Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [that] [adj] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a contest that few will take it to win . |
| 2 | At a speed that neither could match Louisa and Horrocks saw him hasten back down the lake . |
| 3 | It was a tragedy that few could bear to witness , and Winnie Bailey , in dressing-gown and wellingtons , led the redoubtable Ella away to her own house across the green . |
| 4 | Recently , Eagleton , in denying the total centrality of the class struggle , reached a point that some might claim was no longer compatible with Marxism . |
| 5 | 2 There needs to be greater attention to process in writing , though there is a danger that this can become an end in itself . |
| 6 | In role the teacher enters as a traveller to tell them that she has come from a neighbouring village , where Roman soldiers are delivering a decree that all will have to pay a new tax ; the traveller has to go on her way . |
| 7 | He will find it less easy to defend his involvement with a cricket call-line service last summer , a job that some will say kept him from his Yorkshire priority . |
| 8 | while the directors have given careful consideration to whether the company will continue to be a going concern , the directors ' statements can not be a guarantee that that will happen . |
| 9 | There was a notion that that would mean conservatism , getting rid of the minority programmes . |
| 10 | These might be intrinsic to the very temperamental make-up which itself predisposes to psychosis : here it is instructive to recall Manfred Bleuler 's description , cited earlier , of the schizoid personality , with its overtones of hard-edged indifference to others , a quality that many will recognise in the highly creative . |
| 11 | A magazine that few would praise , |
| 12 | In all three cases the effect would have been to create merged units of a size able to compete with the many powerful US , European and Japanese companies now increasingly dominating the world scene ; for example , the Leyland/Bedford trucks merger provides a scale that neither could achieve on its own . |
| 13 | But for the City , the trade unions , the civil service and the Church of England she has a dislike that some would call hatred and certainly veers regularly over into contempt . |
| 14 | He had read that acts of violence can leave their imprint on a place , a shadow that some can sense for centuries afterwards . |
| 15 | It 's a possibility that some may think that , but I ca n't believe that with the management skills training that they 've received up until , up to that level , that they can still honestly think that 's correct . |
| 16 | There is a possibility that this may cause a blockage in the intestinal tract , while raw meat can be a source of various infectious micro-organisms , such as Salmonella . |
| 17 | Unfortunately this would also allow its immediate re-use , and so there is a possibility that this would cause a different object with the same identifier to be entered into the system . |
| 18 | The groups were selected in such a way that each should contain a fairly equal proportion of aristocrats , diplomats , artists , men of letters and distinguished academics . |
| 19 | Brian , he strikes me as being a guy that that will look will do things and will probably get that yard in a good state . |