Example sentences of "that [adv] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most studies which have attempted to establish laws about reaction time have assumed that stages ( a ) and ( c ) are relatively short and consider that effectively all the time is taken up by central processes . |
| 2 | The statutory criteria ( in section 1 ) state that a custodial sentence must not be passed unless either ( a ) the current offence is ‘ so serious that only such a sentence can be justified for the offence ’ or ( b ) , in the case of violent or sexual offences only , only a custodial sentence ‘ would be adequate to protect the public from serious harm ’ . |
| 3 | Assad had urged recognition that " the only beneficiary of the present crisis is Israel " , promising that Syrian forces would fight alongside Iraqis if they were attacked after a withdrawal from Kuwait , and arguing that only such a withdrawal would avoid giving the " enemies of our Arab nation … the golden opportunity which they were dreaming of one day having , and which today is present " . |
| 4 | Introducing the budget yesterday , Finance Minister Mr Laszlo Bekesi said that only such a regime could prevent economic collapse . ‘ |
| 5 | There were fears that extension work to the Jubilee Line would mean that only half the area would be available this year . |
| 6 | Almost instinctively , people worried that so outstanding a year might tempt Helen to switch at once to the professional circuit . |
| 7 | It was evident , as the trial went on , that Lord Robertson had held for many years a belief amounting to an article of faith that Meehan and Griffiths had committed the Ayr murder , and that so paltry a matter as overwhelming evidence to show that they had n't and that Waddell and McGuinness had , was in no way going to sway him . |
| 8 | Ralph ( Hyacinth had been swiftly urged to drop the ‘ Sir ’ by her genial host ) called for him to be removed , by force if necessary , refusing to believe that so demotic a figure belonged to ‘ our great Party ’ . |
| 9 | He pulled her to her feet , marvelling that so slight a creature could have put up such a fight . |
| 10 | One might hardly suspect that so simple a task for so few seconds of film could prove so practically trying and , on reflection , so symbolic of our whole chain of adventures , attempting to keep aloft and alive a consecutive string of luminous mirrors against rather ridiculous odds . |
| 11 | I should suppose that it is deliberately not so expressed , for I can not think that so simple an expedient as the transfer of assets to a company resident in the United Kingdom and the immediate removal of that company outside it would not occur to the draftsman . |
| 12 | Birkenhead , who had written after the victory of 1924 of ‘ the tragedy that so great an Army should have so uninspiring a Commander in Chief ’ and was usually more sparing with his admiration than with his criticism , allowed some balancing increase of his own regard for Baldwin to occur . |
| 13 | Dalgliesh , who had heard him at a police concert , never ceased to be surprised that so narrow a chest and so slight a frame could produce such a powerful organ-toned bass . |
| 14 | The British in India had from the beginning of the nineteenth century seen clearly that so unnatural a phenomenon as the government of that teeming subcontinent by the parliamentary electorate of the British Isles could not be destined to be permanent . |
| 15 | It might seem that so artificial a superiority was certain to prove as transient as the hegemonies that it had replaced , although those in whose hands power lay were for the most part undaunted by the new challenges to Britain 's position that they sensed … |
| 16 | Sad that so important a subject should be so turgid for most of us . |
| 17 | Ironic that so noble an edifice should house so vile an organisation . |
| 18 | Certainly , one 's own immediate reaction was that so big a ball would be still more at the mercy of wind and spin . |
| 19 | It is a little disappointing that so handsome a book offers so breathless a review of the subject . |
| 20 | I find it hard to believe that so fundamental a process is not governed by principles just as elegant and universal as those uncovered in relation to molecular genetics . |
| 21 | It must have seemed to them that Marian and Allen had perished in the flames and their own immediate concern was to remove themselves from the danger of the roof falling in on their heads and from the certain consequence that so conspicuous a fire in the night would be seen by the outlaws and would sooner or later bring them to the scene . |
| 22 | I am willing , indeed eager , to believe that so severe a bias is typical ; that most aspects of a story usually get told , because of the sheer anarchy of the national press , if for no other reason . |
| 23 | Quite apart from the economic implications , the British government feared that so drastic a move , unless effectively challenged , would encourage others in the Middle East — and even further afield — to act against foreign investments and interests . |
| 24 | It did not seem possible that so lively a person was dead . |
| 25 | I had hoped that somehow such a thing would happen . |
| 26 | Although Mr Crozier admitted his department was still gearing up to implement the legislation , he confirmed that once all the stall were fully trained they would begin prosecuting offenders . |
| 27 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that those dramatic figures are eloquent testimony to the fact that under Labour the number of days lost was so dramatic that it resulted in near anarchy and that , as a result of our legislation , there are now proper secret ballots and democracy in the workplace ? |
| 28 | For example , one might observe the fact that nearly all the world 's languages have the three basic sentence-types : imperative , interrogative and declarative ( Sadock & Zwicky , in press ) . |
| 29 | Most , but not all , of the islanders retreated to the mainland , returning five months later to discover that their island had grown by over a square mile and that nearly half the town had been destroyed . |
| 30 | MORALE in Britain is so low that nearly half the population would emigrate if they could , according to a survey . |