Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [modal v] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Politicians , uncomfortable in the spotlight , publicly back some sort of reform package that might take away a few of their perks . |
| 2 | Now at the moment that might seem quite a good idea , we have a very right-wing Tory government and Europe seems very reasonable . |
| 3 | The penalty is that you have to decide what sizes you want and prepare them in advance , a process that can take quite a time and uses up a considerable amount of disk space . |
| 4 | Fishing was rather like farming in that a river fishery was a limited resource that could support only a restricted number of people . |
| 5 | By storing up a few milliseconds worth of message and then pumping it out in a splurge , several digital phones can operate over a channel that would accommodate only a single analogue one : they merely send out their bursts at different times . |