Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] [adv] [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried again and again to explain that an electric cooker needed a more powerful circuit than other equipment , but no-one would accept such an idea . |
| 2 | Er yes chair , I 'm not going to repeat the point I made yesterday but simply to clarify that the proposal Mr has outlined is not a proposal incorporated in the deposit U D P . |
| 3 | Even more importantly , there is every reason to believe , with Mary Midgley , that the basic assumption behind cultural relativism/behaviourism that human beings are totally plastic and devoid of innate structuration is false : ‘ Sensible psychologists have tended more and more to admit that people do have some genetically fixed tendencies ’ and she continues that ‘ What makes this admission hard , is the very strong impression still prevalent that we have to choose between considering these tendencies and considering outside conditions ’ ( 1979 : 20 ) . |
| 4 | She emerged immediately and dramatically to announce that she would be continuing with the contest with the aim of winning on the second ballot . |
| 5 | More recently , these hidebound attitudes have changed , in that educated , intelligent Christians accept that there is little need for God to perform a miracle ( unless , moving in mysterious ways , He particularly wants to ) when He can create the same effect using natural processes ; while scientists have begun more and more to recognize that there may be more truth in the mystical writings of the Christian and other religions than they have previously been prepared to admit . |