Example sentences of "an [noun] that [vb -s] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Each word , when it is verified by the word recognition stage , returns an index that points to its morphological root . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They do not want multiple entries of the same plan but an entry that goes beyond 16 games as a single column plan . |
| 7 | Thijs et al have postulated that pregnancy exerts an effect that disappears after about five years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | • 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 ’ . |
| 12 | Usually the upshot of such shenanigans is an album that proves to be a yawn-provoker of Horlicks-shaming proportions . |
| 13 | Virgin shortly release ‘ The Faust Tapes ’ , an album that retails for just 48p . |
| 14 | An industry that deals with petroleum products tends , by its nature , to be inherently dangerous . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | " Next week I shall be writing about moorland walks and suggesting an itinerary that takes in the ever-attractive Tower Foin . " |
| 17 | It is an attitude that allows for the acceptance of continual change and advancement . |
| 18 | Being solid wool merchants at heart , they are not sure what to make of an engine that runs on paper . |
| 19 | It is disappointing , therefore , to experience an arrow that points at nothing and nowhere . |
| 20 | It 's not an ivy that clings to the wall . |
| 21 | I mean it 's an issue that needs to be looked at anyway is n't it ? |
| 22 | Meaning is not an issue that arises for the Russian Formalists , and it is here that they differ most fundamentally from the American New Critics with whom they otherwise have so many similarities . |
| 23 | ‘ Be your own lawyer and you 'll have a fool for a client ’ , is an adage that calls for another : ‘ Employ a lawyer and he 'll have a pauper for a client ’ — Sunday Times . |
| 24 | The outcome has an importance that stretches beyond domestic considerations . |
| 25 | It is quite clear that most Canadian and American graduates speak perfect English , and it seems rather pointless to expect them to take an examination that consists of a test of English and of basic medical knowledge that they already have . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ We want an inquiry that will deal with the most important thing of all — that is an inquiry that gets at the truth . ’ |
| 27 | Consider a simple model of an organism that reproduces at just two ages . |
| 28 | We were roughly in the middle of St Christopher 's Place , which is n't a ‘ place ’ in the French sense , just an alley that cuts between Oxford and Wigmore Streets . |
| 29 | In the case of the citrus swallowtail caterpillar ( bottom ) there are false eyes near the front end of the body and , just behind the animal 's real head , an organ that looks like the forked tongue of a snake . |
| 30 | The extent of cross-breeding and hybridizing has been an explosion that continues to this day . |