Example sentences of "a [noun] that have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this is a resort that has moved with the times , and today serves as a superbly-located touring centre for North Wales as well as an entertainment-packed seaside destination . |
| 2 | Not only is the external labour market segmented by sex , but the skills remain marketable in spite of a recession that has reduced local opportunities for the semi-skilled . |
| 3 | We 're not talking of rounding , we 're just talking of a function that 's made up . |
| 4 | Thus began the last chapter of a case that had started as a simple bank robbery , then extended into one of murder and fraud , and drugs . |
| 5 | At the same time linguistics has evolved in a direction that has increased enormously its explanatory potential for literary studies . |
| 6 | Never , ever breed from a mare that has given you any cause to fear her in the stable . |
| 7 | Most of these studies have produced results consistent with the suggestion that interference occurs at retrieval , finding that a CS that has undergone latent inhibition training will be relatively ineffective in evoking its CR when it is presented in the context used for pre-exposure . |
| 8 | As we entered the kitchen Pat looked up at the roof and the large gaping hole caused by a shell that had passed through two floors then smashed through the kitchen door , ending up in the garden . |
| 9 | It is common for students to return to a part that has given them many ideas , and to rework a passage fruitfully . |
| 10 | On 28 September 1839 , Gould was to tell Jardine directly , ‘ I have visited South Australia , a part that has afforded me more novelties than any other I have visited . ’ |
| 11 | Well it ai n't going to work because for a part that have slammed V A T on domestic fuels and in fact if all of the cuts of the conservative government , all the tax increases you have quoted cuts . |
| 12 | There was clearly some basis here for irredentist disputes of a kind that had become familiar in interwar Europe . |
| 13 | The issues at stake could hardly have been greater , and they concerned the other members of the world community just as much as they concerned the USSR : for it was not only in the USSR that an answer was being sought to the question as to whether there could be a ‘ third way ’ — a socialism that ensured a decent and equitable living for all its members and yet avoided monopolistic concentrations of power of a kind that had led to political repression in the USSR and other communist-ruled nations . |
| 14 | A fierce solidarity was forged of a kind that has become archaic in the west . |
| 15 | He had a beard that had got slightly out of hand , growing a little longer on one side : he twisted the hairs into tiny Bluebeard curls ; there was something in his face — a certain quality — that seemed ingrained , weathered in . |
| 16 | The investigator also plans to follow up a finding that having perfected the distinction between meaning and message , children may come to view reality in a new way : incoming information can be construed as offering clues about reality , whereas before it was assumed to be reality . |
| 17 | It was the end of a trail which had had its beginnings in those first rumblings of Henry Fairlie against the Establishment and Malcolm Muggeridge against the Monarchy ; a trail that had led on through the Angry Young Men and all the resentments sown by Suez , through the heyday of affluence , through all the mounting impatience with convention , tradition and authority that had been marked by the teenage revolution and the CND and the New Morality , through the darkening landscape of security scandals and What 's Wrong With Britain and the rising aggression and bitterness of the satirists , in ever more violent momentum . |
| 18 | It was not so much the death of a sheep that had shocked her . |
| 19 | Mrs Parkin left , blaming Ellen for having turned her son from a faith that had sustained her family through death , famine , hardship , war , bereavement . |
| 20 | When we are dealing with the literature on voting behaviour , we are dealing with a literature that has come to display turbulence in the face of electoral behaviour that has become increasingly volatile and unpredictable . |
| 21 | And to a heart that has earned it , too . |
| 22 | Despite a pile of unread reprints now measuring 16 inches tall , I read this book because of the nagging suspicion that in a field that has grown as rapidly as vascular biology and medicine I might be missing more than my 16 inch stack suggested . |
| 23 | Yet her range of interests , in a field that has moved from comparative policy neglect to the very centre of the community care reforms , has been wider than almost all the others . |
| 24 | Anorexia nervosa patients seem unable to identify and to respond accurately to their emotional state , a deficit that has received some empirical support . |
| 25 | Its fossils have been investigated by cutting them into thin slices , a technique that has revealed a great deal about its anatomy , even down to the details of the structure of its blood vessels . |
| 26 | Aerial photography is a technique that has revolutionised the study of archaelogy , leading to many new discoveries . |
| 27 | The early Byzantine pendants and a necklace that had graced some medieval nobleman 's wife . |
| 28 | In Cuzco International Airport , the ‘ queue ’ for the flight to Puerto Maldonaldo , gateway to the jungle , swelled before me : a snake that had gorged itself over and over . |
| 29 | The polemic in the newspapers had begun not over the kidnapping but over a fight that had broken out a few days previously in a bar much frequented by the young Sardinians who hung around the city and by the city gangs who sold them drugs . |
| 30 | Go and do it in the corner , ’ said one Glasgow mother to her child , in a story that has passed into the folklore of the Second World War . |