Example sentences of "an [noun] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the fear of an election that at present prevents them in many instances from disobeying their party whip . |
| 2 | The Hancock in the Russell Collection ( now in Edinburgh ) has been joined by the Francis Coston an instrument that like the Tisseran has a gorgeously painted soundboard . |
| 3 | It is an irony that despite Perkin 's setting up a dye works and doing well out of it , the dye industry had become almost completely German by 1914 . |
| 4 | It is an irony that in this mechanical age the Royal Veterinary College is probably as secure as it ever has been , while the scientific and professional challenges become ever more complex . |
| 5 | Mr Buckley died under tons of rubble but the jury deleted from the charge an allegation that after staggering clear , Sutherland had pretended to the emergency services that there was no-one inside . |
| 6 | It seems unlikely that anything much will come of this discontent — there will always be some students eager to defend an institution that in most universities contributes up to £100,000 to charity each year . |
| 7 | Despite an undoubted attempt to enlarge rather than curtail the sphere of effective papal control — an attempt that on the surface at least succeeded again and again in particular areas from Holland to Brazil — the wider agenda was seldom set in Rome . |
| 8 | ‘ There is an indication that under Magnus Magnusson , people will at least talk ’ , he said . |
| 9 | Despite assertions to the contrary , it is an indication that in reality Morocco had changed its status and become dependent . |
| 10 | These accounts also give an indication that in producing 1.5 per cent return the capital base has been maintained so that today 's postal services can be maintained in the future . |
| 11 | So situations are reviewed and we do look at monitored traffic flows for example , we do look at our justifications and if there are reasons for a change we can go back , so it 's not irreversible by any means , that is the current committed preferred route however and I did n't want to give an indication that by changing the diagram we were saying everything 's opened up again , cos clearly we 've reached a stage that the County Council 's declared it 's a preferred route and that 's |
| 12 | My readings in Zen , too , had shown me the folly of love , analysed it as an illusion among all the other illusions of this floating and temporary world , an emotion that by its very nature created suffering . |
| 13 | For more than an hour , rockets exploded across the sky — an extravaganza that for many Peking residents recalled not so much the glory of the revolution as the tracer bullets and machine-gun fire of early June . |
| 14 | He had said in an interview that after 1960 " the southerners had assumed exclusive power … with 94 per cent of the development allocations going to the south and 6 per cent to the north " . |
| 15 | There is also an anxiety that through losing touch with developments , skills are also lost . |
| 16 | You see if that 's how we 're to judge blessing then what are we to say to people , to men like C T Stard who sacrificed an inheritance that in today 's value , just in the early part of this century , but in today 's value be worth millions of pounds to go to the Congo , and to China , and to India ? |
| 17 | A power that had been delegated previously is therefore removed , usually in quite a small way , by an instruction that in such and such a case the matter is to be referred upwards . |
| 18 | Far removed from this Spartan scene reigned the Kaiser , in an environment that to some of his disquieted advisers seemed rapidly to be regaining the splendour of pre-war days in inverse proportion to the hardships what were mounting in the rest of the country . |
| 19 | The same strictures apply in spades to Unix , an environment that in its conception is quite unsuitable as a production operating system : its priorities were easy sharing of files and code and interaction between members of development teams and between teams working on different projects , where the priority for a business operating system is security and protection . |
| 20 | It was rivalry that tamed a continent , harnessing the resources of harsh environments and creating an economy that before long was to give the United States the industrial leadership of the world . |
| 21 | A DOCUMENTARY programme from NBC-TV in January 1973 , had such an impact that in the following 48 hours more than a quarter of a million copies of the associated book were sold . |
| 22 | The lack of atmosphere , extending even to the non-appearance of MacFinall 's cymbal-and-drum ensemble , which has driven the pulse of many a West Indies advance in the past , was again painfully evident as 12,000 deigned to stay away , but King Dyall did at least make a cameo appearance in an outfit that for once defied description . |
| 23 | Lacuna came to a stop behind her , and pulled her gently into an embrace that for once was nothing but tender . |
| 24 | But it was n't that fierce , unpleasant upsurge of heat ; this was quite different — a warmth , a harmony , an acknowledgement that at times they could be in perfect accord . |
| 25 | There is an argument that by using the close-in position you can apply more force down on the shaft . |
| 26 | Neither of the formulas so far mentioned will do ; the Gibbs formula gives an entropy that for an isolated system of molecules is easily shown to stay constant in time rather than to increase , and the Boltzmann formula also does not have the desired non-decrease property if the system is not a gas . |
| 27 | But it was an extension that in the first instance was of greatest benefit to the middle classes , who were , in both a social and a transportation sense , the mobile classes . |
| 28 | Now , the fact of a past service raises an implication that at the time it was rendered it was to be paid for , and , if it was a service which was to be paid for , when you get in the subsequent document a promise to pay , that promise may be treated either as an admission which evidences or as a positive bargain which fixes the amount of that reasonable remuneration on the faith of which the service was originally rendered . |
| 29 | Though I think neither Eliot nor Pound explicitly used the idea of ‘ the threshold ’ , the idea is surely implicit in the criticism of both men ; and it is an implication that in our own criticism , and our own practice as verse writers , is almost universally ignored . |
| 30 | We are also gravely concerned because at the Lavenham parish meeting Mr Tony Webster of Atlas Aggregates categorically refused to give an assurance that in the future they would not apply to extend the mining operation to other parts of Cross Green Farm . |