Example sentences of "of a [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the record of a glory that was short lived , but makes an illustrious event in Aarau 's history . |
| 2 | In another it was said that the legitimate expectation of a prisoner that he would be allowed maximum parole if no disciplinary award of forfeiture of remission of sentence had been made against him , gave him sufficient interest to challenge the award . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Laplace argument , many theists would conclude , simply disproves the existence of a God that theists do n't believe in anyway . |
| 6 | It seems that the atheist can never disprove the existence of a God that theists admit to believing in . |
| 7 | The question really means : What is it about the idea of a god that gives it its stability and penetrance in the cultural environment ? |
| 8 | And by virtue of a document that purportedly ‘ came to light ’ in the eighth century , the so-called ‘ Donation of Constantine ’ , he was believed to have conferred certain of his own secular powers upon the Pope . |
| 9 | Two of Elizabeth 's Attorneys , John Price and Thomas Atkins , were certainly guilty of abusing justice : Price forged those parts of a document that had been eaten by mice and Atkins took bribes from men charged before the Council . |
| 10 | One of Spiegelman 's boldest frames shows their bodies dangling among trees at one side of a wood that also holds , on the far side , the Spiegelman family car in which Vladek , 40 years on , recounts the girls ' story to his son . |
| 11 | Phil complained , mourning the ending of a conversation that had begun to interest him . |
| 12 | In total about twenty-six copper coins were recovered from this section , which is quite a lot from just one part of a field that had no habitation on it . |
| 13 | She was wearing a short black skirt and a tiny scrap of a top that emphasised her heavy breasts . |
| 14 | So explicit are the tiny gestures and the perfect timing of exits and entrances that the audience is forced to recognise the personal tragedy of a love that spoke no words . |
| 15 | A look that claimed her for his own and spoke of a love that would bind them together for always . |
| 16 | The swoon of a heart that the sweep and the hurl of thee trod |
| 17 | Since then the tournament has inevitably become bloated — too many teams , too few really competitive matches — and has occasionally been cynically exploited because of a structure that can require teams to produce only strategic , drawn games rather than daring wins . |
| 18 | Example ( 3 ) ( d ) , for instance , would be an abbreviated form of a structure that could perhaps be realized more fully as : ( 26 ) our lawyer sent the packages ; the packages are registered It may of course be claimed that we should think in terms not of actual clauses but of some more hypothetical and abstract clause ; maybe the last five words in ( 26 ) should be replaced by something like : ( 27 ) [ subject the package plural ] subject be registered |
| 19 | They are a rather different animal , as far as the sorts of applications are concerned , from single chip microcomputers — a single integrated circuit that has all the features , including the processor , of a computer that can be made very cheaply and embodied particularly in things like low cost domestic goods . |
| 20 | This is a story of a misunderstanding that reduced a man to suicide , also the love affair that fell foul of the postal system and tragic circumstances , the combined forces of fate culminating in the tragedy . |
| 21 | But when you know without a shadow of a doubt that , even without doing anything clever , you have pulled an animal back from the brink of death into the living , breathing world , it is a satisfaction which lingers , flowing like balm over the discomforts and frustrations of veterinary practice , making everything right . |
| 22 | Until she could prove without the shadow of a doubt that he was n't in league with Harry Martin then she could n't risk doing that , no matter how she might long to . |
| 23 | ‘ I can say without a shadow of a doubt that he was one of the most popular people in the club , very straight and down the middle . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ There is not a shadow of a doubt that we are going to win this election and that we are going to win it with the strongest possible representation in this region . |
| 25 | ‘ She had never been out of Italy before — now there she was without as much as a full day 's notice at Brown 's Hotel looking on top hats and umbrellas out of a window that worked like a guillotine . |
| 26 | Oh no , they 'll I suggested they leave the window ledge and just left sort of a window that deep along |
| 27 | The Tunnel was the British version of a film that had already been made in France and Germany , about a crazed engineer who sacrifices his family in order to complete the construction of a link between Britain and America . |
| 28 | Buñuel , the creator of a film that deeply impressed my youth , Los olvidados , gives a love-hate description of his Zaragoza childhood in his autobiography , Mi ultimo sospiro ( My Last Gasp ) . |
| 29 | And long after Dana had left me , I still thought of him every day , and from time to time wrote poems about him , like this one which came to me after several viewings of a film that greatly disturbed and fascinated me , Pasolini 's Teorema : |
| 30 | Somehow it does not seem to matter in the fast-moving , no-going-back whirl of a film that the hero is a complete fool . |