Example sentences of "an [noun] that [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not an income that allows for any luxuries . |
| 2 | Some children never learn it , not because they can not read , but because the books they are given do not include this need to attend to what the author is not saying — the beginning of an experience that leads to Jane Austen . |
| 3 | For the third , there was the pang in his body , physical , yet presumably more to do with the mind : a regret for the paltriness of his life ; grief about an existence that seemed in perpetual stalemate now because of a devouring sense of loss and betrayal , and yet a certainty of the possibility of something else . |
| 4 | Polish nationalism , as Rosa Luxemburg pointed out to Lenin on several occasions , was unusual in that it was not primarily a bourgeois phenomenon , but rather a substitute for ideology taken over from the szlachta by the Polish peasantry as they and the lower ranks of the gentry coalesced to form an industrial working class and a commercial bourgeoisie.14 An important component of Polish political life , and part of the damage wrought by partition , was the continuing failure to produce an ideology that went beyond the purely national to link the aspiration to exist as an independent nation with either capitalist organisation or a socialist vision of society . |
| 5 | It may be with a contact poison that quickly enters a soft-bodied creature like a greenfly and kills on contact , a stomach poison that works through the digestive system , a neurotoxin that paralyses the nervous system , or an asphyxiant that enters through the creature 's respiratory system , or we could encourage a natural predator . |
| 6 | On Norfolk Island , John met Mary Ann Shears , the daughter of a convict and they formed an attachment that lasted for the rest of his life . |
| 7 | Each word , when it is verified by the word recognition stage , returns an index that points to its morphological root . |
| 8 | Most of our problems were due to weather and poorly functioning equipment : an extended-range Loran that never worked , an ADF that pointed in the wrong direction and a kaput old-fashioned venturi altitude indicator . |
| 9 | Tom Selleck as King Ferdinand of Spain is a real hoot — he ca n't decide whether to play him as a moody Continental or haughty monarch , so what we get is a cross between Magnum and Don Juan with an accent that hovers between Malibu and Basingstoke . |
| 10 | Out of Surbiton , with an accent that veered between Sydney — which was where many people located him — and outer London , his initial work on the magazine had been selling it on the streets . |
| 11 | The road was beginning to rise slightly , an incline that led to a gentle crest . |
| 12 | They do not want multiple entries of the same plan but an entry that goes beyond 16 games as a single column plan . |
| 13 | Thijs et al have postulated that pregnancy exerts an effect that disappears after about five years . |
| 14 | When looking through windows for evidence it is often the case that the researcher only sees those types of evidence with a significance that has previously been established , and with an association that complies with existing models . |
| 15 | I mean we come out with erm an equation that look like so expected price and T is a function right it 's the sum of gamma into one minus gamma into J into P T minus one minus J and J goes to infinity . |
| 16 | erm I must confess I 've always had rather a soft spot for macro mutations , I do n't know why , it may have had something to do with Goldsmith 's prose , which is sort of rather moving when you get into it , erm and partly , and this is an interesting comment as an aside , that I knew as an undergraduate that to argue in favour of Goldsmith would make my teachers in general , and Professor J B S Halldane in particular , exceedingly angry and making one 's teachers angry is , after all , one of the activities into which undergraduates should occasionally go . |
| 17 | It 's a mysterious , diablo-enhanced thing and fits snugly into an album that takes in pre-pop escapades like ‘ Hey Boots ’ and ‘ Eau Water ’ and then flits to the lilting balladry of ‘ Love In A Hollow Tree ’ which is capable of passing for Julian Cope on a clear day . |
| 18 | It 's a mysterious , diablo-enhanced thing and fits snugly into an album that takes in pre-pop escapades like ‘ Hey Boots ’ and ‘ Eau Water ’ and then flits to the lilting balladry of ‘ Love In A Hollow Tree ’ which is capable of passing for Julian Cope on a clear day . |
| 19 | • The message is brief — Shelleyan Orphan are alive and well and still signed to Rough Trade , who , in mid-October , will be releasing an album that answers to the name of ‘ Humroot ’ . |
| 20 | Usually the upshot of such shenanigans is an album that proves to be a yawn-provoker of Horlicks-shaming proportions . |
| 21 | Virgin shortly release ‘ The Faust Tapes ’ , an album that retails for just 48p . |
| 22 | The success rate for obtaining an enhancement that persisted for more than 15min was less than 10% . |
| 23 | Painted to represent an aircraft that operated from USAAF Station 234 , Mount Farm , the fighter is adorned with the correct shade of PRU blue and carries the US Star 'n Bar insignia of the 7th Photographic Group , with the aircraft 's serial repeated in large yellow lettering across the fin and rudder . |
| 24 | Certainly no other organization could challenge the sheer size of an industry that had from the outset relied on economies of scale and realized the logic of a mass audience , but neither was there any other organization prepared to rely exclusively on entertainment , which the showmen had identified as the essence of the movies . |
| 25 | An industry that deals with petroleum products tends , by its nature , to be inherently dangerous . |
| 26 | Oscars , by contrast , are handed out to an industry that thrives on glittering events and spends money as if it were being withdrawn from circulation tomorrow . |
| 27 | " Next week I shall be writing about moorland walks and suggesting an itinerary that takes in the ever-attractive Tower Foin . " |
| 28 | Even Shirley Christian 's relatively cosy interview with North for the New York Times on December 1st — an interview that gained in suspiciousness and oddity because it was the last North gave for two years — plunged suddenly into an action-man world . |
| 29 | For Ho Chi Minh , formerly ‘ Nguyen the Patriot ’ , it was an accolade that corresponded to reality but of all the ‘ objective circumstances ’ which might be held to account for even a temporary communist victory in August 1945 at least the most striking and immediate was the political vacuum into which they moved . |
| 30 | It is an attitude that allows for the acceptance of continual change and advancement . |