Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] a [noun sg] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there are several billion people in the world to whom such a coincidence could happen , so the apparent coincidence is actually not as great as it seems . |
| 2 | Thus the pressure , both inner and outer , on teachers to have a clear , articulate rationale for what they are doing is high at the same time as the exploration of the values from which such a rationale must derive is conspicuously out of style . |
| 3 | Clara had had the sense not to try to ask her mother about a possible purchase , as she could only too clearly imagine the responses to which such a request would expose her , and the abuse which would be cast upon those girls fortunate enough to have a use for party dresses . |
| 4 | The Colosseum shows the fine architectural effect which such a system can provide ( 121 ) . |
| 5 | Having said that this is not the procedure by which such a measure should reach the statute book , I welcome the Bill because it will result in a long-overdue reform . |
| 6 | They set up a dichotomy thus : ‘ Rather than scheming as to what a Left-Labour government should do , it is vital to consider the political basis on which such a government will become a possibility . ’ |
| 7 | I therefore contend that ‘ scheming as to what a Left-Labour government should do ’ — in the sense of attempting to elaborate credible options for policy at a national level , while recognising the real problems involved — is actually a rather important part of developing ‘ the political basis on which such a government will become a possibility ’ . |
| 8 | Pound there , it is plain — for instance , in his comment on Hilaire Belloc — is as unwilling as any Marxist to abstract a question like the proper language for poetry from the whole social matrix and milieu in which such a subject may get itself debated . |
| 9 | However , respondents pointed to situations in which such a rule would seem to give anomalous results . |
| 10 | No figure can be put on the number of years for which such a procession must have been held to qualify for the exemption ; any figure that is imposed is likely to be arbitrary . |
| 11 | ‘ Mr Wilson ’ , he said , ‘ is imposing on Prince Charles a sacrifice which he would not dream of imposing on his own son. , It was indeed a sacrifice and one from which many a twenty-year-old would have turned and run . |
| 12 | Whatever such a literature might lack in technical sophistication will , it is alleged , be more than compensated for by ideological exuberance . |
| 13 | This firm decided that a computerised database system would possibly aid the operation , but they wanted independent advice on what such a decision would involve . |
| 14 | A crucial problem for phenomenalism of either sort is that few philosophers have attempted , and none have remotely succeeded , in showing what such a reduction would look like in detail . |
| 15 | In order to see what such a constraint might mean , we assume that the lump-sum transfers have to be employed in fixed proportions ( ) , and that there is no capital tax . |
| 16 | I have quoted these latter points at length because I can readily agree with them , and consider them important , but what I find politically weakening is the dichotomy between promoting socialist developments which do not depend on the existence of a socialist government and the stigmatised ‘ scheming ’ as to what such a government should do . |
| 17 | Is that what such a force would have done , acting at the behest of the Council of Ministers ? |
| 18 | But there are limits to what such a institution can achieve . |