Example sentences of "that [vb base] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This crucial transition can take tadpoles of other species — those that develop in cold mountain streams , for example — two or even three years to complete . |
| 2 | Accepted authorities on the writing of good English prose — the Fowler brothers and Arthur Quiller-Couch — agree on three rules that make for effective writing : |
| 3 | The cottages were small and damp , with earth floors and none of the cooking or sanitary arrangements that make for domestic comfort . |
| 4 | I have mentioned particular examples of qualities that make for high survival value among memes . |
| 5 | To have both a family and interesting work means a terrible struggle , and yet I think that those are the things that make for human happiness . |
| 6 | The SH2 domains function as adaptors that bind to specific tyrosine residues ( see above ) . |
| 7 | Some of the most difficult investigations involve aircraft that crash in deep water , frequently depriving the investigator of much of his evidence . |
| 8 | It can certainly cause problems with a wide range of plants , but there are many others that suffer from high intensity of sunlight . |
| 9 | Editor , — There is a general perception that change in medical education is starting to occur . |
| 10 | This is a direct parallel with conservation programmes that concentrate on small peasant farmers and those marginal semi-proletariat which find themselves eking out a living charcoal-burning , cultivating the steepest slopes , or in shifting cultivation without sufficient fallow-periods — an issue which is explored in detail in Chapter 7 . |
| 11 | We hear that Intel Corp has written up a bunch of Q&As for its people to use answering questions that touch on Digital Equipment Corp 's rival Alpha chip , while Microsoft Corp has written up a similar document on Unix compared with NT . |
| 12 | Version 6 will include anti-virus software , but will Microsoft be able to keep you up to date with the new viruses that appear with frightening regularity ? |
| 13 | All the women that appear in American Metal videos in various states of soft-porn undress , notably the blonde in Warrant 's ‘ Cherry Pie ’ , a sexist 's dream of tawdry suggestiveness ( you can imagine the lyrics ) . |
| 14 | to indentify the local pressures that interact with central resource allocations to produce the observed levels of provision ; |
| 15 | Representative democracy , however , whether at national or local level , must be distinguished from the participatory approaches that provide for direct involvement in the policy-making process ( Pateman 1970 ) . |
| 16 | Deep in their minds some whites have begun to think again what their ancestors thought , that blacks are genetically inferior in the traits that count for economic success , and that this is proven by the fact that blacks have lost ground as discrimination has retreated . |
| 17 | After the stories that circulate about Civil Service chicanery , I can attest to the professionalism of my team . |
| 18 | To help users , BOC has made available unaudited schedules that show past published information restated on to the new basis . |
| 19 | Co-opting a sports or stage celebrity guarantees that they , or one of their famous friends , are likely to be available to open the summer fair , attend the leaving presentations and sports day and generally add glamour to all the events that benefit from maximum publicity . |
| 20 | Staying clear of water is no protection against the hundreds of poisonous insects , spiders and scorpions that abound on dry land . |
| 21 | While the known antioxidant actions of the aminolsalicylates are compatible with the proposal that ROM play a major role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease , proof of the hypothesis must await the outcome of controlled trials in the human disease of more specific agents that interfere with oxidative metabolism . |
| 22 | This feature is intended for users that depend on constant information feeds , such as financial trading houses , IXI says . |
| 23 | But references to meanings are generally based on certain accidental characteristics that act as contextual code signals in communication , and can hardly be treated as part of the " essential description " of their referents . |
| 24 | The feet of the sauropod are small ( relatively speaking ! ) , with short , stubby toes , yet animals that walk on soft mud tend to have spreading feet to distribute their weight more evenly . |
| 25 | Nor is it clear that support for proportional representation would win votes : in the ITN exit poll , 52 per cent said they preferred the present system , including 45 per cent of those who voted Labour . |
| 26 | It is , as suggested earlier , becoming clear that support for applied research is more attractive to funding bodies than support for fundamental research . |
| 27 | For example , Richter makes paintings of photographs , makes prints of photographs of his paintings , and paints abstract pictures that look like commercial colour charts . |
| 28 | TIP : Fish pox is a viral nuisance that covers your Koi ( usually the most expensive ones , it seems ) with unsightly whitish-pink blobs that look like melted candle wax . |
| 29 | And he had impressed that print with careful precision — he or whoever it was . |
| 30 | Miller piles on the earnestness , and then piles on some more , with not only dialogue but devices that reek of awkward purity — an unmotivated confession and a letter kept secret for years . |