Example sentences of "[prep] an [noun] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the fear of an election that at present prevents them in many instances from disobeying their party whip . |
| 2 | Some of the solutions adopted are of an intricacy that to a British observer seems almost unbelievable . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , hard to believe , is n't it , ’ she replied icily , with an expression that at last revealed some of her animosity , ‘ for someone so incredibly juvenile ? ’ |
| 4 | Beginning with the making of the world , he guides his audience through the pageant of primitive man ( ‘ worshipping snakes or trees ’ ) with an urgency that for flickering moments recalls The Waste Land . |
| 5 | Lacuna came to a stop behind her , and pulled her gently into an embrace that for once was nothing but tender . |
| 6 | Far removed from this Spartan scene reigned the Kaiser , in an environment that to some of his disquieted advisers seemed rapidly to be regaining the splendour of pre-war days in inverse proportion to the hardships what were mounting in the rest of the country . |
| 7 | The lack of atmosphere , extending even to the non-appearance of MacFinall 's cymbal-and-drum ensemble , which has driven the pulse of many a West Indies advance in the past , was again painfully evident as 12,000 deigned to stay away , but King Dyall did at least make a cameo appearance in an outfit that for once defied description . |
| 8 | He had said in an interview that after 1960 " the southerners had assumed exclusive power … with 94 per cent of the development allocations going to the south and 6 per cent to the north " . |
| 9 | This influential paper proceeded from an explanation that for many processes above the level of competence , the rate of movement of material can be expressed as a power function of some stress , to demonstrate that the largest portion of sediment transported by rivers is carried by flows which occur on average once or twice each year , and that transport of sand and dust by wind follows the same laws . |
| 10 | If it 's inherited from an estate that of itself er attracts no tax , so there tax position would only be the income that they received from it would be subject to income tax and it would be added to their own assets so that when they die in due course then they 've inheritance payable there . |
| 11 | These models are based on an assumption that in solving complex problems about , for example , marriage , people use fairly simple set of principles , which may or may not be consistent , and which interact in any given situation ; their priority fixed by this situation . |
| 12 | A power that had been delegated previously is therefore removed , usually in quite a small way , by an instruction that in such and such a case the matter is to be referred upwards . |