Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much so , that in the conventional use of the term , ‘ being critical ’ has come almost exclusively to mean that the object or action in question has fallen short of the standards in question . |
| 2 | Beddington had lived long enough to know that very few people were quite what the public considered them . |
| 3 | The question is whether prices and mortgage rates have fallen far enough to ensure that this position will be reached in the near future . |
| 4 | I have seen enough already to know that my work on Christabel must be seriously altered in the light of what you have in these letters — I would n't be happy going on without taking them into account — and that must be true of Dr Michell 's work on Ash too , just as true . ’ |
| 5 | Some have gone even further to suggest that , since people are purposive beings , all practices , including moral practices , are purposive in nature : ‘ a practice without a point is an empty ritual ’ . |
| 6 | Most of us have lived long enough to know that you ca n't say with any certainty , where you might be in the future . |