Example sentences of "a [noun sg] that [noun prp] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pack animals were large tawny-coloured beasts of a kind that Rostov had only ever seen in illustration . |
| 2 | Came the day when a robed elder Inquisitor activated a palm-tattoo that Jaq had never seen before , and spoke to him the words : |
| 3 | Shakespeare makes the point about interpretation that modern research in theories of vision and the education of young children has confirmed — that we are all taught to see — by Iago 's prediction of the view that Othello , hidden in the normally superior position of the eavesdropper , will take of his imminent conversation with Cassio : After the scene has turned out exactly as predicted , Iago checks on his victim 's responses : The Signifier here , the handkerchief , has been made by Iago to yield a meaning which is totally false , but which he has put upon it with so much circumstantial detail — Shakespeare 's diligence in this point risks pushing his plot into the incredible — that Othello can only see it as a present that Cassio has received from Desdemona and has ‘ given … his whore ’ . |
| 4 | It 's a compliment that Rover have asked the Faringdon factory to build the new bodyshells . |
| 5 | He likes my sticky , sweaty body which smells of nectarine and baby oil and a spliff that Jo has rolled beneath a shadowy cove of eucalyptus . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's a pity that Stephen has met this girl who seems to want his every free minute or he 'd be company for you . ’ |
| 7 | It was just a pity that Luke had n't decided to ignore her as well , Maria reflected wryly . |
| 8 | The latter part of the above signal refers to a plan that Stirling had concocted with the RAF during his last brief visit to Cairo . |
| 9 | There was nothing revealing about Culley 's pause — the surprise was genuine , as if Sanchez had come straight to a point that Culley had intended to arrive at slowly . |
| 10 | It was a place that Jed had found by chance during his first few weeks in Adam 's Creek . |
| 11 | News page is a job that Meany has endeavoured to thrust upon himself with the kind of enthusiasm reserved for African Pygmies on an Easter rhino hunt . |
| 12 | Mr Kallisher told the jury : ‘ The defendant tried to raise in the minds of the police a suspicion that Julie had been dealing with drugs stolen from the hospital and perhaps her murder was connected with that , not with him . ’ |
| 13 | A desire that Tony had never evoked in her floated through her veins like liquid fire , and she found herself responding eagerly , wantonly , to his caresses . |
| 14 | There was a sound that London had . |
| 15 | 344 for 1 meant a nine-wicket victory in a match that England had thought they might win . |
| 16 | We were in the forest to try to get less deep snow , he was told ; we were going to a campsite that Odd-Knut had prepared . |
| 17 | And a card ‘ Happy Easter to My Mum ’ with a by now much bedraggled feather stuck on a drawing of , she supposed , an egg , that Clarissa had done at Nursery School ; and a hyacinth in a pot that Tom had got for Mother 's Day . |
| 18 | He had suspected for a while that Nancy had become tired of Bill Sikes ' brutality and violence , and that she had found a new friend to take his place . |
| 19 | But if the death of Hastings was a sign that Gloucester had made up his mind to take the throne , this was not yet something which could be admitted . |
| 20 | But if the death of Hastings was a sign that Gloucester had made up his mind to take the throne , this was not yet something which could be admitted . |
| 21 | I wore a suit that Mary had seen in a second-hand shop in Paris and insisted I bought so that at least I had one outfit I could put on for interviews without worrying whether it looked OK or not . |
| 22 | Via other programs , it is also possible to implement fax and modem sharing , a facility that Mainlan has in common with most other P2P network systems . |
| 23 | We are back with the problem which Eliot had considered in March 1914 when one of his seminar colleagues , Sen Gupta , had read a paper that Eliot had written dealing with the work of Lévy-Bruhl ‘ on primitive race-psychology ’ and the ‘ law of participation ’ , a paper in which it was stated that , ‘ Causality is something which can be explained away but not explained . |
| 24 | It is a debate that Porter has continued across the years . |
| 25 | One book included a comment that Hitler had a ‘ mystical appeal ’ to women , but fails to discuss why or how , and suggests that Hitler 's views on the home as women 's place seem old-fashioned to us today , something unfortunately far from the case . |
| 26 | ‘ She does n't get out much ’ , a phrase that Shirley had learned to use of her mother to forestall enquiry , impertinence , sympathy : a middle-aged phrase that she heard in her own voice as parody — indeed , she had noticed that when ‘ the family ’ gathered together all of them spoke in parodies of clichés , and some of them knew quite well that they were doing it . |
| 27 | She disappeared through a door that George had not noticed before and called over her shoulder , ‘ Take your coat off and get comfy . ’ |
| 28 | Some of the women who were followers of Jesus had returned from the tomb where Jesus had been buried , saying that it was empty , that they had been told in a vision that Jesus had risen from the dead . |
| 29 | It was a word that Masklin had only known for a year . |
| 30 | What he 's saying to us here is that that there is a reason that Jesus had been condemned and that those who had the authority to do so had carried out their work . |