Example sentences of "is a [noun] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are separate topics in their own right , just as sewing itself is a hobby that has its own literature which we commend if you wish to learn more . |
| 2 | I think we can protect our children much better than we do , for one thing there is a law that says it 's illegal to sell tobacco to children under sixteen , that law is flouted every day in a large proportion of the , er the shops in this city and in Scotland . |
| 3 | This is a budget that promises what it will deliver . |
| 4 | Gillian Freeman 's Termination Rock ( Pandora , £12.95 ) is a novel that inserts itself under your skin leaving you wanting more . |
| 5 | It is a faith that believes it has only to ask in order to receive : e.g. in the cure of the leper ( Mark 1:40–5 ) . |
| 6 | The result is a service that acknowledges their special needs as guests and , more importantly , as individuals . |
| 7 | There is a legend that says they will return when the Lost Prince of Tara appears , and that it is he alone whom they will serve . |
| 8 | Very occasionally there is a document that gives us a clue . |
| 9 | This is a word that changes its meaning according to context , and it is dangerous to generalise by reference to decisions on other statutes . |
| 10 | And ‘ first ’ is a word that suits them , for many recognise them as the finest original instrument group among baroque performers of the present day . |
| 11 | Flcopy is a utility that allows you to copy a large file across a number of floppies . |
| 12 | On top of that is a utility that lets you play Amiga MOD files ( these are four-track digital sound samples that Amiga users are quite proud of , seemingly , and having heard them , you 'll see why ) . |
| 13 | Should a serious accident strike , there is a plan that pays you substantial cash benefits to help you rebuild your family 's future . |
| 14 | Should a serious accident strike , there is a Plan that pays you substantial cash benefits to help you rebuild your family 's future . |
| 15 | An option is a contract that gives its holder the right , but not the obligation , to buy or sell a specific quantity of a specific quality of a specific asset at a specific price ( the " exercise price " or " strike price " ) on or before a specific day ( the settlement day ) . |
| 16 | ‘ It is a question that takes me utterly by surprise as you obviously admire all this . |
| 17 | That is a talent that followed him to the Foreign Office and to the Department of Health , where he helped Ken Clarke take on hospital doctors attacking their tales of long hours as ‘ fishermen 's stories ’ . |
| 18 | If we are alert to textual detail — and all studies of the reverberations of imagery in the Miller 's Tale tell us that it is a tale that encourages us to be so ( see below ) — then we can also find a suggestive parallel between Absolon 's inability to detach himself entirely from the vulgarities of the human world and the Host 's failure to impose an elegantly hierarchical structure on the tale-telling competition . |
| 19 | Within this text , which ends after Mome Elwis 's speech in reply , a speech that matches that of Dame Sirith when she initially protects herself , the wretched clerk finds that the only answer he gets is a speech that matches his own for its wordiness and clichéd character — a speech in which Mome Elwis well may mouth the same formulae as Dame Sirith in the equivalent situation , as quoted above . |
| 20 | There is a photograph that preserves him forever racing down the face of a twenty-five-foot wave . |
| 21 | It is a view that has its reflection ( though doubtless for different reasons ) in social policy and the social security system . |
| 22 | Questmaker is a program that allows you to create your own graphics adventure games using the questmaker editors in conjunction with a graphics editor like PC Paintbrush , for the creation of graphic screens with a PCX format . |
| 23 | what 's changed is that they in in the early days we used to get the offcuts and they they were ideally they used to put those through a hogger which is a thing that breaks it down and it 's these it 's worktops |
| 24 | er and to avoid racking up costs which is a thing that worries me |
| 25 | The accumulation of data over a long period of time is a situation that lends itself well to the use of a microcomputer . |
| 26 | Alcoholism is a disease that tells you that you do not have it . |
| 27 | The greatest danger to a windsurfer is a wind that blows you away from a beach . |
| 28 | Charged solitons moving along the polymer chains could account for the greatly improved conductivity , but , there is a catch that makes their importance questionable . |
| 29 | They did not believe , therefore , as the structuralists do , that structure in literature is a wholly closed system , and that language is a prison-house that shuts us away from reality . |
| 30 | It is a curse that affects us all . |