Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in suggesting that more people are doing weird things to themselves these days , I plead caution . |
| 2 | One could dismiss this factor once and for all merely by saying that any aspect of conventional harmony ( triadic chords , cadences , etc. ) must be avoided . |
| 3 | Indeed , they sometimes came close to thinking that these achievements were not merely impressive but final . |
| 4 | I have made mention elsewhere of the sense that warns us of impending danger , and will not labour the subject further beyond stating that this sense is a very real one and that I do not know , and therefore can not explain , what brings it into operation . |
| 5 | PRINCE Charles stepped into the Euro wrangle yesterday by demanding that each country must safeguard its own ‘ cultural diversity . ’ |
| 6 | Game theory has developed this theory of rational choice a stage further by assuming that interacting agents have common knowledge of each other 's rationality . |
| 7 | It 's also worth stressing that these books are for real people , with real gardens : we 're not giving them pictures of Blenheim or Buckingham Palace . |
| 8 | It might , therefore , be said that if this is a fair representation of Hinduism , the major religion of the Far East , then Hinduism is polytheistic in two ways — both in saying that many gods exist and in saying that many gods may be followed . |
| 9 | This could be summed up by saying that responsible government depends largely upon the existence of , and free competition between , political parties . |
| 10 | Far from saying that these types of facility have no place in the countryside , the CPRE believes that sensitive planning is the key to stop development going out of control . |
| 11 | However , the inequalities in higher education have rarely been the subject of close and critical attention ; far from arguing that higher education serves to reproduce inequalities , commentators ( e.g. Wolpe 1977 ) have argued merely that higher education functions to train middle-class students to take up positions of status and responsibility in society , such as civil servants , managers , teachers and doctors . |
| 12 | On October 30 , 1990 , the Hague court ruled on one issue in the case , finding that Stivoro acted diligently in stating that passive smoking negatively affects health . |
| 13 | She turns the Government 's self-help approach around by arguing that urban recovery will only be achieved by empowering the people who live in cities . |
| 14 | Logically , children could start out just as well by assuming that each word carried a different meaning on each occasion . |
| 15 | Either there is no one else to step in , or doctors and social workers — themselves at their wits ' end to find facilities — conspire to bring it about by assuming that such care will be given , for example when a patient is discharged from hospital following a stroke . |
| 16 | The Plowden Report recommended that ‘ Schools with an age range of 5–11 should usually have at least three classes , each covering two age ranges ’ , but by 1976 Lady Plowden , the chairman of the Committee producing the report , appeared to have altered her views , stating in a Border Television broadcast : ‘ Since the report I have come round to thinking that small country schools should be kept open because of the social value and because of the continuity of community involvement they provide . ’ ) |
| 17 | And I can get round to doing that this week , I started trying on Friday but most of them were of course hitting the road . |
| 18 | However , in practice the courts tend to impose higher sentences for assaults on the police , and it is therefore worth noting that this offence is committed even though D was unaware that he was striking a police-officer . |