Example sentences of "that [vb base] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trow ( 1974 , p. 6.3 ) has distinguished between elite and mass systems of higher education and argues that ‘ Countries that develop a system of elite higher education in modern times seem able to expand it without changing its character in fundamental ways until it is providing places for about 15% of the age grade . ’ |
| 2 | As they age , many climbers — especially the ‘ climbing sport ’ variations of H.T.s and other bush forms that develop a liking for wanderlust and travel — get into the habit of flowering mostly , if not only , at the growing extremities of their stems . |
| 3 | In so far as meaning is a problem for semiotics it is not a question of discovering ‘ hidden meanings ’ but one of the structure of signifiers that communicate a meaning accepted by participants . |
| 4 | Playing tunes that bring a smile to my face and a sentimental tear to my eye , for the last time that I heard them was the day of the first Gittel 's wedding . |
| 5 | the Far East , including Japan , Australasia and South America are among the areas that bring a gleam to his eye when he talks of the future . |
| 6 | Perhaps , too , such inner quietness underlies the legends concerning herbs that make a person ‘ invisible ’ . |
| 7 | It means that the reason there seems to be an association between low social support and vulnerability to neurosis is because the same attributes of personality that make a person vulnerable to depression also make a person see their friends and relatives as unhelpful , whether or not they are around and available to help . |
| 8 | There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down . |
| 9 | You 've asked us a lot about what Governors can do and what Councillors can do , it 's teachers that make a school and schools are going to be excellent if the teachers and heads of faculty in those schools are excellent , and we 've got lots of those in Banbury . |
| 10 | THE LITTLE THINGS THAT MAKE A HOME |
| 11 | Given that there is a living to be made at night , and given that alternative daytime trades are thoroughly occupied , natural selection has favoured bats that make a go of the night-hunting trade . |
| 12 | ‘ Those that bring the inventor wealth and fame , and those that make a fortune for someone else , ’ he says . |
| 13 | With plentiful food and drink at Christmas , it 's the finishing touches that make a meal memorable — such as a superior cup of coffee at its conclusion . |
| 14 | There are , of course , invisible aspects that make a warren , or at least a section of it , impossible . |
| 15 | The children learned how to do all the jobs that make a shop work . |
| 16 | Problems may still remain , but so also does a landscape and people that make a visit something to savour . |
| 17 | You dress casually , you do n't care about all the things that make a city tick — finance , politics , big business — and when you 're working , you live in a makebelieve world most of the time . ’ |
| 18 | Ends of branches that make a connection directly into manholes are called gullies , and these are all fitted with ‘ U ’ or ‘ S ’ traps to form a water seal . |
| 19 | And Hilary had dash , and style , and good looks — all the usual things that make a schoolboy hero . |
| 20 | Innovative thinking , intelligent risk taking , commitment to quality and customer service — in short , all the things that make a business successful — can not happen without a talented and dedicated workforce . |
| 21 | Cash only contributed one song to the second Highwaymen album , Highwayman 2 , a number called Songs that Make a Difference . |
| 22 | Details that make a difference |
| 23 | ‘ Our research so far suggests there are factors other than social deprivation and lifestyle that make a difference . |
| 24 | Posi moved at speeds that make a neutrino seem like a Habectric salt-snail . |
| 25 | Companies certainly try to control demand , to channel it in known directions , but they are never sure of their market ; the best they can do is to offer a ‘ cultural repertoire ’ , to cover a spread of the likely possibilities in order to minimize the risk — and it is this which accounts for the colossal overproduction of records and the large number that make a loss ( see Laing 1985 : 9–10 , 20 ; Frith 1983a : 92–102 ; Denisoff 1975 : 92–4 ) . |
| 26 | I have little doubt , however , that we would live a great deal longer than we do , were it not the case that the same evolutionary changes that make an animal fit when it is young may condemn it to deteriorate when old . |
| 27 | But in reality there is no such thing as a wholly insulated variety : however strong the links may be that bind a population together , there will always be some consciousness of external norms , and this will have two kinds of effect on in-group behaviour . |
| 28 | Much more promising avenues are opened up by those schools of thought that combine a description of the structure of texts with an account of the knowledge and attitudes that readers bring with them and of the process to which they subject them : some versions of structuralism ; and phenomenological and related theories , which study the process by which readers create meaning in a text with much more attention to the text itself than Richards ever allowed . |
| 29 | There are several degrees in the Faculty of Arts that combine a language with Business Studies ( the Faculty of Social Sciences also offers this combination , with greater weight on Business Studies , within the BCom ; for this , applicants should consult the Social Sciences section of this prospectus ) . |
| 30 | Little things that mean a lot |