Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , in many more isolated and smaller settlements a wife may be unable to work regularly owing to a lack of jobs or transport ; therefore the total mortgage that a would-be home buyer can obtain will be based on a multiple of the husband 's income alone . |
| 2 | The law compiles doctrines such as fraud , mistake , duress , undue influence and incapacity , which share the task of specifying the occasions when the normal presumption that a person acts voluntarily may be rebutted . |
| 3 | Laidler ( 1987 ) notes the constraining impact that a fixed exchange rate regime will have on politicians : |
| 4 | Finally , there is the strong possibility that a contagion effect will operate in this setting . |
| 5 | Yet with treaties , lack of protest is viewed as irrelevant ; the strong presumption that a State is not bound by a treaty which it has not accepted means that lack of response to a treaty communicated to it entails no acceptance . |
| 6 | If the duty were held to be unexcludable , this would have the odd effect that a trespasser to premises not in business use could be better off than a visitor . |
| 7 | First , there is the libertarian premiss that a person 's position should not be irremediably worsened by another 's conduct . |
| 8 | It is clear from the surviving correspondence that a naval career had become attractive to the Scottish gentry by the middle of the eighteenth century , perhaps because expenses at sea were much lower than those incurred in an army officer 's mess , while not the least of the attractions of a naval career in time of war was the possibility of prize money . |
| 9 | Discussions of plays , for instance , can often be seen to be founded on the undeclared assumption that a dramatic figure represents a self ( rather than a vehicle for dramatic ideas ) . |
| 10 | Thus it was at London , Bristol , Liverpool , Hull and Glasgow in the last years of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century that a " lagged response " to the great increase in trade was concentrated . |
| 11 | The idea of Simultaneity first appeared in the preface to the Futurist exhibition at the Bernheim Gallery : it had its origin in Boccioni 's series of States of Mind , and was primarily the Bergsonian concept that a picture must be a synthesis of what is remembered and what has been seen , a synthetic visual impression comprising not merely the various aspects of a single object , but any feature related to it , physically or psychologically . |
| 12 | In some areas , most notably the liturgical and the ecumenical , Rome did get off to a good start in providing directives of a sort that would carry confidence at least temporarily ; even here , however , there was the inherent problem that a body of directives implied the establishment of a stable state ( e.g. in ecumenical relations ) , while the reality was in fact necessarily more fluid . |
| 13 | He also repeated an argument put forward several times recently by the Scottish Office that a farmer 's net income , which can include allowances for rent and depreciation , and where , for example , transport and housing costs may be apportioned to the business , can not be compared directly with the average UK wage . |
| 14 | Many general practitioners will know the unpleasant effect that a broken phial of dextrose has on the inside of a medical bag . |
| 15 | There are two distinct types of variation in the semantic contribution that a word form makes to different sentences — or , to look at it from a different point of view , two ways in which the sentential context of a word form may affect its semantic contribution to the sentence . |
| 16 | This has the further consequence that a woman 's life is largely confined to private spaces — the home — while men dominate the public spaces outside the home . |
| 17 | There are no firm legal rules about the proper approach that a company should adopt , but often it will be reasonable to look at the organisation as a whole , without dividing it into separate compartments . |
| 18 | Of course , she had n't been joking when she 'd told the English girl that a marriage between two highly charged Leos could be an explosive situation . |
| 19 | It may have been heralded as a strategic disaster , but the Manchester-Sheffield electric route via Woodhead tunnel slipped quietly into oblivion , due ceremony avoided because of the public puzzlement that a heavy freight route should be axed only twenty-five years after complete modernisation . |
| 20 | Is it in the public interest that a public authority 's finances should be disrupted by wholly unexpected claims for repayment years after the money in question has been received ? |
| 21 | One further point is that , in addition to statutory defences to copyright infringement , there is a defence of public interest , for example , if it is in the public interest that a program listing is published . |
| 22 | I do n't think it is possible to disagree about the high probability that a relationship exists , and that indeed children with higher levels of lead in the blood tend to be less intelligent ( and possibly more hyperactive ) than children with lower blood lead levels , although the differences are quite small , amounting to some 3 or 4 points of IQ . |
| 23 | Both parties accepted the long-established principle that a company could not forgo its right to alter its articles of association . |
| 24 | But her greatest thrill of all came on the very day they were going home , for the Brownie Guider from Stowbridge came to see them off and she brought the exciting news that a second Pack was being formed at Stowbridge and that the way was now wide open for Brenda to become a Brownie . |
| 25 | Sir Adrian Cadbury is not one of those who subscribes to the popular theory that a truly professional manager can take over the helm of any type of business with only a superficial knowledge of the nuts and bolts . |
| 26 | There was n't the slightest sign that a few hours earlier she had collapsed in paroxysms of tears and seriously considered calling the whole thing off . |
| 27 | ‘ There is now not the slightest doubt that a part of the increased number of cancer cases can be attributed to the effects of the many new chemicals present in the environment ’ , he reported . |
| 28 | I have not the slightest doubt that a Pay and Display system for both the cobbled stone area in the middle of the town and the larger car park now available behind the Raby Arms Hotel would be both effective and easy to operate . |
| 29 | Curricular novelties continued : the Headmaster , himself a Classicist , reported on Speech Day : we have made the experiment of allowing boys in the 5th to choose their own work for two hours a week , with the interesting result that a dozen boys have chosen to do Greek . " |
| 30 | It also lies behind such developments as the medieval conviction that a monarch could heal by the laying on of hands . |