Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] that have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , on 15th June 1094 , the city gave itself up totally to Rodrigo after a siege that had lasted nineteen months . |
| 2 | KIM BAILEY and jockey Anthony Tory yesterday ‘ mutually agreed ’ to part after a partnership that had lasted nearly five years . |
| 3 | Somehow it was helping , this inevitable back-stabbing repartee when two lovers met after an affair that had left a pool of acid where fond memories should have rested . |
| 4 | Two of Elizabeth 's Attorneys , John Price and Thomas Atkins , were certainly guilty of abusing justice : Price forged those parts of a document that had been eaten by mice and Atkins took bribes from men charged before the Council . |
| 5 | Phil complained , mourning the ending of a conversation that had begun to interest him . |
| 6 | In total about twenty-six copper coins were recovered from this section , which is quite a lot from just one part of a field that had no habitation on it . |
| 7 | The Tunnel was the British version of a film that had already been made in France and Germany , about a crazed engineer who sacrifices his family in order to complete the construction of a link between Britain and America . |
| 8 | Some people may suggest that the absence of Ireland 's top three drivers might actually be a good thing for Cork , making it a much more competitive event , but it will do little to improve the profile of a rally that has been losing ground for the past few years . |
| 9 | Of course the ‘ big three ’ are only the tip of the iceberg — there are dozens more brilliant routes at the Roaches , including one classic of a style that had been left unrepresented by our day out . |
| 10 | The smooth pillars which support it in the centre have capitals of a style that has made some art historians suppose that they may originally have come from the Roman villa or palace presumed to have existed on this site in the fourth century . |
| 11 | It has to fend for itself , out of a budget that has just about risen with inflation in recent years . |
| 12 | ‘ Well ? ’ said William , when they 'd seen it all and adjourned to the pub opposite the station , an old waiting room of a pub that had not yet been converted into a wine bar or a theme park and was consequently empty . |
| 13 | They should also be of a type that has simple and quickly altered bridle trimming . |
| 14 | In a memorable analogy the black African nationalist ( and socialist ) leader Leopold Senghor had said that the French Union must not be built like a cage that no one would care to enter ; but in the Ho-Sainteny agreement the Vietminh were in effect being asked to take up the tenancy of a building that had not yet been constructed . |
| 15 | For all the show of outward appearances of being a couple however , perhaps there was no deep abiding love and the one left behind hangs onto a myth of a union that had ceased to exist many years ago . |
| 16 | The movements illustrated on the right are those of a bird that has learned that its food is spaced out . |
| 17 | In order to make sense of a self that has ‘ survived ’ both discourses of colonialism it would seem that Bhimji 's strategy has been one of intense resourcefulness , gathering in herself and her experiences . |
| 18 | We 're not talking of rounding , we 're just talking of a function that 's made up . |
| 19 | Molly Fletcher had been a pretty girl , but she had the faded air of a flower that has been transplanted into the wrong soil . |
| 20 | Not only is the external labour market segmented by sex , but the skills remain marketable in spite of a recession that has reduced local opportunities for the semi-skilled . |
| 21 | Any suggestion of a smile that had hovered around his mouth instantly disappeared . |
| 22 | It was not so much the death of a sheep that had shocked her . |
| 23 | So these things came to an end , I recall that on one occasion I was offered the eye of a sheep that had been cooked on a vast platter . |
| 24 | Although a number of writers suggest that a full-track bucket is always too large , they are talking of a bucket that has to be transferred as a whole into and out of main storage . |
| 25 | A senior academic was arrested ‘ for carrying unsigned tracts ’ of a kind that had been circulating throughout the city for a month . |
| 26 | Filled with shock of a kind that had not been with him since the actor-manager 's first refusal , Paul took himself out into the snow . |
| 27 | There was clearly some basis here for irredentist disputes of a kind that had become familiar in interwar Europe . |
| 28 | The issues at stake could hardly have been greater , and they concerned the other members of the world community just as much as they concerned the USSR : for it was not only in the USSR that an answer was being sought to the question as to whether there could be a ‘ third way ’ — a socialism that ensured a decent and equitable living for all its members and yet avoided monopolistic concentrations of power of a kind that had led to political repression in the USSR and other communist-ruled nations . |
| 29 | According to the outgoing editor , Mr Peter Stanford , she also has glamour of a kind that has rarely been seen in the paper 's musty offices . |
| 30 | A fierce solidarity was forged of a kind that has become archaic in the west . |