Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truest lover that ever bestrode a horse ? |
| 2 | A correspondent for Cornhill Magazine , who claimed that in order to gain an inside understanding of ‘ The Science of Garotting ’ he had visited an experienced convict in his cell and offered himself up as a guinea-pig victim , described the main elements of this ‘ most inclement ruffianism that ever disgraced a nineteenth century ’ . |
| 3 | One classic er case that only occurred a few years ago and it was way before bonfire night , but erm , people working from home to try and make a little bit of pin money , a young lady had taken on the task of putting sparklers into five into a little bag for a particular manufacturer . |
| 4 | He thought with pleasure of his sister 's elegant face with the skin that always had a gleam and yet was softly , darkly creamy at the same time . |
| 5 | Biological and Molecular Sciences was one of a relatively small number of University Departments in the UK to be awarded ‘ Q ’ status by NERC for Research Studentships , an award that essentially ensures a steady input of NERC-funded PhD students into the Department for the next three years . |
| 6 | True , he concealed his second and third chins beneath a grey-brown beard that only got an efficient trimming at the hands of Peccable 's eldest daughter Hoi-Polloi . |
| 7 | She sat down opposite him at the kitchen table and fixed him with the kind of look that usually preceded a full eighteen-round contest . |
| 8 | This is one of the best Basque villages , twistier than others in its layout , and the home of the red pepper , a fiery vegetable that now has an annual festival in Espelette in the autumn . |
| 9 | Where root crops are fed on the ground to cattle the rabbit has easy pickings and it remains interested and satisfied with the debris littering a field that once held a root crop . |
| 10 | Furthermore , especially when blooms are double or have many petals , it is quite likely that spent blooms will collapse into a rain-soaked soggy mess that quickly becomes a haven a breeding ground for mildew . |
| 11 | Novotna really made Seles fight in a hard-hitting battle that surely set a new decibel record ! |
| 12 | A complete contrast to this story of stability and continuity is provided by the successive owners of Balderton Hall , an Elizabethan timber-framed dwelling that still stands a mile or so to the east of Myddle village . |
| 13 | A pub that nearly has a famous name comes under the auctioneer 's hammer tomorrow . |
| 14 | It is a passage that clearly portrays an intimate similarity between the two characters , although the wife is in some telling respects the more subtle of the two , reflecting the feminine cunning that is so typical of fabliau wives . |
| 15 | [ Richard Long 's ] forms , the marks , the accidental decantations of sensitive strolls , do not possess the ‘ imperfection ’ of the natural , they are the archetypes of human sublimation that deliberately establish a certain landscape counterpoint , a kind of megalithic writing , but their elaboration is so cared for that it tends towards a dialectic not of oppositions but of alliances . |
| 16 | This experiment , by Kaye and Pearce ( 1984 ) ( see also Pearce , Kaye , and Mall 1982 ) , included a group of rats given a series of presentations of a light , a stimulus that initially evoked a behavioural OR . |
| 17 | The first was meant to unseat Digital Equipment Corp 's PDP-11 on the glow of the IBM name alone , but was sent naked into the market with no software and became the ultimate dogsbody product , a computing resource for any whim that needed one , a computer without portfolio that never found a central role . |
| 18 | Demonstrations led by the BJP at Ayodhya , a town in northern India that some Hindus celebrate as the birthplace of their god , Ram , were hijacked by a Hindu mob that then demolished a disused mosque there . |
| 19 | Lonesome Snapper Pond is the kind of place that still has a general store . |
| 20 | It was a jibe that nearly became a prophecy , though Cambridge were left with more of a one-horse race . |
| 21 | This was the sort of reaction that usually followed a burst of temper bordering on rage . |
| 22 | If you want special dishes with a difference that still have a sense of occasion and which are both tasty and good for you , then you could n't do better than choosing Tilda Basmati rice . |
| 23 | A user can only retrieve a module by quoting a package that already has a version of it as a member . |
| 24 | Life magazine featured the society in an article that also showed a number of household pets similarly garbed . |
| 25 | Then came a process which gave a product that quickly made an impact on the market — the extrusion of sheet from polymer granules . |
| 26 | All geometric and textural data are held within a part file that closely represents a dustbin , thus information can not be selectively retrieved ; a piece of an object can only be viewed by displaying the whole part file . |
| 27 | The interview analysis , a process that invariably requires a great deal of judgment on the part of the analyst , was even more difficult as a result , particularly when attempting to derive an uncontentious root definition at a later stage . |
| 28 | Hemichordates are a primitive group that probably share a common ancestor with the chordates ( including vertebrates ) . |
| 29 | Damien Amos returns to work in the Design Studio after a two year break into the music business : He plays bass guitar with a group that recently recorded an album . |
| 30 | Almost half quoted Hartley , 11 and others made correlations between O'Keeffe 's art and her body that specifically reflected an awareness of Rosenfeld 's ideas . |