Example sentences of "a [noun sg] that [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This suggestion was greeted with howls of laughter at the idea of anyone bothering to take a route that included Little Weirwold . |
| 2 | Sefa-Dedeh is looking at the hydration properties of legumes with the idea of developing a variety that takes less time . |
| 3 | A case that caused some alarm in 1908 , however , revealed that revolvers could also fall into the hands of youths . |
| 4 | The pension would be paid on an individual basis and at a level that enables older people to participate in the normal life of the community . |
| 5 | Thus , the AMA argues , the Fifth Amendment ‘ requires that prices must be set at a level that permits any enterprise , including a physician 's medical practice , to operate successfully , to maintain its financial integrity , to attract capital , and to compensate investors for the risk assumed ’ . |
| 6 | It was precisely this analysis of how certain expressions lower down in the tree thus fell within the scope of others higher up on a branch that launched modern logic on its powerful and sophisticated account of logical relations among sentences . |
| 7 | The organisation 's uncertainty is shown by its decision not to have any particular point of view on the future of the European Community : a decision that makes more jaws than Mrs Thatcher 's drop . |
| 8 | That has been the dilemma for Hong Kong — the necessity of staunching the flow — and they deserve understanding for a decision that carries all manner of risks for their own future as 1997 nears . |
| 9 | That has been the dilemma for Hong Kong — the necessity of staunching the flow — and they deserve understanding for a decision that carries all manner of risks for their own future as 1997 nears . |
| 10 | The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults . |
| 11 | A course that mixes open pasture , bridleways , forest tracks and country lanes undeniably favours the horse . |
| 12 | In the beginning , the race took place over a course that included three brooks and a five foot stone wall amongst the 29 jumps . |
| 13 | But if you do read the guarantee you will nearly always find a sentence that says this guarantee does not affect your statutory rights . |
| 14 | Harpin does , incidentally , offer working definitions for sentence division in a text that has multiple coordination ( i.e. strings of clauses joined by and or and so or and then ) which is , of course , a highly typical feature of the writing of children in junior schools . |
| 15 | However , as the second part of Table 14 shows , there tends to be a more marked , reverse " J " shaped relationship between the frequency of abortions and length of inter-birth interval , with by far the greatest risks occurring at intervals of less than one year , a finding that lends some credibility to the data . |
| 16 | For instance , if children are not out of care within six weeks after reception into care , research tells us that they have a 60 per cent chance of still being in care after two years , a finding that has clear implications for the resources and inter-agency co-operation needed for many social work clients . |
| 17 | With placebo treatment , the duration of contraction was higher in the distal oesophagus , a finding that confirms earlier studies in healthy volunteers . |
| 18 | But while it was still a live issue , it was amusing to see how ready people were to accept Steele 's defence that it was through the machination of such a crusted establishment figure as Avrion Mitchison that Steele had been invited to repeat his work in a scientific environment for the purpose of discrediting it — a defence that compounds bad science together with bad scientific journalism . |
| 19 | Similarly , requests for calculations or analysis will generate a response that requires mass data to be extracted from the model on the designing workstation . |
| 20 | A response that maintains wide spacing , as in territorial animals or solitary nomads , may be equally social in that it is an interaction between two or more individuals . |
| 21 | A fleece that meets these criteria and is readily available is AGRYL P17 which is sold in one piece measuring 2.2m x 7m ( 166sq.ft . ) . |
| 22 | Systemic fungicides , especially those manufactured by Murphy Chemical , can sometimes be combined with systemic insecticides — a cocktail that simplifies preventive spraying and saves time — but do check very carefully for compatibility . |
| 23 | A ministry that enjoyed royal confidence could generally take the House of Lords for grated , and provided it did not prove incompetent or seek to impose excessive taxation , " its position was unassailable in the Commons . " |
| 24 | It 's not a description that has many parallels today . |
| 25 | In a hypothesis that bears some similarity to ours , McKenzie and O'Nions suggested that the lithosphere underlying continents might detach itself , sink to a convective boundary layer , and ultimately rise as mantle plumes . |
| 26 | There is , for instance , the development of acousto-optics — a technique that controls electromagnetic radiation via the periodic changes in refractive index caused by a sound wave — for use in bulk optic and fibre devices . |
| 27 | If Z is a parameter that takes intergenerational differences in heritability into account then HZ denotes the parental heritability . |
| 28 | And despite the fact their team is in a division that includes local rivals such as Bolton , Preston , Blackpool , Stockport and Wigan , the vagaries of the Football League 's fixtures computer means they face a 576-mile round trip to Brighton to see their idols play today . |
| 29 | By 1818 , when the War of Independence was over and the Republican Revolution can be said to have been won , America had rejected both the Crown and religious establishment , and had accepted a creed that granted religious toleration and the ‘ natural rights of man ’ . |
| 30 | The activities of the sbcC and sbcD gene products have not been determined , but the available evidence suggests that they provide a nuclease that disrupts palindromic DNA ( 6 , 7 ) . |