Example sentences of "that [adv] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 No , I thought that perhaps a stroll down Unter den Linden — such memories for me there — and then I have another idea .
2 A survey by Apted suggested that perhaps a quarter to a third of university libraries have selection policy statements of some kind .
3 That it 's actually trying to enforce a pattern of family life that perhaps a lot of people do n't want ?
4 But then this leads to the idea that perhaps a number of women do not enjoy being part of a couple and that a single woman in their midst acts like a demented lighthouse : enticing hapless travellers , by its safe and steady beam , on to the rocks below .
5 More than a decade after the introduction of legislation against sex or race discrimination , it remains true that only a minority of senior business executives are women or members of racial minority groups .
6 After a review of its operation in 1977 it became clear that only a minority of patients referred from the other hospitals were being successfully rehabilitated and that St Wulstan 's had become another long-stay hospital .
7 Mortality data indicate that only a minority of such deaths occur in ‘ the executive male ’ .
8 However , it should be noted at this stage that only a minority of elderly patients are heated by the geriatric services .
9 Although the finding of a colorectal stricture in ulcerative colitis very appropriately raised concerns of cancer , all studies including our own indicate that only a minority of these strictures are in fact malignant .
10 It is well known that only a minority of alcoholics are afflicted with clinical pancreatitis and the issue of individual susceptibility to alcoholic pancreatitis has recently been reviewed .
11 She suspects that Charles suspects that she had once had an affair with Ivan , but of course she had not , though she concedes that Ivan is so unpleasant that only a degree of past sexual intimacy could plausibly explain the kind of relationship that he and Liz have over the years established .
12 On 22 January 1917 , President Wilson responded to the obduracy of the Allies with a passionate endorsement of the argument that only a peace without victory could lay the foundations for a world without war :
13 The plenum , in the event , made little influence upon the continuing discussion , and by the early 1990s it was clear that only a reconsideration of the very bases of Soviet statehood would be likely to satisfy the aspirations of the various republics and nationalities .
14 For example , some people define ‘ language ’ in such a way that only a system of intentional communication between conspecifics could count as language , and some regard abstract features such as syntactic structure or individuating reference to past events as necessary to ‘ language ’ .
15 It is false that only a person in authority is an authority .
16 Most Right-to-Lifers believe that only a threat to the life of the mother is sufficient justification and that most women seek abortions for essentially ‘ trivial ’ reasons .
17 EVERTON 'S season is in such dire straits that only a magician in the mould of Paul Daniels can rescue them from big trouble now .
18 However , autonomous replication occurs in only 50-70% of the transformants , suggesting a defect in the recognition of the Tetrahymena telomeric template by the putative P. anserina telomerase so that only a fraction of entering DNA is stabilized into linear extrachromosomal molecules .
19 He said that only a couple of other booksellers in the country had been brave enough to ignore the letters .
20 But what makes me angry is that only a couple of these companies have bothered to alter their ads accordingly .
21 Some fella told me that only a couple of weeks ago , but the greatest rip off of them all , have you heard the greatest rip off about Betty and the , and the roof ?
22 Newman and his original associates ( all white and mostly women ) were hard-liners who argued that only a revolution of the working class could resolve the individual psychic crisis .
23 When we question the actual extent of lifetime employment it is not surprising to find that a fluid labour market requires that only a quarter of employees can expect such guarantees .
24 Bradshaw and Millar found that only a quarter of lone mothers on income support said they were managing all right financially and 52 per cent said they ‘ almost always ’ worried about money .
25 His team went further in hoping that only a quarter of total investment would remain in private hands .
26 In Somerset a jury declared that only a corner of north-west Somerset ought to remain within Exmoor Forest : another Somerset jury made the startling statement that King John had afforested all England !
27 When the Incas controlled this area , I was told by The Rough Guide to Peru ( my chattier , more colourful back-up to the ‘ bible ’ ) , ‘ they considered the Uros so poor — almost sub-human — that only a section of hollow cane filled with lice was required from them as a monthly tribute . ’
28 However , when language is used within a specific domain , it is often the case that only a subset of those senses is appropriate .
29 One problem , however , is that only a subset of all texts do in fact have what might loosely be called a story structure .
30 The questions which our proposal can usefully address are : ( i ) Will it lead to any discriminating predictions about observable data which differ from what would be expected under the assumption that postnominals are simply normal attributive adjectives ? ( ii ) How might our claim relate to the characteristics of postnominal attributives discussed in Sections 3.5 to 3.7 ? ( iii ) Can it cast any light in particular on the fact that only a subset of adjectives can occur as postnominal attributives ?
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