Example sentences of "[that] [vb -s] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Any wallcovering design that produces a sense of perspective like some geometrics , trellis patterns or inexpensive garden trellis itself fixed on top of walls , will seem to give extra depth .
2 An organism that produces a skeleton of stone and lives in an environment where deposits of ooze and sand are being laid down , is an ideal subject for fossilisation .
3 An acute reaction to food may be difficult to distinguish from a viral infection that produces an attack of gastroenteritis , because the virus can not always be detected in the baby 's stools .
4 The prime question is whether the gains in efficiency from having a more competitive financial system that involves a degree of consumer protection are outweighed by the costs of setting up and maintaining that regulatory system .
5 Another type of game that involves a lot of reading , and where the child is required to process large amounts of information , take decisions on the basis of that information , and see the consequences , is the simulation .
6 It has also been argued that the small mouths of the giants simply could not have downed enough food to support a warm-blooded metabolism , particularly plant food that needs a lot of processing before it becomes available as energy .
7 of the four nations in the programme , the U K is the only one that has a requirement for reconnaissance .
8 ‘ Do you think that has a life after death ? ’
9 Neither buy nor rent a house with a back garden that backs onto a public footpath or alleyway , or a house that has a right of way running down the side of the garden .
10 For instance , you may well admire a well-bred horse that has a lot of competition potential — but even if you can afford it , buying it would be a big mistake if what you really want is something quiet and up to weight to hack and do riding club events .
11 There are , moreover , reasons for expecting an attack upon the Reeve , which in turn would mean that it is not solely his unsuccessful pre-emptive strike that establishes a state of enmity between these two characters .
12 They propel the vessel through the water using the same principle that allows a bowler in cricket or a baseball pitcher to swing a ball through the air .
13 And do you think that 's really going to be an application , as it were , that will appeal more to the lay person rather than person that uses a computer for business or professionally one way or another ?
14 Concentrate on a particular activity or function that uses a variety of information types , but where it is considered that some improvement is needed .
15 Religion is not an individualistic affair ; it is not something that concerns a man in isolation from his fellow men ; it is not simply a matter for the individual soul seeking release , or mok a , from the endless cycle of birth , death and rebirth , or sa sāra .
16 I am sure that my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State must be delighted that she will be summing up in a debate that concerns an area of activity in which expenditure has increased 160 times under this Government .
17 A nice touch that shows a lot of thought has gone into the design .
18 This is the assumption that underpins a comparison between teacher development and child development made by Eraut ( 1977 ) , an extract from which follows :
19 However , when Rousseau 's text is submitted to the questioning scrutiny of the grammatologist , it emerges that , although Rousseau clearly wants to say that melody originates in the passions , he actually has to formulate a definition of it that includes a notion of articulation and differentiation .
20 An eagerly awaited new tax law that includes a provision for tax relief on personal and corporate donations to cultural , educational , scientific , sporting , religious and humanitarian institutions and events was introduced in the Czech and Slovak Republics on 1 January , the first time that such provisions have been made in Czechoslovakia since 1938 .
21 Once recruited , patients had a regular , uncomfortable examination that requires a day off work .
22 I paint so thinly , as though my work were unlit stained glass that requires a flood of light from beyond and behind to illuminate and enliven it , and there is no beyond and behind .
23 In the process , a slurry of ore and water is mixed with a chemical that forms a layer around tin oxide particles , preventing them from getting wet .
24 At least he 's not a spotty adolescent or a man that smokes a pipe in bed or reads philosophy while you 're making love .
25 If there is one aspect of growing roses that creates a degree of bewilderment — if not actual fear — in the minds of gardeners , it is pruning .
26 Now although it is true that we need to consider contextual factors to explain what it is that creates a feeling of unity in stretches of language of more than one sentence , we can not say that there are no formal links between sentences in discourse .
27 It occurred to me later that there 's something almost , that there 's a cultural imprint , not to make a pun , of this letterpress image of a page in the structural necessities of locking a page and having even gutters and relatively rectilinear forms that creates a feeling of reliability , security and permanence .
28 But the sociologist of religion is interested in far more complicated questions than merely who would call themselves Methodist , Muslim or Mormon — or the proportion of each faith that attends a place of worship each day or week or month , or commits suicide in a particular year .
29 The 1555 survey contains forty-six ( exclusive of men who were also freeholders ) , and it is reasonable to assume that something like thirty held land that was sublet in 1522 , an estimate that finds a measure of confirmation in the subsidy schedule which , perhaps in deference to the provision for the taxing of income from customary holdings , mentions the landed wealth of twenty-six men who were assessed on goods .
30 If what Pascal , Butler , Newman and Browning say is true , then there will always be a degree of uncertainty about whether God exists that reflects an absence of proof .
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