Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] that [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this does not necessarily imply that virtually all use of heroin leads to a daily habit , but only that those who contact these agencies have established daily use of the drug . |
| 2 | — Governments should not think that even this round of new demands from the Community will be the last , nor that the Eurocrats ' appetite can be stilled with concessions here and there : on the contrary , the appetite for power grows with the feeding . |
| 3 | It did not matter that so much plant and machinery , and so many factories , were destroyed in the war , because the skills of the people were not destroyed ; they remained , to recreate the industrial strength which we once again admire and respect . |
| 4 | Allowance of the defence of truth , with the burden of proving it on the defendant , does not mean that only false speech will be deterred . |
| 5 | By ‘ thought ’ , however , Pascal does not mean that somewhat shallow notion of Reason which became fashionable in the eighteenth century and which has become fashionable again in the twentieth in the guise of formal logic . |
| 6 | As for the moral angle , I can hardly see that even muscular Christianity can underwrite such a sport . |
| 7 | A really wide definition , aimed at including all gifts proceeding from benevolent motives , would certainly resolve most of the questions which arise today , but , besides perpetuating a number of imprudent gifts , might well lead later to a multiplicity of special definitions of charity for the purpose of particular statutes ; the Treasury , for example , would probably find that too much income tax was being avoided and introduce a special definition for tax purposes . |
| 8 | I , I ca n't think that really violent exercise is a good thing generally is it ? |
| 9 | I hope this does n't mean that too many newspaper and magazine editors will be tempted to try to ‘ match ’ subject and writer according to mutual disadvantages . |
| 10 | ‘ Then why let that awful little man think it is ? ’ |