Example sentences of "[indef pn] that [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She saw three public houses and a shop selling papers , but nothing that looked a likely candidate . |
| 2 | I think coming from my working-class background , I was frightened of everything that had a vague look of an institution about it . |
| 3 | The more I read , the more I became determined to try to produce something that had a good basis in theory , but that was pungent enough to counter the bland unsupported generalisations that seem so prevalent in the more practical end of the library and information science literature . |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't see the relevance of something that happened a long time ago . |
| 5 | She had a remarkable face , one that denoted a quick intellect and a kind heart . |
| 6 | And then she glanced out of the main kitchen window , the one that had a partial view of the terrace ; Angelica looked as well , and saw that they had a few customers arriving and looking around uncertainly at the unstaffed deck . |
| 7 | If we begin with too cavalier an attitude toward them , we may miss a certain richness in our intellectual heritage and one that had a profound bearing on how the word science was understood , by both practitioners and their public . |
| 8 | Then , finally , in 1662 , he apologetically asked Charles II not ‘ to think the worse of me , if snatching up all the weapons to fight against your enemies , I lighted upon one that had a double edge ’ . |
| 9 | He took out the biggest picture of all , the one that showed a distraught Harriet Shakespeare supported by another woman . |
| 10 | It was new , expensive and identical to the one that occupied a full page in the current Vogue , so I had spent the day at a crime fiction convention feeling more confident about my appearance than usual . |
| 11 | It was significant that the art department at Redbrook Secondary School , which was the only one with a formal syllabus , was also the only one that pursued a deliberate policy of incorporating references to ‘ works of art ’ in its programme : |
| 12 | Let us first consider the impact of imposing a proportional income tax , that is , one that taxed a constant proportion of one 's income however high , and raising the same revenue as a tax on one particular product , or a narrow range of products . |
| 13 | So anybody that had a big book accumulated all this dividend |
| 14 | The conclusion in No. 10 was , therefore , that it had become part of the Cabinet Office and was politically starved … on anything that had a political dimension , the tank found itself rather isolated . ’ |