Example sentences of "a [noun sg] that [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was It seems a kind of I mean it seems to have gone on quite a bit that people who had a Co book would allow other people to draw off of that , would go to the shops and buy whatever they needed of the Co book . |
| 2 | ‘ My father used to tell a story that shows what I mean . |
| 3 | However , there is a danger that parents who can not raise their children appropriately , or find a job , or provide sufficient income to support their family , or whose children engage in delinquent activities , are seen as having some form of personal failing or character weakness . |
| 4 | You drive along a narrow , twisting road half-way up a mountain of rocks and boulders , supporting nothing but scrub and heather plus a few of the tougher and more foolhardy breed of sheep , round a bend and then , suddenly , you look down and there is the valley , with its winding river , fertile fields , a village tucked away at one end , and a verdancy that knocks you for six with its lushness . |
| 5 | But it needs to be said that it is not a belief that Richards himself takes for granted . |
| 6 | But , if you want to be a success that s what you have to do . |
| 7 | The quickness with which smut has reappeared has been a sobering experience for many agriculturalists and serves as a warning that problems which have apparently disappeared may still lie just below the surface . |
| 8 | The Garda Crime Prevention Officer in Letterkenny has issued a warning that items which could be used in the celebration of a ‘ Black Mass ’ had been discovered . |
| 9 | On your behalf they can approach other potential participants , negotiate a common format and basis for the figures , collect and collate the information , and send it out again in a form that disguises which figures belong to which company . |
| 10 | There is even a suggestion that rewards which are routine and expected may be more motivating that the ones given only for extra special effort . |
| 11 | ‘ This should be a lesson that drivers who carry burglars will carry the can . ’ |
| 12 | There is also a fairground that houses what must be some of the worst rides in Europe . |
| 13 | It has a history that limits what the characters and the author can do with words . |
| 14 | The questionnaire was therefore designed in such a way that teachers who had not seen the Solihull booklet would not complete part one . |
| 15 | The managers might behave in a way that benefits themselves and does not maximize shareholders ' wealth . |
| 16 | The English mystics , like their European contemporaries , did foreshadow these changes , but not in a way that people who are familiar with more well-known fourteenth century English literature might expect . |
| 17 | These beginnings , or prefixes , are checked against a lexicon , which is constructed in such a way that prefixes which will not produce legal words can be identified and pruned from the list . |
| 18 | She now has clean water from a pump that Mohali her health advisor , helped the village to organise and build . |
| 19 | Erm I know for a fact that Peter who who 's the supervisor erm is a staunch Labourite and er union man , same as Geoff but neither of them push it . |