Example sentences of "[that] a [adj] [noun sg] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There has come to be something shocking in the discovery that a seeming castle is only a cowshed . |
| 2 | It is not that a major shift is suddenly taking place , although the stock market crash of October 1987 did make people feel as if the ground was unexpectedly moving beneath them . |
| 3 | Being a discursive subject and speaking are a matter of having access to a mirror , and it is not insignificant that a male subject is initially in control of the retrovizor . |
| 4 | While in the early history of the struggle for freedom of speech the restrictions were enforced by criminal prosecutions , it is clear that a civil action is as great , if not a greater , restriction than a criminal prosecution . |
| 5 | An all too common kind of crisis for community and primary care teams is that a vulnerable patient is suddenly discharged from hospital on a Friday afternoon without any formal referral or plan for aftercare . |
| 6 | In the course of receiving treatment for a heart condition , Hinrich Medau became deeply interested in the work of Dr Ludwig Schmitt , who believed that a healthy state is more likely to be maintained where there is lively blood circulation and breathing to full capacity . |
| 7 | The hon. Gentleman will understand that , in all matters of such sensitivity , it is deeply important that a weak signal is never given by any Member of this House . |
| 8 | This approach requires that a possible parse is randomly chosen and assigned a score . |
| 9 | The paradoxes put forward Tolkien 's theses that determination should survive the worst that can happen , that a stout pretence is more valuable than sincere despair . |
| 10 | We can now account moreover for the observation made by Poutsma ( 1923 : 41 ) that a perfect infinitive is always preceded by to when used with a verb of perception : ( 50 ) Mr Lorry observed a great change to have come over the doctor ( and not *observed a great change have come over the doctor ) . |
| 11 | There has been some suggestion that parents are more likely to argue in front of their sons than their daughters ; that a disturbed parent is more likely to pick on a son than a daughter ; and that mothers may transfer negative experiences with their husband into negative expectations of their sons . |
| 12 | There is more room for disagreement with Grant and Wallace 's assertion that a pro-labour climate is most conducive to strike violence , principally because workers may feel that such behaviour will be tolerated under a supportive regime . |
| 13 | Also , given what has been said , that a mental event is wholly within consciousness , it is also true that in speaking of the mental life of people , in a large sense of the term , we are speaking of more than mental events . |
| 14 | They suddenly realize that they have become obedient parents and that a tyrannical toddler is effectively ‘ running ’ the household . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the model does show that a good deal is now known about the illness , and this information provides both promising avenues for future research and implications for preventive intervention . |
| 16 | We have shown that a lexical look-up is more effective than n-grams in terms of reduction of candidate strings . |
| 17 | Experimental results showed that a lexical look-up is more effective than n-grams in terms of reduction of candidate strings . |
| 18 | I do n't actually think that a Vice Presidency is somehow , should rule you out of organization |
| 19 | There are no easy answers but If you have not already been applying all the techniques listed in this book when applying for jobs you should find that a methodical approach is more productive than previous haphazard applications . |
| 20 | Psychoanalysis has made unfamiliar with the intimate connection between the father-complex and belief in God ; it has shown us that a personal God is psychologically nothing other than an exalted father , and it brings us evidence every day of how young people lose their religious beliefs as soon as their father 's authority breaks down . |
| 21 | In terms of government legislation , empirical research has indicated that a consensual model is indeed more applicable . |
| 22 | The Danes have made it quite clear — and I accept the arguments and the evidence that they have produced — that a second interpreter is absolutely necessary in the case of an application for leave . |
| 23 | I mean , when you start a silly rumour that a famous woman is really some silly actor dressed up — well senior citizens reading it can be HEARTBROKEN . |
| 24 | Can only assume this was designed a long time ago , say roughly 1983 ; surely even Peter Snow must now realise that a Labour landslide is rather more likely than a Tory one . |
| 25 | When standing for any length of time , remember that a wide base is more stable than a small one . |
| 26 | Moreover , most of us seem to be so certain that a first edition is really a first edition . |
| 27 | It may be that a new course is still in the planning stages , or that what you want is offered at another local centre . |
| 28 | No one who has visited a Greek tax office in a provincial town , and seen rows of clerks thumbing and date-stamping their way through piles of dusty paper , can feel confident that a new broom is truly on the way . |
| 29 | When using this definition the results of conventional designs seem so good that it is effectively impossible to show that a new design is significantly better than conventional ones . |
| 30 | While it brings a warm glow of a job well done ( and , perhaps , the thought that a happy subscriber is more likely to keep on subscribing ) answering such queries personally does leave a nagging worry . |