Example sentences of "a [noun] that [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Roman exclaimed in satisfaction and , turning into a wide drive , pulled up in front of a building that said it was a motor halt . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ We also now have a technique that makes it possible to control the production of female ova — egg cells . |
| 8 | He instructed me to look after you , ’ she finished with a look that said it was no use arguing . |
| 9 | This star has a spectrum that identifies it as a star of the type called blue supergiants , whose masses range from 20 to 100 . |
| 10 | He kicked the chair aside with a violence that sent it crashing across the floor . |
| 11 | It is safe unless you have a horse that needs it soft like Soft Day , ’ Meade said . |
| 12 | Well we were taken up to the standby boat which is I mean every vessel in the North Sea , every rig and installation has a boat that circles it , non stop , twenty four hours a day and I mean that The standby boat on Piper I mean it was the the two inflatable boats off it that picked everybody up , and most folk up , and one of them was lost , they lost two of the crew off that . |
| 13 | I joining the company something like that and if they did when you do join a department that does it you have a great sense of belonging , because some of the things you 'll do for the training will be allocated to other members round a team , yeah , all this sort of stuff and it becomes very easy , takes a monkey off your back as it were , you do n't have to worry . |
| 14 | But in addition to this , wine would be made available to the local population at an affordable price , and in a condition that allows it to be stored without spoiling . |
| 15 | She flashed me a glance that made it clear there was some backbone in there , it was just the training that made her act like a dipstick . |
| 16 | It was a headline that did it , I think I put something like , ‘ Like Lambrettas To The Slaughter ’ … |
| 17 | Michele was answering with a brevity that made it abundantly clear that he was disinclined to talk about the sculptor . |
| 18 | I think we can protect our children much better than we do , for one thing there is a law that says it 's illegal to sell tobacco to children under sixteen , that law is flouted every day in a large proportion of the , er the shops in this city and in Scotland . |
| 19 | He was even more baffled when he tried to convert some of his Duchy property in Kennington into small units for single teenagers — a group that finds it notoriously difficult to find accommodation — and met with vociferous local anger . |
| 20 | It is a bold colonization by a group that knows it is — and shows itself to be — in the ascendant . |
| 21 | Equally we might accept the temporal regress caused by supposing that for each moment in time there is a moment that precedes it , or the causal regress derived from the propositions that every event has a separate cause and that every cause is an event . |
| 22 | Just as at Northampton he questioned the merit of the Southern League after shaping a team that mastered it , so after his later Championship triumphs at Huddersfield and Arsenal , he was to question the league system that was the framework of those triumphs . |
| 23 | WHAT is that special quality in a wine that makes it an award winner ? |
| 24 | He recalled the uncanny way in which the wizard 's sword curved up and caught his own blade with a shock that jerked it out of his grip . |
| 25 | The question really means : What is it about the idea of a god that gives it its stability and penetrance in the cultural environment ? |
| 26 | Firstly , they bind a piece of writing together as a single entity , giving it a connectedness that makes it read as a whole rather than as a string of separate jottings . |
| 27 | The common European toad , when it meets a snake , inflates its body and stands on tip-toe , a procedure that makes it appear to have grown suddenly and that seems to baffle most of the snakes that encounter it . |
| 28 | It was a woman that it was a woman that did it . |
| 29 | It 's a kiss that says it all . |
| 30 | The tourist was well built , stronger possibly than either Creed or McGowan , but there was a pleading look in his eyes now , like a dog that knows it 's going to be kicked . |