Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adj] that [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ All I 'd say is , why are you so sure that this balcony is n't bugged ? ’ |
2 | But are we quite sure that this quality of unpredictability , which is , after all , only another name for " free will " , is really a human rather than an animal peculiarity ? |
3 | It always struck me as ironic that these buildings , which had been designed to make that present appear futuristic , now served so well to make this present look exactly like the recent past . |
4 | The District Council said nothing about bypasses and they actually pooh-poohed that this piece of ground would be developed because of it 's value as an entrance to Chipping Norton . |
5 | They would have to disclose all memoranda , manuscripts and correspondence relating to the transaction , and it seemed to me almost inconceivable that this disclosure could enable the culprit still to be concealed from exposure . |
6 | Is it so likely that that man , however much he may have been struck by your beauty and gaiety , Miss Jonathan , would have at once decided to assassinate your future husband ? ’ |
7 | Research has shown that good oxygenation makes it less likely that any rogue cells will survive to form a life-endangering tumour . |
8 | They say that the police could stop the violence overnight if the Special Patrol Group was assigned to patrol the area , or if the Home Office made it sufficiently clear that this kind of activity must stop . |
9 | Is it not likely that some people who take cars or ride in taken cars will be convicted of the aggravated offence , and be given harsher penalties , largely as a result of these provisions on proof ? |
10 | Is he further aware that many industrialists believe that those high premium rates will cost us business and jobs ? |
11 | I find it totally unacceptable that another football club manager is not allowed into a ground to do a job . |
12 | Young people are not alone in having problems with friendships , but the psycho-social issues that confront adolescents make it more certain that such difficulties are likely to be of concern to them . |
13 | This approach could involve studying the statistical distribution of child abuse , or comparing a group of known child abusers with a non-abusing control group , in order to try to identify and isolate some of the factors that make it more likely that some parents will abuse their children . |
14 | But once some set of rules has been established in this way , we might well think it more important that these rules be publicly regarded as settled , so that people can plan accordingly , than that they be the best rules that could have been found ; this provides a reason why courts should leave the rule untouched even when they think the wrong choice was made in the first instance . " |
15 | Is it similarly possible that these emotions are not a consequence of the dream but of the apparently haphazard interaction between midbrain and hindbrain activity during REM sleep ? |
16 | Is he also aware that those industries have been losing 2,000 jobs per month in addition to the 60,000 jobs already lost and the 7 per cent . |
17 | But six shots and a man in intensive care , ’ he added , ‘ makes it reasonably certain that some friend of yours was involved . ’ |
18 | We regard it as unlikely that many teachers in the near future will be able to handle facilities of this range and power amid the pressures of the classroom . |
19 | Linguists have a tendency to regard it as axiomatic that all teachers — including teachers of subjects other than languages — need to be informed about language . |
20 | The British Government professed to ‘ have always regarded it as desirable that these elections should be held and have advised the Government of the Republic of [ South ] Vietnam to enter into consultation with the Viet Minh authorities [ sic ] in order to ensure that all the necessary conditions obtain for a free expression of the national will ’ . |
21 | The stone was placed within a specially designed chair in Westminster Abbey to make it symbolically clear that all coronations of English kings henceforth should be regarded as simultaneous coronations of the kings of Scotland . |
22 | It is noticeable that a number of other politicians abroad have made it perfectly clear that this country becomes a more attractive place for investment — and therefore for jobs and prosperity — because we are not committed to the costs of the social chapter . |
23 | ‘ In publicly announcing the withdrawal of its remaining occupation forces from Korea , the US should make it unmistakably clear that this step in no way constitutes a lessening of US support of the Government of the Republic of Korea , but constitutes rather another step towards the regularisation by the US of its relations with that Government and a fulfilment on the part of the US of the relevant provision of the GA Resolution [ UN General Assembly ] of December 12 , 1948 . ’ |
24 | ‘ None the less , ’ he said , turning again to face them with a calm and decided countenance , ‘ I think it indeed needful that this march should come into the justiciar 's hands rather than Earl Richard 's . |
25 | Terrorist offences , which do not fit easily into systems of justice devised for other purposes , make it doubly important that this ideal is preserved . |
26 | In the first place , the personality of the new king made it quite certain that any dispute would be conducted in a new way . |
27 | She thought it quite wonderful that this kind man , who was not married , who had a job , who was on Lambeth Council 's housing list , actually wanted Tina to go and live with him . |
28 | The King , however , was disinclined to anything other than an exchange of courtesies , once again making it quite clear that any attempt to detach Prussia from the rest of Germany was a fruitless exercise . |
29 | Ms Rhind said : ‘ I find it quite incredible that any authority or any member of an authority has to sink to such depths in order to try to make a case . ’ |
30 | ‘ You made it pretty clear that any attraction you felt for me was unwilling . |