Example sentences of "a [noun] that [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was always as a unity that Ramsay approached a composition . |
| 2 | Andrew 's job as a Royal Navy helicopter pilot , based in Somerset , meant they spent just 100 days together in their first year and it was a parting that Fergie felt particularly keenly . |
| 3 | Theology began to take a direction that Pius XII found uncomfortable . |
| 4 | In June 1945 the Circuit Stewards expressed a hope that Edenderry might soon become financially self-supporting . |
| 5 | In 1847 Richard Sheepshanks wrote of John Couch Adams , a Cambridge mathematician who had just predicted the new planet Neptune : ‘ I think there is a hope that Mr Adams will continue his astronomical career . |
| 6 | The company scrapped an original plan to use Motorola 's 88000 RISC part back in 1989 in favour of the 80860 , a decision that Stratus may now be regretting . |
| 7 | And we 've got to pick up a mare that Ibn Fayoud 's bought out there . |
| 8 | They were still interested in patterns rather than processes , although the patterns they were now discussing were of a kind that Darwin would be able to explain . |
| 9 | I am simply denying that God ( whatever we may mean by God ) could be of such a kind that God could intervene in human history , or be revealed through particular events in history , or through a particular person , in a way in which God is not potentially present to us in and through all acts and persons . |
| 10 | The pack animals were large tawny-coloured beasts of a kind that Rostov had only ever seen in illustration . |
| 11 | But of his courage , though it was not of a kind that Hotspur admired , there could be little doubt ; and of his ability and calculating detachment , none . |
| 12 | This means that the sociology of knowledge is to be predicated on the distinction of true and false knowledge , a stricture that Mannheim sought to avoid . |
| 13 | The court 's decision was based on a finding that M Touvier had not acted in the context of a ‘ concerted plan of extermination ’ by the state . |
| 14 | It sees no problem with adding the Alpha architecture to the MIPS Computer Systems Inc and Intel Corp-based systems it currently offers , a trail that DEC is already blazing in any case , but it has to figure out whether and how it will be able to address the window of opportunity it reckons the industry is now creating with the latest round of hardware and software announcements , and of course , how deep it would have to dig into its back pocket . |
| 15 | Came the day when a robed elder Inquisitor activated a palm-tattoo that Jaq had never seen before , and spoke to him the words : |
| 16 | The product sounds exactly like a sketch that Amstrad issued at the launch of the PDA , and which was described as a possible future direction . |
| 17 | The two best chances fell to Barmby ( a rebound that Beeney should have held onto in the frist place ) , and Rod Wallace , who skated past the Spurs defence onto a great through ball from Macca , His first time shot under pressure went just wide . |
| 18 | He possessed a little book of private prayers , with an image of himself kneeling before Christ on the cross captioned with a prayer that Christ " absolve my wounds for me " — a reference to sins which also likened the king 's sufferings to Christ 's . |
| 19 | Shakespeare makes the point about interpretation that modern research in theories of vision and the education of young children has confirmed — that we are all taught to see — by Iago 's prediction of the view that Othello , hidden in the normally superior position of the eavesdropper , will take of his imminent conversation with Cassio : After the scene has turned out exactly as predicted , Iago checks on his victim 's responses : The Signifier here , the handkerchief , has been made by Iago to yield a meaning which is totally false , but which he has put upon it with so much circumstantial detail — Shakespeare 's diligence in this point risks pushing his plot into the incredible — that Othello can only see it as a present that Cassio has received from Desdemona and has ‘ given … his whore ’ . |
| 20 | Alice Fell was such a stumbling-block that Wordsworth withdrew it from the 1820 edition of his poems . |
| 21 | And , although he was halted on the line , Cambridge retained possession , Flood sending Richard Batstone hurtling in on the left for a try that Davies converted . |
| 22 | But Dzagnidze then followed his own kick for a try in the corner , and Mironov swept through for a try that Dzagnidze converted . |
| 23 | Others confused the new body with the Direct Marketing Association , a link that Warburton firmly refutes . |
| 24 | We camp Lappish style in a lavvu that Tor , he of the wall-to-wall shoulders , has paddled here on his deck . |
| 25 | She is indeed ready to die , and it is a difficulty that Justin may feel that he has to do the same . |
| 26 | And this is a story that Serafine Killebree tells : |
| 27 | It was a story that Edouard was often questioned about , by women as well as by journalists . |
| 28 | What saved the company — according to a story that Thomas Watson , Sr. , the company 's founder and long-term CEO , often told — was its exploitation of an unexpected success : the New York Public Library wanted to buy a machine . |
| 29 | A few days before the poll , an attempt was made to interest The Guardian in a story that Harold Wilson was involved in land speculation . |
| 30 | Even though the source for it is reliable , he rejects as ‘ inconceivable ’ a story that Dickens once swore at his wife before guests , children and servants . |