Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the scales down Fenna 's tail grew gradually smaller and smaller , the darker shades of his back and the paler shades of his underside blending together , and at the very tip , small as a child 's thumb , they were minute and a shade that , when she tried to match it to paint sample cards was usually called eau de nil . |
| 2 | To put the matter simply , it is not clear whether a firm that acts in compliance with the rules of its SRO may nonetheless find itself liable for breach of fiduciary obligation . |
| 3 | She felt as fragile and foolish as a moth that beat itself against the hot glass of an electric bulb until it fell burned and spent , in its desperate doomed quest for the light . |
| 4 | Joseph Stepper 's ‘ Wife ’ is one of the maddest ragga records ever made , as raw as a dinner that 's still walking around . |
| 5 | Thus it is possible that a clause that did not make sufficient disclosure to preclude an action for breach of duty on the grounds of informed consent , might provide a defence as an effective exclusion clause . |
| 6 | A court that tries to decide as Parliament would have wished is more likely to be right than a court that follows the words believing it was not what Parliament intended . |
| 7 | When these two factors are put together , it is readily understandable that a request that treatment should cease should be seen as not really meant , but as merely the response to either a passing mood or a loss of mental fitness . |
| 8 | On the spectrum of improbabilities , the spotlight turns out to illuminate only the narrow range from the left-hand end ( certainty ) up to minor miracles , like a hole-in-one or a dream that comes true . |
| 9 | A mechanism is therefore suggested such that a protein that has no affinity for the double stranded PPT element can interact specifically with one DNA strand after formation of the cruciform . |
| 10 | But it is ironic that a generation that is so impatient with the cultural adaptations of other generations has been so adept at setting up its own . |
| 11 | It is ironic that a government that talks so loudly about law and order should subvert the rule of law by blandly disregarding its obligations under international treaties . |
| 12 | If the money falls in law to be repaid , a direct order for its repayment is more appropriate than a declaration that it should repay it or an order setting aside a refusal to be repaid . |
| 13 | However , he is no more dangerous than a dog that barks but does not bite . |
| 14 | Martha stood patiently for a long time while her mother tried one dress after another on her , hoping to find a colour that made her skin seem paler and a cut that disguised her skeletal proportions . |
| 15 | It was tiny but a reminder that there are still poisonous snakes in the region — a fact which is all too easy to forget . |
| 16 | No comments whatsoever could be found in the first soundings of reactions ‘ which even provided so much as a hint that some or other people 's comrade was in agreement with the attempted assassination ’ . |
| 17 | And if I hear so much as a whisper that you have been broadcasting our private affairs around the country … ’ |
| 18 | Todd had n't spoken in over a minute , but there was a harshness on the line that Ellwood knew to be his breathing , and a thin , reedy , barely audible sound behind that , which resembled nothing so much as a cry that had been buried alive . |
| 19 | He sat back , as smug as a cat that has licked the cream , while Eleanor held his hand and looked concerned . |
| 20 | further , it is intuitively likely that a clock that is becoming less strong is also becoming less accurate . |
| 21 | Bill is ministering to master and mistress and the house-guests , sick as a toad that he 's missing all the fun . |
| 22 | Judge Blofeld said : ‘ I am unhappy that an incident that requires a court hearing can not have one . ’ |
| 23 | By definition , a scheme of that size must be better than a scheme that is based on an individual privatised subsidiary or on one privatised company on its own . |
| 24 | He had been so sure before — and anything would be better than a decision that he might later come to regret . |
| 25 | And Molly Malone was right : the gangway was little better than a ladder that clung to the ship 's side with fragile tenacity . |
| 26 | That the Thatcher Government was able to spin out the dispute into a second year was seen by many as an indication that teachers were somewhat irresponsible . |
| 27 | Free day-care provision was , and still is , seen by many as an incentive that would attract women away from their proper caring duties . |
| 28 | If you are working , then how about looking for a job that pays more or a job that pays the same but reduces your travelling costs ? |
| 29 | A financier in the Manchester broking community said yesterday : ‘ It is more than a possibility that he will make an offer to get Knighton out of his hole . ’ |
| 30 | For most of the former , republicanism involved a commitment to fundamentally reforming Spanish society ; for many of the latter , little more than a conviction that a republic , if politically moderate , might prove a sounder guarantor of conservative interests than a discredited monarchy susceptible to outright revolution . |