Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] that it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other experts fear for the future — MDMA damages nerve terminals in rats and monkeys , and there is a strong possibility that it causes similar damage in humans . |
| 2 | One morning the young man was seized with a fit , in Dr. Prior 's presence , of ‘ such a frightful nature that it required strong nerves to witness same in those who are used to such sights ’ . |
| 3 | But there was a conflicting theory that it ate leaves . |
| 4 | There is one immediate step that Serbia could take as a clear sign that it wants peace . |
| 5 | We have a clear resolution that it objects to the new settlement on the basis that it is not needed and can not be justified . |
| 6 | While the meeting in the foyer was going on , the corporation gave a clear indication that it felt under pressure . |
| 7 | The judges ' function is also to do justice in accordance with certain settled principles of law in a free society ; and they are entitled to assume that Parliament does not intend to subvert these principles , unless there is a clear statement that it does . |
| 8 | According to Advanced Micro , the 210 has proven such a popular architecture that it has been chosen for the first speed and power upgrades . |
| 9 | The last folly was finished in nineteen thirty-six and provoked such a public outcry that it led to the first-ever planning inquiry . |
| 10 | When the name was officially changed the term ‘ non-objective ’ fell into general disfavour , possibly because of a public mis-perception that it referred to art without a purpose . |
| 11 | Would Mr and Mrs Husayn get a chance to study MY HOLIDAYS by M. and N. Husayn , a hundred-word masterpiece that it had taken three months to squeeze out of them ? |
| 12 | While one would have liked to have thought that the injustice of B's situation would of itself have been enough to persuade the Court of Appeal to strain to find a way of bringing it to an end , the Convention considerations ought to convince a future court that it has the duty to do so . |
| 13 | and as a result the party acquired a moral calibre that it had not had before . |
| 14 | The war made their beliefs seem realisable by adding to State authority a moral authority that it had lacked , but dependence upon State action was not a novel perception or created by war . |
| 15 | They have called on the Northern Regional Health Authority to issue a categorical denial that it has any plans to merge 15 health care districts into six super districts . |
| 16 | As one of the best records of 1990 it was actually a lucky escape that it sold so few copies , missed Top Of The Pops , slipped the chance of a slot on youth TV and lost the chase for Sunday newspaper publicity . |
| 17 | Hewlett-Packard Co is racing down the object-oriented programming road and last week it inaugurated a distributed-object-computing programme that it says will accelerate its efforts to develop and deliver a distributed object computing environment for heterogeneous networked systems . |
| 18 | The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan . |
| 19 | The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan . |
| 20 | A meeting of the Public Sector Pay Committee had been called for 8.45 a.m. — a sure sign that it had been called by Geoffrey Howe who was consistently the earliest ministerial starter . |
| 21 | Although Jonadab did not believe in the old country superstition that an elder bush planted by a house kept away witches , he was a firm believer that it deflected lightning during a storm . |
| 22 | The Financial Times of June 14 reported that Malaysia had recently provided the United Kingdom government with a firm commitment that it intended to finalize the outstanding parts of a major defence package agreed with the UK in September 1988 [ see p. 36558 ] . |
| 23 | He must therefore satisfy himself on a regular basis that it does not constitute a statutory nuisance . |
| 24 | Code switching in intra-generational talk is such a complex matter that it merits a chapter to itself , and the whole of the next chapter is devoted to it . |
| 25 | Even this sort of quasi-aesthetic ‘ decision ’ makes enough evolutionary sense that there is a good chance that it results from programming rather than intelligence ; and in most carefully studied cases it is clear that variability is innate . |
| 26 | It so happened that it turned out a good thing that it did n't get posted , but that was just a lucky chance . |
| 27 | It was simply a happy coincidence that it sounded like an insult ! |
| 28 | At UniForum , NCR Corp announced its Client Server Rapid Implementation programme , a consulting service that it says develops Unix-based client-server computing prototypes for a customer in less than 60 days . |
| 29 | At UniForum last week , NCR Corp announced its Client Server Rapid Implementation programme , a consulting service that it says develops Unix-based client-server computing prototypes for a customer in less than 60 days . |
| 30 | ‘ It is a proven fact that it strengthens growing teeth . ’ |