Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] that has " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It has to fend for itself , out of a budget that has just about risen with inflation in recent years . |
| 4 | They should also be of a type that has simple and quickly altered bridle trimming . |
| 5 | The movements illustrated on the right are those of a bird that has learned that its food is spaced out . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Molly Fletcher had been a pretty girl , but she had the faded air of a flower that has been transplanted into the wrong soil . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A fierce solidarity was forged of a kind that has become archaic in the west . |
| 12 | Brideshead , too , is an exercise in passionate nostalgia , and of a kind that has sometimes been held to be embarrassing , since it celebrates the dying life of a great country house , though such critical embarrassments may be more ritual than real . |
| 13 | The real danger today is not of being seen to condone precipitate separatism but , through the impotence of our response so far , of being seen to condone brutal and barbaric behaviour of a kind that has not been seen in Europe since the 1940s . |
| 14 | THE French market bid a cheery au revoir to Edith Cresson , glad to see the back of a government that has been the source of much uncertainty , even outright damage , for the Paris market . |
| 15 | Such regulations can have a material impact on the performance of these industries and it surely can not be accepted that audit reports be presented to the Secretary of State of a government that has imposed them . |
| 16 | what international law requires of a State that has violated international law , that is the obligations of the guilty State ; |
| 17 | If we recognise that background , however , we must also recognise the reality , and the enormity , of what has happended in Croatia — and recognise that the great majority of acts of wanton wickedness have been perpetrated by the forces of a state that has , by all normal criteria , forfeited its right to be recognised as a sovereign independent nation . |
| 18 | Bore-hole water rarely contains a large quantity of suspended solids , but , if it contains iron or manganese in solution , the removal of these entails the production of a precipitate that has to be removed by methods similar to those given above . |
| 19 | One of its most powerful adversaries is Fredric Jameson who suggests postmodernism is ‘ an alarming and pathological symptom of a society that has become incapable of dealing with time and history ’ ( in Foster 1983 : 117 ) . |
| 20 | They are unhappy with the idea of a Universe that has not existed infinitely looking much the same as it does today — the same consideration which fuelled the Steady State Theory . |
| 21 | Though Xorandor resigns himself to his fate , he tells the children a secret : he has not in fact come from Mars at all but is a member of a race that has been living on Earth for millions of years , communicating over vast distances through radio pulses in binary code . |
| 22 | The big picture on the right shows how easy it is to slip a thumbnail into the torn leather of a ball that has become worn naturally . |
| 23 | In his letter to shareholders Alan Sugar paints a bleak picture of a company that has lost its way by becoming too big . |
| 24 | Such ambiguities only add to the difficulties of a plan that has still to win the approval of the Bosnian Serbs . |
| 25 | Privately , New York dealers say the Ikeda Gallery is loading works purchased by Japanese investors and dealers back into the U.S. market , part of a trend that has been observed for a year now . |
| 26 | In the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea , we are part of a consortium that has a 20% interest in the Azeri field , where about 1.8 billion barrels of recoverable oil are thought to exist . |
| 27 | Staff involved in scandals are nearly always the victims , too , of a system that has failed to recognize the needs of both users and providers . |
| 28 | It is the heart of a system that has helped revitalise Mantes and push it to the forefront of Europe 's high technology film manufacturers . |
| 29 | AS YOU might expect of a nation that has devoted the past three and a half centuries to failed attempts at independence , Ukrainian leaders have a propensity for messing things up when it matters most . |
| 30 | Johnson 's commentary upon this tale airs his willingness to take in everything and give it back out again : ‘ Narrations like this , however uncertain , deserve the notice of the traveller , because they are the only records of a nation that has no historians , and afford the most genuine representation of the life and character of the ancient Highlanders . ’ |