Example sentences of "that a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 It follows that , if I am right , the overriding need of the moment is to pursue policies and enact legislation to ensure that a like situation to the present is never allowed to recur .
2 I think that a real affront to sexual integrity and sexual dignity may be sufficient . ’
3 None of us believes that a real alternative to King 's Cross exists , although we are not particularly happy about British Rail 's proposals .
4 Computers , especially microcomputers and terminals with monitors , have been claimed to be harmful to the health of the operator because of radioactive emissions although at the present time there does not appear to be any conclusive proof that a real danger to health exists .
5 True to Reid 's claim that the debate jumped to solutions , we now find that a major response to economic decline and youth unemployment has been the Youth Training Scheme organised through the Manpower Services Commission of the Department of Employment , in which the school sector plays little part .
6 As these factors are examined it is important to bear in mind that a major advantage to the builder is that the financial risks of employing labour direct are transferred to the sub-contractor .
7 Indeed , early research on the use of paraprofessionals in the US indicated that a major barrier to the optimum use of this category of social service personnel was the lack of appropriate training for the professional staff who supervised and directed their work ( Denham and Shatz , 1969 ) .
8 It is obvious that a major accident to a wide-bodied jet engaged in public transport is going to demand a far greater investigative effort than an accident in which a pupil on his first solo flight makes a heavy landing and breaks a nose-wheel .
9 But where , on the one hand , the hierarchy of the chivalry is systematically catalogued , from dukes to mere gentlemen , the commonalty is differentiated only to the extent that a passing reference to ‘ the chief of theis folkes , as the substantiall marchauntes , the welthie grasiers and farmers ’ acknowledges the existence of sub-species .
10 One might think at first blush that a passing reference to a person that all your readers will have heard of would serve to authenticate your story .
11 We are arguing , on the basis of what actually happens in classrooms , that a purist adherence to any methodological orthodoxy can generate considerable problems , that these need to be addressed openly , and that in any event the notion that the act of teaching can be made the subject of procedural mandates is suspect and unrealistic .
12 So it appears that a general tendency to unhappy and aggressive social interaction spins over into mother-child management struggles .
13 The FIS continued to demand that a general election to the National Assembly should be followed within three months by presidential elections .
14 Yet the public is regularly given the impression that a general solution to the problem of natural-language understanding has been found , and that computers with the ability to chat to us and with various other human characteristics are just around the corner .
15 A contract may be a contract , but Branson was now coming round to the belated realisation that a suitable gesture to Oldfield much earlier on in his career — increasing his royalty rate after Tubular Bells , for example — could have prevented all this ugliness .
16 I propose that a useful point to be considered by the doctor is whether a treatment would be clinically indicated for a private patient with unlimited personal resources .
17 In 1153 , for example , when the bishop of Langres brought a complaint against Duke Eudes II of Burgundy in the royal court , all four royal summonses to the duke met with excuses ; in the end , therefore , the royal verdict was given by default to the bishop , but without much expectation that a long-term solution to the conflict had been achieved .
18 However , Brazil 's Justice Minister Mauricio Correa , on a visit to the area , warned that a long-term solution to the problem of the state 's unemployed miners would have to be found .
19 From fearing that a total commitment to Guy Sterne would be the greatest mistake of her life , for some inexplicable reason she could n't now seem to envisage a future without him .
20 Also , if need and problem identification has been conducted properly , the salesperson knows that a rough guide to when to close is after he has matched all product benefits to customer needs ; theoretically , intentions should be at a peak then .
21 It was accepted from the outset of the study that it would be unrealistic to expect changes to be made overnight , and that a gradual evolution to the desired state would be necessary .
22 Despite a failure to negotiate a comprehensive peace settlement for Cambodia during the second Jakarta Informal Meeting ( JIM ) in February 1989 [ see p. 36464 ] and during the Paris conference on Cambodia in August [ see pp. 36848-49 ] , certain concessions offered in late 1989 by the resistance groups and the Phnom Penh government indicated that a political solution to the Cambodian problem might be taking shape [ for acceptance in January 1990 of an Australian peace proposal by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council see pp. 37186-87 ] .
23 Ms Botwin has found that a good clue to spotting a fear of intimacy is when someone can only have sex with people they do n't care about , but can confide and be intimate with people of the opposite sex who are seen as just good friends .
24 What banana brain thinks that a curved edge to the lid is more important than removing an excess 200g ?
25 One pertinent observation is that a pronominal reference to an inanimate object will have the gender of the noun that would be used to describe the object in that context .
26 Chinese Premier Li Peng also held talks with Wee , and expressed his confidence that a peaceful settlement to the Cambodian issue would be reached .
27 The contemporary PCI contends that a peaceful transition to socialism can take place in Italy without damaging the fabric of liberal democracy .
28 Underlying the offences now found in Part III is the assumption that a serious threat to public order is inherent in certain forms of expression .
29 It became clear , however , that a serious obstacle to the formation of an efficient national health service was the determination of the BMA to prevent its members becoming salaried state officials .
30 Kripke 's interpretation of the private language argument holds that a negative answer to the last question is a consequence of more general considerations about rules and objectivity .
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