Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] that a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | And there was a simultaneous announcement that a business park on land next to the 13-year-old assembly plant would be developed . |
2 | Conservative Central Office has been inundated with jittery reports from regional Tory organisers , but is banking on driving home the message to a receptive audience that a vote for the Liberal Democrats would effectively open the door of Downing Street to Mr Kinnock . |
3 | There also tended to be a strong presumption that a person brought before the court was guilty . |
4 | Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos said in Spain on April 5 at the start of a European tour that a peace agreement might be signed on April 30 . |
5 | He wanted to spend some time quietly in the church , ’ he added in a vain hope that a confidence so dangerously close to intimacy , to his job as priest , might flatter her , might even silence curiosity . |
6 | So minute are the threads binding a good member in a rural constituency that a woman can run out of her front door waving a cake of lavender soap . |
7 | In the latter it is common to find small classes sharing a classroom , sometimes with a single teacher , sometimes with more than one but nearly always seated as a separate group with their own ‘ territory ’ and blackboard , for there exists a strange orthodoxy that a teacher with modest education and training ‘ can not be taught to handle more than one class at the same time ’ . |
8 | The majority held that the case could be decided upon the narrow ground that the action for enticement should be extended beyond the strict relation of master and servant to embrace other contracts for personal services , but support was also given in varying degrees to a broader proposition that a plaintiff might sue for the knowing violation of the security of any type of contractual right . |
9 | Theory does point to a clear suspicion that a lack of competition can , most certainly , lead to inefficiencies , but it also identifies possible benefits from the attainment of lower-cost production . |
10 | Thus , conduct disorder in childhood indicates a high probability that a person will be arrested for a criminal offence in adulthood , but does not predict the type of arrest ( Robins and Ratcliff , 1980 ) . |
11 | I once suggested to a French audience that a book on Les silences du Colonel Polybe would be instructive . |
12 | In Mr Clifford 's case , these include a starring role on the front page of newspapers and a cast-iron guarantee that a reputation as a woman of doubtful values will follow . |
13 | There 's a popular misconception that a beginner 's instrument does n't have to function in any way like a professional model , because much less is expected of it , and that is just not altogether true . |
14 | I believe that , if it is established through a proper investigation that a company has been victimising workers for reporting safety concerns , that company — whether it is a contractor or an operator — must be in exactly the same position as an employee who has jeopardised the safety of a platform . |
15 | Some folk in the village said it was a public disgrace that a maid like Martha Pascoe should be bartered for with barrels of fish , but most saw the whole affair as a great joke , because when all was said and done , the lass was unlikely to marry Sam or Harry or anyone else against her will , and if she could use their ardour to win a few more stone of pilchards and thereby swell the village purse and give everyone a bit of harmless fun , then more power to her elbow . |
16 | France also persuaded the United States and Britain to join it in a joint declaration that a threat to the EDC would be treated as a challenge to their own security , and that this would be symbolised by the two Anglo-Saxon countries agreeing to station troops on the continent . |
17 | Under other constitutional systems , one can detect a vague principle that a parliament can not do indirectly that which it can not do directly , but there is little authority for such a doctrine here . |
18 | This planning phase involves moving from a vague impression that a thesaurus might be useful to a fairly precise profile in terms of the following parameters : |
19 | We believe that a way forward through the practical difficulties rehearsed above might be a simple requirement that a lender refusing a credit application ( or requiring special conditions ) should state the reason in whatever terms he wished ; and that this requirement should be coupled to a requirement that ( as a condition of their Consumer Credit Act licence ) lenders should each make a statement of their lending practice to the Director General of Fair Trading . |
20 | It is a sad fact that a number of adult dogs obtained from rescue organizations are returned because of this type of problem , which is not likely to be apparent when the dog is chosen . |
21 | They will need to have the skills to talk someone out of another pair of loopstitch socks or convince a lost soul that a key-ring with a thermometer measuring wind-chill factor is not going to change their lives . |
22 | The one o'clock news included a brief statement that a man had been detained early that morning while attempting to board a cross-Channel ferry at Dover and was helping police with their enquiries into the murder of Angelica Caroli , found stabbed in her Gloucestershire home the previous Thursday . |
23 | Porcelain can also be TL tested , but it is such a hard ceramic that a drill can not be used to take the sample because of the heat generated and the spurious luminescence signals produced . |
24 | On Aug. 20 President Ferdinand Collor de Mello had stated in a televised speech that a return to automatic indexation would result in hyperinflation , company bankruptcies , mass unemployment and deep recession . |
25 | In Hong Kong the No. 3 warning is hoisted : a little coloured blip appears at the bottom left of the colony 's television screens , a constant reminder that a typhoon alert may soon be declared and the emergency drills so well practised in the territory brought into force . |
26 | The combination of professional codes of conduct and historic precedent has , until recently , created a natural assumption that a partnership structure is the most appropriate vehicle for the operation of a surveying practice . |
27 | a false indication that a price is expected to be increased or reduced or maintained ( whether or not for a particular period ) ; |
28 | This was applied in Dixons Ltd. v. Roberts ( 1894 D.C. ) where it was held that section 14 did not catch a trader who gave a false indication that a refund would be given on any goods purchased , if within seven days the customer was able to buy the same products locally more cheaply . |
29 | Thus a false belief that a man is about to set off a bomb might well be reprehensible in a soldier , who therefore shoots him , when the soldier could and should have known that the man was not about to do any such thing . |
30 | It is a well-established convention that a minister should be an MP or a peer ; the Ministers of the Crown Act , 1964 ( in limiting the number of ministers and parliamentary secretaries that can sit in the Commons ) forces the Prime Minister to select a nucleus of ministers from the Lords ; leading figures in the majority party practically demand a Cabinet place — and a ministry of their choice ; new young members need to be nurtured ; and even leaders of factions within the party might have to be given office if only in the hope of softening their opposition to the broad drift of government policy . |