Example sentences of "[adv] [that] [prep] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Secondly , in some species the choice is remarkably finely tuned so that under certain circumstances familiarity may be preferred over novelty .
2 At present , however , it still has limited availability so that for some patients sigmoidoscopy and barium enema examination provide an alternative .
3 In both studies the patients were retested within a week of ending treatment , however , so that in some cases infection may have persisted .
4 ‘ The reason for this is just that in these matters custom makes us reason and judge so quickly , or rather we recall the judgments previously made about similar things ; and thus we fail to distinguish the difference between these operations and a simple sense perception ’ .
5 Is he aware also that during that time scale many seriously ill patients had to be turned away and had to go to other hospitals and that patients using the unit had to be taken out of it prematurely so that others more seriously ill could take their place ?
6 However , others point out that at one stage AMV was prepared to offer a lot of money for Scali McCabe Sloves , the international group which had bought a substantial stake in AMV in 1979 and was subsequently taken over by WPP .
7 It should be pointed out that despite increasing income concentration , there has been a general improvement in the quality of life .
8 Llewellyn ( 1986 ) points out that until 1974 banking supervision was carried out by the Bank 's Discount Office , which was responsible for money market operations .
9 It points out that in 1989 government revenue was £18.1 billion , made up of £2.9 billion from road tax , £1.5 billion from car tax , £5 billion from VAT and £8.7 billion from fuel taxes .
10 The following month , in the same journal , a swift refutation of these tenets came in the shape of a letter from a consultant histopathologist by name of J.V. Clark , who responds to the last point regarding the relations ' not understanding what is being asked when a postmortem is requested , by pointing out that in all probability funeral directors do not explain the procedure of embalming to the next of kin and , more seriously , maintaining that delay would reduce the maximum benefit of an autopsy and also delay the funeral .
11 Long points out that in native speaker/non-native speaker ( NS/NNS ) interactions , both participants collaborate in recipient design by employing strategies for negotiating meaning .
12 However , he pointed out that in most cases detriment will exist .
13 A big advantage of using a medium-speed film such as APE 100 is that it is fast enough for hand-held camera use but not so fast that on bright days creativity is limited by the necessary use of a small apertures or high shutter speed .
14 Because of the closing weather , an element of urgency entered our expedition , and my companion started to speed up his pace so dramatically that within five minutes conversation between us was only possible by semaphore .
15 It seems indeed that in Darwinian terms egoism can not be primary , in spite of the fact that genetic traits will survive only if they favour their carriers .
16 We can see therefore that in this model government debt is equivalent to a fall in T 1 accompanied by a rise in T 2 so as to leave the present value of lump-sum tax payments unchanged ( Diamond , 1973b , p. 222 , and Bierwag , Grove and Khang , 1969 ) .
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