Example sentences of "a [noun] that [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And his smile , appearing slowly as he looked down at us , gleamed with a whiteness that almost hurt . |
| 2 | It was a budget that severely cut services to vulnerable people . |
| 3 | Where root crops are fed on the ground to cattle the rabbit has easy pickings and it remains interested and satisfied with the debris littering a field that once held a root crop . |
| 4 | For him , Bridgnorth would always be associated with the antics of a ghost that obviously liked railway engines and would appear from time to time to warn of impending accidents . |
| 5 | Googol 's voice was filled with black wonder , with a fearful admiration , a certain desolation of the heart , and yes , a horror that nevertheless coursed thrillingly through his nerves . |
| 6 | Shortly before ten o'clock in the morning , the Angelina , almost slack-sailed and ghosting along under a Meltemi that hardly rated as a zephyr , tied up along the starboard side of the Ariadne . |
| 7 | They would do well to remember that his record shops began by running an illegal scheme which meant that records that were marked for export ( and therefore exempt from tax ) were sold domestically , a scam that only ended when Branson was caught and fined . |
| 8 | Manolo took a couple of hits of coffee , and picked up a wrist-exerciser that probably doubled as some kind of sex aid . |
| 9 | We have seen that perhaps the growing and adolescent dinosaur had a metabolism that actually converted from some form of endothermy to homeothermic or heterothermic metabolism . |
| 10 | A dogma that once looked profound had been shown to be no more than a simplistic diagram ; and social reality is too complex , in the end , to be embraced by any single theory of history or of class . |
| 11 | This experiment , by Kaye and Pearce ( 1984 ) ( see also Pearce , Kaye , and Mall 1982 ) , included a group of rats given a series of presentations of a light , a stimulus that initially evoked a behavioural OR . |
| 12 | It is a question that immediately caused irritation in the office of Israel 's official spokesman . |
| 13 | Perhaps to assist in conferring the semblance of impartiality on his treatment , Galileo placed this papal argument in the mouth of Simplicio — a tactic that tragically backfired . |
| 14 | Unfortunately the letter to Sarah Catt arrived first and it was she who was the first to break the news — by phone — to Charman , a circumstance that only added to the unpleasant situation . |
| 15 | The iron grip Guy had used to subdue her had relaxed into a hold that now cradled rather than constrained , and yet she could n't lift so much as a finger to defend herself , could barely summon the will to press her face harder against the bed in a futile attempt to escape that warm , spine-tingling touch . |
| 16 | Bert was in his sixties , balding head with a thin weazel face and a nose that never stopped running . |
| 17 | Damien Amos returns to work in the Design Studio after a two year break into the music business : He plays bass guitar with a group that recently recorded an album . |
| 18 | It was a moment that never failed to give her a frisson of excitement , almost a sensual thrill . |
| 19 | Then came a process which gave a product that quickly made an impact on the market — the extrusion of sheet from polymer granules . |
| 20 | The sailor would hold the egg to his mouth and let the albumin form a string that eventually extended to the large intestine . |
| 21 | It reawakened his curiosity , the fact that Blackbeard had been willing to hand them all over for getting back a wallet that otherwise contained only a letter . |
| 22 | He smiled coolly , and it was a smile that somehow managed to convey a ruthless hardness in him that was n't used to compromise and was n't going to start now . |
| 23 | ‘ It is very nice of you to come , ’ he said , with a smile that rarely faded . |
| 24 | With a brief nod and a smile that again dazzled and at the same time almost lulled her into thinking things were going to be normal between them from now on , he left . |
| 25 | Mr you see various people are giving evidence , and Mr wants to ask the right person , certain questions , namely the person who er devised those words and er you are er somebody in a very important position er and er he 's trying to get it from you , and as he 's pointed out to you a company ca n't sit down and produce in some corporate way a phrase someone or two human beings or more have got to do it and he wants to know if you can help us er who , who that was , that 's , that 's all you see , he does n't want to ask you about it , no doubt er , er in the same way as he 'd want to ask a person that actually devised a word , d' ya see ? |
| 26 | Furthermore , the system also came under attack as being unfair — hence undermining consent by calling into doubt the legitimacy of both the mode of election and the government produced by it — and for facilitating the adversary relationship between the parties , a relationship that significantly influenced public policy , but did so in a manner harmful to the interests of the country . |
| 27 | It was a ploy that often worked . |
| 28 | Perry 's foray to the Orient marked the true beginning of America 's global role ; it marked the emergence on the world stage of Japan , after two centuries of a xenophobia that almost bordered on paranoia ; and it allowed the creation — nervous at first , but gradually becoming more and more pronounced — of a trans-Pacific axis between , put at its most basic , California and Honshu — an axis around which the fortunes of today 's Ocean , and much of today 's world , revolves . |
| 29 | Opening rounds of 85 and 78 at the qualifying school in Montpellier have wrecked his chance of a 1993 tour card and he is close to quitting a game that once promised millionaire status . |
| 30 | One would think that , after all that time , a movement that really desired increased pensions and had failed , would have changed its tactics … the stronger a movement becomes ‘ institutionally ’ the weaker it becomes as an instrument for the benefit of the people . |