Example sentences of "of a [noun sg] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Fornication was inevitable ; it was something of a relief that high unit labour costs had driven the boot man to extinction . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Housing Benefit can be reduced where there are other people in a household , because of an assumption that some resources will be shared . |