Example sentences of "an [noun sg] that [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had a beautiful singing voice , played the tambourine in an unusual way , had a " nice uniform cape in a style no one had ever seen before " , and an accent that drew immediate attention . |
| 2 | Those Israelis whom this behaviour most appals have long been likening it to the earlier stages of Nazism , an analogy that found startling vindication with the recent disclosure that some units in the occupied territories draw on Nazi precedents for their own self-image , one calling itself the ‘ Mengele detachment ’ and another ‘ the Auschwitz company ’ . |
| 3 | It is an irony that underlying this kind of dispersal policy , which can of course be criticised , is a reliance on the old skills that the private librarians would have had at their finger tips . |
| 4 | So far , though , Pool Re has raised far less cash than was expected , according to AIRMIC , an association that represents corporate buyers of insurance . |
| 5 | England 's 16-man squad is well balanced to cope with an itinerary that includes three Tests and six one-day internationals , as well as the Sri Lankan leg in March . |
| 6 | Its system is derived from an architecture that integrates disparate products and applications around an event-driven core providing an automated ‘ alarm ’ system activated in anticipation of a user-defined problem and takes immediate action . |
| 7 | Its solution is derived from an architecture that integrates disparate products and applications around an event-drive core providing an automated ‘ alarm ’ system activated in anticipation of a user-defined problem and takes immediate action . |
| 8 | He had done the Royal Marines commando training , he had insisted on parachute jumping and escaping from a tank in 100 feet of water in a simulated exercise — an exercise that killed two men over the next two years . |
| 9 | This unsaturated fatty acid satisfies several of the requirements for a retrograde messenger : ( 1 ) it is released from cultured neurons into the extracellular medium by the activation of NMDA receptors , ( 2 ) there is an increase in its efflux and postsynaptic availability following the induction of LTP , ( 3 ) inhibitors of phospholipase A 2 , an enzyme that liberates arachidonic acid from phospholipids , block the induction of LTP r134–135 , and ( 4 ) the transient application of arachidonic acid to hippocampal synapses causes a slow-onset potentiation . |
| 10 | Main rotor drive system damage somewhat similar had been reported in the case of an Exec that suffered in-flight break-up while in cruising flight over Quebec . |
| 11 | It was an establishment that placed more emphasis on public speaking than on a knowledge of the classics , and the course was shorter and more intensive than anything comparable in Holland . |
| 12 | The committee recommended that O grades , taken only by the abler pupils , be replaced by an examination that matched comprehensive education , and that all pupils should be assessed for a single national certificate in each subject . |
| 13 | SURVEY ( DEMOGRAPHIC ) — An inquiry that employs statistical data collecting and processing operations to provide information on a particular demographic subject ( e.g. fertility or human reproductive behaviour ) or on several topics ( multi-purpose survey ) . |
| 14 | Welcome back : The murder of a student ten years ago started an inquiry that crossed international boundaries and inspired an Inspector Morse novel . |
| 15 | Glasgow took to the subway with a will , but an unexpected flood of passengers and an accident that injured 19 people , closed the circles until January the following year , when the Glasgow Subway Railway Company began operations in earnest . |
| 16 | Dyson printed nothing else , but he collaborated in the 1633 revision of John Stow 's Survey of London — an edition that included many copies of Acts of Parliament and of the common council of London . |
| 17 | That was written twenty years and more before the trial and acquittal of D. H. Lawrence 's Lady Chatterley 's Lover in October–November 1960 — an event that made more headlines than practical difference , though it marks a convenient turning-point in British official attitudes to literary obscenity . |
| 18 | an event that caused considerable anxiety to himself and to his girlfriend ( patient E22 ) who was P cepacia-negative . |
| 19 | ‘ We were one of four British teams competing in an event that attracted 19 teams in all and about 2,000 competitors , and we have had a really good time . ’ |
| 20 | Now he had been given an assignment that demanded intuitive analysis to a sensitive degree . |
| 21 | But this is hardly a convincing argument when produced by an organisation that collects some £130 million , even if it also proposes to give those of its members whose works are performed outside ‘ significant venues ’ a flat fee of £75 a year . |
| 22 | Hannana Siddiqui is a member of Southall Black Sisters , an organisation that supports Asian women facing domestic violence , and of Women Against Fundamentalism , a group set up in the wake of the Rushdie affair . |
| 23 | But then , with an output that encompasses hard-core pornography , horror and romance , her books hardly fall into typical bestseller categories either . |
| 24 | Working-class families , by contrast , are less likely to provide an environment that encourages scholastic skills . |
| 25 | Some experts maintain that these molluscs were able to swim in the open ocean , or that they were attached to floating seaweed : some such mechanism has to be invoked to explain how these bivalves came into an environment that lacked bottom-living animals . |
| 26 | It suggests that ‘ old-fashioned ’ vitalistic metaphors were quite capable of flourishing in an age that demanded that science have practical applications . |
| 27 | Atlantik-Brücke , an outfit that fosters German-American ties , has launched a campaign to help families in Germany of allied servicemen sent to the Gulf . |
| 28 | When you produce an argument that makes practical sense , then of course I 'm prepared to listen . |
| 29 | The case against environmental lead is very strong , but an argument that contains such exaggeration and error can only be a weak one . |
| 30 | This , though , is simply a gathering of independent fish in an area that offers enough food for all of them , such as a baited swim . |