Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I agree with my hon. Friend that perhaps a moral can be drawn from that . |
| 2 | Taken to extremes , a Bonsai pine , cherry or plum can embrace many more elements than a mere dwarfed tree might at first suggest to the Westerner : antiquity , continuity ( the best examples have been cared for by successive generations ) , and symbolic qualities that only a study of Zen can fully bring home . |
| 3 | Mrs Hatton , even more expertly , kept it under a piteous control that only a brute would have the brashness to disregard . |
| 4 | Tears were a kind of emotional richness that only a man who was really warm and human could afford . |
| 5 | It is appalling to hear a doctor describe , with the detailed anatomical knowledge that only a doctor can have , exactly what happened to his poor body when he was tortured ceaselessly , unendingly , with just short gaps to let him regain consciousness , for weeks on end . |
| 6 | The most enduring damage done by the Spycatcher litigation to the rule against prior restraint was the emergence of a legal doctrine that once a secrecy injunction has been granted against one newspaper , every other section of the media becomes effectively bound by its terms , on pain of punishment for contempt : " The Guardian " ran a news story which briefly referred to certain allegations made by Peter Wright in " Spycatcher " . |
| 7 | For too long now , she had been starved of one particular need , the kind a respectable woman should not dwell on for too long , a deep-down need that only a man could satisfy . |
| 8 | EVERTON 'S season is in such dire straits that only a magician in the mould of Paul Daniels can rescue them from big trouble now . |
| 9 | They can produce these solutions with the speed , recall and immediate availability that only a computer can provide . |
| 10 | ‘ But Mrs Goreng , ’ the German said with a mild surprise that only a paranoiac could think assumed , ‘ you do n't have to ask , surely ? |
| 11 | Alison waved from the window of the departing taxi and Celia waved back , a sudden feeling of depression taking hold of her to such an extent that she abandoned her idea of looking for a pram and set off , rather aimlessly , in the direction of Leicester Square in the faint hope that perhaps a cinema might take her mind off things . |
| 12 | Events in Guatemala in 1954 set a vivid precedent and were a potent reminder that even a glance in the direction of Communism was more than the United States was prepared to countenance . |