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 .
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