Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] that [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is widely claimed that English speech tends towards a regular alternation between stronger and weaker , and tends to adjust stress levels to bring this about . |
| 2 | It was widely reported that armed police had besieged the state-owned Jerada colliery , which had been occupied for 10 days in late December 1988-early January 1989 by 400 miners . |
| 3 | This is harassment , plain and simple , ’ she charged him grittily , only to see that insolent grin appear on his face . |
| 4 | This column has long argued that Scottish football needs to reduce the quantity of matches played and increase the quality . |
| 5 | Mr Savoy , who is based at the Andean Explorers and Ocean Sailing Club in Reno , Nevada , has long suspected that ancient man had far more trans-oceanic contacts than most orthodox historians accept . |
| 6 | ( If it so happens that yellow wallpaper does take away your appetite , then for you it is relevant . ) |
| 7 | However , it is not good enough to assume that physical restrictions to access to college buildings can be removed , in one fell swoop , by the construction of a ramp or the fitting of a handrail . |
| 8 | ( Ayer , 1972 , p. 6 f. , 1980 , pp. 60–63 ) We do none the less believe that certain connections hold between cause and effect . |
| 9 | Some people fondly believe that chess-playing computers work by internally trying out all possible combinations of chess moves . |
| 10 | So although the absence of key workers in Newham meant that there were few boundary disputes , it also meant that the development officer could become very closely involved in organising other services , and perhaps feel that other services took advantage of the Home Support Project and showed less involvement than would have been necessary without the project . |
| 11 | ( Sexual intimacy does not necessarily mean that old people have been frank about their bodies . ) |
| 12 | This does not necessarily mean that working-class boys commit more delinquencies , but that they are more likely to fall foul of the legal system . |
| 13 | Orwell , concerned only to demonstrate that political will destroys the individual , offers no verdict on such refinements . |
| 14 | Because she was naïve enough to think that married men did n't flirt with other women ? |
| 15 | Many prep schools use small classes as their trump card in their marketing campaigns rightly claiming that small classes allow each child to have a big slice of teacher time . |
| 16 | It was Ten-huc who defused it , perhaps showing that old age brings wisdom even to pirates . |
| 17 | In an exchange rate union , the existence of national currencies necessarily implies that economic agents have to bear exchange rate related costs with respect to intra-union transactions . |
| 18 | Tizard ( 1977 ) , whilst rightly arguing that new families need to be totally in control of the way they bring up their adopted children , is also prepared to concede that ‘ just as there are some couples willing to adopt handicapped children , others , especially if given the support of other adoptive parents , may be willing to adopt children who retain links with their natural families ’ . |
| 19 | The Minister rightly said that good things have happened — such as the extremely good directorship of all four collections , most notably of the national gallery under Mr. Neil MacGregor , and of the Tate gallery under Mr. Nicholas Serota . |
| 20 | She said she had not heard that British scientists wanted to return him to Arctic waters , but warned that going back to cold temperatures , coupled with the need to hunt for food again , would be fatal . |
| 21 | I had not realised that other sites had been considered , including Merthyr . |
| 22 | Political sociologists generally acknowledge that political science has a long , honourable and scholarly tradition of studying the apparatus of government and the state but worry about its tendency to consider this in relative isolation from its wider social context . |
| 23 | In the industrial type of society there is , according to Spencer , a tendency for central regulation and coercive control to decline and to be replaced by representative institutions and a more diffuse system of regulation ; but this view is then qualified in various ways , and Spencer finally concludes that representative government depends largely upon the existence of a particular type of economy the laissez-faire free-enterprise economy — which creates the conditions in which ‘ multitudinous objects are achieved by spontaneously evolved combinations of citizens governed representatively ’ . |
| 24 | Secondly , it is only right that your doctor should know , because if there is a significant change in your condition with homoeopathy , he will ascribe it to the wrong treatment if he does not know that other therapies have also been given . |
| 25 | So they do not know that white Rhodesians behaved in a relatively civilised manner compared , say , with the French in Algeria or the Portuguese in Mozambique . |
| 26 | We have already reported that lipid peroxidation plays a significant part in the pathogenesis of gastric mucosal lesions induced by water immersion restraint stress , burn shock , and ischemia-reperfusion . |
| 27 | It is only when they have been thus adopted that conscious strategy turns into habitual rule , coping into culture . |
| 28 | In 1912 Edison introduced the compatible ‘ Blue Amberol ’ records made of an even tougher plastic ; and it is generally accepted that Blue Amberols had a better , higher fidelity performance than any other medium before the First World War . |
| 29 | It has been generally accepted that adenomatous polyps develop in the second and third decade with most affected untreated subjects developing a colorectal carcinoma by the age of 40 years . |
| 30 | The words of Johnson 's wife , Ladybird , have a cruel irony : " I just hope that foreign problems do not keep mounting they do not represent Lyndon 's kind of presidency . " |