Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] that a [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he thought about it , Nigel did find it a little odd that a photographer should return after he 'd finished a job . |
| 2 | After the 1979 Conservative victory , it is less clear that a party will suffer if it advocates policies which are a clear break with the past . |
| 3 | It is quite easy to see , intuitively , that a crack is a nasty dangerous thing to have about the house but it is by no means so obvious that a step can cause a bad stress concentration . |
| 4 | The power of the microcomputer , with its television screen , in affecting the classroom situation is such that it is less likely that a teacher can bend a unit away from its designer 's intentions towards his own style and purpose than is the case with printed material . |
| 5 | At some stage a suggestion arose from both sides — principally Damerell of BUPA so far as the doctors were concerned and , strangely enough , also from Barbara and the DHSS — that the consultancy strike was so damaging that a mediator should be sought . |
| 6 | Of course , you may reasonably point out , it is highly unlikely that a child would eat delphinium seeds . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Besides , it is highly unlikely that a murderer would attend his victim 's funeral . |
| 9 | Reading through Robert Green 's trade card it seems highly unlikely that a client would want to purchase outright such items as the velvet pall , the room hangings , the large silvered candlesticks and sconces , or the feathers and cloaks , for these objects would be of little or no use to the purchaser once the funeral had taken place . |
| 10 | The resemblance is so close that a human can easily mistake the new song for the sound of a trimphone . |
| 11 | I 've always found it rather sad that a man could produce something as evocative as this and also produce a child who could not appreciate it. , |
| 12 | These same factors might also make it more likely that a person will experience the sorts of events to which they will be vulnerable . |
| 13 | Anything that makes it more likely that a child will behave in a particular way . |
| 14 | It is more likely that a kid will die than reach sexual maturity at three years old . |
| 15 | If the mother denigrates her husband , it is more likely that a boy will become particularly anxious ( Wolff , 1983b ) . |
| 16 | It is more likely that a valuation will not be required before , for instance , a later disposal of the asset by the transferee . |
| 17 | It is more likely that a family will lie somewhere on the continuum between these positions in its behaviour patterns . |
| 18 | At the time the experts believed that a previous transfusion sensitised the patient and made it more likely that a transplant would be rejected . |
| 19 | Valerie Howarth , executive director of ChildLine , said : ‘ It is totally unacceptable that a judge should suggest that a child is responsible for sexual abuse perpetrated upon her . ’ |
| 20 | Across in Hong Kong the marine department raises a single beacon on a flagpole on Green Island , the No. 1 signal : all Hong Kong is now formally aware that a typhoon may be forming within 500 miles . |
| 21 | It is also likely that a veto would produce severe strains in the relationship between Edinburgh and London . |
| 22 | It is now likely that a student will experience ballooning a number of times while learning and will have learned to avoid moving forwards on the stick automatically . |
| 23 | It is now unlikely that a solution will be found in time for next Wednesday 's debate on the poll tax at the Tory conference in Blackpool . |
| 24 | Most industry regulators would regard it as fundamental that a member may be called to account for the conduct of its registered traders . |
| 25 | Detention of a whole class may technically still be lawful , although it is becoming increasingly likely that a judge would have doubts about the reasonableness of this course of action where it is known that there may only be one or two culprits . |
| 26 | ‘ It really touched me and made me feel quite sad that a man should have died in the street from hypothermia so I 've decided to try and do something to help ’ she said . |
| 27 | If there is a clear pause ( silence ) between ‘ John ’ and ‘ is it you ’ , then according to the definition of an utterance given in the last chapter , there are two utterances ; however , it is quite likely that a speaker would say ‘ John is it you ’ with no pause , so that the four syllables would make up a single utterance . |
| 28 | Even so , I was rather surprised that a family must pay 3.50 for adults and 2.50 for kids to visit and listen to the BBC 's exhibition of favourite old radio programmes at Broadcasting House . |
| 29 | We are keenly aware that a University can seem a large and forbidding place to those on the outside . |
| 30 | He concludes : ‘ I am very sad that a friend can only write to another friend through a third country because of the border that separates us . ’ |