Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] a [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Thus the pressure , both inner and outer , on teachers to have a clear , articulate rationale for what they are doing is high at the same time as the exploration of the values from which such a rationale must derive is conspicuously out of style . |
| 3 | Although in this case the two outcomes are differentiated by the presence or the absence of a neutral event ( see also Fedorchak and Bolles 1986 ) , there are several other ways in which such a differentiation can be arranged . |
| 4 | Clara had had the sense not to try to ask her mother about a possible purchase , as she could only too clearly imagine the responses to which such a request would expose her , and the abuse which would be cast upon those girls fortunate enough to have a use for party dresses . |
| 5 | Wilberforce J held , among other things , firstly , that the retention provisions , which operated after the end of the employee 's employment , substantially interfered with his right to seek employment and therefore operated in restraint of trade ; secondly , that the transfer system and the retention system , when combined , were in restraint of trade and that , since the defendants had not discharged the onus of showing that the restraints were no more than was reasonable to protect their interests , they were in unjustifiable restraint of trade and ultra vires ; thirdly , that the court could examine a contract between employers only and declare it void on grounds on which such a contract would be declared void if it had been a contract between an employer and employee , and that it was open to an employee to bring an action for a declaration that such a contract was in restraint of trade , inasmuch as it threatened his liberty of action in seeking employment , which was a matter of public interest ; and , fourthly , that it was a case in which the court could and should grant the plaintiff the declarations sought . |
| 6 | To take the example given earlier , it is necessary to show that the statement about the toothache can indeed be paraphrased into a statement about the corresponding neuro-physiological event ( and hence that the occurrence of the latter event is a logically adequate criterion for ascribing the experience in the given instance ) , and this can not be done without making use of the premisses which such a proof might be expected to underpin . |
| 7 | The Colosseum shows the fine architectural effect which such a system can provide ( 121 ) . |
| 8 | Having said that this is not the procedure by which such a measure should reach the statute book , I welcome the Bill because it will result in a long-overdue reform . |
| 9 | This is a worrying development for publishers , and there is little evidence in the book trade of the establishment of another source from which such a service might otherwise be obtained . |
| 10 | This subsection applies both to mandatory life sentences for murder and to discretionary life sentences for other offences for which such a sentence may lawfully be imposed . |
| 11 | Circumstances could be envisaged in which such a threat could be most material to a woman . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | The whole moral right does not therefore repose in the embryo or the foetus but in the parent and in the medical personnel acting on behalf of society into which such a child would be born . |
| 15 | The only way in which such a procedure might be excused is if the societies from which the samples were drawn were homogeneous — an assumption which is hard to sustain . |
| 16 | Pound there , it is plain — for instance , in his comment on Hilaire Belloc — is as unwilling as any Marxist to abstract a question like the proper language for poetry from the whole social matrix and milieu in which such a subject may get itself debated . |
| 17 | Not only do we lack a clearly articulated set of policy objectives , in the absence of a coordinating Ministry of Justice , we also lack the necessary institutional framework within which such a strategy could be implemented . |
| 18 | The only ground on which such a right could be defeated , according to Dworkin , would be a competing right advanced by another individual , and even then one such right could not be taken automatically to subordinate another . |
| 19 | Suppose that x and y are numbers , such that x is greater than y ; then it would appear that there is no conceivable way in which such a relation could be reduced to qualitative properties of one kind or another , and re-expressed , accordingly , in a form that does not require the existence of both its terms . |
| 20 | However , respondents pointed to situations in which such a rule would seem to give anomalous results . |
| 21 | No figure can be put on the number of years for which such a procession must have been held to qualify for the exemption ; any figure that is imposed is likely to be arbitrary . |
| 22 | Upon closer examination , however , it was revealed that there were at least three ways in which such a conclusion would be misleading . |
| 23 | I was interested in his reiteration of the value of regional policies , because the criteria on which such a policy would be administered is of interest to one who comes from a county which is probably being hit by a more rapidly rising rate of unemployment than almost anywhere else . |
| 24 | ‘ Mr Wilson ’ , he said , ‘ is imposing on Prince Charles a sacrifice which he would not dream of imposing on his own son. , It was indeed a sacrifice and one from which many a twenty-year-old would have turned and run . |
| 25 | Even though its former A status can be seen as a plus , Ray Boyce , business manager for HIV and drugs , deplores the decrease . |
| 26 | Taken by itself such a statement may not suggest any great alteration from previous doctrine , but it was intended to be and it was . |
| 27 | Whatever such a literature might lack in technical sophistication will , it is alleged , be more than compensated for by ideological exuberance . |
| 28 | It is difficult to see what such a procedure might be . |
| 29 | This firm decided that a computerised database system would possibly aid the operation , but they wanted independent advice on what such a decision would involve . |
| 30 | A crucial problem for phenomenalism of either sort is that few philosophers have attempted , and none have remotely succeeded , in showing what such a reduction would look like in detail . |