Example sentences of "[that] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't cycle that slowly up a hill can you ? |
| 2 | Possibly the pendulum has swung too far in that people have gone from feeling that somewhere in a marriage there should be room to accommodate their personal feelings , to believing that their feelings are everything . ’ |
| 3 | What is surprising is that just for a change , some of this talk is being turned into action . |
| 4 | To her annoyance she found that just for a while there , while they had been swimming and afterwards when they 'd first gone into the club , she had actually been enjoying his company . |
| 5 | His story sounded so genuine that just for a moment she was tempted to tell him , but something held her back , a deep-seated fear of making a mistake . |
| 6 | It could well be useful in certain respiratory conditions he thought , but there was a danger that just as a candle burns out much quicker in oxygen , one might ‘ live out too fast ’ . |
| 7 | So it seems likely that just as a youngster does not need to learn to be afraid or to feel secure , they also respond instinctively from birth to the underlying mood of the call — like the predatory roar of a lion , the angry bellow of an enraged bull , the contented moo of a grazing cow or the eminently social bleatings of sheep , keeping the flock together . |
| 8 | What it means in practice is that just as a wife has no entitlement to supplementary benefit ( SB ) in her own right — her husband must claim for her as his ‘ dependant ’ — so a single woman living with a male lover may be denied SB and required to look to him for support . |
| 9 | ( 1 ) There is a tradition in Austrian and German philosophy which maintains that just as a judgement can be true or false , so can an emotional attitude be correct or incorrect . |
| 10 | He saw that just as a knowledge of atoms and molecules is essential for the progress of chemistry , it is also essential for chemistry student . |
| 11 | You said that just like a Jersey bean now look my men ! |
| 12 | Dr Hartwell Schulman of the Institute of Medical Climatologists has shown that just before a storm there is a reduction in atmospheric pressure which causes blood circulation to slow down . |
| 13 | The problem of course with Christology for feminists is that Jesus was a male human being and that thus as a symbol , as the Christ , or as the Second Person of the trinity , it would seem that ‘ God ’ becomes in some way ‘ male ’ . |
| 14 | Many felt that possibly as a result of Big Bang more people generally were changing jobs , and the mining conglomerate questioned wrote that : ‘ we have had to review salaries etc. of staff vulnerable to approaches from the City . |
| 15 | It seems that once upon a time OS/2 was going to be the real version of Windows , but Microsoft changed its mind and decided to go it alone . |
| 16 | Among modern believers , it is generally assumed that once upon a time there was a ‘ pure ’ form of Christianity preached by Paul , from which various ‘ deviations ’ — that is , ‘ heresies ’ — subsequently occurred . |
| 17 | and they forget to tell you that once upon a time does n't always have a nice ending , yeah |
| 18 | THE publisher 's comment on this book compares it with The Organisation Man and Future Shock , claiming that once in a while a book so accurately captures ‘ … the essence of its time that it becomes the spokesman for that decade ’ . |
| 19 | I do n't want to complain about our marriage or suggest I 'm dissatisfied , but I just do wish that once in a while you 'd tell me , ‘ I love you . ’ |
| 20 | If you are the guest , then you can take refuge in the thought that once in a while you need a break , and you can always make it up tomorrow by being particularly good . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm sure that once in a while we can be in the same kitchen without explosions occurring , do n't you agree ? |
| 22 | But , leaving that aside for a moment , he tried to make some sense of Steen 's behaviour . |
| 23 | But , leaving that aside for a moment , during our — association — you made veiled insinuations about me and Elise — ’ |
| 24 | We shall see in the next section that partly as a result of secularisation religion has become privatised and inward looking . |
| 25 | The Ehrenreichs claim that partly as a reaction against the actions of the government ‘ large numbers of young people pushed professional-managerial class radicalism to its limits and found themselves , ultimately , at odds with their own class ’ . |
| 26 | He says that often in a benefit year , a player 's form suffers , but for me things have been going very well . |
| 27 | Right and indeed , er I , I must er correct the impression that Yeltsin is anti-semitic , I do n't think there 's any evidence of that at all , er , a and , er I , I would regard that really as a slander on his character , but er , er Russian nationalist , this is a very delicate question . |
| 28 | Bridbury also suggests , from the admissions to the freedom of the boroughs , that the ranks of the citizens were being widened , and that even at a time when rural conditions provided more incentive for men to remain in the country than at an earlier date the towns were still able to attract them ( 61 , pp.62–4 ( Tables , 65–9 ) ) . |
| 29 | Presumably , the reason is that even with a word mask , word targets are represented at two levels ( word detector and letter detector ) while letter targets are represented at only one . |
| 30 | It 's perhaps typical that even with a track as self-consciously silly as ‘ Ebeneezer ’ , there has to be a message . |