Example sentences of "a [noun sg] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proviso set out below may be a fair compromise : PROVIDED THAT in so doing the Landlord shall cause as little inconvenience or disturbance to the Tenant as is reasonably practicable in the circumstances and shall not prohibit or unreasonably interfere with or prevent the use of the Premises for the Permitted User In addition it may be as well for the tenant to stipulate in such a provision that any development of neighbouring or adjoining premises should not include the building of which the premises form part unless of course adequate safeguards are included to ensure that the premises do not suffer as a result . |
| 2 | De Gaulle 's proposals for a " French Community " included a provision that any colony which wished to break all ties with France would be free to do so , simply by voting no in the constitutional referendum . |
| 3 | Chapter 1 of this book presents a case that good communications between all members of a firm and its customers are essential to its success . |
| 4 | If the fees are reduced to such a level that this quality ca n't continue , then the only answer is to move into the private sector . |
| 5 | It will question NAB 's assertion that the value of the brewery operations has fallen to such a level that asset-backed loans are in jeopardy . |
| 6 | If everyone can learn to understand , however , how wars can be started so easily , there is a hope that more people might work to prevent them . |
| 7 | With just a hope that both locks opened to the same sesame , I turned the wheels to one-five-one and tried it . |
| 8 | Leslie Thomas , a leader of a gang that organised acid house parties in London , was jailed at the Old Bailey yesterday for five years and three months after being convicted in his absence of plotting to permit premises to be used for the supply of drugs . |
| 9 | They renovate and enhance our reactions to life by disrupting established habits of response , and creating in us a state of equilibrium of a kind that other sorts of experience can rarely achieve . |
| 10 | They share the conventional wisdom of the nuclear lobby that what has stopped America 's nuclear industry in its tracks is what the NES calls an ‘ impossibly cumbersome nuclear licensing process ’ — of a kind that pro-nuclear countries like France do not allow . |
| 11 | It is a trick that many groups , including Mr Arnault 's , have yet to master . |
| 12 | It might be that the survey was aimed at testing a hypothesis that happily-married couples tend to vote more conservatively , while unhappily married couples vote more radically , but if this was not apparent to the informant the questions on marital relations would probably seem irrelevant and impertinent . |
| 13 | That change is one of attitude , attitude towards a computer that many MIS managers regarded until recently as ‘ a toy ’ or ‘ that thing with a mouse ’ . |
| 14 | ... Also , managers often became enamoured with specific planning concepts , employing them with a fervor that inhibited sensitivity to special considerations and that diverted attention from other important issues … . |
| 15 | As their lips met , she knew in a flash that this kiss of love was even more wonderful than the words that had just thrilled her . |
| 16 | And that 's not bad for a Londoner that die-hard Tykes believed would n't stay five minutes when he came north after a disastrous spell at Watford . |
| 17 | Freeman and slave , patrician and plebeian , lord and serf , guildmaster and journeyman , in a word oppressor and oppressed , stood in constant opposition to one another , carried on an uninterrupted , now hidden , now open fight , a fight that each time ended either in a revolutionary reconstruction of society at large , or in the common ruin of the contending classes . ’ |
| 18 | There is a story that two painters had been drinking until dawn and , on hearing the news of the occupation on the radio , went out and found themselves an inspector of police . |
| 19 | There is a story that Old Dobbin , even after he had been retired from active fire service , would still , by force of habit and for the excitement of it , try to get out of his stable to find his place between the fire-engine shafts whenever the alarm rang . |
| 20 | Like another release in the same series — Benedict Mason 's Lighthouses of England and Wales , which I 've reviewed at length below — Birtwistle 's work is also , for all its contemporary superstructure and substructures , a species of tone-poem in a genre that British composers tend to be good at : in this case the quasipantheistic dark-pastoral in the tradition of North Country Sketches , In the Faery Hills , Enter Spring and , perhaps especially , the ‘ Ritual dances ’ from Tippett 's Midsummer Marriage . |
| 21 | The Germans , where they thought about it at all , regarded Poles of all varieties as uncivilised upstarts whom they loathed for their backwardness , presumption and ambition , and this was a judgement that many East Prussian Poles accepted . |
| 22 | The legislation reflected a judgement that local authorities could not deliver what the national interest required . |
| 23 | Frequently , however , the imposition of standards reflects a judgement that important externalities exist or is simply a pure value judgement based on distributional considerations . |
| 24 | This aspect therefore involved a judgement that low-income families … do not have access to credit at an acceptable price . |
| 25 | It may be a coincidence that this affair , the consecration of the church at Assandun , and the introduction of monks at Bury all happened at about the same time . |
| 26 | Before recording the verdict Coroner Mr Barter said : ‘ It does seem a coincidence that this rupture should occur shortly after the biopsy operation . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Can it be just a coincidence that this tape is alleged to have been recorded just two weeks before the Diana tape ? ’ |
| 28 | Excessive stress can damage the heart and it might not be a coincidence that cardiac disorders are most frequent at the time of waking or the hours just after . |
| 29 | It is not a coincidence that these unions are most common among the poor , for what do they care about legitimacy and inheritance ? 53 Besides this materialist aspect , marriage in Western society developed a complex overlay of social connotations . |
| 30 | Miss Dianne Feinstein , a former mayor of San Francisco , jumped ahead of Mr John Van de Kamp , her main rival for the Democratic nomination , largely because of a television commercial in which she stressed that she was pro-choice on abortion and strongly in favour of capital punishment — a stand that some critics have summed up as pro-death . |