Example sentences of "a [noun sg] that [pron] [adv] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain has set the European Community on a course that I wholly applaud — an ever closer union of nation states . |
| 2 | This fear derives more from a recognition that they often lack the additional personal qualities which they see as necessary for certain types of work , which is why most policemen are reluctant to deal with rape victims or to undertake community and neighbourhood policing . |
| 3 | He might try to justify the principle by appealing to logic , a recourse that we freely grant him , or he might attempt to justify the principle by appealing to experience , a recourse that lies at the basis of his whole approach to science . |
| 4 | Well I make a proposal that we also give them notice that at the end of this year , we will not be prepared to continue the lease on the current licence . |
| 5 | DIGI DUB serve up a welcome listen of techno ragga , electro and dub , blending them to such a degree that they still remain hard to categorise , dealing in each style with equal authority and adeptness throughout and as inventive as anything you 'll find plagiarising these genres . |
| 6 | In age-set societies , the changes in status involved in getting older are institutionalised to such a degree that they often constitute the very basis of political organisation . |
| 7 | ‘ I want to find a job that I really love . ’ |
| 8 | Well if they can afford to buy in help and to sort their life out , you 've suddenly got a product that they really want to buy . |
| 9 | The script assumes that this is your LSTRAIN process — if it is a live process , then make sure that the user you create to do the QA is a name that you really want to sit directly under the Manager . |
| 10 | Alexanders , the jewellers , have been a Rolex concessionaire for over forty years now enabling us to offer you a service that we firmly believe is second to none . |
| 11 | Over the past six months or so you appear to have taken a leaf out of the Aquarian book and aired your grievances in such a manner that you now face the possibility of a complete break from the past , which in turn would alter so much you have built up and established over the years . |
| 12 | As you will discover , I am very much a believer that we largely teach ourselves when learning new skills and that the main purpose of a book or instructor is to help clarify exactly what your aims are . |
| 13 | It 's horrid to give up a leave that you really have earned , and I 'm sorry to have to ask you . |
| 14 | I 've got a boxful that I never use . |
| 15 | At both times we see the world with a clarity that we later lose . |
| 16 | It is a book that I greatly admire , for in his own time its author succeeded in doing what I am struggling to do now . |
| 17 | Try and be positive , even though you are perhaps really with your back against a wall , in a situation that you really know that the department has done something really pretty awful . |
| 18 | People do sit down to discuss and pool ideas , but in mainstream broadcasting boundaries are more rigid between technical and conceptual areas and she misses the opportunity to use her technical skills : ‘ If you see a shot that you really like you ca n't just grab the camera and say , ‘ Oh , can I have a go . ’ |
| 19 | It is a myth that they actually motivate employees to higher performance and even more profit . |
| 20 | But more striking still is his ability to make the voice switch from aria to narration , at almost any moment , in such a way that we hardly notice it , because the orchestra takes over the melody from the singer . |
| 21 | Yeah but it 's a lot in n it for a film that you never know is gon na |
| 22 | We are what we eat has become such a cliché that we rarely stop to think about it nowadays . |
| 23 | While it is a fact that we often eat much more than we imagine we do ( try writing down everything you eat over a period of a week and prove the point ) , it is a fact that some people put on weight far more quickly than others . |
| 24 | It 's not a view that I particularly share but erm it was their view at the time . |
| 25 | The local bye-laws have diminished the flexibility of matches to such an extent that I often feel that I could write a script for them , observing the necessary theatrical unities and climaxing the set piece with a compulsory exciting denouement — a bit like and episode of Neighbours . |