Example sentences of "that [adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Well I suppose you know once you 've got a machine that effectively like a big dot r dot matrix I would 've you could er you could do it with with something like a , a desk top printer er
2 They believe that only as a free-standing business will SAP be able to hold its own against the competition — particularly with world demand for soda ash growing at less than one per cent a year .
3 In these latter roles She is almost always accompanied by Her divine spouse , the male God , emphasizing the fact that only in a happy marriage can the terrible and destructive aspect of the Goddess be controlled .
4 Her mother would not come into the arena with her , strip naked for combat , risk her life and her neutrality for Maggie , and Maggie recognised that tonight with a new sadness .
5 is it more that just like a general representation of fascism and communism .
6 He did n't turn his head to look after them and he was so still that even at a short distance they could no longer distinguish him from his surroundings .
7 He also had a real enjoyment of brief , casual relationships , sexual or otherwise ; one of his gay friends remarked to me that even with a passing infatuation , a pick-up , John never tried to impress people with who he was , never used the glamour of his position to dazzle them , but was interested most in finding out who they were , what kind of person .
8 Again , apart from alerting you to the likely development of a problem here , such inspections will help to ensure that even with a painful condition , the dog will have sufficient confidence to allow you to treat it without attempting to snap or simply pulling its head away repeatedly .
9 Nonetheless , the significance of Lukacs 's theory is that even in a post-Stalinist epoch it presents socialist realism as rich in possibilities .
10 And talking of trends , chic Americans realise that even in a retail recession all things Soviet still make the cash registers ping .
11 On the down-side of this variety is the fact that ‘ Broken ’ does n't hang together that well as a whole package , probably because it 's essentially a compilation of unreleased tracks from the last year 's studio experiments .
12 The report of 8 August 1944 pointed out bluntly that apart from a tiny proportion of the population and Party activists , no one believed in victory .
13 She told them that apart from a white jumper she never wore the colour at all .
14 Now if you read Mrs Thatcher 's memoirs you will decide that instead of a great sweep of events er making things happen , Mrs Thatcher makes things happen .
15 The drawing suggests that instead of a constant aim that is on target at every moment .
16 A group of geophysicists who were working on the rocks of the floor of the north-east Pacific had discovered , before Hess 's suggestion was published , that instead of a random pattern of reversals , such as were common on land , the oceanic crust in the Pacific exhibited a pattern of ‘ strip reversals ’ ; the rocks in each strip were magnetized in one fixed direction , but the rocks in alternate , parallel strips were magnetized in the reverse direction .
17 Then several fixing screws would be driven through ready-prepared countersunk holes in the tyre to ensure that never throughout a long life would it be able to slip .
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