Example sentences of "a [noun] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 1 November , the Germans again attacked the salient 's belly , but this time at night , a ruse that enabled them to capture the Messines Ridge . |
| 2 | But no : she has hung around the DHSS while clerks forgot her like she was goods in the stockroom , and now she has a chit that says they 'll pay her lodging at the boarding house . |
| 3 | It was a case that bothered him because he felt that in the Assize Court the unfortunate man 's chances had been wrecked by that fool of a cocky young barrister who had concocted an elaborate defence that gave a totally false impression of what had happened . |
| 4 | If he could have talked to her in Italian it would have been different , but his correct English , which he had learned from his mother who had had an English governess , and which he only ever spoke with her friends or on a case that required it , was of no use to him now . |
| 5 | I ca n't find a bit that Give me the pencil and let me show you . |
| 6 | RJR 's credit rating is being ruined by junk bonds whose interest rates are supposed to be reset by May 1991 at a level that restores them to 100% of their issue prices . |
| 7 | In a more complex case I might sit in on a discussion within a committee but begin to consider that it is not moving in a direction that suits me . |
| 8 | With a tenderness that surprised her the Frenchman put his arms around her and lifted her onto the cot beside him . |
| 9 | They were looking into each other 's eyes with a tenderness that brought her a cruel , twisting anguish . |
| 10 | Oval Face : You 'll look good in a veil that frames your face like a halo — bands around the forehead will suit you too . |
| 11 | This is still not an easy subject-matter — when the Royal Academy put together its recent retrospective of ‘ German Art in the Twentieth-Century ’ it dealt with the Nazi years by ignoring them altogether — a decision that put it in line with the orthodox view of the work 's quality and conveniently avoided the embarrassing possibility that these works — kitsch , sunlit expressions of heroic physical vigour and serene landscape — might still prove more popular than German expressionism . |
| 12 | This is a budget that promises what it will deliver . |
| 13 | The hardware gave her a shell that helped her cope . |
| 14 | In sharp contrast to the revolted and tortured Dubrulle , young Second Lieutenant Campana recounts how , at the end of his third spell in the line at Verdun , he cold-bloodedly photographed the body of one of his men killed by a shell that hit his own dugout , |
| 15 | THE flight from Berlin to Cap de la Hague took just over three hours , Asa charting a course that took them over parts of occupied Holland , Belgium and then France . |
| 16 | Six recently appointed health and safety reps passed with flying colours a course that introduces them to their basic responsibilities and duties as reps . |
| 17 | So can somebody give me a sentence that explains what we talked about the sun is n't staying still it 's , all right Kieran . |
| 18 | What is more , de Man argues , metaphor overcomes the opposition between inner repose and outer action because Marcel 's imagination gives him access to the outside world ; of a kind that allows him to possess it " much more effectively than if he had actually been present in an outside world that he could then have only known by bits and pieces " ( 1979 : 60 ) . |
| 19 | Did you have any experience of a kind that helped you before you came to drama school ? |
| 20 | There was a lilt that reminded him of Ella Fitzgerald . |
| 21 | Moments later , their clothes in a trail that echoed their urgency , they lay in each other 's arms on Rachel 's bed . |
| 22 | He went inside and the kitchen scents hit him then , laying down a trail that drew him across the creaking boards and down the hall . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | They are scholars , mystics and sorcerers without peer , but are affected by a languor that means they rarely bestir themselves except for the most pressing and dire of circumstances . |
| 25 | Roman exclaimed in satisfaction and , turning into a wide drive , pulled up in front of a building that said it was a motor halt . |
| 26 | She laughed , a response that pleased him , then he stepped towards her and took both her hands in his , gazing steadily down at her , serious once more . |
| 27 | If it is a slow-moving species , then it must rely instead on provoking a panic response in the attacker , a response that sees it pull back in horror and retreat to a safe place . |
| 28 | I think it 's a response that has nothing to do with my interaction with Carrington . |
| 29 | The Jesuits were expelled ( 1767 ) from both Spain and Spanish America — a measure that gave its author , Aranda , a European reputation as an esprit fort — and the reformers attempted to turn the universities into state-controlled educational institutions teaching useful knowledge instead of Aristotelean ‘ words ’ . |
| 30 | Midnight turned gently from a blow that grazed his ribs and brought his right fist down , short and deadly , on to the side of the stubbled jaw . |