Example sentences of "be an [noun] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , on the other hand , the condition is that the proper name , if it is to count as a proper name at all , must be non-descriptive , then we shall look in vain for suitable candidates , for there can hardly be an expression that communicates something and yet does not incorporate , or contextually presuppose , a descriptive content . |
| 2 | As Todorov repeatedly insists in his Introduction to Poetics , ‘ The particular text will only be an instance that allows us to describe the properties of literature [ in general ] ’ ( 1981 : 7 ) . |
| 3 | I believe that there 's an angel that guards her footsteps . |
| 4 | So that 's an example that gives us very much asymmetrical different amounts apart , and then you get the other end of the , the , the other extreme , you got to select , you know , you got to your power , your friendship group , and so when got to do , to choose whichever amongst friends . |
| 5 | Juvenile diabetes is an ailment that strikes its victims before or during adolescence , destroying their bodies ' abilities to produce insulin , the hormone that enables the body to use and store sugar . |
| 6 | At first his manner is reserved and defensive ; there is an attitude that suggests he expects rebuke and is ready to fight . |
| 7 | Handling a long-wheelbase Land-Rover with its trailer over rough ground is an art that needs plenty of practice . |
| 8 | It is an ideology that calls itself pluralism when it imposes monoculture ; that speaks of choice as it snuffs out the biodiversity of the earth ; that cries democracy when it eclipses and denies all alternatives . |
| 9 | THE election of a new American president is an event that affects us all . |
| 10 | In addition , it is an assumption that precludes them , to a large extent , from beginning to get to grips with the language- based problems that learners might experience and providing teachers with useful insights into how linguistic factors might help or hinder a child 's progress at school . |
| 11 | One trainee on a course for people looking for employment commented that seeing himself on video in a mock interview was an experience that changed his life . |
| 12 | It was an experience that bound us more closely than ever . |
| 13 | It was an excitement that matched my own , for I had never sailed the South Seas and I had long dreamed of that scatter of tiny , magically named islands strewn across one third of a globe . |
| 14 | It was an angle that caused them to fall apart in the end . |
| 15 | Later on there was an incident that shows us his declining ambitions . |
| 16 | It was an association that made him an appropriate keeper at Loseley of Montague 's imprisoned son-in-law Henry Wriothesley , second Earl of Southampton [ q.v. ] in 1570 . |
| 17 | But this was an encounter that had none of the froth of those liaisons . |