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 Others in the group argued that up to a point all those things were right , but that often a subject was complex , often it could be constructive for everyone to have a chairperson who would guide discussion , not control it , who would be able to be supportive when someone talked too much or too little .
27 A survey published in September 1986 by accountants Peat Marwick Mitchell revealed that out of a total of 213 British companies seeking a flotation on the OTC markets by August 1st 1986,80 raised money under the BES terms , and more than half the OTC entrants were BES schemes .
28 But it 's proposed to continue and if one looks at table N Y thirteen , tabled today , one sees that the residential land supply in and around Greater York up to two thousand and six , disregarding the new settlement , shows that out of a total of between eight thousand three hundred and eighty and eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dwellings , between three thousand eight hundred and ninety and four thousand one hundred and sixty , are destined for Ryedale .
29 Since the Royal Commission on Population found that out of a sample of 7,625 pregnancies only 147 resulted in criminal abortions ( equal to 2 per cent of all pregnancies and 17 per cent of all abortions ) , it is unlikely that changes in the abortion rate played a major part in accounting for the decrease in working class fertility .
30 This survey made in 1794 reveals that out of a population of 1,239 , 370 , almost a third , received some form of parish pay .
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