Example sentences of "[noun sg] that have [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expelled from the Commons as a result of giving false statements , he was returned unopposed in 1734 for Great Grimsby , a venal borough that had elected other disreputable financiers and in which Sutton owned considerable property . |
| 2 | At home the action that has drawn most attention in the past year was his vote in favour of war in the Gulf . |
| 3 | It 's like this people th they 're deep sea divers and they discover , they 're stuck in the crevice , a big erm nuclear submarine and what it 's for is an experiment that 's gone wrong and it it 's to make and instead they make an abomination you know , incredibly powerful and intelligent but really nasty you know , murderous and killer and so they take they take him to these people . |
| 4 | Indeed , in a partnership that has cost British Telecom £19m along with £5m from HIE , the existing infrastructure in the region has been significantly upgraded with the installation of advanced equipment at over 60 of its telephone exchanges . |
| 5 | Although there have been attempts to assess penetrance in the two phenotypes of Gardner and simple polyposis that have shown low penetrance , these have relied on the expression of cancer or the extraintestinal features . |
| 6 | It is this feature of Beccaria 's programme that has caused more problems than probably anything else , as we shall see later . |
| 7 | By exempting pension funds and unit trusts from income tax on trading profits from futures and options dealings , he has managed to clear up an uncertainty that has kept many investing institutions shy of London 's derivatives markets . |
| 8 | The borderline between ritual and custom is a little blurred ; custom could be said to be a form of ritual that has lost many of its magical or religious overtones , but still retains some of the original intent to transform . |
| 9 | What was the fault that had deserved this punishment ? |
| 10 | The story of the Patiño family is by no means unique , but it is arresting nonetheless for all the romance and tragedy that has surrounded this clan of immensely rich and socially ambitious art collectors . |
| 11 | Dale 's studies of fetal response to moderate cardiovascular exercise showed increased breathing movements , transient bradycardia or tachycardia , or changes in uterine bloodflow , but there does not appear to be a systematic study that has given clear guidelines for safe levels of maternal exercise . |
| 12 | It released the voice of Osbern of Eu , his colour still high from the interview that had preceded this one . |
| 13 | Practice that had made these things second nature to the T'ang . |
| 14 | This is a practice that has threatened several species . |
| 15 | In the past , carnivorous plants have been gathered by unscrupulous collectors from the wild ; a practice that has depleted natural stocks . |
| 16 | This crumpled wreck … is the car that had claimed five young lives . |
| 17 | This position was not only the culmination of ideas that had been knocking around in Balcon 's mind for the past six years or so , it was also a declaration of a new confidence in the possibility of British cinema , and a final casting off of the inferiority complex that had impaired British filmmakers since 1918 . |
| 18 | All of which , however , little solves the problem of why , Willis and Botham apart , and on their day Lewis and DeFreitas , have England been unable to produce a fraction of the talent that has flowed unabated , and appears still bottomless , from this tiny cluster of Caribbean islands ? |
| 19 | I mean now if i said , Make me a a figure that 's got ten equal sides , you could do it could n't you ? |
| 20 | Rangers ' chief coach says Wegerle ‘ will have to force his way in ’ to a side that has scored seven goals in two games , but that did not prevent the club 's managing director Clive Berlin hailing the South African-born striker as ‘ the new Rodney Marsh ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ So meeting a Bristol City side that have conceded 24 goals away from home this season and have never won at Twerton Park holds no terrors for me or my Rovers lads , who are emerging as one of the best teams in the division . ’ |
| 22 | He ended a bitter divide that has lasted 75 years when he made the offer over lunch at Buckingham Palace . |
| 23 | A moment later the door creaked open and he appeared , or a fair facsimile , a very old man with grey hair down to his shoulders , a black dresscoat of velvet that had seen better days , a pair of very baggy corduroy trousers beneath of the type worn by peasants on the farm . |
| 24 | Anorexia nervosa patients seem unable to identify and to respond accurately to their emotional state , a deficit that has received some empirical support . |
| 25 | The technical trick that has made cheap laser-printers possible has also brought type design and typesetting to a far wider market . |
| 26 | Souness has axed £1.3million David James and recalled Grobbelaar to shore up a leaky defence that has conceded 20 goals in 11 League and Cup games this season . |
| 27 | It was perhaps no wonder that his ‘ quiet , nice ’ wife had hair that had gone white by the time she was thirty . |
| 28 | Not only is the external labour market segmented by sex , but the skills remain marketable in spite of a recession that has reduced local opportunities for the semi-skilled . |
| 29 | Mary Hammond-Heath had distinguished herself as junior to a QC in a fraud case that had made national headlines , and was inclined to regard the Bouveries ' life as an excellent test case for some of her theories . |
| 30 | The same flood tide that had brought such a good harvest of tiles heaped a mass of driftwood onto the Reach . |