Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [adv] [be] [vb pp] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | R should nevertheless not be forgotten that for most of its existence the World was despised by black political leaders . |
| 2 | It must also not be forgotten that we in Britain , at least , tend to get our latitudes wrong when looking across the Atlantic . |
| 3 | They were uniform but occurred in such abundance and could so readily be transported that even when they were taken over as currency they could only serve as a rule for small change . |
| 4 | ‘ By the beginning of 1960 ’ , he wrote , ‘ it could no longer be denied that certain parts of London at night were dominated by a new spirit of insecurity ’ : ‘ juvenile delinquency had for the first time in Britain become elevated to the status of a national problem ’ . |
| 5 | When it could no longer be denied that there was a recession , the Chancellor retreated to his second line of defence . |
| 6 | This really meant the abandonment of the original reductive theory , since it could no longer be claimed that a non-observation statement was exactly equivalent in meaning to any collection of observation statements , however complex and conditional that collection might be . |
| 7 | It may here also be explained that after the main source of the Fleet was diverted , the portion of it which originally formed the boundary of the site granted for the building of the College , became a stagnant Ditch , which in process of time dried up , and that , with the addition of gravel and earth , a dry path from the College to the Professor 's house was thus constructed . |
| 8 | If , for example , a tail follows a tonic syllable that has a rising tone , it will almost always be found that the syllable or syllables of the tail will continue to move upwards from the pitch of the tonic syllable . |
| 9 | For the young , there must have existed an inherited inborn enjoyment of life , for it can fairly safely be assumed that the pleasure experienced by them when at play , so obvious to modern man , must have been observable all through evolution . |
| 10 | With the passage of time , I think that it can now safely be revealed that the deciding factor in the failure of the 1989 English/Scottish Institutional merger was the marked reluctance of the Queen Street pipes and drums to convert to Morris-men . |
| 11 | ( i ) As a result of the progress of medical science certain conditions are now so easily diagnosable and treatable , that , although they once carried a mortality , it can no longer be said that they do , unless that mortality is brought on as a result of some wholly unexpected and exceptional circumstance , for example gross negligence on the part of the doctor treating the patient . |
| 12 | Invariably in well-established firms the work continues to flow from long tapped sources , but in the aggressive business climate facing the profession today it can no longer be assumed that this will continue . |