Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] that a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are keenly aware that a University can seem a large and forbidding place to those on the outside . |
| 2 | When these " giant " blastocysts have expanded they are sufficiently large that a razor blade , scalpel or sharp glass needle can be used under a dissecting microscope to sever the mural TE from the other pole of the blastocyst containing ICM and polar TE ( 32 ) . |
| 3 | As many as one in five of the population attends an accident and emergency unit every year , yet staff shortages are so acute that a quarter of the 239 units in England and Wales do not have a trained consultant in charge . |
| 4 | You see , Chris the Stuffer 's deep freezes are so full that a while back , I promised him I would take the overflow . |
| 5 | You 're quite right that a number of er statements are coming out which , which do really give give erm legitimacy to this kind of violence bu bu but basically the violence is still being created or led by the poor in their attempt to , to get more . |
| 6 | She did n't much rate her chances of getting hold of the key to Charlie 's desk , but the desk itself was so old and the drawer appeared to be so ill-fitting that a touch of leverage might just spring it open . |
| 7 | It noted the possibility that in theory the interests of the partners might be so separated that a blanket restriction on competition would be unreasonable but rejected the contention that the mere fact of administrative departmentalisation could lead to that result . |
| 8 | The demands of children can be so insistent that a mother never uses the odd quiet moment to sit down with them and enjoy their company ; the temptation is always to seek out the next task . |
| 9 | It is , however , grouped for other purposes such as local government and it may well be administratively convenient that a town or city , already thus organised , should form one or more parliamentary constituencies , even though some disparities in size as between different constituencies result . |
| 10 | In the Berg judgment , Mr Justice Hobhouse considered the timing of Union Discount 's alleged reliance on the 1982 accounts : ‘ Furthermore , there would only be a limited period of time within which it would be reasonably foreseeable that a bank or discount house would rely upon a given set of audited accounts . |
| 11 | ‘ The truth is , my darling husband , I 'm almost sure that a baby is on the horizon — rather sooner than you think ! |
| 12 | I 'm absolutely sure that a chat with him would help you . |
| 13 | While the objections to rates are well known , it is difficult to be very confident that a switch to a poll tax will adequately redress these problems . |
| 14 | But the fact is no lender can ever be absolutely sure that a guarantor is not being subject to pressure from the principal debtor , and to require him to do more than properly and fairly point out to the guarantor the desirability of obtaining independent advice , and to require the documents to be executed in the presence of a solicitor , is to put upon commercial lenders a burden which would severely handicap the carrying out of what is , after all , an extremely common transaction of everyday occurrence for banks and other commercial lenders . |
| 15 | Whatever his sins it is clear that a man subject to such fits of remorse would have been well aware that a crusade was a religious act as well as a great military adventure . |
| 16 | They are well aware that a hooligan element scarred Leeds ' last European match in Paris in 1974 — also against German opposition . |
| 17 | Governments are well aware that a cycle of economic activity can be very advantageous provided it can be synchronized with the electoral cycle , so that booms occur at election times and recessions at non-election times . |
| 18 | I think that 's very important and I think it 's , there 's er actually , I have to say er I detect in 's letter because I am quite sure that a year ago she would have questioned the parish council 's existence , and indeed she 's being , erm , to my perception , highly critical of er the fact that the parish council has even dared to sort of taste the oxygen outside their own homes . |
| 19 | All of us there were so stunned that a man of such high standing in the golf world could be so uncaring . |
| 20 | This was in 1785 and by then the major mines were so deep that a ladder climb to the surface could take an hour . |
| 21 | However , there was no infringement of the rotated " L " grid as this was idea , it being almost inevitable that a spreadsheet program would use such a system . |
| 22 | It is most unlikely that a mother or father looking at a new-born child will be saying : — ‘ We have here a potential villain , who could , in a few years time be getting a living by robbery , violence or some other criminal activity . |
| 23 | The problem is that it is highly improbable that a group of patients with brain injury constitute a natural kind , even when they display similar symptoms on some test or other . |
| 24 | And , it would not work because the arrangement 2x + y does not provide a means of bringing accountability to bear on the performance of management : for it is highly improbable that a group of people which is primarily a derivative from two opposed and irreconcilable interests can effectively be called to account by either ; and the addition of a third group accountable to no one further confounds the confusion . |
| 25 | Of course , you may reasonably point out , it is highly unlikely that a child would eat delphinium seeds . |
| 26 | There is usually little difficulty in establishing a good business reason , since without it it is highly unlikely that a company would wish to relocate . |
| 27 | Besides , it is highly unlikely that a murderer would attend his victim 's funeral . |
| 28 | As a result it is highly unlikely that a party with a serious commitment to any substantial change in the institutional form of the market would ever get elected as it would be portrayed and perceived as being ‘ too extreme ’ . |
| 29 | The resemblance is so close that a human can easily mistake the new song for the sound of a trimphone . |
| 30 | Indeed , the machine is so massive that a tokamak reactor would need something like 17 times as much material to produce the same power output as a pressurised-water reactor . |