Example sentences of "[noun sg] that have [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The borderline between ritual and custom is a little blurred ; custom could be said to be a form of ritual that has lost many of its magical or religious overtones , but still retains some of the original intent to transform . |
| 2 | It was perhaps no wonder that his ‘ quiet , nice ’ wife had hair that had gone white by the time she was thirty . |
| 3 | It was n't the firemaking that had turned sour on her , it was the ravelled mesh of events and her own emotions . |
| 4 | There was clearly some basis here for irredentist disputes of a kind that had become familiar in interwar Europe . |
| 5 | It holds that groups defined as ‘ nations ’ have the right to , and therefore ought to , form territorial states of the kind that have become standard since the French Revolution . |
| 6 | A fierce solidarity was forged of a kind that has become archaic in the west . |
| 7 | And having married , they could start their life in the little stone house at the end of the village that had stood empty since her mother 's death . |
| 8 | Thurmaston , just to the north of Leicester , was another village that had become dependent upon framework knitting by the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | If you have ever lamented the biscuit tin school of architecture that has made many of our towns and cities depressingly alike , take a look at the Omani buildings . |
| 10 | But in Urquhart , standing there facing him that night , she encountered a ratchet that had broken free of its retaining spring and was spinning in reverse . |
| 11 | It is this sector that has suffered most from the low pay strategies of the Conservatives and from unemployment . |
| 12 | At a time when the clarion call is for intensified training , higher education and greater specialization , it is a contradiction in terms to attempt to eradicate one of the best educated specialized sectors of the community , a sector that has taken hundreds of years to be created and which has the rare advantage of combining its specialized knowledge with a practical technique inherited over centuries . |
| 13 | First the managers will be encouraged to tackle an issue that has become problematical in a bureau by asking open questions of themselves and the bureau staff . |
| 14 | Allen and McNab are fit again , but will be restricted to the bench by City , who will not change the team that has scored 12 in winning their last three games . |
| 15 | Among the subjects Terkel 's interviewees muse on are Louis Farrakhan , the Nation of Islam 's leader , who seems to command utter loyalty or utter loathing ; sexual jealosy , a theme that has gone cool in Britain , but still raises temperatures in the US ; and the future , about which there is absolutely no agreement . |
| 16 | At the end of the garden , the waters of the stream that had risen pellucid at their source lay curdled . |
| 17 | Very frequently he was away from home , sampling the forms of service offered by the various high-church ecclesiastics in the area , driving determinedly over the countryside in a little red Mini that had become used to the eccentricities of his driving technique . |
| 18 | Although ‘ laicisation ’ is a process that has become universal in the Western world , it is in North America where it is at its most advanced . |
| 19 | The mischief still shone through in those crinkly eyes and the warm smile that had greeted thousands of nervous guests on his TV game show The Price Is Right . |
| 20 | The number of demands that a parent or child will make can depend on their past experience of those demands having been met or be the result of a pattern of behaviour that has evolved due to other problems , that is child 's poor concentration span , or mother 's irritability due to depression or an unhappy marriage . |
| 21 | The 1950s saw the birth of the New Novel , more or less in the coronation year of 1953 , with the first published fictions of Kingsley Amis , Iris Murdoch and William Golding : polemical still , but intent now on reviving a tradition of realism that had flourished first in eighteenth-century England , with Defoe and Fielding , and had faded somewhat in critical reputation in the inter-war years ; and a revived realism spread rapidly into theatre , with John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) and the first dramatic experiments of Harold Pinter . |
| 22 | MORE than a million people in southern Ethiopia are at risk of starvation in a famine that has killed 5,000 in five months , according to the country 's Relief and Rehabilitation Commission . |
| 23 | It is this grey area that has engendered much of the confusion that beclouds the issue . |
| 24 | It was the sound of more than a hundred working men and it rose above the sounds of the countryside that had become familiar to Seb 's ears . |
| 25 | Within the antisocialist camp Liberalism occupied a subordinate position , forfeiting a tradition of Radical progressivism that had informed much of the alternative municipal discourse during the 1890s , and leading to its extinction as a force in local politics . |
| 26 | Revusky ( 1971 , 1977 ) has developed an account of the role of interference effects in associative learning that has proved applicable to a wide range of phenomena . |
| 27 | It is quantification that has produced most of the difficulty in the present case . |
| 28 | In this chapter we will present an analysis of the colliding wave problem using a method that has become familiar in the study of stationary axisymmetric space-times . |
| 29 | One of the publishers most successful at catering for this hunger for information is International Data Group ( IDG ) , a firm that has grown big by breaking many of the management rules cherished by other big publishers . |
| 30 | A MAN behind a building firm that has taken thousands of pounds from customers for work that was never done was bouncing cheques to his suppliers last spring . |