Example sentences of "that [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She dwelt on this potential disaster so often , and with such emotion , that eventually a freak electrical fault did cause a fire . |
| 2 | You , of course , have your headquarters in Tunbridge Wells , is n't that rather a long way to have much contact with Brighton ? |
| 3 | When Liman , the Senate Counsel at the hearings , suggested that it had been ‘ on-the-job training ’ , North thought that rather a good description . |
| 4 | ‘ Or is that rather a naïve question ? ’ |
| 5 | And at this stage , is n't that rather an academic consideration ? |
| 6 | Sir Patrick said that analysis backed up the view of Lord Colville , who conducted the review of the emergency laws , that only a small minority of cases involved allegations of police assaults inside the holding centres . |
| 7 | It is important to note , though , that only a small number of industrially advanced countries may be able to gain economically in this manner . |
| 8 | There were also some comments about homosexual authors and a few feeble attempts to refute allegations about Labour authorities — not that Labour authorities had not promoted homosexuality , but that only a few had and they had not spent millions of pounds doing it . |
| 9 | Thus , Beed has claimed that ‘ since ownership is very widely dispersed … either it could mean , with Berle and Means , that no one individual or small group could gain sufficient votes for control , or , contradicting Berle and Means , that only a few per cent of votes was required for control ’ . |
| 10 | I saw then , through the one eye that would open , that my fire was scattered , that only a few wisps of smoke rose here and there . |
| 11 | It is difficult to imagine , as the swifts circle and the vast Edwardian lawn rollers rumble in the middle distance , while maids in pale grey and broderie anglaise move silently through a Zoffany interior , that only a short journey away lies the centre of Manhattan . |
| 12 | What a pity then , that only a meagre 11,768 people watched it . |
| 13 | A joint venture goes further than co-operation , in that generally a new business entity is created , but falls short of a full merger of the parents , who remain independent . |
| 14 | Danny Baker 's new breakfast show Morning Edition ( R5 ) , provoked comments that we were downright insulting : ‘ He is no more that just a loutish version of Jonathan Ross . ’ |
| 15 | Almost like the burglar alarm you just have scheme , head co-ordinators , you know deputy co-ordinator , number of 'ouses and that just a basic so you go in |
| 16 | Body language , yes we 'll talk a little bit about body language and take that just a little bit further |
| 17 | Who would have thought , with all this talk of millions to be made by gene juggling , that just a few years ago genetic engineering was considered to be so dangerous that one small accident could unleash upon the world a virulent plague that would make the black death look like an outbreak of summer flu ? |
| 18 | But erm did that have a message , or was that just a fun thing for you to do ? |
| 19 | Is that normally a legitimate part of |
| 20 | Is that still a viable method of energy production ? |
| 21 | Marslen-Wilson , Tyler and Seidenberg ( 1978 ) take the view that this online view of language processing is not necessarily inconsistent with a weak form of the clausal hypothesis , in that once a complete information unit ( which may not always coincide with clause boundaries ) has been interpreted , other processing which results in the freeing of working memory then takes place . |
| 22 | Is that also a different derivation of the inductance ? |
| 23 | On the 22nd Gracey 's forces assisted the French in what , despite what was claimed at the time and subsequently , was an almost bloodless coup by which they occupied the Town Hall and other central points ; and two nights after that about a hundred and fifty French civilians , including many women and children , were massacred by Vietnamese who burst into the Cite Heraud district past indifferent Japanese guards . |
| 24 | Fifty pence out of one pound fifty is that about a tenth or about a hundredth or about half or what , what sort of fraction ? |
| 25 | It is worth observing , furthermore , that even a committed liberal humanist teacher like Barbara Hardy found that opportunities to teach " against the environment were rare ; perhaps particularly so in that her own college ( Birkbeck ) worked within the examination-dominated regime of the University of London . |
| 26 | Is that quite a high score there ? |
| 27 | I 've done that quite a few times but it does n't have any lasting effect , so maybe I 'd be a bad catch , ’ he says . |
| 28 | In general one might say that Law has become marginally less distinct from other subjects than it was in that quite a few people are doing cross disciplinary research , e.g. in law and economics and law and society . |
| 29 | Erm now you 've done that quite a few times before N A O so do the N A O H first and you should be able to whiz through that . |
| 30 | It can be argued , however , that neither a reformed employers ’ pension system , nor the new personal pension arrangements , are likely to guarantee an adequate income in old age for anyone ( male or female ) with a discontinuous employment record and/or a history of multiple job changes . |