Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We often visit schools that are involved in testing teaching units to discover that overnight a new program has been written by a teacher to use in his afternoon lesson . |
| 2 | I was surprised , therefore , to discover that quite a busy programme had been arranged for me . |
| 3 | The designer , aided by the development process must try to ensure that only a small proportion of teachers fall at each fence — a forbidding challenge . |
| 4 | It did not come to much : but it was perhaps essential before Britain obtained major allies to believe that somehow a revolutionary movement could be incited to grow in occupied Europe . |
| 5 | She snuggled down beneath the duvet , desperately trying not to think that just a short while ago it had been wrapped round his powerful body , but as she turned her face into the pillow she was all but overwhelmed by the scent of him — a clean , heady , masculine smell that owed nothing to any kind of artificial fragrance . |
| 6 | Another way of formulating this criterion is to say that only a semantic deviance can be taken as a ‘ figure of speech ’ . |