Example sentences of "a [noun prp] that [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 In the name of these principles the Cortes produced on paper ( for neither the constitution nor its legislative consequences were ever effective ) a Spain that would have delighted the monarchical bureaucrats : a clumsy taxational system , with endless provincial divergencies , was to be replaced by a uniform income tax ; the machinery of the ancien régime with its characteristic confusion of administrative and judicial function was dismantled .
2 He says these figures imply a SAM that can operate at room temperature with a resolution 0.1 micrometres .
3 What we are seeing nightly on our TV screens is as vile and disgusting a process of racial extermination as anything practised by the Nazis , yet once again the West , including a Britain that should know better than most , is responding in terms which echo chillingly down the years from Hitler , appeasement , Chamberlain and Munich .
4 During the French referendum , those urging the French to vote Yes argued that the alternative was a Europe that would revert to nationalism and division .
5 A lot of Americans are meanwhile disenchanted with an alliance that commits them to defending a Europe that could do more for itself — especially a Europe that offers America so little , so ungraciously , in return .
6 We must build a free and democratic Europe , from the Baltic to the Mediterranean and from the Atlantic to the Urals : a Europe that will , however , respect the essential sovereignty of national Parliaments , and not trample them underfoot .
7 According to the theories of associative learning presented in Chapter 1 , certain conditions of training ( roughly , those in which the CS predicts the omission of a US that might otherwise be expected to occur ) allow the formation of an inhibitory CS-US link .
8 And here , with so many gangs living close together , more names were crossed out with an X. That would have meant more killing .
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