Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] that [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was small with coarse , wire-wool hair and bright bird 's eyes that missed nothing . |
| 2 | In this area , there is a specialization of the tongue 's surface that has nothing to do with taste . |
| 3 | The latter declares *John was seen leave ungrammatical because the embedded clause seen leave is " unsupported " , i.e. constitutes " a subject — predicate sequence that exhibits none of the internal inflectional structures of a full sentence or clausal complementation " ( i.e. neither tense , nor infinitival to , nor progressive -ing ) , whereas John was seen to leave is said to be grammatical because here leave is " supported " ( by to ) , and can therefore serve as an argument for the verb see ( pp. 123 – 4 ) . |
| 4 | The jury chose to ignore Mr Justice Drake 's advice that to call someone a queer ‘ may not be defamatory ’ and that the matter was ‘ very debatable ’ . |
| 5 | The capacity to form a concept of one 's own identity and a process of comparison allowing an estimation of one 's esteem among one 's fellows that affects one 's view of oneself are central features of humanity . |
| 6 | Children starving , children who who are orphans , children on the move , refugees erm people that have nothing , nothing at all and a lot of the money is spent in this country erm particularly in cities , very poor areas of the cities . |
| 7 | The Ideal Home Decorating School gives you details of exclusive readers ' courses that cover everything from paint effects to dried flowers . |