The phrase "an utterance that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific spoken or written statement or expression in a more formal or academic context.
Example: "An utterance that conveys strong emotions can significantly impact the listener's response."
Alternatives: "a statement that" or "a remark that".
/ Relating to or being an utterance that performs an act by the fact that it's being uttered, as in, "I now pronounce you personal shopper and client".
"Mama," he said, testing another — an utterance that stopped him in his tracks and caused his torso to jackknife forward.
So he makes an utterance that proves to them that he is not afraid to publicly envision a definite end to the stimulus.
Speaking to a technology conference in Las Vegas in February, Mr. Kagermann seemed to suggest SAP would achieve a 35percentt operating margin quickly, an utterance that sent its stock up sharply, surprising SAP officials.
Created by Kate Bond and Morgan Lloyd, and featuring a cast of around 200, "Bum Bum" forces its paying participants to do things likely to go against the grain of folks whose theatergoing has been limited to the West End: saying its title, for starters (an utterance that defies dignity), and — far more daunting — becoming the unconditional center of attention.
Thus, an utterance that contains four conjuncts about what Laowang has done is more informative than an utterance that contains three conjuncts.
Namely, any speech act involves a linguistic utterance that is set in a particular physical setting, and has a particular action sequence structure and assumptions associated with it, which differ between speech act types and make it possible to differentiate between them based on the features most relevant for the communicative function they convey.
Under these circumstances, speech and everyday language would indeed be no longer a meaningful utterance that transcends behavior even if it only expresses it, and it would much better be replaced by the extreme and in itself meaningless formalism of mathematical signs.
Pope John Paul II urged hundreds of thousands of young Roman Catholics at the church's World Youth Day here to shun materialism, resist sin and embrace Christianity, his steady words giving way at the end to a spontaneous utterance that did not make immediate sense.
Should Mr. Bush not find a way to seize the national spotlight and land the lead slot on the evening news -- not necessarily with scandal, but with some unexpected gesture, like, say, a public utterance that does not include the words "tax," "education," "agenda" or "appreciate" -- he will not be heard above Mr. Clinton, let alone over the din of a culture that gets noisier by the day.
It was, Eaves told the court, a lot like the "Don't Tell Him Pike" joke in Dad's Army – a stupid utterance that gave the game away from someone too sure of her own authority.
