Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The infant death rate was still high enough , especially among the poor , for parents not yet to have become complacent ; meanwhile , the promise was held out , and for the first time could be kept , that babies could be successfully reared provided that medical advice was faithfully followed . |
| 2 | The great voice which calls us all has appointed that one card will remain blank and another shall be full , and not for any good or well they 've done to him . |
| 3 | The diversity of museum collections in general requires that these practices be sufficiently flexible to accommodate the unusual object or set of circumstances , and yet sufficiently disciplined to ensure that realistic standards can be established and maintained . |
| 4 | Uneven demographic distribution , diplomatic and military considerations , the location of major industries , commercial relations , cultural influences and the centralization of political and administrative power in either St Petersburg or Moscow ( ancient and modern ) have all helped to ensure that cis-Uralian Russia has enjoyed a near-monopoly of European and North American scholarship in this field . |
| 5 | The clouds must be sufficiently isolated to ensure that clear air can be found by flying out of the lift . |
| 6 | Nothing turns on the procedure adopted in this case and it suffices to say that when , on 8 April 1992 , the matter came before Mr. Simon Goldblatt Q.C. , sitting as a deputy High Court judge , the application for an order under the Act of 1975 was made by those who are the defendants in the United States action and it was opposed by the Treasury Solicitor , although purists might perhaps have expected that any opposition would have been made by or on behalf of the Attorney-General , the objection being one taken on behalf of the Crown . |
| 7 | Perhaps Edward indeed was reluctant to embark on that wholesale hanging ; or may merely have assessed that this way he would force the Scots army into a rash and costly attack which he could repulse , and then get Berwick 's surrender . |
| 8 | I personally needed to know that these ideas were not wrong . |
| 9 | Yet suspecting and knowing are two different things , and I was still naive enough to want to believe that all policemen could be trusted . |
| 10 | You only have to show that this act works for there to be takers everywhere . |
| 11 | Others who have done so have argued that elderly people are often faced with a choice between an unpleasant battle to survive in their own homes and an equally unpleasant enforced dependence in the institution ( Wilkin and Hughes , 1987 ) . |
| 12 | A repetition of the analysis just given shows that stellar cores of mass less than M(Chandrasekhar) are stable against further collapse and form neutron stars . |
| 13 | Viewed as an ‘ independent robot ’ , I am happy to admit that a particular area of my brain controls my digestive processes and ‘ I ’ do not , but I certainly do not want to say that that brain area is ‘ aware ’ of those processes . |
| 14 | We do not want to say that one kind of state causes the other kind , but neither does it make much sense to say that they are ‘ parallel ’ or ‘ identical ’ . |
| 15 | This list of problems with enumerative schemes is not intended to demonstrate that enumerative schemes are not effective in the organization of knowledge . |
| 16 | I suppose this just goes to show that all treatment currently in use have some benefit but no one treatment is significantly better than all the others . |
| 17 | Although it will not do to assume that political developments in different nation states will ever be sufficiently ‘ synchronised ’ to avoid entirely the problems of advancing the socialist project in one country , or a restricted group of countries , this consideration does point to the vital need for maximum international coordination in the pursuit of socialist objectives . |
| 18 | The sort of argument just presented emphasizes that large organizations are not monolithic and that attempts to tighten up the system to make them so do not necessarily yield improvements . |
| 19 | Linguists do not like to say that Standard English is ‘ superior ’ to other dialects , because all dialects have their own richness , their own specific identity . |
| 20 | As many of us have mixed backgrounds I would not like to say that ethnic reasons are the main reasons for tabling this motion . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't , I just happened to see that tatty book of horoscopes Myra keeps on her desk while I was waiting for you one day , so I looked it up , ’ Dana said defiantly . |
| 22 | ‘ However ingeniously and wisely the civil and industrial controls and rationing schemes may have been devised ’ , wrote Sir Richard Hopkins , Head of the Civil Service and Permanent Secretary to the Treasury from 1942 to 1945 , ‘ they would not have achieved that full success but for the goodwill with which amid the strain and stress of war they were accepted by industry and by the community as a whole . ’ |
| 23 | Esther could not have planned that particular episode better if she had intended it . |
| 24 | No , because in the case of the Beethoven Seventh , he may not have learnt that quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated . |
| 25 | I do not wish to deny that most people find the parrot argument pretty convincing . |
| 26 | On the one hand , he does not wish to say that numerical identity reduces to qualitative identity ; on the other , he does not wish to abandon the principles of indiscernibles . |
| 27 | I do not wish to suggest that New Historians are involved in some huge subversive critical enterprise duping credulous students . |
| 28 | We do not wish to imply that current models are flawed in their construction . |
| 29 | The Regional Council has not attempted to argue that increased levels of infill can and do compensate for a shortage in the HP4 supply . |
| 30 | ‘ Of course , Lieutenant , you will already have realized that this morning 's scramble is no exercise . |