Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] that [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I hardly dare to think that such people exist ! |
| 4 | This might simply be the expression of a natural hauteur , or even of a Puritan dislike for self-revelation ; he also seemed to fear that other people would " take advantage " of him but , more importantly , there is a sense in which he felt threatened by the personalities of others — as if he might be invaded by them . |
| 5 | Sponsorship of sport by the tobacco industry is controlled by voluntary agreement and is carefully monitored to ensure that young people are not recipients of a pro-smoking message . ’ |
| 6 | Laboratory studies in which researchers have set up tasks in which failure could be induced experimentally have indicated that depressed people have a tendency to blame themselves if they get the task wrong , and the ease of the task if they get it right . |
| 7 | Yet experience shows that such people are frequently both overlooked and mishandled . |