Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further complexities in place deixis arise if the speaker is in motion — it then becomes quite possible to use temporal terms in order to refer to deictic locations , as in : ( 86 ) I first heard that ominous rattle ten miles ago ( 87 ) There 's a good fast food joint just ten minutes from here This raises the issue about whether time deixis or place deixis is more basic . |
| 2 | Every country is doing its best to ensure that promising players are not missed ; and the first 15-a-side Exiles tournament between the Scots , Welsh and Irish takes place at Old Deer Park on November 7th and 8th with IRB referees Derek Bevan , Jim Fleming and Stephen Hilditch officiating . |
| 3 | Governing bodies will be all too aware of the danger that the image presented by their pupils may be negative rather than positive and do their best to see that high standards of behaviour are maintained in and out of school . |
| 4 | None the less , in the realm of human events , the teaching of Jesus still goes against our conventional suppositions , because we all assume that big outcomes need big inputs . |
| 5 | We take the piss out of him , because of this idea that he will be doing ‘ real police work ’ , but we all know that divisional work has higher status for a Chief Supt. than Research , and this is the cause for celebration . |
| 6 | I think we all saw that strained relationships amongst the staff greatly affect the students . |
| 7 | We all agree that small stores are important , but they can remain viable only if they can carry out their trading on Sundays . |
| 8 | We first recall that new nodes are created by choosing a basic structural variable x r in row i of the optimal tableau of LPk which has a value that is not integral . |
| 9 | We both believe that mutual access to each other 's catalogues would be of benefit to staff in both institutions , but we recognise that there are practical problems and questions of policy which would have to be addressed . |
| 10 | The economic significance of British woodlands throughout history ( sections 4.1 and 4.2 ) did not , however , ensure their survival to any great extent , nor is there any guarantee that tropical forest plantations will succeed , though as Mather ( 1987 ) points out , their prospects are promising . |
| 11 | Just as plainly effective were Danny and Wiston ; different though they were in minor detail and execution , they all shared that plain symmetry and order which the Tudor gentry sought to give to a turbulent society . |
| 12 | Table 4.4 , which summarises the main studies , shows that they all agree that regional policy has had an important effect on job creation though they disagree on how important it has been . |
| 13 | But was it right to argue that British banking suffers from overcapacity ? |
| 14 | Those who have it will be better at forming relationships of all sorts because they do not find it impossible to believe that other people could actually respect them and care for them . |
| 15 | The complexity of modern European economies makes it impossible to believe that rural community self-sufficiency can be achieved in isolation from urban and industrial economy . |
| 16 | They thought it unsatisfactory to say that moral qualities are distinguished by sense or feeling rather than by reason . |
| 17 | If society generally under-values old age , is it any wonder that old people do not experience a sense of personal worth ? |
| 18 | Finally , as we have shown earlier , what is defined as criminal varies across time and place , thus making it difficult to argue that in-built differences between the sexes can explain what is a variable phenomena . |
| 19 | From the 1570s onwards , even in the conservative south-west of the country , statements by testators which indicate a belief in solafidianism appeared regularly in the preambles of large numbers of wills , although the comments which the same testators made when leaving bequests to charities suggest that many still found it difficult to appreciate that good works could play absolutely no part in their salvation . |
| 20 | I sometimes find it difficult to believe that other lesbians will accept me as one of them . |
| 21 | Foreign firms find it difficult to believe that Japanese costs are really low enough to justify such low prices and there is some evidence that the domestic prices of equivalent goods are higher . |
| 22 | As neither he nor I were long-term government servants , we were rather more critical of policies and decisions , and did our best to see that reasonable criticism was reasonably answered . |