Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [noun] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim is to provide a book that tells you about an aspect of computing , while still being understandable and enjoyable . |
| 2 | It is best just to find a racket that suits your game . |
| 3 | Sometimes the image they create may be a long way from expressing their real character but the search is on — through fashions , chats with friends , reactions from boyfriends — to find a style that suits their temperament and physical type . |
| 4 | Martha stood patiently for a long time while her mother tried one dress after another on her , hoping to find a colour that made her skin seem paler and a cut that disguised her skeletal proportions . |
| 5 | MANY Arts graduates now find it impossible to obtain a post that matches their training and ability , unless they are willing to teach . |
| 6 | Most sailing clubs will have a few catamarans clustered together in one end of the dinghy park , but if you are keen to race one it is best to choose a club that has plenty of water space and specialises in a large multihull fleet . |
| 7 | Evidently , Frankenstein had been unable to create a face that pleased him . |
| 8 | That did nothing for County 's confidence , but they gradually began to exert a control that promised them at least a draw until Sansom 's unlucky deflection . |
| 9 | ‘ The most important thing is to organise a system that encourages them to stick at it day by day and week by week . |
| 10 | Gossamer , slinky , focused , unfussed — what a treat to hear a song that takes its time and does n't give a toss for the bpms and the clubs . |
| 11 | You must take time to devise a scheme that suits your own needs . |
| 12 | Eliot seems to have ignored these suggestions because for him the physical and social landscape of London was no more than a screen on which to project a phantasmagoria that expressed his own personal disorders and desperations ( partly sexual , as one might expect , and as the drafts make clear ) ; whereas Pound seems to have supposed that the subject of the poem was London in all its historical and geographical actuality , much as the city of Dublin was from one point of view the subject of Joyce 's Ulysses . |
| 13 | This means that those underlying factors are unlikely ever to be tackled and people will come to distrust a government that disregards their needs . |
| 14 | This clearly allows the bilingual audience — and one 's knowledge of a language does not have to be particularly broad for one to know the rude words — to appreciate a pun that tells us much of the character of the fabliau : the essential place of the con in the conte . |
| 15 | So if you ever go in and you want to have a oil that relaxes you , you look at all the red ones . |
| 16 | In building up this database we are initially asking major groups to complete a questionnaire that informs us about what services they provide . |
| 17 | You will wear them more frequently than any single outfit of clothes and it is worth paying as much as you can afford to get a pair that make you feel and look good . |
| 18 | So they had to get a chap that knew his business and I think he was entitled to get extra money . |
| 19 | The only way to bring back the Lucy Ghosts is to prepare a Germany that wants them back . |
| 20 | It is clearly easier to follow a message that announces its subject and then says something about it than the other way round . |