Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] that [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lyons , in fact , concedes ( b ) : ‘ I am only too prepared to accept that in other traditions scribal records either are not or are not seen to be intrinsically more reliable than memory and oral transmission . ’ |
| 2 | Tony Benn is right to be dismayed at the talk of ‘ firework displays bigger than the Fourth of July ’ , but he 's wrong to deny that on some level this is what war has become . |
| 3 | As this medical view is based fundamentally on the gender identity and self-image of the transsexual , he implies that the law is prepared to concede that in most circumstances sex determination is a matter for the individual . |
| 4 | It is probably patronising to say that in both cases the window dressing is up to Kensington standards , but it is . |
| 5 | But the point is that it makes sense for him to reject such a statement as false on a given occasion , only if he is prepared to admit that in different circumstances the same statement could be true . |
| 6 | The invention of printing in the fifteenth century steadily did away with the need for handwritten books , and it is interesting to note that from that time onwards various styles of calligraphy developed for different purposes . |
| 7 | Mr McArdle wrote : ‘ It is sad to report that in this case the behaviour of the Daily Mirror and its staff did not contribute in any way to the detection of crime . |
| 8 | As a regular viewer of Casualty , I am delighted to see that at last television producers have acknowledged that nursing auxiliaries like myself ( and health care assistants ) do exist , as a health care assistant has now been introduced into the programme . |
| 9 | It is easy to see that at high prices consumers will only want to consume small quantities , while a fall in price will mean that demand increases . |
| 10 | The Committee may have been relieved to hear that in one case at another institution , the Inland Revenue had decided that officers who took round , for sale , firewood that had been chopped by the inmates , were exempt from the need for a hawker 's licence . |
| 11 | Power is so seductively close that it is easy to forget that in British politics the winner takes all , or to believe that this time it all will come right and they can themselves grasp power without conceding any . |
| 12 | It is easy to realise that in gusty conditions , if the glider is being flown slowly , the stall may occur high enough for a wing to drop and for an incipient spin to develop with even more serious results . |
| 13 | People do leave something of themselves behind in the houses they 've lived in , the Japanese recognize that in some way , I do n't know how . |
| 14 | To put it differently , if spatiotemporal relations are to be appealed to in support of the thesis that there can be numerically , not just qualitatively , distinguishable ontological existents , it is necessary , in the first place , to clarify the conditions under which such relations can be significantly claimed to reflect the structure of an objective world , and in trying to do so we are likely to find that in some form or other we need to assume what such relations are supposed to explain . |
| 15 | We asked after Pop and were glad to hear that at that time he was still well . |
| 16 | As Larry Lytle , the main spokesman for USL puts it : ‘ USL understands that it is naive to believe that in any merger nothing changes . |
| 17 | The first two types of educational computing in the list above are at the moment basically the province of such departments — but it is good to know that in many schools and colleges there are strong links with mathematics . |
| 18 | However , if we acknowledge that family communications follow a pattern developed over time , and this can be usefully observed and adapted with younger families , is it not reasonable to assume that with older families too such a process could be helpful in some cases ? |
| 19 | This substitute would most likely have been an animal , and it is reasonable to assume that by this time animals were , to some extent at least , tamed if not domesticated . |
| 20 | It would be reasonable to suppose that at this latitude the islands would be frozen in for most — if not all — of the year , and so they would , were it not for the Gulf Stream . |
| 21 | It is pleasant to read that in 1936 Mr George Ramsey was ‘ cordially asked to take charge of the harvest decorations in the church and cheerfully agreed . ’ |
| 22 | It seems somehow presumptuous to believe that in 1989 Europe has emerged into a cloudless world in which such things are now no longer possible . |
| 23 | However , it is important to observe that in many symphonics and in a good deal of chamber music a different situation prevails . |
| 24 | But it still makes me angry to know that in other countries so many children die , so many families are bereaved , simply because they lack basic health care . |
| 25 | It is important to remember that in one sense , music , being a performed art , always has an ‘ oral ’ dimension , even when notated ; writing a score certainly affects how the music is conceived , but not absolutely , for performance may restore some inflectional , intuitive elements . |
| 26 | It is also important to remember that in commercial plastics the basic polymer is not the only constituent . |
| 27 | Finally it is safe to predict that in any catalogue there will be more information than art criticism . |
| 28 | It is safe to conclude that at any stage of this planet 's history the world of bacteria has been overwhelmingly conditioned by the state of the biosphere . |
| 29 | One of the dangers of majoritarianism is that majorities are always apt to forget that in another context they might constitute a minority . |
| 30 | Fifty years later , everything looked different , but this was the situation which Lanfranc faced , and which Anselm inherited , and it is important to recognize that in these circumstances the primacy represented a practical instrument of unity . |