Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Mathias correctly sees the high demand of the war years for cereals as keeping agricultural wages up with prices , but they started from such a low level that in years of scarcity like 1795 and 1801 they could hardly have sustained life . |
| 2 | However most of them have a strong sense that in this celebration of the Church , Christ himself is present and feeds with Word and Sacrament those who come to him through faith . |
| 3 | What is it about them that speaks to you , that calls forth such a strong response that at the end you feel satisfied , nourished , as though something new had taken place ? |
| 4 | Sometimes a rabbit can be shot in a burrow entrance but , even if such a shot is successful and the rabbit is killed , there is a strong possibility that with its last few movements the rabbit will kick its way far enough down the burrow to make capture difficult . |
| 5 | Moreover there is also a strong possibility that in some of these cases at least , the outcome of the trial itself , and ultimately the choice of sentence may be affected by earlier remand decisions . |
| 6 | If it can be proved that the pattern exists , then there is a strong possibility that by tracing this pattern , certain locations will be revealed to which the metal detectorist would be well-advised to direct his search . |
| 7 | There must be a strong presumption that at bottom they are of this same nature , despite an occasional argument to the contrary ( Vendler , 1962 ) , since effects are also causes . |
| 8 | John-William had come across Mr Moon several times in Leeds and Manchester , had found him to be a decent fellow , and received a strong impression that for the sake of his children — offspring of his first wife long deceased — he would be glad to get back into society again . |
| 9 | I have a strong feeling that in all our communities our worship falls a long way short of New Testament and patristic practice . |
| 10 | Erm on paragraph twenty erm the government 's proposals will penalise all the camping which takes place outside recognised sites while at the same time I 've already said , removing any incentive or obligation for local authorities to provide enough sites anyway so i it 's , it 's a a total squeeze that on the one hand the government is restricting the number of pitches and then penalising everybody who has n't got one ! |
| 11 | A variety of opinions were aired on the matter by the politicians present , and there seemed to be a definite acknowledgement that at least some of those present held shares in Anglo United , the mother company of IBM . |
| 12 | It appears from the context that this is not intended as a limitation on the use of ‘ judicial channels ’ but rather as a preliminary observation before a specific provision that in such border cases legalization is not required . |
| 13 | It is a striking coincidence that in the same year that Aethelbald came to power among the Mercians , the assassination of Osred , son of Aldfrith , in Northumbria and the accession there of Coenred also broke the entrenched power of the family of Aethelfrith which had dominated the kingship of the northern Angles for more than seventy years ( see below , pp. 47 ff . ) . |
| 14 | It is a striking fact that in mania the adult with his manifold potentialities of action and reaction reproduces the uninhibited instinctual manifestations which we observe in the euphoria of the satiated suckling . |
| 15 | He had a strange sensation that for many minutes he had been holding his breath , though he could n't of course have been doing that . |
| 16 | It 's the ultimate insult when that politician belongs to a political party that throughout twelve years of Government has washed his hands of any responsibility for the rights and aspirations of people with disabilities . |
| 17 | With respect to the question of the dating of the campaigns , however , the principal Arabic source , Ibn Hajar , writes in a different context that in Sha'ban 820/September-October 1417 , the Ottoman ruler ( Mehmed I ) , alter having besieged Konya , seized Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey and his son Mustafa and took possession of Konya , Kayseri , and most of the Karamanid lands . |
| 18 | This is an impressive performance which provides a clear demonstration that through the provision of a comprehensive and carefully targeted range of marketing support schemes , the IDB is helping local companies of all sizes to develop their international competitiveness , expand their exporting capability and market share and win significant new international business , thereby creating growth and sustained and stable employment . |
| 19 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 20 | For both these reasons , there is a high likelihood that with advancing years wives will be widowed and will find themselves living alone . |
| 21 | Mr Edwin Nathan has left his post as head of French operations after telling a French newspaper that in exchange for a high price for Imigran — £32 for a month 's supply in Britain — Glaxo would build a £100 million factory in France . |
| 22 | The sculpted figures of mineworkers with their lamps are the work of M. B. Braun from 1721–5 and are a salient reminder that without the silver mines of Jihlava and Kutná Hora royal patronage of the arts would not have been possible . |
| 23 | There is now , however , a non-zero probability that in any time period a price war will break out , and in an infinitely repeated market it is virtually certain that one will be observed . |
| 24 | On April 20 two leading opposition groups — the African Liberation Forces of Mauritania ( FLAM ) and the United Front for Armed Resistance ( FURAM ) — said in a joint statement that without Taya 's resignation and a general amnesty there could be no genuine democracy . |
| 25 | Penelope hardly knew which to choose after this , but decided on brandy ; she had a vague idea that for women port was a rather low-class drink , since they did not — perhaps could not — appreciate it in the rather ritualistic way that men did . |
| 26 | She had not intended to bring this out into the open in quite this way , but she was left with little option , and she had a vague instinct that in the long run it might reap results . |
| 27 | It was fabulous because King Crimson had such a tremendous sound and such a tremendous image that for them to suddenly stand up and do a lot of Buddy Holly hits with Donovan singing vocals was really cute . |
| 28 | Yet he was such a skilful flyer that to an American of the Lafayette Squadron it seemed as if a plane obeyed his thoughts rather than the controls , and at Verdun alone he shot down six German aircraft and a balloon . |
| 29 | This latter undertaking was , however , independent of and severable from that of the shareholders and there was no reason why it should not be enforceable by the shareholders among themselves as a personal agreement that in no way fettered TBL in the exercise of its statutory powers . |
| 30 | But there 's a moral argument that at some point you 're not paying them enough to live on . |