Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [that] [verb] [adj] " 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 | Appendix 3 has a chart that includes some detailed evaluation comments from participants . |
| 4 | The Steamatic makes all the difference between having a kitchen that looks clean and having one that truly is . |
| 5 | A case that caused some alarm in 1908 , however , revealed that revolvers could also fall into the hands of youths . |
| 6 | A case that looks set to rival Outhwaite in notoriety concerns two Feltrim syndicates , where at least £200m of losses are emerging on ‘ excess-of-loss ’ insurance in 1987–89 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She reached to the gap between back and seat where years ago she had stuffed a cushion that made all the difference to that small problem with her spine . |
| 11 | Insofar as English law requires the directors to take into account the interests of groups other than the shareholders it adopts the position that these interests do not fundamentally conflict with those of the shareholders and that it is therefore possible to arrive at a decision that balances all the relevant interests , subsuming them under or subordinating them to the vaguely defined collective goal of the organization . |
| 12 | It was a decision that left one Irish player saying : ‘ Can we have him for just 20 minutes ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | To cater for all susceptibilities , the party became the " National Unionist Association of Conservative and Unionist Associations " — a decision that allowed some local parties to go on calling themselves Conservative , but the name " Liberal " was at last dropped . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I think the people of Wiltshire recognise that we have been able to set a budget that enables all the departments to have more money in real terms to spend on delivery of service for next year , and I think that 's something that we can some credit in , and I think it does reflect a new partnership between councillors , officers and those that are delivering services to the public across the county . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A refinement that overcomes this is a coloration that appears inconspicuous at a distance but extremely bright and vivid near by — an improvement found in certain caterpillars and moths , for example . |
| 20 | A course that mixes open pasture , bridleways , forest tracks and country lanes undeniably favours the horse . |
| 21 | In the beginning , the race took place over a course that included three brooks and a five foot stone wall amongst the 29 jumps . |
| 22 | But if you do read the guarantee you will nearly always find a sentence that says this guarantee does not affect your statutory rights . |
| 23 | A text that uses familiar everyday language is usually more accessible than one which has an archaic or literary or highly formal style . |
| 24 | We are still negotiating , but let it be perfectly clear that we shall not accept a text that involves such a commitment . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Time and time again the reviewers in Early music have attacked ideas and suppositions of a kind that characterize much modern culture but which were strengthened in the 1960s : that one should be allowed to do what one wishes without the interference of authority ; that every kind of self-expression is equally valid because it is self-expression , and so on . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | With placebo treatment , the duration of contraction was higher in the distal oesophagus , a finding that confirms earlier studies in healthy volunteers . |
| 30 | ‘ Everyone has a trick that goes wrong , but you can turn this to your advantage by pretending it was deliberate and making the audience laugh , ’ he said . |