Example sentences of "a [noun] that [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had to plan a route that would take them over 50 kilometres in a three day period . |
| 2 | It 's important to choose a variety that will grow tall enough to reach the surface as you can not raise such plants on bricks . |
| 3 | Such sums may have been trivial in comparison with the financial resources at the disposal of the larger American combines , but they provided a base that could have been built on . |
| 4 | A chart that can help detect these patterns is called an ABC chart ( Gelfand and Hartman 1984 ; Herbert 1981 ) . |
| 5 | Each of the three cases will be examined for 90 per cent packed files , randomized to individual record positions and to a bucket that can hold ten records . |
| 6 | I had been given a very short time to assimilate the books of poetry and to write the review : a time-limit that would have been almost impossible for me to meet today , so much more sluggish has my mind become ; but I felt that if Eliot thought I could do the job , it was doubtless within my capacity . |
| 7 | But add to that a recession that can cut turnover in half and it 's no wonder that designers are becoming more commercially minded . |
| 8 | Colleagues and I recently reported a case that may point to a possible adjunct to treatment for these patients . |
| 9 | It seems that this is a case that will stand or fall on its own particular facts . |
| 10 | In the educational sphere Japanese rule aimed to achieve a level that would improve literacy but which would keep the Korean people in a subordinate position . |
| 11 | The absence of a rebound internal anal sphincter response after deflation of the rectal balloon in all patients with a spinal transection at a level that would involve the sympathetic outflow would support interruption of sympathetic reflexes conveyed through the spinal cord . |
| 12 | Here , listeners were acting in a highly focused , not to say impulsive , fashion , and they were not carrying out analysis of the message at a level that would produce success . |
| 13 | She was a very tall and very fair and dazzlingly beautiful creature whose skin was goose-pimpled under the impact of McIllvanney 's air conditioning which was set to a level that might have made a penguin shiver . |
| 14 | Professor James Duguid , former professor of microbiology at Dundee University , said yesterday that if salmonella is found in swabs taken from the hen house or in the chickens , it does not follow that the eggs are infected to a level that can cause food poisoning . |
| 15 | Tests in Malaysia , the Philippines and India have found bacteria counts over 10 times the safety standard — a level that could lead to vaginal infections in some sanitary towels . |
| 16 | So came into existence the ‘ Harborough Arm ’ a branch that should have been a main line . |
| 17 | You may , with any redundancy pay you 've got , have a cushion that will see you through several months . |
| 18 | She nonchalantly waved a hand in a direction that might have included any tent in the camp . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | Eventually , I contemplated myself into making a decision that would build another pond on part of my patio . |
| 21 | Well we were led to believe that the concessions given to company cars would go , or would go in part in the White Paper , and we were led to believe that they would er make a decision that would say that the gas-guzzling , the higher expenditure cars would be penalized in terms of vehicle excise licence , road tax , compared to the small ones , and yet they 've gone back even from that . |
| 22 | It is a decision that may require continual revision . |
| 23 | It is a decision that could cost £500,000 in lost gate receipts . |
| 24 | WILLEM GERHARDUS HILLS filled his lungs with Yorkshire night air , raised his tracksuit collar against the biting cold and announced a decision that could change his life . |
| 25 | She hesitated , conscious that she was being required to take a decision that must change the whole course of her life . |
| 26 | I do n't want to make a decision that will affect my whole life while I 'm still — intoxicated . ’ |
| 27 | and Ruth says I commit myself to him , he will now be my god , and therefore your people will be my people , your home will be my home , your destiny will be my destiny the way is clear , she makes that greatest decision of her life , a decision that will affect the whole of her life but its not as say a life decision is a commitment now , we , we , we are always confronted , day after day we are confronted to make decisions , some of you make decisions and were not too committed about them , and if things alter they will change our minds , not just a ladies prerogative to change her mind , men do it as well and things happen and we think oh no well , I wo n't go through with that I 'll change my mind before its too late , but here Ruth she is not just making a decision , she is making a total commitment , a commitment that is worth time of the whole of her life , to promised to be loyal to de to Naomi and her deceased husband , she promises loyalty to Naomi 's race and the people of god , but above all she acknowledge 's Naomi 's god and her willingness to follow him to the end , you know this , how she finishes of this commitment where you die I will die its to the end its to the end of my life , I will not walk out of it and even after you 've gone mother in law , even after you are dead I am still committed to that decision , this decision I am making today where you die I will die , there I will be buried , and here she sorts of puts this solemn vow to this commitment , thus may the lord to do me and worse if any thing but death parts you and me . |
| 28 | Today we 'll be talking about the big budget decision of yesterday , when the Oxfordshire County Council met to agree on a budget that will affect all of us here , especially people in the education services and the social services . |
| 29 | On May 10th he unveiled a budget that will pluck an extra FFr68 billion ( $12.8 billion ) a year . |
| 30 | A catalyst that could convert methane to methanol or larger unsaturated hydrocarbons directly and at low temperatures would be of enormous commercial interest . |