Example sentences of "an [noun sg] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an all-rounder that first year was n't he ? |
| 2 | As a result of the Quality Development Programme , therefore , SCOTVEC will be required to open its doors to auditors from an ‘ awarding body ’ : an experience that many centres will recognise ! |
| 3 | If we cancel this event because of a shadowy terrorist threat it will be an admission that these people can control our lives . |
| 4 | This and a similar arrangement by Kenneth II for lands in Lothian came to be regarded by the English as an admission that Scottish rulers were not equals but vassals in relation not merely to a few specific regions but to the whole of Scotland — which had never been contemplated by the Scottish signatories . |
| 5 | This is an installation that this County is not required to have one waste from four Counties . |
| 6 | It is , moreover , an irony that these ministers ( Gaitskell , Jay , Wilson ) were at the same time preparing a Full Employment Bill which assumed a major capacity for planning within the government machine . |
| 7 | Often an introductory section mentions that the teacher may select and may concentrate on certain aspects in preference to others ; sometimes it gives an indication that regional variations in content may be acceptable in certain cases . |
| 8 | There is also an indication that certain countries , particularly Kenya and Ghana are becoming increasingly prepared to recognise more languages as media for the initial years of formal education . |
| 9 | We are currently seeking alternative rapid methods , but the lack of a suitable rapid assay must not be taken as an indication that therapeutic monitoring is unnecessary . |
| 10 | It must be questioned whether the presence of any particular species of predator in a fossiliferous deposit provides an indication that that predator accumulated the bones in the same deposit . |
| 11 | In the capital , Amman , demonstrators attacked the US embassy and a number of breweries , an indication that Islamic fundamentalists were heavily involved in the rioting . |
| 12 | The large number of court cases in which the complainant dropped the prosecution is an indication that many cases were settled informally . |
| 13 | An indication that many fighters have all but lost any semblance of moral conscience are the frequent violations of the neutrality of medical and humanitarian workers . |
| 14 | We did n't mix — the Forces and the students — as we really had nothing in common , but it was a reassurance to see them going about their daily business , as an indication that one day we would all be able to revert to peacetime pursuits . |
| 15 | This ending is nevertheless an indication that ordinal person is still present in the interior make-up of the English finite verb . |
| 16 | None of these individual factors is proof of addiction but any of them can be a cause for concern and a repeated pattern of one or more factors is an indication that professional assessment is indicated . |
| 17 | Some manufacturers like to leave the tempering colour on the tools , as an indication that this operation has been carried out properly . |
| 18 | Twenty per cent saw western concepts of democracy and freedom as useful to China , an indication that this issue had not been forgotten . |
| 19 | Particularly if the year intended in the lists is indeed 833 — these actual death dates may be an indication that this entry should , however , be dated a year earlier , i.e. 832 -but in any case in view of the general chronological uncertainty , Rajab 834 appears to fall within an allowable margin of error ; and one would therefore be reluctant to dismiss the circumstantial account of a contemporary biographical source in favour of a too-strict adherence to what seems to be the slightly uncertain evidence of the chronological lists . |
| 20 | For example , the striking color of Prussian Blue is an indication that electronic spectra may have unusual features . |
| 21 | Through open windows or balcony doors came the mingled sounds of pots clattering and televisions blaring , an indication that most families were having their evening meal . |
| 22 | That is not to say that it is enough to do deliberate actions which , in fact , obstruct ; there must be an intention that those actions should result in the further state of affairs to which I have been referring . ’ |
| 23 | Although in the case of learning disabilities he accepted that he was dealing with congenital conditions incapable of radical improvement , his regimen called not only for humane treatment but also for an appreciation that disabled people deserved special understanding because of their superior spiritual status . |
| 24 | It 's certainly an anomaly that two players dealt with around the same time end up serving their bans well apart . |
| 25 | On Dec. 28 Gaviria admitted in an interview that official talks had taken place with the drug cartel ; however , he said , they had been limited to offering traffickers protection if they surrendered . |
| 26 | In some of these there is now an insistence that rural Bolivians should be able to learn first in one of the country 's three major native tongues rather than in Spanish the official language . |
| 27 | At the initial training level , we now find an insistence that all teachers in training must be exposed to a compulsory component concerned with meeting special needs in the ordinary school . |
| 28 | The difficulty encountered by the expertise theory in trying to demonstrate the legitimacy of corporate managerial power by showing that there are restraints on the discretion of the managers stems from its attempt to combine a deference to the judgments of business managers with an insistence that corporate managers are subject to fiduciary duties that prevent them from exercising their power for their own purposes or for other non-corporate ends . |
| 29 | At its purest , Indian English also preserves an elegance that many Britons have forgotten . |
| 30 | Or ( as cited above ) , one might hold a particular performance as a ‘ reference ’ , which gradually exerts such an influence that any newcomer simply does n't stand a chance . |