Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlie rose from the chair and shook her hand vigorously to confirm that his first deal was closed . |
| 2 | If Berg was successfully to allege that it was fraudulently misled , it must show that some natural person connected with it had been misled , and Berg could not do this . |
| 3 | Almost everyone has a story to tell about dream incorporation — for instance dreaming about Arctic exploration only to wake up and find that the covers have slipped off and he is freezing cold , or dreaming of bells ringing only to wake up eventually to find that the alarm clock has been clattering for the last few minutes . |
| 4 | There used to be a long table and the head used to sit at the end of this table and so to see that you did n't leave off working she used to get the table cloth and always be pulling this table straight . |
| 5 | It is merely to affirm that in the end if education is to grow deep roots in the working-class , they will be nourished more by what people learn than how they learn ’ . |
| 6 | Gable is honest enough to acknowledge that there 's some truth in the saying that no publicity is bad publicity : ‘ The cynical and worldly part of me tells me it 's been wonderful because the production must be the most talked about in 20 years of dance . |
| 7 | At the junction with the road she braked just long enough to see that nothing was coming then turned right and careered wildly down the long hill into the village . |
| 8 | It was important to him , important enough to see that members of his family met her and that he found out what they thought of her as a possible wife for him . |
| 9 | Lewis was subtle enough to see that this was at best a half-truth , and perhaps he was beginning to sense that what Tolkien 's friendship had to offer him was something rather more important than a regress to me nursery . |
| 10 | She was shrewd enough to see that , if all the saintly characters were killed off , readers might be inclined to deduce that ‘ the sure reward of virtue is a fatal accident . ’ |
| 11 | He was astute enough to see that in some ways they shared the same experiences . |
| 12 | It was odd enough to see that rather feminine room crammed full with so many stern , dark-jacketed gentlemen , sometimes sitting three or four abreast upon a sofa ; but such was the determination on the part of some persons to maintain the appearance that this was nothing more than a social event that they had actually gone to the lengths of having journals and newspapers open on their knees . |
| 13 | One more adventurous boy decided to explore the overgrown slope behind the hut and he was pushing his way through the undergrowth when he caught sight of a figure approaching the hut further down the slope ; the boy was close enough to see that the figure was that of a tramp wearing tattered clothing and crowned with a battered trilby hat . |
| 14 | She gave him a quick , angry glance , just enough to see that his mouth was thinned with displeasure . |
| 15 | He ca n't do very much short-term about the federal deficit , although he 's sharp enough to see that borrowing short-term cuts interest costs . |
| 16 | Elrond 's adamant refusal to take the Ring is because he has considered its advantages but is wise enough to see that it would ruin him utterly . |
| 17 | It did n't take him long to realize that one less headache was getting rid of me . |
| 18 | It did not take me long to realize that this was the man I had needed so badly . ’ |
| 19 | It did n't take Matron long to realize that something was going on and put a stop to it . ’ |
| 20 | It not take him long to realize that if the police wanted someone to carry the can , then Dirk Coetzee was heading for death row . |
| 21 | It had n't taken Benedicta long to realize that it would be sheer cruelty to keep the marquis 's protégée penned within the confines of the convent . |
| 22 | We may surely placate the shade of Max Beerbohm sufficiently to acknowledge that the danger we run in approaching poetry this way is indeed the danger of one sort of professionalism — specialized and therefore blinkered , inflexible , and humourless . |
| 23 | The correspondent , however , was sage enough to emphasise that the relationship was far from causal . |
| 24 | merely to agree that the Secretary of State is always right . |
| 25 | Marchmont was driven to complain that Anson had been ready enough to promise that he would ‘ do it the first moment it was possible ’ , and had already been strongly urged to promote Lieutenant Home by the Duke of Newcastle , but yet had done nothing . |
| 26 | He may prefer only to claim that they apply once ethical language and judgement are understood in the way he recommends . |
| 27 | Note 2.4.4 The rather pedantic observation that ( ab ) c = a(bc) is included here only to emphasise that the associativity of unc depends heavily on that of . |
| 28 | I would have been sorrier still if she had not paraded her distress so openly , sighing and staring into space and insisting that Richard should buy her whisky , which is expensive in Morocco — in her place I should have been so humiliated and ashamed that I would have done my best to put a good face on it — but I was sorry enough to agree that she should come with us , in our car . |
| 29 | It is good for leaders to be aware of these if only to see that to gather together towards the Lord may take some time . |
| 30 | This is harassment , plain and simple , ’ she charged him grittily , only to see that insolent grin appear on his face . |