Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] that [verb] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | It makes for a pleasant evening that reminds us once again of the slimline precision of Coward 's comic dialogue and his habit of rendering heterosexual love in terms of recriminatory bickering . |
| 2 | It was the night the boil finally burst open and the pus of it turned into a reeking torrent that swept us apart . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , if I 'm a peeping Tom that makes us about even , would n't you say ? ’ |
| 4 | We may now represent the mental capacities of the cerebral hemispheres of an advanced organism in a simple model that gets us far closer to the condition of our own species ( Fig. 2. i ) . |
| 5 | Newcastle manager Keegan admitted : ‘ We created a lot of chances but it has to be said that it was a dubious penalty that gave us a goal . |
| 6 | Sorry , this is pretty mind-blowing , but he has got himself into difficulties because he things that beauty is not , so to speak , a logical construction that allows us to talk about particular objects in the world , he thinks it is itself a sort of spiritual thing . |
| 7 | But he has got himself into difficulties because he thinks that beauty is not , so to speak , a logical construction that allows us to talk about particular objects in the world . |
| 8 | Unlike the singer-songwriter creed , attention is always drawn away from the song to the figure of the person working at it : there 's a flagrant exhibitionism that forces us into the role of voyeur . |
| 9 | We had grown together not just in terms of affection but in our attitudes , in our views on personal dignity and in a mutual trust that helped us deal with the curious life we now shared . |
| 10 | This is a convenient fiction that allows us to carry out research on non-human species , but it is by no means clear that it is true . |
| 11 | I returned to the toll office , got our money refunded plus a signed waiver that allowed us seven days to return to St Michael without having to pay on the Austrian roads . |
| 12 | Because of the potential importance of the association , as well as to overcome methodological limitations of the original study , we analysed data from a prospective study that allowed us to assess the association between dental disease and coronary heart disease . |
| 13 | The acquisition of a skill is a tortuous process that takes us through the following sequence : |