Example sentences of "[adv prt] a [noun] that [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A MAJOR talking point after the Second Division promotion clash was why Sheffield referee John Key turned down a goal that would have shattered Middlesbrough 's unbeaten home League record . |
| 2 | Barnes has fired up a powerful B side and told them : ‘ We are going to set down a performance that will make the selectors take notice . |
| 3 | They were beginning to lay down a sound that would later become synonymous with The Wedding Present , but it missed the energy of what would come later . |
| 4 | He suggested that the jury should bring in a decision that would mean that ‘ in future , parents and doctors could make decisions on this awful problem without unidentified informers rushing off to the police . ’ |
| 5 | I am worried that , instead , we shall be handing over a barrage that will do little apart from create what is hoped to be an aesthetically pleasing impounded area of water . |
| 6 | I am standing with Joe , a round the world Australian , beneath eucalyptus trees , looking over a landscape that can be read like a Breughel . |
| 7 | Being upset about Timothy Gedge had made her tired , but she was glad she 'd been upset , for at least it made sense , not like moping over a baby that could n't be born . |
| 8 | By storing up a few milliseconds worth of message and then pumping it out in a splurge , several digital phones can operate over a channel that would accommodate only a single analogue one : they merely send out their bursts at different times . |
| 9 | The concession served to fend off a ban that might have been imposed under a private member 's Bill . |
| 10 | Whatever , it was there , waiting , waiting , waiting — for one ingredient to complete it , to set off a reaction that might never stop . |
| 11 | In August Najibullah claimed that the PDPA would even countenance ‘ settling up a government that would include representatives of the political forces now outside the country , but who sincerely want to participate in the nationwide process of building a new Afghanistan ’ . |
| 12 | While men have been destroying life , women have been building up a system that will diminish suffering and save life . |
| 13 | She waited for three rings , but she knew that Hugh would n't pick up a machine that might buzz and shout ‘ Pronto ! ’ at him . |
| 14 | What Teller hopes the West will do will be to develop its inter-dependence , eradicate secrecy between its constituent parts so the defence and the knowledge thereto is shared , and behind its nuclear shield build up a society that will prove the point about the superiority of its system . |
| 15 | Within the next year , a new more powerful launcher may take up a craft that will hover 36000 km above the Equator . |
| 16 | In view of the evasive comments he later made on this latter episode ( Canon Demant tells of his being pressed by some German students and saying that he was the last person to be able to answer them ) , I believe that he had experienced a moment of horrifying self-revelation ‘ of all that he had done and been ’ and thought , which had opened up a wound that could not heal . |
| 17 | Before looking further at the way this assumption was developed , it would be useful to clear up a confusion that may arise in the use of the category ‘ positivist criminology ’ . |
| 18 | The general consensus was that the Scottish Selectors were at fault in putting up a team that could n't beat half-decent third-raters . |
| 19 | The next stage is for the UN secretary-general on May 18th to say how he proposes to set up a commission that will , in the 45 days after that , develop a plan for inspecting and destroying these weapons . |
| 20 | This theme has been clouded by different and even contradictory ideas , such as a stimulus package and an investment tax-credit to pep up an economy that will probably grow by 3% this year . |
| 21 | The unit , whose vice president of technology sales is Chet Silvestri , a recent emigre from Mips Technologies Inc , is setting up an infrastructure that will eventually be able to offer customers early access to Sun 's future microprocessor technology : the specifications , chip development and first tape-outs . |
| 22 | The unit , whose vice-president of technology sales is Chet Silvestri , a recent emigre from MIPS Technologies Inc , is setting up an infrastructure that will eventually be able to offer customers early access to Sun 's future microprocessor technology : the specifications , chip development and first tape-outs . |
| 23 | The headmistress let out a yell that must have rattled every window-pane in the building and for the second time in the last five minutes she shot out of her chair like a rocket . |
| 24 | In May of this year , we were pressed by Amnesty International and other refugee groups to speed up the process of determination , and the Bill before the House , which will be debated next week , sets out a scheme that will allow determination to be decided within a period of three months . |
| 25 | David Dorn checks out a package that might prevent that from ever happening again ! |
| 26 | For Allison was simply recording Wright 's 26th goal of the season , and not writing out a booking that would have put the £2.5 million England star over 21 disciplinary points and a Wembley semi-final ban . |
| 27 | What one has to do is to dig out a rectangle that will enclose the length and breadth of the pool and the greatest depth ( Fig 2a ) . |
| 28 | The two sides , however , did instruct their negotiators at Geneva to ‘ work out an agreement that would commit the sides to observe the ABM treaty , as signed in 1972 ’ , and to devise measures which would help to ‘ ensure a predictability in the development of the US-Soviet strategic relationship under conditions of strategic stability , to reduce the risk of nuclear war ’ . |
| 29 | And Jay was pacing her attic , bars tightening and cracking around a heart that would not stop hurting ; she could not lay her body down though it screamed for rest and knots of fury made her neck and shoulders a steely hunch like a vulture . |
| 30 | Maybe this is fate testing you , offering you a litmus test , an apparently simple way round a problem that will prove you , find you out . |