Example sentences of "[art] [adj] that [art] " in BNC.

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1 It had been an exercise without much in the way of results , but then many of my days were like that , and it was only by knowing the normal that the abnormal , when it happened , could be spotted .
2 It was a stunning performance , and certainly one of the finest that the league has ever produced .
3 According to the law of attempts , the least that a defendant must be proved to have done is something ‘ more than merely preparatory ’ to sexual intercourse , with intent to have unlawful sexual intercourse without the woman 's consent .
4 The least that the Government should do when designing the legislation is to address the needs of women bus users .
5 That , surely , is the least that the right hon. Gentleman could do to inject some justice and fairness into the lives of our pensioners .
6 It is not the most that could be done to protect the consumer , but the least that the Government thought that they could get away with .
7 And the reason that rents in Cambridge are higher than in those in surrounding areas , or the eight that the councillor is talking about is because the rent levels which er the government require us to raise to are historically based on right to buy values and as he knows as well as I do , house prices in Cambridge have been relatively consistently higher than they have in surrounding areas .
8 I was crouched in the hay in the stable that the horses have gone from and she did n't know I was watching her .
9 The fact is that we give exceptional leave to remain because it would be inhumane to send some people , such as the Croatian that the hon. Member mentioned , back to their country at this time , even though they may not have made a claim of persecution .
10 Produced properly , argues La Mar , it could have formed the sort of entry into the mainstream that The Comic Strip Presents … first gave to alternative comedy .
11 Freddie knew little about children and held the belief of the uninitiated that every mother doted on her offspring .
12 It was under Somes 's sole ownership in the 1830s that the firm rose to become the largest in England .
13 It was not until the 1830s that the idea of a teaching laboratory became at all general ; at Durham University then , for example , laboratory instruction was still an optional extra , to be paid for if taken .
14 Maria told the youngest that the men were plucked
15 It had occurred neither to them nor to the British that a diplomat was involved . ’
16 In May 1953 the state Department told the British that the Shah wanted to know what the British expected of him .
17 It was not until the 1890s that the railway companies themselves entered the promotional market .
18 After the sheriff 's judgment , there was an indication from the fiscal that an appeal would be lodged .
19 ( The allusion to Pope 's ‘ Essay on Man ’ is one of the few that the editors pass over . )
20 Doctors told the 28-year-old that the five slashes were just millimetres away from cutting his jugular vein .
21 Badly , that is , if you were the owner , for I could see from the outside that the shelves provided loads of blind spots for shoplifters well out of sight of the cash till .
22 If the answer turns out to be by a ‘ dock identification ’ ( i.e. the witness is identified for the first time in court ) then it must be remembered that this procedure is potentially so unfair to the accused that the court of trial retains a discretion to prevent it ( Horsham JJ. , ex p .
23 A misrepresentation by the accused that the law was such and such when it was in fact different , and by that misrepresentation he obtained property , will lead to a conviction of obtaining property by deception .
24 This requires you to utilise the JMP-1 's output mapping , and all it means is that you tell the JMP-1 that every time it selects , say , patch 6 , information is sent to the effects processor to change its current patch to whatever patch you require .
25 It is from the mechanical that a block is made for printing .
26 The first is that there is less room in which to work , and the second that the boomy quality of many interiors can make the recording of clear sound difficult .
27 But it is not until the 1840s that an awareness , not only of the gulf between rich and poor , but of its dangerous significance in the lurid light of revolution , comes into being .
28 There was a widespread feeling as early as the 1840s that the judicial system suffered from too much technicality and formality .
29 The worst that the animal suffers is the after-effects of the anaesthetic from a dart gun .
30 Details such as these reinforce the ideal that the object before the viewer is a record of an actual and sustained encounter between the artist and the model , as opposed to being drawn from the artist 's imagination or from reproductions .
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