Example sentences of "[adj] that [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the person of Mary of Guise , it had been made abundantly clear that neither a French background nor an assertive Protestant aristocracy was a bar to the exercise of power and the acquisition of respect . |
| 2 | It is clear that even a good working knowledge of credit costs helps consumers only if that knowledge affects their shopping decisions . |
| 3 | In the preface , the editor of the catalogue makes it clear that only a representative selection of coins is listed . |
| 4 | From March 1918 it was clear that only a crushing military victory by one or other side would bring ‘ peace ’ . |
| 5 | Schools are given the same written guidelines as in the Major Project , but it is made clear that only a short proposal document is required to accompany the school 's spending plan . |
| 6 | The cost of freehold land is so high that only a wealthy man who farms intensively can hope to make a living on his own small farm . |
| 7 | Normally , the energy of the particle is still positive , but the gravitational field inside a black hole is so strong that even a real particle can have negative energy there . |
| 8 | The demands of such actions for lawyers ' services are such that only a large and complex firm can meet them , with corresponding implications for costs , restricting , in turn , the availability of such services to all but the wealthiest . |
| 9 | It 's crucial that even a basic name and address system can get at a particular name , or group of names , as quickly as possible . |
| 10 | This weakens the leaf 's connection to the tree so much that even a light breeze can blow it off . |
| 11 | But the judge said : ‘ This offence is so serious that only a custodial sentence can be justified . |
| 12 | Many were convinced that only a proletarian revolution could remove discrimination . |
| 13 | The men who led the Cracow revolutionary movement ( the Polish insurrection of 1830 ) were deeply convinced that only a democratic Poland could be independent , and a democratic Poland was impossible without the abolition of feudal rights , without the agrarian movement which would transform the tied peasants into free proprietors . |
| 14 | However , the scale of the Bank 's operations makes it improbable that even a substantial increase in its consumer lending would make a very great impact on credit options available to people in lower socio-economic groups . |
| 15 | Such criticism of American policy would be counter-productive ; the claims on the United States for economic and military assistance were so great that only a limited amount could be given to Korea . |
| 16 | In 1936 he wrote " Nowadays the trouble and expense involved in keeping a stud of hawks is so great that only a fortunate few are able to do so . " |
| 17 | It is plain that only a small community closely knit by ties of kinship , common sentiment , and belief , and placed in a stable environment , could live successfully by such a regime of unofficial rules . |
| 18 | It was unlikely that even a common language could create a common national spirit to unite Spanish-speaking people divided by the salt , estranging sea , but as long as empires based on the principles of allegiance to a monarch were the dominant form of political organization they were very well adapted to face the problems of expanding and then of ruling new subjects . |
| 19 | ‘ It is scandalous that only a tiny fraction of cars in the UK have catalysts fitted . |
| 20 | Our perception of spermatozoa was changed forever by Woody Allen 's impersonation of one in Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex , and University of Pennsylvania are giving substance to his fantasies , putting the poor little tadpoles through an arduous obstacle course to step up the process of survival of the fittest : according to Prodigy Services Co , the mad scientists have created a new class of silicon chip that can be used for analyzing sperm samples and providing a venue for fertilisation ; the technology uses microscopic obstacle courses inside a silicon wafer to weed out unhealthy sperm , and has been used successfully to fertilise a mouse egg ; the chips are etched with a virtual theme park of twisting channels , forests of columns , and other features designed to ensure only the strongest of sperm reach their goal , with some passages so small that only a single cell can pass ; the researchers have not yet applied for approval to test human fertilisation using the chip , but say that could happen within the next 12 months — Brave New World , or the embodiment of virtual sex . |
| 21 | It is true that once a useful co-ordinating convention is established every person has reason to adhere to it , a reason which is independent of the existence of the authority , a reason deriving entirely from the existence of the useful convention . |
| 22 | However , it is not true that only a superficial representation determines the interpretation of a surface anaphor , or that the final interpretation is always the one that the superficial representation licenses . |
| 23 | Yet it remains true that only a tiny fraction of legal matters end up in court . |