Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The infant death rate was still high enough , especially among the poor , for parents not yet to have become complacent ; meanwhile , the promise was held out , and for the first time could be kept , that babies could be successfully reared provided that medical advice was faithfully followed . |
| 2 | The great voice which calls us all has appointed that one card will remain blank and another shall be full , and not for any good or well they 've done to him . |
| 3 | The diversity of museum collections in general requires that these practices be sufficiently flexible to accommodate the unusual object or set of circumstances , and yet sufficiently disciplined to ensure that realistic standards can be established and maintained . |
| 4 | Uneven demographic distribution , diplomatic and military considerations , the location of major industries , commercial relations , cultural influences and the centralization of political and administrative power in either St Petersburg or Moscow ( ancient and modern ) have all helped to ensure that cis-Uralian Russia has enjoyed a near-monopoly of European and North American scholarship in this field . |
| 5 | The clouds must be sufficiently isolated to ensure that clear air can be found by flying out of the lift . |
| 6 | Nothing turns on the procedure adopted in this case and it suffices to say that when , on 8 April 1992 , the matter came before Mr. Simon Goldblatt Q.C. , sitting as a deputy High Court judge , the application for an order under the Act of 1975 was made by those who are the defendants in the United States action and it was opposed by the Treasury Solicitor , although purists might perhaps have expected that any opposition would have been made by or on behalf of the Attorney-General , the objection being one taken on behalf of the Crown . |
| 7 | Perhaps Edward indeed was reluctant to embark on that wholesale hanging ; or may merely have assessed that this way he would force the Scots army into a rash and costly attack which he could repulse , and then get Berwick 's surrender . |
| 8 | I personally needed to know that these ideas were not wrong . |
| 9 | Yet suspecting and knowing are two different things , and I was still naive enough to want to believe that all policemen could be trusted . |
| 10 | You only have to show that this act works for there to be takers everywhere . |
| 11 | Others who have done so have argued that elderly people are often faced with a choice between an unpleasant battle to survive in their own homes and an equally unpleasant enforced dependence in the institution ( Wilkin and Hughes , 1987 ) . |
| 12 | A repetition of the analysis just given shows that stellar cores of mass less than M(Chandrasekhar) are stable against further collapse and form neutron stars . |
| 13 | I suppose this just goes to show that all treatment currently in use have some benefit but no one treatment is significantly better than all the others . |
| 14 | The sort of argument just presented emphasizes that large organizations are not monolithic and that attempts to tighten up the system to make them so do not necessarily yield improvements . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't , I just happened to see that tatty book of horoscopes Myra keeps on her desk while I was waiting for you one day , so I looked it up , ’ Dana said defiantly . |
| 16 | ‘ Of course , Lieutenant , you will already have realized that this morning 's scramble is no exercise . |
| 17 | As for Louise , strolling beneath the shade of her white silk parasol , she had remained so cool and chaste that she had scarcely deigned to notice that young men were admiring her . |
| 18 | To avoid this kind of disaster health authorities in England and Wales will soon have to ensure that proper preparations for community care are made before inpatients who need such care are discharged . |
| 19 | He just had to hope that these nomes felt the same way . |
| 20 | As a result they have contributed to the public consultation process which accompanies the development of such plans , and have always sought to ensure that local planning policies are properly implemented in relation to the assessment of individual applications . |
| 21 | Sitting there in the Cathedral Close in the weak spring sunlight , trying to grasp the enormity of the events we had lived through , we gradually came to accept that these things were now in the past , and the war was really over . |
| 22 | In no way could I ever have imagined that this poem could have done anything but rouse the Church to action . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , Dr Dunstaple was gradually coming to realize that other things were missing . |
| 24 | He could hardly have forgotten that five years earlier the authorities had required him to register under the Aliens Restriction Order . |
| 25 | We will usually aim to ensure that any document containing financial and other information issued by the firm as agent to a small group of potential investors , which the firm will generally need to approve as an authorised person under the Financial Services Act , does not fall foul of the prospectus provisions of the companies Act 1985 . |
| 26 | John Thorne of Macintyre says the organisation has always tried to show that disabled people may not be capable of some everyday things , but they can usually show their skills and creativity in other ways . |
| 27 | The Bush administration has always liked to say that Eastern Europe holds a special place in its heart ; Americans love the praise heaped on them in Washington when East European heroes like Lech Walesa and Vaclav Havel come to call . |
| 28 | The gradual perception of this has gone with the still more necessary shift by which people have at last gradually begun to realise that human welfare too converges very considerably with both these things . |
| 29 | His expression for once had lost that unyielding look , and uncertainty flickered for an instant in the glance he bestowed on her . |
| 30 | Withdrawal of support for activities not contractually required meant that some changes which teachers had been willing to make had not yet been realized . |