Example sentences of "a [noun] [that] [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the highest of them all , Elbrus , has a route that would be accessible to many a mountaineer with only one of two alpine seasons behind him ; a route that demands no real technical expertise , but an ability to adapt to altitude , and a fair degree of stamina . |
| 2 | With other organic fuels the problem is to reduce the quantity of tar in the final gas to a level that can be dealt with by a cleaning system . |
| 3 | ICL Plc has applied to register a subsidiary in Slovenia , a formality that should be completed in the next few weeks , and despite renewed conflict in Croatia , the company says it is still ‘ business as usual ’ . |
| 4 | The right hon. Gentleman said that the rates were the most unjust form of local taxation , yet under Labour we would have a revaluation that would be carried out on an arbitrary basis such as the market price ; the rebuilding cost ; the maintenance and repair cost ; the private rent value ; the number of windows , the size of the roof , or the view from the property . |
| 5 | This was a decision that would be taken after a climactic battlefield disaster but in the meantime two alternatives were to hand . |
| 6 | Chapman told them it was not a decision that could be made by the club . |
| 7 | In the final analysis you will have to make a decision that should be based on the most objective assessment you can make but relying to a certain extent on your own instinct and intuition . |
| 8 | It is a decision that should be made in the light of medical advice and counselling . |
| 9 | And , in a sentence that should be inscribed in pokerwork and hung above Hussey 's bed : ‘ The constant stress on the visual which infects television production largely undermines any pretension the medium has to be a vehicle for discussion of serious ideas . ’ |
| 10 | Here in Mixed Life , a text that must be seen in relation to Scale 1 and Scale 2 , Hilton adumbrates the same progress in chapter fourteen : Following Augustinian theology , he locates the very essence of Christian life in the continual sustained desire for God — the only way in this life to perceive the nature of the love which joins God and man 's soul . |
| 11 | Adult classes , in fact , require exceptionally good teaching , of a kind that may be remote from the professional ideals of many presentday academics . |
| 12 | The pupils probed the boundaries of accepted behaviour , trading the acceptance of a physical rebuke for the freedom to enjoy verbal skirmishing of a kind that would be generally unacceptable in school . |
| 13 | This is linked in her book to schools of intellectual speculation , both medieval and modern , of a kind that will be further discussed later in this chapter . |
| 14 | I would n't advocate a university that would be cut off from society . |
| 15 | Penn , Topham , Burgess and Benezek were asked to deal with any proposals that might be made to the committee regarding a building that would be suitable as a hospital , and Messrs Shepperson and Reynolds of Oxford Street were appointed ( for what immediate purpose is not clear ) booksellers and stationers to the institution . |
| 16 | Let me turn now to another way in which the BBC is responding to viewers ' and listeners ' needs in the current broadcasting environment — and a response that may be increasingly difficult for those facing commercial pressures to match . |
| 17 | Closing the claw pulls the discs apart with a click that can be heard over a kilometre away . |
| 18 | Kuhn insists that there is more to a paradigm that can be explicitly laid down in the form of explicit rules and directions . |
| 19 | We can regard his clear statement as a hypothesis that can be empirically tested ( and not a ‘ tenuous abstraction ’ , as Lass , 1980 : 121 , views it ) , and our own investigation ( as reported so far ) as empirical testing of his claim . |
| 20 | They are a rather different animal , as far as the sorts of applications are concerned , from single chip microcomputers — a single integrated circuit that has all the features , including the processor , of a computer that can be made very cheaply and embodied particularly in things like low cost domestic goods . |
| 21 | In the case of electromagnetism and gravity , the interactions are also long-range , which means that the fields produced by a large number of matter particles can all add up to give a field that can be detected on a macroscopic scale . |
| 22 | If there was a contract that might be finished , or brought to a stage payment , by mid-September , he bent heaven and hell to achieve it , even to the extent of moving men from longer-term contracts . |
| 23 | In seeking to develop a technique that would be compatible with the findings of modern physics , she demonstrates the relevance of even the most abstract of concepts to our understanding of ourselves and our relation to others through language . |
| 24 | The point my modern Tory rebel was making was a different one : that a government with a majority that could be eradicated if 11 of its MPs vote with the other side , or 22 abstain , does well to sound out its own supporters before going too far down a controversial road . |
| 25 | In 1708 Godolphin hoped to obtain " a Parliament for the Court , a Parliament that may be guided " but the public reaction to the Jacobite invasion scare of that year produced " the most Wig Parliament … since the revolution " . |
| 26 | In this and the next two chapters I develop , largely through case study material , a framework that can be used which employs place as a central concept in geographical analysis . |
| 27 | Boxing and Las Vegas , joined in very unholy matrimony , are waiting with bated breath and heavily baited betting slips for the outcome of a fight that can be almost relied upon to restore some credibility to the heavyweight division . |
| 28 | In fact , he is not a great motivator through the actual force of his personality , and if I had to name a weakness that would be it . |
| 29 | ‘ It seems she does ; you would n't persist in a story that will be disproved as soon as I meet Mr and Mrs Smith , but I do n't believe you 're identical twins . |
| 30 | That is , it is about works of a genre that can be identified as equivalent to the fabliau in French or in Anglo-Norman . |