Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adj] a [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One more pair of hands for an hour or two a week can be a godsend for this very worthwhile and rewarding ‘ back bone ’ work . |
| 2 | The American policy-makers were labouring under the delusion that such a force would be attractive to the Europeans . |
| 3 | Although the committee was expected primarily to identify people suspected of having collaborated with the Iraqi army , opposition sources quoted in the Guardian of Feb. 13 expressed the fear that such a committee might be used against dissidents , adding that , if this were so , such a body " would be very dangerous if there were no parliament " . |
| 4 | At its annual meeting , hastily relocated from the severely damaged Baltic Exchange building , Mr Nicholas Baring , chairman , said in response to a question from a shareholder that such a possibility would be looked at very carefully . |
| 5 | He did not believe that a long period of purdah was necessary , and the general rule that such a record could not be published until thirty years after the event was indeed ridiculous , since it has been honoured only in the breach . |
| 6 | It is difficult to devise the neutral control condition that such a demonstration would require . |
| 7 | In a statement released by the Department of Health last night , management said : ‘ There is little point in meeting Apap in the near future because such a meeting would be bound to raise false expectations of an improved offer . ’ |
| 8 | If it transpires from the answer to this requisition that such a memorandum should and will be endorsed , make a note there and then on your completion agenda to obtain a copy of it . |
| 9 | It is especially interesting that , leaving aside the damage that such a policy would do to the services by wiping out 10 frigates , four submarines and four squadrons of Tornados , there has never been a suggestion in any of the texts that money would be returned to the taxpayer . |
| 10 | But Christian MPs held firm to their demand for a programmed Syrian military withdrawal , brushing aside repeated verbal assurances from Arab countries that such a withdrawal would take place . |
| 11 | The Gnomes were very interested in this ; as Flaherty said , you could not know too much about these things , although it was a pig 's pity that such a jewel could n't be worn by the King of the day when he went about his reigning , because was n't that the purpose of crowns and jewels anyway ? |
| 12 | The College itself has warned the County Council that such a camp could undermine security because the I R A could use it as a cover while surveying the staff and premises . |
| 13 | The idea is supported by several Vice-chancellors and Directors of polytechnics , and the government is attracted to vouchers because such a system would encourage competition among higher education institutions , making them more responsive to the demands of students . |
| 14 | Like almost all other ministers he avoided visiting the defeated South as such a trip would not have fitted the received view of America which both hosts and visitors wished to retain . |
| 15 | There is an obvious danger that such a body might well adopt an excessively narrow focus by concentrating on such issues as effectiveness and consistency in sentencing , in which case it would simply perpetuate the present disjuncture between sentencing and penal policy . |
| 16 | He reached the conclusion that such a move would be relatively simple , on the grounds that the two organizations had much in common . |
| 17 | I could give many other examples which would kill once and for all the idea so often propounded by the opponents of local income tax that such a tax would not benefit people on the lowest incomes . |
| 18 | Touring Rothman 's factory in Darlington he assures workers that such a ban would have no effect on sales or jobs , in fact , he said as in the case of Italy , tobacco sales would increase ! |
| 19 | Whatever our conscious reasons ( ’ No , I want to remember him/her the way he/she was ' or ‘ Not in front of the children ’ ) , a dead body is not considered to be spectacle for display in Britain , and the rationale which dictates it can sometimes disguise feelings of embarrassment that such a thing could occur in our death-defying , well-regulated households . |
| 20 | It is believed that some vines can live as long as five hundred years although such a plant would yield a negligible crop of grapes . |
| 21 | Thus if an individual is to be deprived of a benefit which was enjoyed in the past , and which he could legitimately expect to continue , or he has received assurances from the decision-maker that such a benefit will not be withdrawn without giving him some opportunity to argue the contrary , then in either instance an opportunity for the individual to make representations will be accorded . |
| 22 | And part of the demand for a centralized curriculum , dictated from above , has stemmed from the confused notion that such a curriculum would be not only vocational and future-directed , but strict , narrow , and exact , containing within itself its own criteria of rightness and wrongness . |
| 23 | There is no guarantee that such a change will benefit you , me , he or she . |
| 24 | The Gulf war and its attendant debate over the dispatching of Japanese troops overseas also affected Japan 's relationship with its Asian neighbours , many of whom expressed fears that such a development might be the first step towards a resurgence of military power commensurate with the country 's huge economic strength . |
| 25 | In America and Britain however , there were fears that such a policy would cripple Germany ; America and Britain would then be forced to provide aid to keep Germans alive , and the health of the European economy in general would suffer . |
| 26 | Given the technical and administrative problems that such a method would present in many classrooms and the artificiality which would be introduced , we recommend that tape recording ( audio or video ) should not be used to moderate the assessment of oral performance for SATs ( though it may , of course , be used by teachers or pupils , as part of their planned activities ) . |
| 27 | It says much for his authority and persuasiveness that such a scheme could have been accepted . |
| 28 | It gets its name from the belief that such a flower could only come from the home of a god — Mt Parnassus . |
| 29 | The same is true where there is a good prospect that such a convention will emerge . |
| 30 | However , the prospect that such a strategy might succeed appeared somewhat remote from the outset given the rather equivocal commitment to freedom of conscience under the convention as a whole ( not least of which is its failure to incorporate a right of conscientious objection to compulsory military service ( Dignan , 1983 ) ) . |