Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [adv] [vb -s] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Furthermore , especially when blooms are double or have many petals , it is quite likely that spent blooms will collapse into a rain-soaked soggy mess that quickly becomes a haven a breeding ground for mildew . |
2 | A complete contrast to this story of stability and continuity is provided by the successive owners of Balderton Hall , an Elizabethan timber-framed dwelling that still stands a mile or so to the east of Myddle village . |
3 | A user can only retrieve a module by quoting a package that already has a version of it as a member . |
4 | All geometric and textural data are held within a part file that closely represents a dustbin , thus information can not be selectively retrieved ; a piece of an object can only be viewed by displaying the whole part file . |
5 | Equally , baseball is a fundamentally silly game that somehow achieves a kind of iconic status because its players dress like mad old Great Uncle Alfred on a day trip to Blackpool in 1910 . |
6 | For a nostalgia that still strikes a chord today , here he is . |
7 | Such programmability is an ideal platform for a virus : for example the marker might view a table in an active document ; this runs a program that indeed generates a table , but as a side-effect deletes all the marker 's files , and , for good measure , also sends some obscene mail to the University Chancellor , emanating apparently from the marker . |
8 | As always when she sang this song her eyes were moist , and when she had finished the applause did not come immediately , but there was that magic moment of silence that sometimes links a performer and an audience . |
9 | In this country that generally means a wetsuit — even in the summer . |
10 | Paris-based Advanced Computer Research International SA , Jacques Stern 's new company that also has a base in Lyon and is designing a massively parallel processor around Digital Equipment Corp 's Alpha RISC ( CI No 2,101 ) , yesterday announced an agreement with Cray Research Inc to develop Fortran 90 compilers and applications for use on parallel systems . |
11 | With the Anglian team so far in front major interest is now centred on the battle for the No.2 spot that also guarantees a dream ticket to the Premier League . |
12 | The cloud becomes very dense at the centre , leaving behind a dusty envelope that ultimately becomes a retinue of planets — like being thrown out onto a potter 's wheel . |