Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without actually moving physically , I shook my head clear inside and decided that the big male would make a fine head for a Pole . |
| 2 | It was a pointless ‘ command ’ , for Baldwin was on the edge of nervous collapse , irritable , complaining and , in the closer judgment of Jones , ’ entirely without resource The Downing Street secretaries circumvented the King by getting an haphazardly chosen doctor ( they had previously tried fourteen others , all of whom were away ) to come in and certify that the Prime Minister had to go . |
| 3 | First they begin a political offensive , propagandising widely and saying that the Cuban people oppose Communism … |
| 4 | A final one-day visit by a ‘ core group ’ of members approved the scheme indefinitely and agreed that the future pattern of review would be on the basis of a rolling cycle established by the Polytechnic . |
| 5 | Doyle had his cap off and noticed that the new missus half put out her hand to shake his , not knowing what to do . |
| 6 | However , I should like to go further and suggest that the minimum term of appointment of the governors of the institution should be eight rather than five years , to ensure that it goes way beyond the electoral cycle of any member state . |
| 7 | From this it is easy to go one step further and to say that the same thing happens in fictional discourse , except that it is a postulated or imagined model of reality — in short , a fiction — that is transferred to the addressee . |
| 8 | Some French intellectuals have gone even further and demanded that the whole thing be burned to the ground . |
| 9 | Some researchers ( for example , Bates 1976 ; Lock 1980a ) have gone a step further and proposed that the non-verbal communicative skills which are displayed in ‘ showing ’ and ‘ requesting ’ objects are direct precursors to the linguistic functions of ‘ telling ’ or ‘ giving information ’ and ‘ asking questions ’ . |
| 10 | Some would go further and argue that the wide-ranging emphasis of records of achievement on recording a great variety of skills and personal qualities , as well as specific attainments , is a reenactment of the old elementary school concern with civic virtue and Godliness as well as basic competence in the ‘ three R's ’ ( Hargreaves , 1986 ) . |
| 11 | In a recent article in Current Anthropology , one palaeontologist went even further and stated that the molecular anthropologists were right for the wrong reasons , while the palaeontologists were wrong for the right reasons . |
| 12 | In fact , one could go further and claim that the negative image of the Jew provided a common denominator which was able to combine and provide justification for all these ideological themes . |
| 13 | The tracking system stores relevant details [ such as home address , employer and next of kin ] for all personnel travelling offshore and means that the relative response team will always have all the necessary information immediately to hand . |
| 14 | what they are doing you see , an authorized dealer , well even a non-authorized dealer get hold of a piece of kit and then somebody say want this system , right okay , and they just have a big load of forms for maintenance agreements and all they do the dealer 'll go along and put this kit in , B T 'll come along and say yeah that conforms to regulations , sign here , the customer er sign here , the dealer send the maintenance agreement to us , we signed it , send it back , we 've never even seen it , then we turn up and find that the main control unit 's high up in the attic or in a damp cellar , in a cupboard where you ca n't see it , there 's no light and stuff like that and we 're taking jobs on like that and it you know , it 's just impossible to work on them |
| 15 | I checked the needles more thoroughly and discovered that the very tip of the latch of a needle was sheered off . |
| 16 | The men working with him then walked out and demanded that the firm concerned , the Mercantile Lighterage Company , should order him to join . |
| 17 | But the London office checked it out and confirmed that the sheer secrecy of the Bedford police gave credence to the story . |
| 18 | On the subject of predictions , and while the Prime Minister reflects today on the gloomy report by the Confederation of British Industry , does he recall on new year 's day this year saying on Radio 4 that in retrospect , we would look back and say that the economic recovery had already started ? |
| 19 | If a member interrupts another unnecessarily you should intervene immediately and state that the first speaker has the floor . |
| 20 | He looked around and saw that the third man was now lying over the roof of the light blue car and firing at them with what he took to be an M1 carbine . |
| 21 | The manufacturer does not provide a recommended retail price , so I shopped around and found that the going rate for a 55 US gallon model was around £89 . |
| 22 | I picked out notes where he had just screwed up totally , but then I went back to the beginning again and realised that the whole song was just shifted . |
| 23 | The woman turned round and saw that the red crow was perched on the balustrade , flapping its wings like a man trying to keep warm and looking in at them , its head cocked to one side . |
| 24 | An increasing number of directors of sponsoring companies are beginning to ask ‘ What did we get for our money ? ’ when they so often see players to whom considerable appearance fees have been paid , losing limply in their first or second round matches and , even worse , then turning round and implying that the only tournaments they really take seriously are the Grand Slams . |
| 25 | He looked up briefly and saw that the black youth was watching him . |
| 26 | I therefore met CCW staff recently and agreed that the coastal study be rescheduled to commence in April 1993 , giving us time to make all the necessary preparations . |