Example sentences of "a [noun] that [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | M M My Lords , i it is important that whatever is taught to a child between the ages of five and eleven that the child is able to benefit from it educationally if the child is , is overloaded as it were by being presented erm a curriculum that they simply can not manage , then that 's going to create confusion , but it 's also important to say that one of the erm er objectives of this whole exercise is to underpin all education , both morally and spiritually and I believe we 're doing a great deal to get that right . |
| 2 | Britain has set the European Community on a course that I wholly applaud — an ever closer union of nation states . |
| 3 | His secretary had been out to lunch , and he had been going through the files stored on the disk she was currently using , looking for a copy of a contract that he urgently needed to check . |
| 4 | Glass credits her with raising the general level of musicianship in the United States and the debt he owes to her tyranny is ‘ a sense of style , accomplishment and a technique that I simply did n't have before . ’ |
| 5 | We say that he has done enough damage in bringing about the birth of this child , in giving him a father who does not know he is his father , a mother who is so ice-cold a scientist that she willingly abandons her own child to the researcher in the laboratory , where he will inevitably be regarded in the same light as any other laboratory animal . |
| 6 | There is a story that someone once shot a piece out of a glass of beer he had left behind the target , leaving the rest of the glass and the beer intact . |
| 7 | He opened the window a crack , but the wind made such a noise that he immediately closed it again . |
| 8 | Conversely , we sometimes do things with a horse that we intellectually reason should be all right , and it is n't ! |
| 9 | This fear derives more from a recognition that they often lack the additional personal qualities which they see as necessary for certain types of work , which is why most policemen are reluctant to deal with rape victims or to undertake community and neighbourhood policing . |
| 10 | And I 'll volunteer suggested in for me in the paper as a criterion that it also ideally should in my opinion have a the potential for railway connection given the thrust of policy a decade two decades ahead of us . |
| 11 | He might try to justify the principle by appealing to logic , a recourse that we freely grant him , or he might attempt to justify the principle by appealing to experience , a recourse that lies at the basis of his whole approach to science . |
| 12 | Individuals who could be held responsible for the negligence in question ( for example , if it were an audit , those who were in charge of it , and perhaps the head of the audit function in the firm , and even its managing director ) might still be sued individually ( managing partners may feel as a result that they personally would have little to gain from incorporation ) . |
| 13 | You would stutter a reply that you just wanted to read some news today . |
| 14 | It was , however , a totally new experience for her to be accused of a crime that she definitely had not committed . |
| 15 | I think I am only saying that anyone who has followed the history of this controversy over the last twenty years will already see reason to think that the friction produced by quarrelling among good causes is enormous and it is a luxury that we simply can not afford . |
| 16 | It often emerges from the answer to such a question that there really is no argument . |
| 17 | He liked the look of the aircraft and at that time it was a type that nobody else was flying in the UK . |
| 18 | Well I think I , I mean I do agree and I think that the that er that pressure is now getting on to these , these city institutions , but erm , but I still come back to the basic thing that , that really , you know what appears to me is happening is we 've we 're having literally millions of pounds taken out in , in issuing these massive massive writs you know , a hundred and seventy eight page writs are sort of being and really the money for those is coming out of the remaining money in our pension funds and really I feel that what wou what is happening is this , as far as I 'm concerned , is all due to the self-regulatory body being set under the Financial Services Act , and in a way I feel that you know we 're being made to pay for sorting out a mess that somebody else is making . |
| 19 | When it was revealed that the 14 candidates polling the least votes and thus threatened with exclusion from the central committee included such notables as Abalkin , Shevardnadze , Ryzhkov , Defence Minister Dmitry Yazov and CPSU international department head Valentin Falin , Gorbachev intervened with a proposal that they too should be deemed elected by virtue of having won a legitimate majority , this being accepted by the congress . |
| 20 | Well I make a proposal that we also give them notice that at the end of this year , we will not be prepared to continue the lease on the current licence . |
| 21 | DIGI DUB serve up a welcome listen of techno ragga , electro and dub , blending them to such a degree that they still remain hard to categorise , dealing in each style with equal authority and adeptness throughout and as inventive as anything you 'll find plagiarising these genres . |
| 22 | In age-set societies , the changes in status involved in getting older are institutionalised to such a degree that they often constitute the very basis of political organisation . |
| 23 | Sometimes composers decorate their music to such a degree that it almost seems to be the main substance of the music . |
| 24 | It is a shame that our up and coming indie bands who I may also add do play proper live music ( TEN TON WEIGHT-STYLE KERSPLAT ! ) |
| 25 | It 's a shame that someone as obviously capable of expressing himself as you is given to such bursts of undisguised racism and ignorance . |
| 26 | ‘ I want to find a job that I really love . ’ |
| 27 | Made from solid steel with a porcelain-enamelled finish , it has detachable legs and a vent that you close to extinguish the briquettes or charcoal . |
| 28 | But if it is to serve as the platform for a conclusion that something else and qualitatively different is required , something to place authority , at least in part , for the conduct of a business owned by others in the hands of employees , then by itself the statement is not strong enough to bear the weight of the proposition . |
| 29 | Well if they can afford to buy in help and to sort their life out , you 've suddenly got a product that they really want to buy . |
| 30 | There is never a situation in which there is simultaneously a demand from a marketplace which requires replacement sales of a commodity that it already has , as well as the basic growth which occurred as household after household abandoned gas and moved into the new form of lighting . |