Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [conj] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wegerle has two ambitions after a move that is a record for both Rangers and the sellers , Luton . |
| 2 | ’ It 's no exactly my own idea of good taste and I could do wi' a suit that 's a better fit , but beggars can nae be choosers , as they say . |
| 3 | That , as Viktor Pynzenyk , the leading reformer in Mr Kuchma 's cabinet , pointed out , means yet more inflation and yet further devaluation of a currency that is falling even against the rouble . |
| 4 | What becomes the English language starts as the dialect of a minority and is imposed upon the majority , usually by force , with legal punishments for those who refuse the schooling which will induct them in the national language . |
| 5 | The stress on efficient or productive causes means that , though Bacon 's natural philosophy includes Divinity , Hobbes 's excludes the theological study of a God that is eternal and ingenerate . |
| 6 | This can also be seen in Bentley Drummle who has the upbringing and background of a gentleman but is far from one . |
| 7 | Minutes later the little five-year-old lay in agony — the latest victim of a craze that is claiming thousands of young casualties a year . |
| 8 | Perhaps the title led one to hope for more of a synthesis than is possible in the space . |
| 9 | Here is an example of a style that is too common . |
| 10 | And er , I think that there are people who are a little wet behind the ears if they think that the general public are going to accept the costs of a budget that 's coming forward on a long these lines . |
| 11 | Right , what is the value of a , of a gradient that 's absolutely flat , absolutely level ? |
| 12 | This red eared terrapin is a victim of a fad that 's out of fashion . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , for the touch of a vanished paw and the sound of a bark that is still . ’ |
| 14 | The oilbird 's click lasts for about a hundredth of a second and is not a single sound but a burst of pulses , each only about a thousandth of a second long . |
| 15 | And the salad stuff and fresh fruit and all that sort of thing , takes about the full length of our bar up you know , you , you could n't think of a salad that is n't there . |
| 16 | He was a real old country doctor , of a type that is fast dying out , and she knew that if she had been a few years younger he would have patted her on the cheek . |
| 17 | Now there are two ways that the new composite sentence token will be of a type that is eventually to acquire a constant significance . |
| 18 | Compare now the vastly more plausible second way in which the new composite sentence token may be of a type that is to acquire constant significance . |
| 19 | On the other hand , the structural failure in flight of a privately owned light aircraft of a type that is extensively used , possibly all over the world , must justify an investigation in depth while a four engined airliner carrying 400 passengers damaging its wing-tip on a passenger terminal building while taxying need not rate so highly . |
| 20 | They generate a fair amount of internal heat and they are also riven by electrical storms of a ferocity that is hard to imagine . |
| 21 | Juliet is overpowered by passion when she first meets Romeo , and yet still considers his welfare when he is below her in the garden , and the rashness of a contract that is too sudden . |
| 22 | Jones may be an idealist and will probably face a rude awakening when confronted with the realities of the economy and the hidebound attitudes of a bureaucracy that is watching his advent with some trepidation . |
| 23 | Pornography is not , as Dworkin ( 1981 ) suggests it is , the main causal agent of women 's subordination , because it is merely one case of a phenomenon that is commonplace : women have been treated as objects throughout history . |
| 24 | The symptoms are similar to those of scarlet fever and may have a similar origin in that a bacteriophage injects genetic material into a bacterium and causes the release of a substance that is very toxic to human cells . |
| 25 | A Raman spectrum is normally excited using light of a frequency that is not absorbed by the sample . |
| 26 | Data storage is divided into control intervals which are continuous areas of storage of a size that is not necessarily related to the physical make-up of the device on which the data is stored . |
| 27 | One aspect of a spreadsheet that is often underutilised is its database facilities . |
| 28 | You have tried to update the details of a user that is not one of your descendants ( using option 7.2.2 ) or you have tried to change the owner responsible for a charge code to a user that is not one of your descendants ( using option 7.7.2 ) . |
| 29 | These small invertebrates form a community of a kind that is familiar in soils and low-standing vegetation of temperate regions at either end of the world . |
| 30 | In my letter of 1st August 1990 I mentioned the request of the Parish Council ‘ for an extra swing of a kind that is suitable for toddlers , i.e. one with a rail round it to stop the child falling off the seat . ’ |