Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until the second half of the century even the greatest powers still occasionally made use of multi-member embassies and there was still some surviving feeling that a ruler was particularly honoured by receiving a group of ambassadors rather than an individual . |
| 2 | It is within this overall objective that a targeted procurement policy should be seen , as part of a comprehensive regional policy to stimulate local industrial investment . |
| 3 | The initial decision to do this is probably based on some vague notion that a computer system will increase efficiency , or perhaps because all its competitors have installed computer systems . |
| 4 | His description of the recovery of a Hunter over a Swiss airshow served as another graphic reminder that a performance should emphasize the aircraft 's character but should utilize only the established skills of the pilot — and should never require his super-human efforts to get out of a situation . |
| 5 | It is within this conceptual framework that a government minister at the Department of the Environment can , with seemingly irrefutable common sense , conceptualise inner cities as the places where ‘ those living there have not been able to participate in the economic miracle of the Thatcher years ’ ( Trippier , 1989 , p7 ) and which require a strong police presence because ‘ the future prosperity of the inner cities depends directly on how safe they are in which to live and work ’ ( ibid , p22 ) . |
| 6 | So mindless is the wiring of this sensible hygienic behaviour that a drop of oleic acid on an otherwise innocuous piece of wood or even on a live bee results in the removal of the offending object . |
| 7 | What redress would the Baron have if the Spanish State simply declared the works of art to be Spanish patrimony , as it is a principle of public international law that a Sovereign state enjoys immunity from legal proceedings abroad ? |
| 8 | Helpless in her pinioned position , she opened her mouth to make a cutting retort and met Roman 's questing finger , slowly outlining her mouth , feathering indescribable sensations over the surface of her skin , then sliding between her lips and parting them with such lazy insistence that a shiver of reaction made her tremble all over . |
| 9 | Producing shame , anger , and futility , it is masturbation which , for Lawrence , constitutes the most pernicious evasion of otherness , becoming ‘ perhaps the deepest and most dangerous cancer of our civilization ’ , and ‘ certainly the most dangerous sexual vice that a society can be afflicted with , in the long run ’ ( ‘ Pornography ’ , 3 17 ) . |
| 10 | In 1930 the great liberating novelist of human passions wrote in Pornography and Obscenity , ‘ Masturbation is certainly the most dangerous sexual vice that a society can be afflicted with in the long run . ’ |
| 11 | SOMEONE 'S SUGGESTED a clever little wrinkle that a buyer of Mirror Group Newspapers might be able to employ , were the purchaser to have a pension fund with a substantial surplus . |
| 12 | The Attorney-General , Sir Nicholas Lyell , told Mr MacDonald in Monday 's debate on contradictory legal advice that a new amendment of the form now tabled ‘ would render it impossible for the Government to ratify the treaty ’ . |
| 13 | It was almost as though some supernatural force possessed him , causing him to shed twenty years ; his face lost much of the sunken look of recent times , and he went about his work with such youthful vigour that a stranger might have believed there were not one but several such figures pushing trolleys about the corridors of Darlington Hall . |
| 14 | The great abbey of Vézelay , dedicated to St Mary Magdalen , was so thronged with pilgrims in the early twelfth century that a rebuilding programme was carried out , resulting in some of the finest Romanesque sculpture to be seen in all France . |
| 15 | We could do exactly the same with sport , like we could do it with art and theatre and music and , and a hell of a lot of other things , but it 's unfortunately a part of our national political tradition that a large number of us feel some reluctance about doing this . |
| 16 | On May 7 the Slovak National Council voted 73-59 in favour of a declaration of sovereignty of the Slovak Republic , but a previous procedural decision that a three-fifths majority was required to amend the Constitution meant that the margin was not large enough for the declaration to be adopted . |
| 17 | There was no score at this point , but the Waterloo forwards had achieved such fast territorial advantage that a landslide defeat for the home side seemed inevitable . |
| 18 | Well the evidence for transmission in the operating theatre is very very low ; it 's strong circumstantial evidence that a patient , that certains are at high risk with certain types of surgery like wiring of jaws , or er very bloody major operations . |
| 19 | Although a very early copy of 32V may have carried a copyright notice , it was removed based on the then-prevailing legal opinion that a copyright notice implied general circulation which , if true , would taint 32V 's trade secret protection . |
| 20 | Although a very early copy of 32V may have carried a copyright notice , it was removed based on the then-prevailing legal opinion that a copyright notice implied general circulation which , if true , would taint 32V 's trade secret protection . |
| 21 | It was only in the late nineteenth century that a sustained campaign for pensions for manual workers began . |
| 22 | Hopefully the IRB will make sure this time that a commercial agent is appointed who can take advantage of their enormous opportunities now on offer . |
| 23 | In Walford v Miles the House of Lords maintained the long established principle that a mere agreement to negotiate is unenforceable because it lacks the certainty necessary for a binding contract and held that any concept of a duty to carry on negotiations in good faith is inherently repugnant to the adversarial position of the parties when involved in negotiations . |
| 24 | While it might seem to make good intuitive sense that a time-window should be small , substantial delay in detectable effect can sometimes follow the performance of an activity . |
| 25 | So , for example , the practitioner has no guidance on the weight which will be given to an admissible ministerial statement that a situation is not covered by one clause but is covered by another that is in conflict with a construction based on textual examination of the legislation as a whole . |
| 26 | A bill currently before parliament will abolish the present arbitrary rule that a company can only issue domestic corporate bonds up to twice the value of its shareholders ' funds . |
| 27 | Their letter follows the decision earlier this month by the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , to reject a recommendation from a medical advisory group that a free NHS-funded in-vitro service be established in Scotland . |
| 28 | Widows , the only social position that a traditional society could envisage for a husbandless adult woman , have always been considered as inauspicious and undesirable people . |
| 29 | The only real way that a shareholder can exercise an interest is by threatening to depose incumbent management if performance does not improve . |
| 30 | This was the first hard evidence that a change in the advanced courses was on the way although , ever since the development at National Certificate level , it had been assumed that a major change in the advanced level would follow in due course . |