Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | W.J.J. Gordon wrote in his book on Synectics about hedonic response being the joy and ecstasy of the creative process , and he mentioned a factor in the joy of creativity is the release of tension that builds up as a scientist strives to solve a problem and I would further add the pleasure and relief of self-fulfilment which is a fundamental human need . |
| 2 | A Malaise trap is like an open-sided tent , made of fine netting , with a pitched roof that rises obliquely to a peak at one end . |
| 3 | Water pipes in the loft and in any unheated room , such as a utility room , should be lagged with strips of insulating material wrapped around and around , or with special preformed insulation that fits neatly around a pipe . |
| 4 | And remember that the benefits wo n't usually change with inflation — so a figure that looks more like a telephone number now than a pension may be much smaller , in real terms , when you retire . |
| 5 | Appropriately enough , we met in the Hominid Room of the Natural History museum , a light spacious rectangular chamber with a glass wall on one side that looks out on a grassy park . |
| 6 | Below the chin is a pouch that hangs down like a dewlap . |
| 7 | Look at the surrounding skyline and pick out things that catch the eye — the flashy Porsche in the car-park , the dark cloud looming or the ugly building that sticks out like a sore thumb . |
| 8 | By wiping the screen with a special tissue every couple of months the electrostatic field that builds up on a monitor screen can be discharged . |
| 9 | ( More precisely , we suppose that the imposed wavenumber is within a range that exists stably in a Rayleigh number range a little above critical . |
| 10 | From The Nab , it is a short walk to the summit , marked by an Ordnance Survey column that fits snugly into a stone wind shelter . |
| 11 | There are few spatial experiences in this country to rank beside that sudden sideways shift from the masculine world of military triumphs and smiling shepherdesses on the Doric frieze of the Royal Fort 's entrance hall into the amazing feminine world of willow-pattern fantasy that swirls up at an angle in the great stairwell . |
| 12 | The answer is that they will become superfluous , to be replaced by a new prototype that looks remarkably like a rugby league player . |
| 13 | It is n't some shallow need that goes away after an hour in bed with you . |
| 14 | It is a specially designed kit that fits simply into a 5 in ( 13cm ) pot creating 4 , 6 or 8 compartments to hold individual seedlings . |
| 15 | Thus creating a succulently flavoured ham that goes perfectly with a watercress and avocado salad and a few slices of brown bread . |
| 16 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 17 | It 's that stuff that comes out of a tin that 's very rich |
| 18 | The PenPad PDA 600 is a hand-held personal organiser that does away with a keyboard and is aimed at the traditional Filofax and electronic organiser markets . |
| 19 | Moderator that works out at a contribution of seventy five pence per minute towards the actual cost of our operation of forty pounds and twenty three pence per minute . |
| 20 | The lyricism that sells out to a state-ordained reality and solidarity is not the only lyricism we know , and it is the opposite of much of what we know by that name . |
| 21 | A beat that sets out for a destination may have to renavigate on the way or may even have to change destination . |
| 22 | They also tend to be middle-minded , not just because of the selective ( and , until recently , highly secretive ) recruitment procedure by which they are appointed , but also because in the course of their training and socialization they are imbued with a particular self-perception about their role that amounts almost to a consistent ideology ( Parker et al. , 1989 ) . |
| 23 | Alison 's favours break down the boundaries of class ; any man who can lay her in his bed is like a lord , as Absolon says as he anticipates her kiss : Kolve 's interpretation of potentially religious images within the tale is fine as far as it goes , and can justly be quoted against the allegorizers , but there is at least one aspect of the tale that refers irreducibly to a moral frame within which the tale is set : recurrent swearing of oaths by " " Seint Thomas of Kent " " , which reminds us of the framing narrative with its realistic and morally symbolic journey towards Becket 's shrine in Canterbury and the judgement of the tale-telling game just as much as John 's calling upon St Frideswide locates the tale effectively within Oxford . |
| 24 | ALLERTHORPE HALL has always stood apart and important on the flat plain beside the Roman road that runs straight as a die from Borough Bridge to Catterick , and on the bendiest of bends in the River Swale . |
| 25 | It 's a gas that comes out of a carbonate . |
| 26 | However , I ca n't help wondering how many people after seeing the engraving based on Turner 's painting by Middiman and Pye of Hardraw Force got off their wagonettes and hurried through the door of the Green Dragon Inn — only to be underwhelmed by a narrow , peaceful , tree-clad valley that leads serenely to a rocky bow with a high fall dropping from its lip to the valley floor which , impressive though it certainly is ( particularly after heavy rains ) , is nothing like the falls depicted by Turner . |
| 27 | As for er as for departures , a strategic context in terms of a structure plan policy erm that allows for major exceptions will must surely assist in in considering any application that comes forward as a as a departure under under . |
| 28 | A female that moves in with an already paired male must share him with the other females . |
| 29 | Two new models — the 512TR and the gorgeous and all-new 456GT — created further interest in a model line that endures even in a recession ’ |
| 30 | As darkness begins to fall , the adventurers are ‘ lucky ’ enough to chance upon a path that leads upwards towards a rock-strewn side-valley . |