Example sentences of "that [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have seen it — Not long ago , in Moscow on quite another mission , I tiptoed up the great empty staircase and , with a diplomatic passport in my pocket , stood in the eternal dusk that shrouds old ballrooms when they are asleep — With its plump brown pillars and gilded mirrors , it was better suited to the last hours of a sinking liner than the launch of a great initiative . |
| 2 | The change in the orbit of the earth is too slow to be observed , but this same effect has been observed over the past few years occurring in the system called PSR 1913+16 ( PSR stands for " pulsar , " a special type of neutron star that emits regular pulses of radio waves ) . |
| 3 | The general approach adopted in the current research is to discover the task settings that maximize young children 's spatial performance , and to investigate the degree to which performance transfers from these to other settings . |
| 4 | Any program that receives favourable reviews from enough teachers should be considered for — distribution as it stands but on a national basis — production to a professional standard — transferability to other microcomputers — publication by national system — publication by commercial publishers . |
| 5 | In a wide-ranging challenge to the opposition of multiculturalism to antiracism as an adequate framework for educational debate , Ali Rattansi argues that , in the wake of the Burnage Report , it is necessary to identify new priorities that undermine old certainties . |
| 6 | But they stressed that bringing civil servants to Canary Wharf would not necessarily save the project and added that the Government wanted Canary Wharf or any future owner to pay the £400m needed for an extension of London Underground 's Jubilee Line to Docklands . |
| 7 | The group estimated that bringing coaxial links into the average British home would cost between £200 and £300 . |
| 8 | This would result in a shorter report and give useful encouragement to companies that develop innovative forms of reporting . |
| 9 | For example , some governments would probably not have spent as much on telecommunications as they have done without the stimulus of a foreign-dominated export sector that produces hard-currency earnings , and the expectation that such facilities , however expensive , would attract even more companies . |
| 10 | There seems to be no place in successful socialization for creative interaction that produces new meanings . |
| 11 | A presidential summit , claimed Kim , " should be an encounter that produces good results ; if there is no outcome it will disappoint the people " . |
| 12 | Yet its proposals are derived from a computer model of the railway network that produces nonsensical results — including siting the terminus of one main line in the middle of a Scottish peat bog . |
| 13 | The company Sir John bought a fifty percent share in was , it 's an engineering firm that produces mechanical devices that help to clear storage silos . |
| 14 | When a shape recogniser is used that produces alternative candidates the application of word structure involves determining which of the possible character combinations form words . |
| 15 | For some reason , mental illness that produces physical symptoms is relegated to the status of an ‘ imaginary ’ disease . |
| 16 | The third and most worrying category is critical corruption that produces non-evident errors — a maths program that produces an incorrect numerical result , a data-base manager that cross-labels data records , for example . |
| 17 | An example of such an organization is General Electronics that produces military products such as radar , underwater defence , and missile systems . |
| 18 | It is the mechanistic-mystical character of modern man that produces fascist parties , and not vice-versa . |
| 19 | Added to this the partner of the black hole must have swollen to the giant stage in order that material can be transferred rapidly enough to give an accretion disc that produces detectable numbers of X-rays . |
| 20 | A cheap alternative to a radio microphone that produces acceptable recordings of one speaker is to use a small tape recorder attached to a tie-clip microphone . |
| 21 | Parents that lack such feelings , and there are many , even if they do their duty ‘ for duty 's sake ’ are nonetheless thought to be morally deficient . |
| 22 | If the brand name is standardised worldwide in English it may be found to have an unfavourable meaning in some countries , or it may not be pronounceable in other countries that lack certain letters of the alphabet . |
| 23 | And when children are asked to find possible labels for categories that lack conventional terms , they freely coin innovative nouns upon demand ( e.g. , Clark and Berman , 1984 ; Clark and Hecht , 1982 ; Clark , Hecht and Mulford , 1986 ; Mulford , 1983 ) . |
| 24 | We might reply that the simplicity of cave communities is idiosyncratic rather than typical : we might ask what general ecological insights we are going to obtain from communities that lack photosynthetic plants and herbivores , and are maintained by detritus flushed down from above : but Dr Culver gives us no answer . |
| 25 | The document said the Government was aware of concern about the time taken to complete assessments and that admitted unnecessary delays caused ‘ undue anxiety ’ to parents . |
| 26 | The researchers will be investigating the factors that influence these decisions as well as the decision-making process itself . |
| 27 | The one-off posters featuring slogans that became familiar parts of the electoral joust also appeared on a single billboard in south London for photo-opportunity launches . |
| 28 | And for the stories coming up next , as they say , I understand that Good Morning Britain is hoping to better its big cat tale by reporting on wild parakeets in Maidstone , and cats that eat indoor plants throughout the country . |
| 29 | The national awards will offer two categories : the first will recognise management initiatives that bring environmental benefits to Britain , while the second award will be for the export of appropriate technologies that bring environmental benefit to developing countries . |
| 30 | Selection favoured beaver genes that made good lakes for transporting trees , just as it favoured genes that made good teeth for felling them . |