Example sentences of "[adj] a [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The job losses in United Kingdom defence industries as a result of the change of emphasis in British procurement are as nothing compared with those that would be suffered under the Labour party 's defence policy — if so dignified a term can be used for something so confused , contradictory and misleading . |
| 32 | In practice what will happen is that in the middle of the field where the deliberate knock-on is no more than inconvenient a free-kick will be awarded . |
| 33 | Half an hour will be enough to start with . |
| 34 | He says that somebody who experiences the fire of love will find that he is affected physically : he may find that he develops a stammer and is unable to speak quickly or clearly any more and that his whole body has slowed down : a job that once took half an hour will now take a whole morning . |
| 35 | Norfolk goes on to point out that people who go jogging in the city for half an hour can absorb the , equivalent of 10 to 20 cigarettes ' worth of carbon monoxide ( ‘ Jogging is completely unnecessary , ’ according to cardiologist George Sheenan , who wrote one of the early jogging handbooks , Running And Being . |
| 36 | It was resolved also that half an hour should be occupied each Sunday at the close of the School to teach the children the hymns of the Lancashire Sunday School Hymnbook . |
| 37 | ‘ Anybody with half an eye could tell that . ’ |
| 38 | Ms Wilikins might speak in favour of female emancipation , but as the majority of the representatives were women , too strident an approach would be dangerous . |
| 39 | On 26 September 1985 an investor could have purchased BP shares for 526p ( end of trading mid-price ) and some 6 weeks later on 11 November sold that same share for 560p . |
| 40 | The CIA also added a cautionary reminder that the policies of even so reliable an ally could change unless it was adequately supported and encouraged . |
| 41 | A batch of sheep is loaded , dipped and discharged in about 2 minutes 15–30 seconds , which means up to 300 an hour can be handled . |
| 42 | Independent analysts have estimated that a minimum wage set at three pound forty an hour would add one point eight percent to the total labour costs in Britain . |
| 43 | The introduction of a national mo minimum wage set at three pound forty an hour would directly benefit four point five million workers . |
| 44 | If some components have to be physically larger than the space provided or require other " upstream " or " downstream " components to be modified as well , then the consequences of pursuing such a concept must be similarly recognized at an early stage . |
| 45 | Such a trial would be unethical , however , given the unfavourable risk/benefit ratio of cyclosporin treatment in this setting . |
| 46 | There are virtually no placebo controlled trials of acute relapse of extensive ulcerative colitis with which to compare these results , and such a trial would be unethical . |
| 47 | Perhaps no society which had surmounted such a trial could consider itself as simply one power amongst many . |
| 48 | 1.43 It was said in Coenen v Payne [ 1974 ] 1 WLR 984 ( which was a defendant 's application for a split trial ) that such a trial will be ordered whenever it is just and convenient , and not only in difficult and unusual cases , and in Ashworth v Berkeley Walbrood ( 1984 ) The Times , 13 July that the court can be asked to try a preliminary issue whenever there is a real probability that the effect will be to save time and expense and simplify the issues , which need not be limited to questions of law . |
| 49 | But there are several billion people in the world to whom such a coincidence could happen , so the apparent coincidence is actually not as great as it seems . |
| 50 | He made such thorough notes that it was then no great labour to produce a similar Biographical Register for Cambridge ( 1963 ) — in 1958 he estimated that such a work could be completed within eighteen months — and a more summary Survey of Dominicans in England , based on the Ordination Lists in Episcopal Registers ( 1268–1538 ) ( Rome , 1967 ) . |
| 51 | Yet , unless a real emergency should occur , it was difficult to see how such a government might be brought about . |
| 52 | Thus , despite widespread support for a National Government , there was little idea of how such a government might be brought about ; and little support for it among those who really mattered . |
| 53 | They set up a dichotomy thus : ‘ Rather than scheming as to what a Left-Labour government should do , it is vital to consider the political basis on which such a government will become a possibility . ’ |
| 54 | I therefore contend that ‘ scheming as to what a Left-Labour government should do ’ — in the sense of attempting to elaborate credible options for policy at a national level , while recognising the real problems involved — is actually a rather important part of developing ‘ the political basis on which such a government will become a possibility ’ . |
| 55 | I have quoted these latter points at length because I can readily agree with them , and consider them important , but what I find politically weakening is the dichotomy between promoting socialist developments which do not depend on the existence of a socialist government and the stigmatised ‘ scheming ’ as to what such a government should do . |
| 56 | The financial measures consistently improved the lot of the already better off while worsening that of the badly off … such a Government can not promote community . ’ |
| 57 | Clearly , a list of observation statements acquired in such a way would form a very unsatisfactory basis for the respective generalizations . |
| 58 | To see a parent — someone he thinks of as being all-powerful and ever-capable — reacting in such a way must induce in the child the belief that whatever it is that is causing such terror must be dreadful indeed and that he , therefore , should be equally terrified . |
| 59 | The shadows of a mouse projected upon the wall in such a way could make us believe a monster lurked around the corner . |
| 60 | ‘ Highlighting sexual harassment in such a way can have a totally detrimental effect , ’ he said . |