Example sentences of "an [noun] that [vb past] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was partly the result of an upbringing that had instilled in him the belief that it was wrong to say unkind things about people behind their backs ; indeed , a lack of verbal malice , and a determination to try always to see the best in people , is one of his qualities . |
| 2 | Because Miguel , in the same incident , has been bitten but not seriously injured , Sarah tries to save him by cutting off his infected arm with a machete — an effect that failed to work with the first model , until an assistant of Savini 's used a spare rubber arm with the cut prefilled with wax . |
| 3 | He walked another half-mile until he reached an archway that had chiselled in the stone above it : KINGS COLLEGE . |
| 4 | Objectivity Inc , Menlo Park , California , said it closed its third round of financing last week , an exercise that got started in January . |
| 5 | It , and two cut-down companion panels in the Capilla Real , Granada , were thought to be originals by van der Weyden of an altarpiece that had belonged to Queen Isabella of Spain , while another version , in the Gemäldegalerie , Berlin , was dismissed as a workshop copy . |
| 6 | After joining the AIB in July 1955 and doing my first investigation on an Auster that had ditched in the Bristol Channel in August of that year , I was sent out to Tripoli , Libya in September 1955 to assist Penny Garnons-Williams ( known to many in the aviation industry as Garney Bill ) to investigate an accident to a BOAC Argonaut that had crashed at Castel Benito in a sand storm . |
| 7 | However , in this instance , the notice had been sent to an address that had ceased to be the debtor 's business address and was not his usual or last known place of residence . |
| 8 | It has been said that at the court of Poitiers " the gilded youth of Poitou and Aquitaine breathed an air that seemed to belong to some tale of chivalry " . |
| 9 | It was an affectation that had developed over the years . |
| 10 | An America that stopped trying to ‘ solve ’ the conflict could still try to keep it manageable : by promoting arms control , say , or making Israel treat the Palestinians more gently . |