Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [that] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it was obviously impossible to claim that literary art still sprang from the general community , this could be accounted for by the gulf between literature and life caused by the processes of industrialization . |
| 2 | It is perhaps misleading to state that definitional overlap selects the ’ correct ’ word in any particular case , because ultimately the correct word is a product of the writer 's original intentions , and is therefore subjective . |
| 3 | Is it not patronizing to assume that ordinary Omanis are not interested in affairs of state and to imply that all the peoples of Arabia prefer strong leaders to participatory democracy ( Country Profile NI 173 ) ? |
| 4 | It is certainly not objectionable to say that personal freedom is sometimes limited : any society based on the rule of law does that . |
| 5 | As shape and energy are interchangeable in biological systems , and as all biological reactions are shape-specific , it is not unreasonable to suggest that shape-specific water polymers are the basis of the activity of homoeopathic potencies . |
| 6 | For isotropic elastic materials it is not difficult to show that internal pressurization allows the determination of the plane strain bulk modulus A torsion test will give a fourth elastic constant , the longitudinal shear modulus . |
| 7 | Compared with younger age groups , older people are much more likely to suggest that improved prosperity has brought about improved health , while younger people are more convinced of the importance of health education . |
| 8 | Even during the phase of rampant textual materialism , Ricardou and others were still able to claim that avant-garde writing was inherently political by its very existence . |
| 9 | Studies of men in their 60s whose birth records were still available showed that low birth weight and low weight at 12 months were associated with glucose intolerance later in life . |
| 10 | In the provincial press , and especially the local weeklies , it is more difficult to believe that direct influence was rare . |
| 11 | Engineers should contribute effectively to risk management within their organisation by doing everything reasonably practicable to ensure that good practice is being followed . |
| 12 | It is also important to remember that upper safety limits depend on the person concerned . |
| 13 | Among northern textile workers poverty and the need to work probably played the most important part in the decision to seek an abortion , but it is also important to remember that working class women viewed abortion as a natural and permissible strategy . |
| 14 | It is clearly ridiculous to suggest that effective research can be carried out only in the absence of an adult experimenter . |
| 15 | It is reasonably accurate to say that good teaching comes largely from thorough planning , yet all too often far too little planning time is made available . |
| 16 | While not denying the clinical value of the EEG as a non-invasive technique it is probably fair to conclude that electro-physiological research has so far not contributed anything new to our knowledge of cerebral asymmetry but rather has corroborated findings from other areas of investigation . |
| 17 | It is probably fair to say that full-time tribunal chairmen are considered of roughly equal status to circuit judges , with Presidents , regional chairmen and lawyer members of appellate tribunals roughly equal to High Court judges . |
| 18 | And this self , in the introductory chapter , is surely right to suggest that moral sense and a sense of the numinous do not come naturally — as some anthropological dismissals of religion might suggest — from some crude pre-scientific attempt to explain the universe . |
| 19 | This means that we have to be doubly careful to ensure that multicultural mathematics does not become a second-class mathematics curriculum for multiracial urban schools . |
| 20 | It is historically untrue to say that religious decline in Europe began in the twentieth century : the majority of working people in the first one hundred years of industrialism were not regular churchgoers ( though the new middle classes were ) . |
| 21 | Schrager and Short may not go this far , but they are certainly right to stress that corporate crime should be conceptualized so as to include acts of omission as well as the more obvious acts of commission . |
| 22 | It is all too easy to assume that formal regulation has an immediate unilinear impact , but in actuality the history of sexuality is as much a history of an avoidance of , or resistance to , the moral code , as of a simple acceptance and internalisation . |
| 23 | Though in the statement it was mentioned that statistics from other countries were too unreliable to say that pro-divorce legislation increased the instability of marriages and led to an ever-increasing number of breakdowns , Archbishop McNamara was already preaching by 6 May that divorce ‘ makes stable and permanent marriages more difficult for everyone ’ ( Irish Times , 7 May 1986 ) . |