Example sentences of "a [noun] that [vb -s] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Six recently appointed health and safety reps passed with flying colours a course that introduces them to their basic responsibilities and duties as reps . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Someone who has acquired skills in early life for a job involving considerable strength and mobility will be more handicapped in finding work if they become wheelchair-bound than someone similarly afflicted who has qualifications and experience in a field that allows them to do a sedentary job demanding intellectual skills . |
| 10 | Karatzias , 39 , and partner Craigen Pappas are taking part in a £700,000 event against a field that includes US Masters champion Fred Couples , and former world No.1s Ian Woosnam and Bernhard Langer . |
| 11 | As far as the central grant is concerned , it has developed a technique that enables it to cut the money given to some authorities which it considers to be over-spenders by an amount equal to or more than any expenditure increase . |
| 12 | ‘ We also now have a technique that makes it possible to control the production of female ova — egg cells . |
| 13 | a certificate that proves you have the motor insurance you must have by law . |
| 14 | a certificate that proves you have the motor insurance you must have by law . |
| 15 | a certificate that proves you have the motor insurance you must have by law . |
| 16 | a certificate that proves you have the motor insurance you must have by law . |
| 17 | Because the males ' reproductive success is probably limited by the number of females they can attract and defend from other males rather than their sperm supply , natural selection will favour any property in a male that enables him to mate with more females . |
| 18 | In consequence , there are many single wavenumber patterns , some of them of a complexity that makes them not instantly recognizable as such ; for example , one of them is a hexagonal pattern rather like Fig. 4.9 . |
| 19 | It is sometimes a way of endowing a person with a responsibility that trains him to fulfil various roles in the future , or that it is hoped will change his character for the better , or that endows its holder with prestige , or that gives him a certain hold on other people and makes them more likely to act in his interests . |
| 20 | It ai n't that it 's too noisy — it 's just , you know , like a dentist 's drill or summat — it , s a noise that makes you want to run away from it . |
| 21 | A presence that disturbs me with the joy |
| 22 | This star has a spectrum that identifies it as a star of the type called blue supergiants , whose masses range from 20 to 100 . |
| 23 | The only way to bring back the Lucy Ghosts is to prepare a Germany that wants them back . |
| 24 | Irene Daniels , who 's the programme 's researcher says ‘ if you have a clip that makes you and your family laugh , then it 's odds on it 'll make other people laugh too ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ This is ‘ gesture legislation ’ — a statute that says we do not approve — but without any real means of enforcement , ’ he says . |
| 26 | These are linked up to some rather clever controls : two concentric pots ( one for master volume and pan pickup selector , the other for active treble boost/cut and active bass boost/cut ) , one four-position rotary switch offering ‘ off ’ , active with mid-boost , active , and passive with the bass boost/cut becoming a master tone control , and a mini-switch that allows you to add the P-bass pickup to any switching combination . |
| 27 | It is safe unless you have a horse that needs it soft like Soft Day , ’ Meade said . |
| 28 | A force that provides us with food and warmth and light … and upon which we 've become very dependent , maybe to our cost . |
| 29 | There is a photograph that preserves him forever racing down the face of a twenty-five-foot wave . |
| 30 | It 's not the cost ( £200+ ) of a boat that worries me , it 's more the mechanisation of a basic fishing skill like working a bait on the wind that niggles . |