Example sentences of "an [noun sg] that be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , since there is no limit to the number of hypotheses that can fit a given body of data , what reason have we to suppose that we are capable of producing , and finding plausible , an hypothesis that is on the right lines ? |
| 2 | He kissed her with an expertise that was outside her experience , with a knowledge that was never learned from any book , and , much to her surprise , she felt a stab of jealousy for all those other women who must have stood as she stood now , arms round his strong frame , mouth ravaged by his skill . |
| 3 | ‘ When we discussed the new season with the League there arose an opportunity that was of advantage to all of us . |
| 4 | An analogy that is worth considering is that of a landlord and tenant relationship . |
| 5 | Working in an industry that is in decline in an area where alternative employment is scarce makes job loss and consequent financial difficulty increasingly probable . |
| 6 | Threats nudge an act that were without doubt |
| 7 | The question is to be answered later in the story ; the title creates an enigma that is to be solved . |
| 8 | The members of the tribunal should not have any other personal interest in the proceedings ( though on an exchange that is of its nature run by practitioners , this requirement may not be treated as strictly as it would in an ordinary law court ) . |
| 9 | Like the FAOR Field Trial ( Chapt 10 ) it took place in an establishment that was under the control of a Social Services Department . |
| 10 | In other words , the overall management of an organisation that is in many ways similar to a small hotel or guest house , where most of the guests are extremely frail elderly people . |
| 11 | Animation Works Interactive ( AWI ) uses the number crunching and logic abilities of PCs to make animation an art that is within the reach of even the least artistic amongst us , almost a science , in fact . |
| 12 | It feels the unit would be better off in a company willing to invest in and grow that line of business — it says it does not have the resources to devote to an operation that is outside its core business . |
| 13 | They made love a third time before falling into an exhaustion that was beyond pleasure , their naked bodies sprawled together , arms and legs tangled , and when they woke up late the next day Damian made love to her again until her eyes closed and she shuddered in hot delirium against him . |
| 14 | I stopped for a bite at an eating-place that was in a huge hove-bubble , drifting slowly about the roof-tops along one of the main spiral streets intersecting the city centre . |
| 15 | A priori then , it would seem that Ho Chi Minh and his government were only to be regarded as an extension of Soviet power ; an assumption that was to be reinforced by the second constraint which originated in the Department of State . |
| 16 | Acid plus an alkali that 's about the easiest one . |
| 17 | The room fell silent , and from his great height he gazed over the room with that familiar expression he put on when being headmasterly — an expression that was at once dyspeptic yet predatory ( for were they not , after all , his prey ? ) . |