Example sentences of "a [noun] that [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only type of legal research that most practising lawyers want to do is research into the law relating to a case that they have on hand . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , it is theoretically unsound to define what we want to be a synchronous horizon at a level that we suspect to be diachronous . |
| 3 | And there was the beds that was there there was beds were still in that bothy and there was there were three of them must have been in the bed you see , and then there was a a board that they slipped in half up the bed and there was a a mattress or whatever on that and another three on that . |
| 4 | When you say land is built-up , presumably you do not mean simply that there is a building that there has to be a building on the land . |
| 5 | His vision leads him to seek a saviour that he finds in the proletariat , albeit heavily cloaked in ‘ ideology ’ . |
| 6 | This is a constraint that I imposed on the DEVELOPMENT procedure . |
| 7 | Money is made available to training and enterprise councils in return for their performance in pursuance of a contract that they make with me . |
| 8 | It was something of a coincidence that we wrote to each other at exactly the same time , albeit on different issues . |
| 9 | All heads turned as his father gave him such a clip that he landed in the muddy , freshly dug grave behind him . |
| 10 | Sir Patrick said : ‘ There is in my belief , and in my experience , a profound desire amongst everyday people in Northern Ireland , right across the community , that the politicians should resume talks , because there is a recognition that there has to be a way of securing a less antagonist way of living in a divided society than we have at the moment . ’ |
| 11 | And he thought as a result that he knew about everything else as well and Brenda , he did n't . |
| 12 | This was a sparrow that I found on the day it was born . |
| 13 | Taking a summer holiday used to be regarded as a luxury that everyone owed to themselves . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's a tragedy that it looks as if he 's quitting just when he 's developed from being a superstar into an awesome megastar . |
| 15 | You will also have made a discovery that what seems to you to be the main features or focus may be seen differently by other people with whom you come in contact . |
| 16 | ‘ And ‘ t was not for the hand of a child that I wrote to your father a year later . ’ |
| 17 | The Prime Minister answered a question that I put to him earlier this year by referring to the fact that he did not believe that I live in the real world . |
| 18 | Whether Josquin and his fellow Northerners active in Italy are properly to be regarded as ‘ Renaissance ’ figures , a question that he ponders at some length , is at bottom a non-issue . |
| 19 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The Hon. Member for Aberdeen , North ( Mr. Hughes ) has raised again a question that he put in Committee about publication of the prices obtained for the subsidiaries . |
| 20 | No action was taken but Warrington general manager Ron Close said : ‘ We have looked closely at the video and it looks as if Jones might have deliberately kicked Bob , who has been told by a specialist that he came within an eighth of an inch of losing the eye . |
| 21 | It is a pity that he attributes to Emrys Hughes remarks relating to these matters made by Sir Emrys Jones . |
| 22 | In 1853 he travelled to Mecca , which was such a dangerous trip for a European that he travelled as a Muslim pilgrim . |
| 23 | But they 're they were all kind ladies and er the thing that they punished us with really was made of cardboard , like er , er a pointer or a stick , it was a pointer that they pointed to the board when they drew things on and told us about them , but sometimes boys By the way , boy sat with girl , at the desk with two in and er it was quite satisfactory , I do n't remember any other upset with being there th th th there were two sexes , we were five years of age to begin with and stayed till seven . |
| 24 | He fiddled his right boot into its stirrup , touched the rifle stock superstitiously , pushed the sword into a comfortable position , then rolled the cloak into a bundle that he jammed under the rifle holster 's strap . |
| 25 | On another occasion he was spotted by an opposing Derby County player lying drunk in the street the night before an important league match , a scene that he repeated on several occasions in London 's late-night jazz clubs . |
| 26 | It roused her violently by its unexpectedness , and she made no protest when his arms went round her and he kissed her with a force and a recklessness that she met with equal need . |
| 27 | From 1237 until 1245 he seems to have acted as one of the stewards of the king 's household , a post that he combined with the sheriffdom of Gloucestershire ( 1238–46 ) and more briefly with the justiciarship of the southern forests ( 1241–2 ) and the seneschalship of Gascony ( 1243 ) . |
| 28 | By this time I was so sure that any Friday 13th would mean a move that it came as no surprise when we left the Pit on Tuesday 10 October . |
| 29 | It was such a shame that he felt like that and could n't recognize the true and deep affection that Terry , Brian and I had for him . |
| 30 | I wish that the Minister would respond to a point that I made in a debate last week when I spoke of the tragedy that the employment advisory service — available to prisoners both before and after their release — had been withdrawn by the Government . |