Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is now widely realised that a comprehensive education for a mentally handicapped child should continue over a longer time than the normal educational period of 5–16 years . |
| 2 | There was guarded optimism that all Cambodian factions ( the three NGC elements and the State of Cambodia ( SOC ) regime based in Phnom Penh ) would accept the UN framework , as it was widely expected that the five states would put pressure on the respective factions they supported . |
| 3 | It was widely expected that the formal ban on direct trade with the Soviet Union would be lifted in 1990 leaving only mainland China , Albania , Cuba and North Korea on the prohibited list . |
| 4 | It had seemed a little exaggerated that an elderly woman could move so rapidly and catch a younger man off guard . |
| 5 | But these have been so badly eroded that the controlling guards of critical thought are down . |
| 6 | The first was a harmony of the four Gospels , so arranged that the four books could be read either separately or in one continuous story ; each page was illustrated with engravings , and richly bound by the hands of the ladies of Gidding . |
| 7 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 8 | Officials gloomily realised that the inadequate billeting arrangements devised by Whitehall had discredited the scheme , and a propaganda campaign would make little difference . |
| 9 | The high frequency vibrations were so highly favoured that an infinite amount of energy would be present in them . |
| 10 | So given that the electoral quota argument is not final , contrary to er what the commission implies and what seems to have been the brief given to the commission , the , we come on to the other points . |
| 11 | Radiography can reveal the original construction of an object even when it is so corroded that no external evidence is left . |
| 12 | These days , most women 's lives are so varied that no single scent will take us from gym to office , from desk to dinner — let alone dawn till dusk . |
| 13 | Finally , Ronchey has obviously decided that the warding profession nationally needed smartening up , so he has taken the opportunity of his decree , which by Anglo-Saxon standards is astonishingly dirigiste in its detail , to order that from now onwards warders are to wear summer and winter uniforms ‘ in conformity with suitable models ’ . |
| 14 | Branson had long felt that the greatest drawback to Time Out was its left-wing politics . |
| 15 | Those of us lucky enough to be linguists involved in teacher training have long felt that the potential contribution of linguistics to education is enormous . |
| 16 | The society obviously accepted that the resigning secretary acted in good faith , for a month later it passed a vote of thanks to Huntingford for ‘ his unremitting zeal in extending the extra connection of the Society , and in soliciting the correspondence of other Agriculture Societies and Individuals , and his Diligence in forwarding the attendance of Committees , in preparing the business of all meetings and in arranging the correspondence and other Communications to the Society ’ . |
| 17 | It was long thought that a mere redistribution of duties without any reduction in the total number of employees required or the total amount of work to be done did not amount to redundancy . |
| 18 | I have long thought that the hon. Gentleman imagined that we were living in Ethiopia , having listened to some of his speeches about the economy . |
| 19 | The hon. Gentleman has obviously recognised that the Prime Minister secured for us a major competitive advantage at Maastricht . |
| 20 | These cases are an indication of the liberal attitude currently being taken by the courts , which have obviously recognised that the old saying that a security on a dwelling is ‘ as safe as houses ’ has become a bit of a mockery . |
| 21 | Reigning in their verbal and facial expressiveness to play a character so damaged that a big speech is possible ( if at all ) only at the end , they subsequently receive an award from a jury awed that they were clever enough to play so dumb . |
| 22 | How else could it be so swiftly known that a prominent member of the Royal College of Acupuncturists , say , had been picked up during the night and pinched for drunk-driving ? |
| 23 | Stateless societies are so constituted that the kaleidoscopic succession of concrete social situations provides the stimulus that motivates each individual to act for his own interest or for that of close kin and neighbours with whom he is so totally involved , in a manner which maintains the fabric of society … the lack of specialized roles and the resulting multiplex quality of social networks mean that neither economic nor political ends can be exclusively pursued by anyone to the detriment of society , because the ends are intertwined with each other and further channelled by ritual and controlled by the beliefs which ritual expresses . |
| 24 | it will be henceforth assumed that the typical unit of lexicology is the word ( this statement is so obvious as to have an air of tautology ) . |
| 25 | I had long believed that the primary health care team did not really work but that it could be made to do so by adhering to contracts . |
| 26 | Certainly there are many difficulties facing Irish studios — but we have long believed that the wholehearted support of local musicians when it comes to making albums would make an enormous , positive difference . |
| 27 | The press , radio , television and , particularly , Orthodox Church and Russian emigrants abroad constantly emphasised that the Russian people were the main victims of the communist , ‘ Soviet ’ dictatorship . |
| 28 | Irrespective of the precise role of linearity in the Hebrew notion of time , it was for long assumed that the eschatological nature of that concept greatly influenced , by way of Christianity , the development of our modern idea of time 's unidirectional non-cyclic nature . |
| 29 | Modern civilization was not now so decayed that the new style proposed by the Mediaevalists was justified . |
| 30 | The YCCC however were able to raise public awareness of the issues involved , and in doing so learned that the only taxes coming from the tannery were those being paid by the workers themselves , that the city was grossly undercharging the tannery for the use of the sewage treatment plant , and that there was a sewer-use ordinance that , if enforced , would solve the problem immediately by cutting the tannery off from the sewage treatment plant . |