Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [that] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She worked with a tenderness that only a caring woman is capable of . |
| 2 | When they reach the borders of their territory , they take a few steps with lowered hindquarters so that long grass passing between their back legs rubs against this gland and acquires a smell that even a human nose can easily detect . |
| 3 | There is a rule that normally a person is bound by his signature , Saunders v. Anglia Building Society ( 1970 H.L. ) . |
| 4 | In FI he 'll be remembered more as Mr Nice than as a great driver : he won his championship in a car that probably a half-dozen drivers would have driven equally competently and successfully , and in that one year lost the one man who could really push him to greater excellence , Ronnie Peterson . |
| 5 | With a joyousness that only a child could understand ; |
| 6 | We needed a compass bearing to ensure we headed off in the right direction , a reminder that even a ‘ valley ’ walk can land the unwary in difficulties . |
| 7 | After a long , lonely , sweat-filled stay in a small cubicle of the Grosvenor House ladies ' room , I wriggled the dress vaguely back into position and called out ‘ Help ’ in a voice that only a bat could hear . |
| 8 | It is not a message that either a Conservative or a Labour government would listen to . |
| 9 | It would be foolish to see the outcome as additional pressure , or as a thesis that only a single method should be available . |
| 10 | For example , some people define ‘ language ’ in such a way that only a system of intentional communication between conspecifics could count as language , and some regard abstract features such as syntactic structure or individuating reference to past events as necessary to ‘ language ’ . |
| 11 | The kinematics approach recognizes that the mechanism is constrained in such a way that only a prescribed motion is possible ; a mechanism that is randomly assembled and disassembled with no known input conditions is hardly a mechanism and is impossible to analyse by any method . |
| 12 | It does focus on the person in a way that perhaps a crime series does n't . |