Example sentences of "[art] [adj] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It had occurred neither to them nor to the British that a diplomat was involved . ’ |
| 3 | After the sheriff 's judgment , there was an indication from the fiscal that an appeal would be lodged . |
| 4 | It is from the mechanical that a block is made for printing . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Throughout the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries the myth of a decline from former prosperity tended to conceal these limits and it was not until the 1890's that a first and very approximate calculation of her agricultural potential radically reversed the notion of a nation richly endowed by nature . |
| 7 | The US Supreme Court ruled in the 1970s that a black journalist had to reveal his source of information about the Black Panthers to a criminal grand jury . |
| 8 | This was to prove of considerable value to the Palace , because there was a young lad there who benefited greatly from the nurturing that an experienced campaigner like Jimmy Wilde could provide , before being eventually transferred to a 1st Division club for a record fee — Arthur Hudgell . |
| 9 | The opening phase of the war , however , produced domestic difficulties and grievances not dissimilar to those experienced by Edward 's father and grandfather ; and it was only with the military successes and material gains of the 1340s that a change in attitude to war amongst both the nobility and the commons became apparent . |
| 10 | The Secretary of State can not , however , overrule a finding by the MMC that a merger , for example , is not contrary to the public interest . |
| 11 | So great was the growth of passenger traffic in the 1920s that an already vast station was remodelled and enlarged in 1927 . |
| 12 | It was in the Mesozoic that a really considerable proliferation of urchins occurred , and they acquired the importance in the marine economy that they retain . |
| 13 | I consider in the light of the foregoing that a reference to the objectives of the Community system of quotas can not be used to justify national rules on the registration of fishing vessels , even if those rules were applicable only to vessels intended to fish for species subject to quotas . |
| 14 | It follows from the foregoing that a condition of the type at issue in the main proceedings , which stipulates that where a vessel is owned or chartered by natural persons they must be of a particular nationality , and where it is owned or chartered by a company the shareholders and directors must be of that nationality , is contrary to article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 15 | It was not until the 1880s that a number of new factors operating together began to change the prospect for the better . |
| 16 | The longer that a person is deprived of oxygen the bluer a person becomes . |
| 17 | Firstly , it was not until the 1930s that a substantial sector of education arose which was not directly under church control . |
| 18 | It was not until the 1930s that a more effective fascist organization , the British Union of Fascists ( BUF ) , was formed under the leadership of Oswald Mosley , at a time when Britain was attempting to deal with the unemployment of between 20 and 23 per cent . |
| 19 | Here there may arise a conflict between two principles , one that the court will not imply a term unless it is one which reasonable men would obviously have agreed to if their minds had been directed to the point , the other that a contract should if possible be interpreted in such a way as to achieve fairness between the parties … mistake is a much more difficult problem … [ than fraud or partiality ] . |
| 20 | But the best that a virtuous woman can hope for is that she be reborn as a man . |
| 21 | The best that a practitioner can do is to have regard to the sort of multiplier which has in the past been adopted by judges in similar circumstances to those with which he is concerned . |
| 22 | It is not necessary to suppose that the design of a body or organ is the best that an engineer could conceive of . |
| 23 | Ironic as it may seem today , modern redundancy law developed from the belief in the 1960s that a state scheme was needed as an incentive to job mobility at a time of chronic labour shortage . |
| 24 | Such was the set up of the Drama Department in the Sixties that a staff Production Assistant could find himself being allowed a turn in the Director 's chair for one show , giving directions to a fellow PA colleague , and then , a few months later be taking directions from perhaps that same PA , whose turn it had now become to be elevated to the directing heights . |
| 25 | This is not the first time , nor is it the last that a player will end up in court following a rough exchange with an opponent . |
| 26 | It was not until the 1860s that a determined effort was made to expand the police and to use it as an instrument to suppress crime . |
| 27 | The first practical measures of educational extension were instituted during the 1850s and 1860s when London degrees were opened to all who could pass an " external " examination , but it was only towards the end of the 1860s that an emphasis on English language , literature , and history became an important feature of the process of extension . |
| 28 | There was also intense debate over nuclear weapons and environmental issues , with the Greens obtaining nearly 6 per cent of the vote and thus entering the Bundestag , the first time since the 1950s that a fourth party had had any electoral success . |
| 29 | It is probably true to say that the first few solo flights are the safest that a student pilot ever makes . |
| 30 | Not so long ago the most that a motorist did with his car on Sunday was wash it . |