Example sentences of "that [adv] a [adj] [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | That party knows that only a higher court is likely to push forward the boundaries of some legal rule . |
| 2 | And doubts were expressed as to its value given the conceded fact that only a small dent was likely to be made in the pigeon population . |
| 3 | She worked with a tenderness that only a caring woman is capable of . |
| 4 | This does not mean that only a slit-eyed cat is dangerous . |
| 5 | A sheltered housing project in Thornaby has proved so popular that only a few flats are left . |
| 6 | One hears odd whispers to the effect that the production of seed is limited , and that only a few growers are allowed to handle them . |
| 7 | At the same time energy is lost from rotational degrees of freedom , by collisions during the expansion , and samples often end up almost entirely in the lowest few rotational levels , so that only a few transitions are observed in the spectrum . |
| 8 | Approaching a set of traffic lights where she normally went straight on , and where the queue ahead seemed to stretch into infinity , she realised that only a few cars were waiting to turn left into the Cheltenham road . |
| 9 | Some of this pollen is inevitably brushed off when a bee visits another flower , but bearing in mind that only a few grains are needed to bring about cross-fertilisation , and that a bee on a single journey may collect two million , it is clear that the price a plant pays for this transport is a very high one . |
| 10 | The kinematics approach recognizes that the mechanism is constrained in such a way that only a prescribed motion is possible ; a mechanism that is randomly assembled and disassembled with no known input conditions is hardly a mechanism and is impossible to analyse by any method . |
| 11 | Decision : it was clear to the Court that a sentence of detention in a young offender institution could be justified under Criminal Justice Act 1982 , s.1(4A) ( b ) , on the ground that only a custodial sentence was adequate to protect the public from serious harm from him . |
| 12 | It may have been that on his original appearance this condition would not have been satisfied , as it could not have been said that only a custodial sentence was adequate to protect the public from serious harm from him , if the alternative of a probation order requiring residence at a hostel specialising in sexual offenders was available . |
| 13 | In a briefing document presented by the employment spokesman , Mr Henry McLeish , at Westminster , Labour challenges Government claims that nearly a million jobs were created in 1979-89 . |
| 14 | ‘ I consider that ethically a human person is created when the sperm of a male fertilises the ovum of a woman , thus creating an embryo … either in the fallopian tubes or in vitro . |
| 15 | Severe criticism of these ideas did little to detract from the belief that even a sickly press was preferable to the Soviet and authoritarian theories outlined by Siebert et al . |
| 16 | Although we have offered a fairly simplistic version of these theories we can still see that even a simplified version is very complex . |
| 17 | Maggie blushed , aware that quite a few men were looking at her now . |
| 18 | The result is that it is very complex ; in addition , I must note that quite a few words are given stress patterns that I do not feel are acceptable in present-day English . |
| 19 | It appears from the accounts that quite a different reading is given to occasions of physical or verbal reprimand which fall within the acknowledged framework of official penalties . |
| 20 | In 1986 an official report recorded that over a thousand monuments were in urgent need of restoration or protection from pollution . |
| 21 | So all the rhetoric that we 've had from this government about better performance N H S , more people being seen by the N H S , that must be read against the fact that over a million people are , or a million patients , are er waiting on N H S waiting lists . |
| 22 | The hypothesis raises , however , one difficulty : if there was a shift towards the equator in both hemispheres , it would seem that either a climatic belt was squeezed out or one or more narrowed in latitudinal extent . |