Example sentences of "an [noun sg] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This group of people was recognised by the meeting in Tokyo over a year ago , and this is an issue that many people — both my friends and strangers that I come across in collecting or canvassing for Amnesty — ask me about . |
| 32 | Once again , Ayer highlights an error that some philosophers have made , and which Anselm certainly made in his famous argument for the existence of God ( which I will examine later ) . |
| 33 | It gives a subject an importance that little paintings do n't have . ’ |
| 34 | Membrane stripping has been suggested to produce earlier spontaneous labour and have no complications , but it is also an intervention that many women would dislike . |
| 35 | The United States further eased its trade embargo against Vietnam on April 29 with an announcement that commercial sales of food , medicine and agricultural supplies to meet basic human needs would be allowed . |
| 36 | We have been trying to din into the heads of the electricity boards an inkling that different people are susceptible to different levels of radiation exposure and that there is no safe level . |
| 37 | In the UK , the VMS and Unix sales and marketing teams have been integrated into one , an initiative that other parts of the company are watching carefully . |
| 38 | His hair , frosted now with grey , was still thick with an unruliness that expensive cutting still had n't completely disciplined . |
| 39 | In this relationship there is active involvement , collaboration and co-operation during the whole process of the relationship in an enterprise that neither party could achieve on their own . |
| 40 | The American State Department argued that because Arafat represented an organisation that used terrorism he should not be allowed to enter America . |
| 41 | It has become such an attraction that local tour operators are beating a path to its door . |
| 42 | It must be an entity that this Parliament can recognise . |
| 43 | This was approached from two angles : first , what was known as the ‘ battle for the fourth grade ’ , an acknowledgement that substantial numbers of children either did not go to school or did not stay long enough to consolidate literacy . |
| 44 | MPs described the payment as ‘ monstrous ’ , ‘ farcical ’ and ‘ disgraceful ’ , but the appointment showed an official acceptance of headhunting as the only practical solution to recruiting at such a high level , and an acknowledgement that top-quality executive talent was worth paying for . |
| 45 | Telling Radio New Zealand that their commentary style is not an exact copy of the BBC 's is no more than an acknowledgement that different countries have different cultures and that a format which suits New Zealand listeners may not sound so comfortable to the English ear . |
| 46 | In the discussion of Chaucer 's Reeve 's Tale in Chapter 4 of this book , however , we shall find an argument that this sort of " measure for measure " reading has sometimes been imputed by modern critics to texts in a way that is neither strongly supported by the text itself nor an enhancement of the reading of the text . |
| 47 | The passage sets up a straightforward opposition between what de Man calls " two apparently incompatible chains of connotation " : De Man 's claim that these poles enter into a system of exchanges and substitutions becomes an argument that this opposition " also contains statements claiming the priority of metaphor in a binary system that opposes metaphor to metonymy " ( 1979 : 62 ) . |
| 48 | As late as 1658 Edward Topsel , in his serious work on natural history , followed detailed descriptions of the cat 's anatomy and behaviour with the solemn comment that ‘ the familiars of Witches do most ordinarily appear in the shape of Cats , which is an argument that this beast is dangerous to soul and body . ’ |
| 49 | Secondly , you assert Sinead does not have ‘ courage and integrity ’ and then follow this up with an argument that these nouns should be reserved for Mother Theresa and fellow carers . |
| 50 | Even in a legal system which had the narrowest of definitions of murder — say , premeditated intention to kill — there would still be an argument that some cases which fulfil that criterion should have their label reduced from murder to manslaughter because of extenuating circumstances . |
| 51 | It has said WABI was created in a clean room , an argument that some sources say implies there was a ‘ dirty room ’ somewhere . |
| 52 | Schmeling , a sprightly , dignified 85-year-old , is certainly an argument that some fighters come to no harm , even those who suffer the sort of beating Louis meted out when the pair met again . |
| 53 | Schmeling , a sprightly , dignified 85-year-old , is certainly an argument that some fighters come to no harm , even those who suffer the sort of beating Louis meted out when the pair met again . |
| 54 | And we 're also having a sponsored Tree Best , where we 're hoping that lots of children will come along dressed up as trees , and have raised at least £10 sponsorship each and we 're having performances on a rainforest theme , and a dancer who will be doing a dance for rainforest , and there 's some rainforest type music and things like that , and there 'll be prizes and certificates for the children who are trees , and there 'll be an exhibition that head office are launching . |
| 55 | ‘ It 's strange , and I just hope younger players do n't see it as an example that international football is something you retire from early . ’ |
| 56 | Secondly , claims that the family is losing its educational function need to be balanced by an acknowledgment that increasing emphasis is now placed on the central role parents play in their child 's development , even where very young children spend part of the day in the care of another ( see Part Two ) . |
| 57 | There was an implication that certain auditors ( no names mentioned ) had not done this in the past . |
| 58 | There is often an implication that skilled means highly skilled although this connotation confuses the concept of existence and level . |
| 59 | The desire for natural religion reflected an awareness that religious faith has to do with the inner life of human beings , that it connects up with profound needs , drives and searchings at the core of our existence . |
| 60 | These actually come down to common sense , but it still needs to be stressed that the successful study of coinage , as any other historical discipline , should be based on as full a collection of the evidence as possible as well as an awareness that this evidence should never be taken at face value . |