Example sentences of "that [adv] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sheltered housing project in Thornaby has proved so popular that only a few flats are left . |
| 2 | Also , the results of many surveys in both the United States and the United Kingdom suggest that only a few firms explicitly take the rate of interest into account in deciding whether or not to carry out an investment project . |
| 3 | It seemed impossible that only a few hours before I had been happy in my cell at the aerodrome . |
| 4 | What was this very special place that only a few hours ago I had cursed myself for entering ? |
| 5 | A light sampling approach is employed with the result that only a few students , in each of a representative sample of schools , are required to complete tests . |
| 6 | He chose a way of loving which was so outrageous and costly that only a few friends could follow him into his dark night of the soul . |
| 7 | One hears odd whispers to the effect that the production of seed is limited , and that only a few growers are allowed to handle them . |
| 8 | We saw that only a few months ago when the right hon. Gentleman vetoed the appointment of a Labour city councillor in favour of the appointment of his Tory placeman . |
| 9 | At the same time energy is lost from rotational degrees of freedom , by collisions during the expansion , and samples often end up almost entirely in the lowest few rotational levels , so that only a few transitions are observed in the spectrum . |
| 10 | Starting at the crowded favoured end is all very well if you can get a good clean start , but more often than not , there is so much crowding that only a few boards get away in clean wind . |
| 11 | It had been so quick and thorough that only a few people now remained around it , staring glassy-eyed , and the Rante itself already seemed oddly quiet and deserted . |
| 12 | These books show us a great adventure that only a few people undertake and finish . |
| 13 | I have noticed this during the last two or three days that I have been sitting here , being able for the first time in this House , to see the faces of my old associates , I have admired the way in which they have cheered to keep their spirits up , and I have admired those who have done that knowing — knowing — that only a few weeks , possibly , remain , before the place that knows them now will know them no more . |
| 14 | She did not reflect that only a few weeks ago she would have thought it impossible that she could have lived the life of a servant , let alone bear eating and drinking in the den in which Rose and her ma lived , but she did know one thing — she would never take her comfortable life for granted again . |
| 15 | And he revealed that only a few weeks ago Magherafelt traders turned down the option of having security gates erected in the town during a meeting with police . |
| 16 | This limits the number of possible combinations such that only a few examples exist in this category . |
| 17 | It has now been restored to a superb family home by the present Lord and Lady Feversham and it is hard to imagine that only a few years ago the house was little more than an empty , echoing shell . |
| 18 | The result is that the Viking badge today adorns a range of cars that only a few years ago would have been impossible to imagine . |
| 19 | It is interesting that only a few years ago Mr Albert Baker of Baker Bros. , Upper Halling , paid the Vicar part of the cost of wood he had cut in Halling woods . |
| 20 | Approaching a set of traffic lights where she normally went straight on , and where the queue ahead seemed to stretch into infinity , she realised that only a few cars were waiting to turn left into the Cheltenham road . |
| 21 | Some of this pollen is inevitably brushed off when a bee visits another flower , but bearing in mind that only a few grains are needed to bring about cross-fertilisation , and that a bee on a single journey may collect two million , it is clear that the price a plant pays for this transport is a very high one . |
| 22 | I think that just a few points that needs to be made . |
| 23 | Does he recall that just a few months ago he dismissed devolution as a stale hangover from the 1960s in which there was no public interest ? |
| 24 | remember that just a few weeks ago that you were de , almost denying that we 'd have to do this sort of thing ! |
| 25 | I feel that not a enough emphasis has been put on the vows that er parents take and the responsibility the minister has in administering those vows and therefore I support er the new amendment because of this , that it offers er a form of evangelism without the risk of having the parents taking vows that they do not er that they can not keep . |
| 26 | None of these grounds of illegality rules out the possibility that exactly the same decision might be reached even if natural justice were complied with , or all relevant considerations were taken into account , or the authority were to ignore all undue fetters on its discretion . |
| 27 | We believe that exactly the same approach should be adopted where an application would affect an SSSI , NNR or another national or international nature conservation designation . |
| 28 | We believe that exactly the same approach should be adopted where an application would affect an SSSI , NNR or another national or international nature conservation designation . |
| 29 | But the debacle at Fimbra , the watchdog responsible to SIB for regulating independent financial advisers , suggests that exactly the same tensions between self-regulation and investor protection continue . |
| 30 | It is the contention of the polytraumatic theory that exactly the same thing occurred when the next fundamental change in subsistence-pattern occurred , namely that from hunting and gathering to agriculture . |