Example sentences of "an [noun] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drop the first letter and you get an insect that wiggles its arse , which seems plain enough . |
| 2 | Billingsgate has presided over this decline with all the grace of an oligarchy that sees its power declining . |
| 3 | As Todorov repeatedly insists in his Introduction to Poetics , ‘ The particular text will only be an instance that allows us to describe the properties of literature [ in general ] ’ ( 1981 : 7 ) . |
| 4 | During Worswick 's time there , Harwell — as part of the AEA — made the transition to a trading fund ( effectively a nationalised company rather than a government department ) , an experience that taught him a great deal about finance . |
| 5 | It was an experience that bound us more closely than ever . |
| 6 | One trainee on a course for people looking for employment commented that seeing himself on video in a mock interview was an experience that changed his life . |
| 7 | It is an ideology that calls itself pluralism when it imposes monoculture ; that speaks of choice as it snuffs out the biodiversity of the earth ; that cries democracy when it eclipses and denies all alternatives . |
| 8 | With borrowed money he took advantage of an opportunity that presented itself in the 1930s when Oscar Deutch set about forming a third circuit of cinemas — after those of the Rank Organisation and ABC — by buying up the best sites . |
| 9 | he said , with an accent that betrayed his Cockney past . |
| 10 | And despite an accent that belies his Middlesbrough birthplace Fothergill says he feels a heavy responsibility to the area . |
| 11 | From my point of view , one of the most powerful arguments that needs to be addressed is the argument about individual freedom and this is always important to me about , if you 're going to take an action that limits somebody 's freedom , you damn well have to have a good reason for it . |
| 12 | It is that ‘ right feel ’ about an action that tells one all is well . |
| 13 | Swallowing his pride , Lexandro inveigled , connived , and bribed his way as a junior shrimp into the very Ducas clan gang which his father had heard would soon be pressed into service — an action that grieved his parents . |
| 14 | There 's a rotary chin switch which you depress to activate an amplifier that lets us talk , visor to visor . |
| 15 | While the films made at the beginning of the war appealed for people to forget selfish desires and apply themselves to the common good , to put aside class divisions in order to confront an enemy that threatened everyone equally , the Gainsborough films addressed themselves to the frustrations and the pain that came after continuous self-sacrifice . |
| 16 | Younger sons did not at this time seek to maintain their gentility by going into the church or the army or by living off an annuity that allowed them to pass their time in respectable ease . |
| 17 | It was an association that made him an appropriate keeper at Loseley of Montague 's imprisoned son-in-law Henry Wriothesley , second Earl of Southampton [ q.v. ] in 1570 . |
| 18 | The fourth series ( starting on Wednesday , BBC1 , 4.35pm ) covers plenty of ground quizzing people about relationships , models about their looks and one teenager with an obsession that led him to wash his hands until they bled . |
| 19 | When the nurses — who , to encourage morale , insisted that every patient , however ill , should wash — came to help her , she submitted with an indifference that alarmed them . |
| 20 | While it is true that cause could be inserted in ( 134 ) , it is significant that the writer has used make with a subject ( " enzymes " ) which actively produces chemical reactions and is even described in the same sentence as an agent that speeds them up . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , the SPD , like Labour , has been nervous in calling for a complete recasting of public financing and altering both tax and expenditure profiles to fit with a post-cold war world while attempting to relate to an electorate that believes it is paying too many direct and indirect taxes as well as ever-rising social security and health insurance payments . |
| 22 | Rosen eked out a conversation with her and without Leon Kennedy , who was sewn into an isolation that made him more powerfully present . |
| 23 | It needs a firm beginning , a detailed and carefully prepared centre that passes logically from item to item , and an ending that rounds it off . |
| 24 | ‘ Perhaps I should sell the place and be done with it , ’ he said with an abruptness that showed he 'd been considering the idea for some time . |
| 25 | The letter was signed , with an abruptness that matched its content , simply ‘ R ’ . |
| 26 | She in her turn had discovered a man who might be charismatic in public , but privately was one who was also ruthless , single-minded , and a loner , an attitude that disconcerted her , because she recognised similar traits in herself . |
| 27 | At first his manner is reserved and defensive ; there is an attitude that suggests he expects rebuke and is ready to fight . |
| 28 | I believe that there 's an angel that guards her footsteps . |
| 29 | About twenty years after the sack of Aurae Phiala , Honorius finally issued an edict that recognised what had been true for nearly a century . |
| 30 | When a lymphocyte is presented with an antigen that fits its receptor as a key fits a lock , the lymphocyte is literally ‘ turned on ’ , with its metabolism rapidly increasing . |