Example sentences of "[conj] a [noun sg] that [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have any doubts about your ability to fix a burst pipe , a storm-damaged roof , or a boiler that does on the blink , it may be worth signing up for Homercare , the new 24-hour emergency repair and assistance service from Europ Assistance . |
| 2 | If you are going to be lightly humorous , skimming like a butterfly , then you will be ill served by a plot that is impossibly ingenious or a plot that has at its centre something too grave to be dealt with light-heartedly when , long after you have embarked on the actual writing , the moment comes to reveal all . |
| 3 | It has not rituals whatever to deal with distress and grief resulting from a difficult birth or a pregnancy that ends in death . |
| 4 | Roget gives , in one paragraph , words and phrases that are closely related to a word or a phrase that came into your mind but is not quite right for the sense you are trying to convey . |
| 5 | It may be with a contact poison that quickly enters a soft-bodied creature like a greenfly and kills on contact , a stomach poison that works through the digestive system , a neurotoxin that paralyses the nervous system , or an asphyxiant that enters through the creature 's respiratory system , or we could encourage a natural predator . |
| 6 | not one of them doctors or an anaesthetist that come to dad had anything on , suit , trousers , jumper , floppy t-shirt , sweat shirt , no overall , no gloves nothing |
| 7 | Harold Gunson , the national director of Britain 's Blood Transfusion Service , agreed that a formulation that survives in the body for up to 24 hours would be useful in trauma , angioplasty and stroke treatment . |
| 8 | That managed competition may increase in time but it is stretching credibility a long way to suggest that a company that accounts for more than 96 per cent . |
| 9 | SPAR uses a variant of Crain & Steedman 's ( 1985 ) ‘ principle of referential success ’ , which states that a reading that succeeds in referring to an entity already established in the hearer 's model of the domain of discourse is favoured over one that does not . |
| 10 | This is because our ‘ taxi schema ’ contains a ‘ taxi driver ’ , and we assume that a taxi that arrives at our house has a driver . |
| 11 | What will happen in fact is that you 'll have a start date for your system , which was basically when N1 was , and what they will be looking for is that everything from that date forward is complying right so that a job that started before then , they wo n't look for the initial part of that job to comply right as of that date onwards they will look for it to comply . |
| 12 | Is the course a paternalistic idea which Christian Aid is pushing , rather than a proposal that arises from the needs of partners ? |
| 13 | And Molly Malone was right : the gangway was little better than a ladder that clung to the ship 's side with fragile tenacity . |
| 14 | He holed big birdie putts on the 15th and 16th , made par at the tricky short 17th , and then eagled the water strewn 18th with a three iron to 25 feet , and a putt that raced into the centre of the hole . |
| 15 | It was a big room with a polished oak table and a door that opened to the garden . |
| 16 | He 's in a sense living there is in indictment of an attitude and the love and the care that the church and a society that proclaims to be civilized has for itself , and I think we 'll have to leave it there . |
| 17 | Much high praise has already come Mohicans ' way and it has done astounding US box-office business , but despite this it is on occasion a flawed film with a sometimes patchy pace and a structure that wobbles in the final 30 minutes . |
| 18 | Descent is made southwards over a pathless moor to a depression containing a small tarn and a wall that rises to the next height , Swarth Fell . |
| 19 | And a glory that shines upon our tears . |
| 20 | Her startled eyes absorbed the thick , short , golden-streaked hair swept back from a broad forehead , ears long and narrow as a satyr 's which grew close to a beautifully formed skull , a mouth of unutterable sweetness countered by a long jaw carved out of golden teak faintly blurred by a light stubble , and a chin that jutted in a formidable challenge . |
| 21 | The gentleman to whom I was presented was an upright , elderly man with piercing eyes and a chin that looked as if he would stand no nonsense . |
| 22 | She introduced soft blues , and a colour that came to be known as de Chavigny grey : the rooms , understated and severe , were the perfect backdrop for the jewellery and the silver . |
| 23 | Some reports from the more observant spies included details about a book that told the stranger what to say , and a box that walked by itself . |
| 24 | Recently , biotinylated GST-c-Ab1 fusions have been used to detect protein interactions on Western blots ( 5 ) and a protein that interacts with c-Myc was identified by screening a cDNA library with a radiolabelled GST fusion ( 6 ) . |
| 25 | Yeah , so I mean if you have a win yeah , and a woman that sat on the next table to me . |
| 26 | A back strap that is too tight will encourage bulges above and below , and a bra that relies on straps rather than shaping to hold breasts in place can cut grooves in your shoulders . |
| 27 | Yes , his victory at Doral was awesome , but he admits he did it with a suspect putter , wielded by a 49-year-old puttee , and a mind that focussed on golf to block out the loss in a fire of his $2,000,000 Florida mansion . |
| 28 | Travis had turned his back , and as he reached for his other pair of jeans she had the perfect view of long tanned , muscular legs , a taut , narrow behind and a torso that widened to an impressive width of shoulder . |
| 29 | Long , unkempt hair , several missing teeth , and a nose that looked as if it had met more than one fist in its owner 's lifetime did nothing for his general appearance . |
| 30 | A few thin strands of black to grey hair and a nose that looked like badly applied putty . |