Example sentences of "an [noun] that [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The road was beginning to rise slightly , an incline that led to a gentle crest . |
| 7 | The success rate for obtaining an enhancement that persisted for more than 15min was less than 10% . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Let's face it , Rangers are the biggest club in Scotland , but they had an attitude that seemed to be against change and against progress . |
| 13 | Diane told herself that this was just a kind of paranoia on her part , an over-apprehension that came from reading too many doctor articles in women 's magazines , but it did n't make her any less uneasy . |
| 14 | What Sidney and Beatrice Webb [ qq.v. ] saw as ‘ a scandalous perversion of the law ’ led to an outcry that coincided with the dramatic emergence of the short-lived Grand National Consolidated Trades Union founded by Robert Owen [ q.v. ] , which organized a massive protest in London on 21 April 1834 . |
| 15 | Ireland , an issue that resurfaced with a vengeance the day after the election , is a case in point . |
| 16 | An error that arose on the consolidation of the capital gains legislation into TCGA 1992 will be corrected in next year 's Finance Bill . |
| 17 | At the end of the hospital treatment , they went away to the Caribbean on holiday , by an airplane that belonged to a director of Simon 's firm . |
| 18 | Eager , it seemed , to atone for the embarrassment of Saturday 's 5-2 home defeat by Aston Villa , the London side could have scored three times in the opening nine minutes and went on to dominate the rest of the first half with an ease that pointed to only one result . |
| 19 | The Cook Antonello has been offered privately for some time , being turned down by both the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Polish/American heiress Basia Johnson , the latter dissuaded by her advisors Derek Johns and the late Adrian Ward-Jackson ( see The Art Newspaper No. 1 , Oct. 1990 , p. 17 ) , who held that it was a copy by Andrea Solario after a lost prototype by Antonello , an opinion that originated with Bernard Berenson in 1895 , and one that stuck for most of the twentieth century . |
| 20 | The path was built to serve an observatory that functioned at the top of the Ben at the turn of the century . |
| 21 | The description that follows is based on an article that appeared in the November 1989 issue of the IMS Journal , and additional material supplied by the authors . |
| 22 | As recently as 1987 , he sacked his adviser , Mr. Richard Heller , for writing an article that stated in precise terms the Labour party 's policy of today . |
| 23 | In his ‘ Small History of Photography ’ , Benjamin ( 1979a , p. 248 ) notes that in photography 's early mid-nineteenth-century days , ‘ the client ’ who came to be photographed was ‘ the member of a rising class equipped with an aura that seeped into the very folds of the man 's frock coat or floppy cravat ’ , but that the later ‘ imperialist bourgeoisie ’ lost its aura in its ‘ deepening degeneration ’ , its Jugendstil photos featuring a fashionable ‘ twilight ’ and a ‘ non-auratic pose ’ . |
| 24 | It was apparent to many people that this phase-out was an occasion that had to be marked . |
| 25 | You may be interested in an event that happened to me after our Remembrance Service at East Kirkby early this July . |
| 26 | The Leeds manager would never have been given air time on general football matters as he was always perceived as someone who was fronting an organisation that stood for the worst things in football . |
| 27 | You might have thought almost no one would back the successor to an organisation that collapsed in disgrace only months ago after 40 years of misrule . |
| 28 | Those tools are our first examples of frozen actions or gestures , an art that evolved into the sophistication of a Rubens , Delacroix and Pollock . |
| 29 | Under Allen 's guidance she climbed on to an oak that grew by the ford , clambered along a branch , and swung easily into a chestnut . |
| 30 | He had said that it was the duty of any chairman to refer an offer that came from a reputable source to his board and shareholders . |