Example sentences of "[be] a [noun] [that] [vb -s] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An over-planted pool detracts from its surroundings , while it should essentially be a feature that complements them . |
| 2 | cos there is a school of thought that they can be a virus that starts it |
| 3 | As Todorov repeatedly insists in his Introduction to Poetics , ‘ The particular text will only be an instance that allows us to describe the properties of literature [ in general ] ’ ( 1981 : 7 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ When you know there 's a bird that matches it 's description but you know it 's extinct , it just does n't sink in . |
| 5 | Wet 's a condition that suits you . ’ |
| 6 | Here 's a questionnaire that enables you to look at what might be important to you . |
| 7 | It 's a kiss that says it all . |
| 8 | Bill Mumford says you need climbing skills and it 's a challenge that takes them into a new realm … he says they are praying for dry weather … but it gets very cold … drops to minus twenty at night |
| 9 | I think we can protect our children much better than we do , for one thing there is a law that says it 's illegal to sell tobacco to children under sixteen , that law is flouted every day in a large proportion of the , er the shops in this city and in Scotland . |
| 10 | It is a faith that believes it has only to ask in order to receive : e.g. in the cure of the leper ( Mark 1:40–5 ) . |
| 11 | There is a legend that says they will return when the Lost Prince of Tara appears , and that it is he alone whom they will serve . |
| 12 | Very occasionally there is a document that gives us a clue . |
| 13 | And ‘ first ’ is a word that suits them , for many recognise them as the finest original instrument group among baroque performers of the present day . |
| 14 | Flcopy is a utility that allows you to copy a large file across a number of floppies . |
| 15 | On top of that is a utility that lets you play Amiga MOD files ( these are four-track digital sound samples that Amiga users are quite proud of , seemingly , and having heard them , you 'll see why ) . |
| 16 | Should a serious accident strike , there is a plan that pays you substantial cash benefits to help you rebuild your family 's future . |
| 17 | Should a serious accident strike , there is a Plan that pays you substantial cash benefits to help you rebuild your family 's future . |
| 18 | ‘ It is a question that takes me utterly by surprise as you obviously admire all this . |
| 19 | If we are alert to textual detail — and all studies of the reverberations of imagery in the Miller 's Tale tell us that it is a tale that encourages us to be so ( see below ) — then we can also find a suggestive parallel between Absolon 's inability to detach himself entirely from the vulgarities of the human world and the Host 's failure to impose an elegantly hierarchical structure on the tale-telling competition . |
| 20 | There is a photograph that preserves him forever racing down the face of a twenty-five-foot wave . |
| 21 | Questmaker is a program that allows you to create your own graphics adventure games using the questmaker editors in conjunction with a graphics editor like PC Paintbrush , for the creation of graphic screens with a PCX format . |
| 22 | what 's changed is that they in in the early days we used to get the offcuts and they they were ideally they used to put those through a hogger which is a thing that breaks it down and it 's these it 's worktops |
| 23 | er and to avoid racking up costs which is a thing that worries me |
| 24 | Alcoholism is a disease that tells you that you do not have it . |
| 25 | The greatest danger to a windsurfer is a wind that blows you away from a beach . |
| 26 | They did not believe , therefore , as the structuralists do , that structure in literature is a wholly closed system , and that language is a prison-house that shuts us away from reality . |
| 27 | It is a curse that affects us all . |
| 28 | Equally we might accept the temporal regress caused by supposing that for each moment in time there is a moment that precedes it , or the causal regress derived from the propositions that every event has a separate cause and that every cause is an event . |
| 29 | Some occupations are a better preparation for it than others , and journalism , fortunately , is a job that gets you used to taking what comes . |
| 30 | It is a process that allows me to locate myself in a space , to understand a space in terms of my physical movement . |