Example sentences of "[vb -s] an [noun sg] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again , Ayer highlights an error that some philosophers have made , and which Anselm certainly made in his famous argument for the existence of God ( which I will examine later ) . |
| 2 | The " ontological " version , as we saw , involves an assumption that existential propositions , in the final analysis , can be reproduced in terms of propositions that do not explicitly assert but rather presuppose the existence of certain ontological objects . |
| 3 | We have been trying to din into the heads of the electricity boards an inkling that different people are susceptible to different levels of radiation exposure and that there is no safe level . |
| 4 | At its purest , Indian English also preserves an elegance that many Britons have forgotten . |
| 5 | Often an introductory section mentions that the teacher may select and may concentrate on certain aspects in preference to others ; sometimes it gives an indication that regional variations in content may be acceptable in certain cases . |
| 6 | The passage sets up a straightforward opposition between what de Man calls " two apparently incompatible chains of connotation " : De Man 's claim that these poles enter into a system of exchanges and substitutions becomes an argument that this opposition " also contains statements claiming the priority of metaphor in a binary system that opposes metaphor to metonymy " ( 1979 : 62 ) . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , it squarely embodies an assumption that causal laws are correlations , thus ruling out reference to structures and structural forces to explain the correlations . |
| 8 | It must be questioned whether the presence of any particular species of predator in a fossiliferous deposit provides an indication that that predator accumulated the bones in the same deposit . |