Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In either event it is no longer safe to assume that non-human animals are just small versions of us , so direct extrapolations are going to be a risky business . |
| 2 | It was not fair to say that he– parents had had no time for her or for Joe ; all four of the family had worked together , and , as the settlement grew , they had enjoyed churchgoing and Easters and Christmases with their neighbours . |
| 3 | This evidence is not sufficient to suggest that low rates of sudden deaths in Bangladeshi infants are achieved at the expense of high neonatal mortality . |
| 4 | Butler sometimes talks of a passion as directed at one 's ‘ having ’ its object , but it seems more satisfactory to say that particular passions are directed at occurrences , and that the basic one can not be directed ; t the occurrence of pleasure for oneself since this always stems from having something occur one wished to do so . |
| 5 | It would be simplistic to interpret ‘ TransForm ’ as a study of the overlapping and interconnection of painting and sculpture in the twentieth century ; it would be more exact to say that avant-garde movements abandoned the concept of ‘ a painting ’ or ‘ a sculpture ’ as such . |
| 6 | At precisely the same moment at which central government concerns to reduce spending on the welfare state became dominant , it became more difficult to ensure that local authorities would do what was required . |
| 7 | Again , given the cultural pressure on women with children , it is hardly surprising to find that successful mothers provide a point of reference and fulfil an opinion leader role . |
| 8 | Thus rather than adopting the language of coercion and hence drawing parallels between corporate officials and , say , soldiers at the front in World War I compelled to go over the top at dawn to meet the German machine-gun bullets or be shot as ‘ deserters ’ , it might be more realistic to argue that corporate officials are frequently placed in a position where they are required to choose between impairing their career chances or being a loyal organizational person . |
| 9 | are clearly right to emphasise that new forms of politics and people 's support of these politics must be in some way connected to changing social structures and crises within capitalist society . |
| 10 | While it would be misleading to suggest that small firms are important across all manufacturing industries , it is also incorrect to assume that small firms are confined to traditionally labour-intensive industries like textiles , clothing , furnishing or ceramics . |
| 11 | It is also important to recognise that indirect costs of issue exist in terms of the final issue price being below what the market might have been willing to pay for all of the shares ( and hence the company receiving less funds than it might otherwise have done ) . |
| 12 | Generalizing rather , it is probably true to say that Hawaiian-type eruptions are more common on the oceanic island volcanoes than elsewhere ( though the examples of Nyiragongo and Nyamlagira emphasize that it is only a generalization ) , since it is in these environments that the fluid basalt lavas are most likely to be found . |
| 13 | It is impossible for any of us to monitor carefully every single thing we say — how boring and stilted our speech would be if we did — but it is as well to remember that young children take the spoken word very literally , and a great deal of harm can be caused by the use of thoughtless and insensitive phrases . |
| 14 | In these circumstances it is just as reasonable to assume that political elites or administrative officials are acting autonomously as to assume that they are acting in accordance with society 's preferences . |
| 15 | Well I , I would n't disagree with it , but I , but I , the description is perfectly plain to ensure that effective arrangements are established from liaison between the various departments of the County Council and the appropriate organizations such as the emergency services . |
| 16 | Now I am quite prepared to believe that other countries can offer more obviously spectacular scenery . |
| 17 | It is all very well to say that local circumstances will dictate responses but there will be many similar circumstances from place to place , so that there is clear benefit in adopting common approaches if not standard solutions . |
| 18 | But , while the main survey showed that men in general tended to be better informed about credit than women , that difference was too small to suggest that Asian women would have given a very different impression if they had been included in the groups . |
| 19 | While it would be going too far to claim that social surveys such as these by themselves induced major political change , it would be dangerous to ignore their significant contribution . |
| 20 | The rationale for this is that intervention can not replace natural developmental processes , but only complement them ; it is therefore necessary to ensure that structured attempts at intervention and ‘ natural developmental processes ’ are working in unison . |