 | The silence of the valley was like the stillness that sometimes follows a hard rain . |
| 19 | It is possible for a moving point to describe a path of infinite length that yet encloses a finite area . |
| 20 | The radical agenda runs something like this : Labour ought to begin talks with the Liberal Democrats on PR ; negotiate electoral pacts with that party , so that they can achieve a majority in 1996 , not just in order to form a government , but to introduce PR ; abandon links with the trade unions , eschew egalitarian tax policies , perhaps even abandon the name ‘ Labour ’ , so as to disavow any claim of being a party that primarily represents a working class that , in self-identification , is constantly dwindling . |
| 21 | It will then lose its external gills , develop lungs and turn into a creature that closely resembles a burrowing salamander that lives in Florida . |
| 22 | On the stairs in certain parts of the game is a solitary creature that closely resembles a red monkey . |
| 23 | Biological and Molecular Sciences was one of a relatively small number of University Departments in the UK to be awarded ‘ Q ’ status by NERC for Research Studentships , an award that essentially ensures a steady input of NERC-funded PhD students into the Department for the next three years . |