Example sentences of "[adv] an [noun] that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Players do not like setting down an instrument that has just become nicely warmed up , and taking up a cold one , unless there is a very good reason for it . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly this can lead to a great deal of guilt and remorse at the thought of things left unsaid , or perhaps an argument that had taken place just before the person left the house , never to return . |
| 3 | The second main reason why handling grief is different these days is that death has become less and less an event that takes place within the confines of the family circle . |
| 4 | Only an understanding that recognizes that an irresolvable tension works within the historical schema itself will be in a position to make its contradictory claims productive . |
| 5 | The other part handles the manufacture and marketing of a very large range of ‘ effect chemicals ’ whose uses are legion : there is scarcely an industry that does not need them as intermediates to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 6 | There is scarcely an industry that has n't been affected by it ; from manufacturing through to publishing . |
| 7 | And it 's just an uncle that give them |
| 8 | We were roughly in the middle of St Christopher 's Place , which is n't a ‘ place ’ in the French sense , just an alley that cuts between Oxford and Wigmore Streets . |
| 9 | So he was interested ; it was just an interest that became less important to him . |
| 10 | It was just an instinct that came with the job . |
| 11 | By the time of his death in 1227 , Genghiz ruled over an empire that stretched from Persia across to China . |
| 12 | unemployment remains nevertheless an evil that touches all of the community . |
| 13 | Thus the death of his father is not an event that impinges on a child only at one particular point : it may go on producing shock waves through its continuing effect on the mother , which in turn may bring about a different relationship with the child ; in addition there may be economic difficulties as a result of which the mother has to go out to work , a new home has to be found , and an altogether new lifestyle adopted . |
| 14 | It was perfectly natural that Jake should marry — and , apart from how it might affect Kirsty , it was not an event that interested her in the slightest . |
| 15 | This is not an income that allows for any luxuries . |
| 16 | It 's not an ivy that clings to the wall . |
| 17 | But minimal is not an adjective that comes easily to mind when you pour over his sensuously-worked surfaces and layers of tonally-related hues . |
| 18 | Is is is is there not an element that hinges round orally to do with the |
| 19 | The purpose for which the transaction is entered into , be it to make a profit or to further some divergent managerial interest , is not an issue that arises as far as questions of authorisation are concerned . |
| 20 | Meaning is not an issue that arises for the Russian Formalists , and it is here that they differ most fundamentally from the American New Critics with whom they otherwise have so many similarities . |
| 21 | This is patently not an area that has been officially acknowledged . |
| 22 | Robert was far more interested in finding out where they stood on footwear , but this was clearly not an area that interested Ali . |
| 23 | ‘ Why could not an entity that had no extension be visible to us under the appearance of … extension ? ’ |
| 24 | Likewise , Charlie 's old school is not an entity that has the property of old-school-ness ; this is not a property of which English speakers would make frequent use , but it might be possible employ it in cases where something had the characteristic of " being a school in an old way " — perhaps with extensive use of wax tablet and stylus , and possibly a slave or two for the menial work . |
| 25 | Selling off an organisation that has n't made a profit for 40 years always looked like being the toughest possible test of the privatisers ' skills , and recent developments are not making things any easier |
| 26 | Younger sons did not at this time seek to maintain their gentility by going into the church or the army or by living off an annuity that allowed them to pass their time in respectable ease . |
| 27 | That is hardly an answer that helps Mr Major . ) |
| 28 | We now shall take up an issue that has been touched on several times before : power transformation of the scale of a variable in order to make its analysis easier . |
| 29 | One of their sections had gone hog barmy and set up an operation that turned into a shoot-out in a friendly country with an apparently innocent citizen getting killed . |
| 30 | And it has enabled the Met to build up an institution that makes the arts splendidly accessible to the general public , without it indulging in crass commercialisation . |