Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] that [adj] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This served two purposes , firstly the importance of the problems was diminished when they were written down ( even the most depressed person could not resist a smile when they wrote down some of their worries — somehow they looked silly on paper ) and , secondly , it enabled them to delete items on the list when the problems were solved , thereby proving that most problems were capable of being solved . |
| 2 | There are only a few isolated examples of Jacobite riots or demonstrations in England during the 1690s , perhaps suggesting that Jacobite sentiment was not particularly widespread . |
| 3 | Wagner can count some worthwhile benchmarks — from the Caring in Homes initiative to the forthcoming Children 's Charter and one or two legislative achievements — but it can also be justly proud of its part in seeing that residential care is on the political agenda , no longer a Cinderella service . |
| 4 | But I hope you are amiable and fair-minded enough to accept that this switch was not in any way part of my original purpose . |
| 5 | I think this merely emphasises that each school is operating its own erm thing , as it were . |
| 6 | We know enough to know that these things are not good for our life support system or for our quality of life , and that our activities have damaging effects on our wildlife . |
| 7 | A comparable version of this is the face made by someone who barges into a room unannounced expeeting to speak to a friend , only to find that this friend is engaged in an intimate professional consultation with another colleague . |
| 8 | Users of financial statements would wrongly assume that such paragraphs are a form of qualification . |
| 9 | As expected , most ulcers were so sited that venous insufficiency was immediately suspected : 392 ( 85 per cent ) were situated in the classic gaiter area . |
| 10 | Its scarcity contributed to its status as the most universally accepted precious substance , but this only ensured that unceasing efforts were made to reduce scarcity by increasing supplies . |
| 11 | We now understand the day before another young boy af about nine saw a amn dressed exactly the same some distance away in the Sparcells estate so we can only assume that this man is lurking around in the area . |
| 12 | Thus , the very nature of the demands made upon the state by the capitalist system leads to a form of the state that can not necessarily ensure that capitalist interests are furthered . |
| 13 | It so happens that this rate is exactly the output of the building industry , averaged over the previous three years . |
| 14 | The arithmetic alone shows that this Government is only prone to defeat when there is an issue over which all the non-government parties intend to vote the same way ( ie including the Official and Democratic Unionists , plus the self-styled popular Unionist , Sir James Kilfedder ) and where that total is topped up by a dozen or so Tory malcontents . |
| 15 | We take it as obviously inadequate merely to assert that fundamental syntax is semantic ; nor shall we believe that we have described ( let alone explained ) the meaning of a syntactic construction by simply giving it a name , such as attribution or predicative adjunction . |
| 16 | The by-election gains in Manchester in 1912 and in Ipswich on the eve of the war perhaps showed that this recovery was at hand . |
| 17 | Bear in mind as the starting-point that your permission to use someone 's land for rabbiting may very well not extend to after-dark activities , so ensure that this point is clarified . |
| 18 | Some people object to having their property scanned by an airborne eye , so ensure that proper permission is obtained before snapping at random . |
| 19 | However , and to complicate the issue , it does not necessarily follow that all crime is always viewed as deviant . |
| 20 | Doing so reveals that total revenue is very close to the total of the direct costs . |
| 21 | From this whole picture of ignorance and inactivity , and of continuing dissent even where there was knowledge , we can only conclude that legislative acts were commonly accepted , even by those responsible for them , as expressions of hope or at best long-term intention , rather than as strictly enforceable legislative acts . |
| 22 | Adorno argues that with Beethoven the potential of music is so raised that older assumptions are shattered . |
| 23 | One can only surmise that this arrangement was for the programming convenience of the television station which covered the matches . |
| 24 | ( Meliaceae ) but durian seeds are so damaged that ground-walking animals are thought to be the principal effective agents possibly sun-bears , or even tigers . |
| 25 | ‘ At twenty he is still young and foolish enough to believe that all women are goddesses under the skin . |
| 26 | While it does not necessarily imply that defective pitting is associated with defective immunological activity , using the technique of differential interference contrast microscopy , this study has highlighted the existence of functional hyposplenism in alcoholic liver disease and suggests that defective splenic function may be an additional mechanism involved in the susceptibility of this group of patients to infection . |
| 27 | Indeed just as ( 1a ) does not say that any calls were made , ( 7a ) does not necessarily imply that any questions were actually asked by the examiners at all ( while ( 7b ) does ) . |
| 28 | How it differs from Liphook , however , is that the head teacher is wise enough to understand that all children are individuals and what works for one may not work so well for another . |
| 29 | Professor Gower noted in his review of investor protection , which ultimately gave rise to the FSA , that the aim should not be to protect fools from their own folly but merely to ensure that ordinary people were not made fools of . |
| 30 | Indeed , there are many studies of primitive communities which not only claim that this possibility is realized but depict in detail the life of a society where the only means of social control is that general attitude of the group towards its own standard modes of behaviour in terms of which we have characterized rules of obligation … |