Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It makes for a pleasant evening that reminds us once again of the slimline precision of Coward 's comic dialogue and his habit of rendering heterosexual love in terms of recriminatory bickering . |
| 2 | Crisp colours of blue and green , and the stark black of the rocks , and a pleasant breeze that made her feel slightly sleepy . |
| 3 | But Lewis 's fiction Till We Have Faces ( 1956 ) is the outcome of a private dream that haunted him for decades , based on the ancient myth of Cupid and Psyche , though it outpaces at times his capacity to tell . |
| 4 | They knew too that the parson s wire was distressed by a persistent sickness that left her retching and queasy ; and though there was some satisfaction in seeing her humbled , the two friends were quick to remark on how little such eagerly expectant fathers as the parson truly understood of the tribulations of the woman 's role in these mysteries . |
| 5 | Frustration fastened Jezrael , a solid wall that cramped itself around her body . |
| 6 | Rainwater , driven off the highway , fell in a solid wall that cut them off from any view of the outside world . |
| 7 | The sound of water , when Ward rolled down his window , was a solid roar that overlaid everything . |
| 8 | There was a new smell in the air — the fresh scent of flowers , a hint of lemon , and a drowsy aroma that reminded him of honey . |
| 9 | Vichy 's Temporalia , £12.75/30ml , is a liposome formula that benefits your skin in three ways , past , present and future . |
| 10 | But most particularly we are concerned with the way in which learners and environments interact , for it is in that interaction that we , as parents and teachers , can best help children to realize their linguistic and intellectual potential by adopting a conversational style that maximises their opportunities for learning . |
| 11 | My veins seemed full of a fiery substance that burned its way round my body . |
| 12 | Their feelings were intense , and he made love to her with an ardour she met and matched with a fiery passion that consumed them both in a blaze of glory . |
| 13 | For suddenly Gus Hambro performed a minor miracle , by producing a fiery blush that made itself visible in waves of dubious gratitude and indubitable mortification even through the layers of river mud that still decorated his face . |
| 14 | Midnight 's suppurating wounds gradually cleaned , but the intense sickness only slowly subsided , giving way to a low fever that sapped his strength and depressed his mind . |
| 15 | Then she held out her hand to Eileen and gave it a strong clasp that made her wince . |
| 16 | I , what I do n't , if Andrew obviously feels he 's got a strong process that suits him and I do n't want to knock that on the head . |
| 17 | He seized her and brought his mouth down on hers in a punishing kiss that made her senses swim . |
| 18 | She got no further , the words swallowed up as he bent and took her mouth in a punishing kiss that stole her breath from the very first touch of his lips . |
| 19 | But that we get a balance right between the amount of regulations an and the cost of it but that it is in a sense , effective and and the plea I would make to my honourable friend when he considers this P I A prospectus and what should be done and wh to what extent the government feels it should support it , is that what we actually want is not a specific requirement that says you 've got to have this much , that much capital erm and so on , but that there is a function , there is a regular audit trail , there is a a regular , annual look at the figures , the accounts of all these intermediaries , er and firms where the difficulty has been er in the past . |
| 20 | The answer is that a reaction will take place at an appreciable rate only if there is a specific enzyme that speeds it up . |
| 21 | He ridiculed our political system , he scarified our leading politicians , seizing upon their vulnerable points with a destructive analysis that left them bereft of merit or morality . |
| 22 | It spat a worrisome mixture of steam and flame out periodically and covered the bottom of the pans with black ooze , a treacly goo that got itself on to my pile jacket and put me in good humour for an hour or so . |
| 23 | Cos after all a coin was a , had a monetary value that meant you could go and buy something with it . |
| 24 | " I sorry , " he said once again , in a hopeless voice that told me I had n't convinced him . |
| 25 | We knew what lay down any other road : a political scandal that made it worthwhile for Parliament to get involved in Security . |
| 26 | His enthusiastic and entrepreneurial promotion of these studies , however , was combined with a political naïvety that blinded him to the problems that can arise from reliance on external sources of funding in politically charged fields of study . |
| 27 | A political process that offers them power over their own lives ? |
| 28 | These chemicals are , by general definition , detergents although the term has now come to be restricted to a group of synthetic chemicals which have very specific effects the result of which is that dirt is taken into suspension in a stable form that allows it to be rinsed away . |
| 29 | Doyle 's greyhound is a pair of electricians ' pipes , which he lights upon , paints and plays , producing a doleful sound that soothes him — it is like mumbling your mantra or telling your beads . |
| 30 | For him , the provinces made sense not as descriptive units but as products of a historical process that explained their existence in purely natural terms . |