Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The association has had calls from hundreds of sufferers after a report that 17 people on human insulin have died this year . |
| 2 | ‘ It is just 21 months since we received approval to go ahead with the project , and we are delighted that we have started up production within a few weeks of a date that many thought was unrealistic ! ’ |
| 3 | They renovate and enhance our reactions to life by disrupting established habits of response , and creating in us a state of equilibrium of a kind that other sorts of experience can rarely achieve . |
| 4 | They share the conventional wisdom of the nuclear lobby that what has stopped America 's nuclear industry in its tracks is what the NES calls an ‘ impossibly cumbersome nuclear licensing process ’ — of a kind that pro-nuclear countries like France do not allow . |
| 5 | Fornication was inevitable ; it was something of a relief that high unit labour costs had driven the boot man to extinction . |
| 6 | Leslie Thomas , a leader of a gang that organised acid house parties in London , was jailed at the Old Bailey yesterday for five years and three months after being convicted in his absence of plotting to permit premises to be used for the supply of drugs . |
| 7 | As part of a belief that primary nurses should be at the bedside , nurses do not attend doctors ' rounds , instead they collect medical objectives afterwards . |
| 8 | It is a very short step for a human being , endowed with imagination as humans undoubtedly are , and possessed of a belief that some creature or possession can bring comfort to him , to start to call upon that object of his belief , from a distance . |
| 9 | For instance , deliberately setting Sarah Tobias ( Jodie Foster ) up in the extreme of a situation that many people — women and men — would say was ’ asking for it ’ , and graphically giving the lie to that pernicious concept . |
| 10 | ‘ Documenta ’ was born to take stock of a situation that official art had consistently overlooked , in the days when , for instance , Pollock and Giacometti could not yet be found in museums . |
| 11 | An undergraduate class of 70–100 students could , for example , so dominate the use of a plotter that other staff and students might effectively be excluded from the use of the device . |
| 12 | It is something of a revelation that this memory from over thirty years ago should have remained with Miss Kenton as it has done with me . |
| 13 | Care must be taken during negotiations with or on behalf of a target that any group relief claims are not jeopardised by the existence of an ‘ arrangement ’ to sell . |
| 14 | Before I start it is worth pointing out that this problem is largely restricted to the users of the Apple Macintosh — PC-based software running under either Windows or GEM seems to be rather better behaved although , in the case of the former , installing downloadable fonts is so much of a pain that many people simply do n't bother anyway ! |
| 15 | can tell many stories about this gun and recently , when another gun er was being assembled for transporting to another country , was able to explain with the aid of a photograph that such guns have existed and this received publicity in the Telegraph and Argus . |
| 16 | A taxi firm run by women for women says it plans to carry on operating despite a ruling that such services discriminate against men . |
| 17 | That change is one of attitude , attitude towards a computer that many MIS managers regarded until recently as ‘ a toy ’ or ‘ that thing with a mouse ’ . |
| 18 | And that 's not bad for a Londoner that die-hard Tykes believed would n't stay five minutes when he came north after a disastrous spell at Watford . |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't believe for a second that those markets exist in the same fashion these days . ’ |
| 20 | You do n't believe for a minute that this government will stand by while the two biggest general unions get together , no way , they 'll attack us in any way they can and I warn ya they have n't run out of ideas yet . |
| 21 | The next day we went to Breckland to look for a bird that some people think of as ‘ a bit of a bustard ’ . |
| 22 | Not bad for a company that five years ago was worth $100 billion less than Big Blue . |
| 23 | Section 10 of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 and s.213 of the Insolvency Act 1986 together provide that if in the course of winding up it appears that any business of the company has been carried on with intent to defraud creditors of the company or other persons , or for any fraudulent purpose , the liquidator may apply to the court for a declaration that any persons who were knowingly parties to such fraudulent trading are liable to make such contributions to the company 's assets as the court thinks proper . |
| 24 | Unless they received an assurance , within twenty-one days , that the trustees of the church would not proceed until listed building consent had been obtained , our solicitors would seek leave of the Attorney General to bring proceedings for a declaration that listed building consent was required . |
| 25 | Edouard de Chavigny , his most loyal and discerning client , had the basis for a collection that one day would be rivalled only by Paul Mellon and the New York Museum of Modern Art . |
| 26 | In their discussion of the photograph , Trent had forgotten for a moment that Golden Girl lay miles inland . |
| 27 | Now forgetting for a moment that last sentence which we 're not concerned with just at this stage , would you agree with that conclusion of Ryedale District Council ? |
| 28 | If the shampoo-swilling celebrants of the City , or for that matter the likes of true-blue Sheppard , think for a moment that this man is likely to preside over unfettered mergers and acquisitions activity in the recalcitrant manner of his 12 predecessors since 1979 , they are hopelessly wide of the mark . |
| 29 | I am not suggesting for a moment that this kind of problem can be resolved merely by putting more resources in , but at the same time there is need to spend more money , perhaps . |
| 30 | There are a variety of reasons for a belief that structural adjustments to the EC budget are not over . |