Example sentences of "a [noun] [that] [vb -s] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clarke would do us all a big service if , in his next book , he could produce a law that sorts out the predictions that are too spineless from those that assume the human race to be capable of too much , |
| 2 | These compare batching and sorting times with direct reference , for a file that takes up the whole of a 2314 disk . |
| 3 | Like so many of Lonsdale 's ladies she is surprising ; yet she speaks to us with a directness that wipes out the centuries . |
| 4 | A sound that conjures up the balmy shores of the Carribean . |
| 5 | A picture that hangs on the wall is , by definition , isolated from both room and people . |
| 6 | But it is a start that plays down the complications of learning about gender and discrimination outside the family , in order to produce a viable psychological theory . |
| 7 | He commences upon the dismantling of assumptions of where the texts are funny or obscene based on modern suppositions of what constitutes obscenity et al. , and puts forward a theory that picks up a suggestion of Nykrog 's concerning the relationship of fabliau and romance : that the fabliaux flourished as a conservative reaction to new notions of gentility and decency in behaviour and especially in language ; new notions that are found most clearly in the literary cult of fin amour . |
| 8 | This is usually done by a guillotine that cuts back a bundle of a dozen or so plants at a time , and it is not unusual to find the cut ends chopped and bruised rather roughly . |
| 9 | A list that sets out the items carefully in red ink , a thin trail of watery blood over the paper . |
| 10 | Adding a line that works out the total amount paid in and the interest received at least puts it in perspective . |
| 11 | Has he ever cooked a pie that comes out the oven cold ? |
| 12 | This is n't superstition , it is just that some people seem to attack computers in a way that brings out the worst in them . |