Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] a [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Upwards on 20,000 supporters are expected to flock to Limerick for a match that has evoked country-wide interest . |
| 2 | If Chapman had become football 's forgotten man , he was about to put himself , and his new club , in the public eye again , for on 16 March , 1921 Huddersfield bought Stephenson for a fee that was ‘ probably the highest ever paid by a Yorkshire club ’ — £4,000 . |
| 3 | It was over two years after I had subtracted Blyth with an adder that I found an opportunity to get rid of Paul . |
| 4 | Mighty Mogul eventually justified odds of 100-30 on , coming home six lengths clear from Ambuscade in a race that took over 12 minutes to complete , almost eight minutes longer than the standard time . |
| 5 | We had sailed up the brown Tambopata forty kilometres south from Puerto Maldonaldo in a skiff that barely cleared the water . |
| 6 | Dobson came on because Waddle was tormenting poor Alan Wright on a day that looked to belong to Wednesday when John Harkes let rip . |
| 7 | Julius drove out of Warwick at a speed that was highly illegal , and Jessamy sat tensely beside him , still not understanding why the day had suddenly gone so dangerously wrong . |
| 8 | But they would not countenance the replacement of the pro-Soviet Marxist regime in Afghanistan by a regime that proclaimed itself ‘ neither East nor West ’ in a fashion similar to the Iranian theocracy . |
| 9 | Bioenergetics : An Introduction to Chemiosmotic Theory is a well-written account by David Nicholls of a subject that students usually find extremely difficult . |
| 10 | The assistant chief of the Division of Eastern European Affairs in the State Department , Stevens , argued for rearming in Korea as a sign that the United States would resist communism : |
| 11 | The tactic plays to a public perception of Washington as a place that has sold out ordinary citizens . |
| 12 | A few weeks later Mr Walker told Ruth of a premonition that he had had the previous night — it was identical to Mr Reynolds ' . |
| 13 | Equipped by Morag Hood with an accent that sounds strangely reminiscent of Edward Fox as the Duke of Windsor , Vivien stops Walter in his tracks by announcing that she is pregnant . |
| 14 | Shortly afterwards , in May 1980 , Clive Lloyd and Co. arrived in England with a squad that included Holding , Roberts , Garner , Marshall and Cruft . |
| 15 | Were , therefore , the deputies of the Cortes to limit themselves to the study of the ‘ means and methods of expelling the French army ’ , or was their sacred task to endow Spain with a constitution that would limit the despotism which had ended in French invasion ? |
| 16 | ‘ Hmm , ’ Janice in a tone that suggested that she was really trying to be interested as well as sound it . |
| 17 | It is Easter weekend in Paris and , while his wife is away , middle-aged Jacques ( Stephen Moore ) brings home Julie , a sexy little bimbo played by Leslie Ash in a mini-skirt that is no broader than a cummerbund . |
| 18 | WARREN SPRING Laboratory is to merge with AEA in a move that will result in the establishment of a National Environmental Technology Centre . |
| 19 | Mother Francis the celibate nun who had never thought she could know the joy of seeing a child grow up in her care had loved Eve in a way that might well have made her blind to the feelings and sensitivities of other people . |
| 20 | I do not understand why we should be dealing with local government finance in Scotland in a Bill that covers the United Kingdom . |
| 21 | In the council chamber quite recently one of the Socialists supported the position taken up by the Soviet Government in Russia in a way that showed what would happen here if they got the power in their hands . |
| 22 | My own introduction to the world of stand-up involved performing at benefit gigs in the upstairs room of a pub in Exeter to an audience that shouted at one another until the local anarchist punk band came on . |
| 23 | The BCP supreme council , meeting on Feb. 23 , decided to hold a ballot of all party members in May on a proposal that the party should be renamed the Bulgarian Socialist Party . |
| 24 | Even if the accident does not seem serious at the time , but you think it might have some ill-effect in the future you should apply to the DSS for a decision that it was an industrial accident . |
| 25 | He found support in the Musée Royal des Beaux-Arts and Rubenianum in Antwerp who were able to secure funds from the Crédit Communal de Belgique for an exhibition that would display the achievement of Flemish painting as part of Antwerp 's celebrations in 1993 as Cultural Capital of Europe . |
| 26 | Pete gagged Donald with an apron that had a picture of a spaniel on it . |
| 27 | ‘ They beat us at Filbert Street with a goal that should n't have stood . ’ |
| 28 | She sat on one of the longest-haired mats , draped the dogs around her , and catechized him about Fred with an insistence that he took for childishness . |
| 29 | ‘ She does n't always have to upset the table , though , when she is there , does she ? ’ remarked Henry Tyler in a tone that at least one ambassador had been known to call ‘ eminently reasonable ’ . |
| 30 | It 's in the High Street in a restaurant that 's named after the old Right and Wrong Club in Edinburgh . |