Example sentences of "a [adj] [that] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'm also looking forward to seeing a copy of the election manifesto on which he fights those elections and er er how it will be possible for the Conservative party to er put forward a manifesto that he is comfortable with and also a manifest that the honourable member for say Old Bexley and Sidcup is similarly comfortable with but er no doubt that 's a matter for the Conservative party . |
2 | It is only for the last century and a half that a direct picture becomes a convincing possibility . |
3 | However , it is a commonplace that a decision-maker who is given an apparently unfettered discretion must still exercise his power within the limits imposed by the law . |
4 | It has after all become a commonplace that the creative imagination of the philosopher , mathematician or scientist is not much different from that of a prophet or poet ; what distinguishes him is how he treats his findings in retrospect . |
5 | Syrian Foreign Minister Faruq ash-Shar " a said that the USA should first have secured a complete halt to settlement-building , and that the foreign ministers would demand that " Washington play the role of a fair mediator , unbiased towards Israel " . |
6 | Shakespeare 's technique , to let us into a secret that the hero will only discover for himself at the end , is a common one in playwriting and storytelling . |
7 | It 's a secret that the man who led a double life has taken with his to the grave . |
8 | As this meeting is in camera it is allowable at this stage to point out that certain elements in this family , being of — er — immigrant origin , ah , have a totally different conception of the role of a daughter in a family and of parental rights , and while doing all they could to respect the traditions of minority ethnic groups , and in particular the rather dominant role of the father in such societies , in the last resort it was with the protection of a minor that the Council was concerned according to the law of this country . |
9 | It was only when Mary became a Christian that the devil came to stake a claim to his own property . |