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

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1 We have here perhaps the most delicate of all points of contact between his life and his art : hence the impression that further and very private issues are involved in , even shielded by , the assertion that ‘ a man of the 1840s could not create Bazarov ’ .
2 The Crowther Committee called these categories ‘ connected ’ and ‘ unconnected ’ loans , and that shorter though more arcane form of words is still widely used .
3 In reporting what little was known about these discussions at the time , the Economist warned of ‘ the danger that some as yet unknown army officer , drumming his fingers in some provincial headquarters , will decide that enough is enough ’ ( 1 June 1968 ) .
4 Performance has to be exciting enough to make the boat attractive , but it has to be something that lighter and less experienced crews starting off in the class can handle .
5 Reuters ' managing director of Instinet UK , Bryan Cavill , agrees that bigger and more creative deals need the human touch , but he believes the lower cost , speed and transparency of automated trading will in time capture a good chunk of the market .
6 Writing moved from ( i ) a supporting and recording function , in societies in which oral composition and tradition were still predominant , through ( ii ) a stage in which this function was joined by written composition for oral performance and ( iii ) a further stage in which composition was additionally written only to be read , to ( iv ) that later and very familiar stage in which most or virtually all composition was written to be silently read , and was at last , for this reason , generalized as ‘ literature ’ .
7 But it soon became apparent in Zambia and other new countries that inexperienced and possibly unstable governments feared the ability of the press to provide conflicting or alternative ‘ truths ’ , for this put enormous power into the hands of the press proprietors .
8 The most positive view comes from the United States : ‘ The fact that much is being done , and that there are few areas of stagnation , makes one believe that better and more fruitful days are ahead ’ .
9 However , on the basis of the limited data available , and in the areas that have been considered it seems probable that substantial and largely unrecognised costs have been incurred .
10 White-collar champions punch holes in widely-held theory Brian Donald strikes a lethal blow against the view that hungry and socially deprived fighters are in a class of their own
11 I am pleased to say that more and more European Community countries are coming to the views that we have pioneered on reform .
12 Hollywood filmmakers have become so slavishly dependent on old movies for their narratives that more and more new movies are having to assume the textural trappings of the past .
13 That means that more and more elderly people are being forced down to income support or poverty line levels .
14 We may also find that more and more top management jobs in big companies are filled by hiring people away from smaller companies .
15 Their increasing problem is that more and more lesser functions are being devolved downwards but without the resources to provide them .
16 Is it not a fact that more and more generous benefits covering many different needs are available to people in London and elsewhere ?
17 It seems that more and more well-known businesses are hiring Jasminder and colleagues of hers who work in a similar vein .
18 In particular it was felt that swifter and more decisive action on the part of the SCB in response to warnings passed by concerned solicitors and local law societies ought to be effected .
19 In any event , if great prominence came to be given to APR , many people could be misled about the comparative value of competing credit arrangements ; partly because our calculations show that small and sometimes insignificant differences in what the buyer actually has to pay for credit can make for huge and therefore misleadingly imposing differences in APR ; partly because it will tend to make longer-term borrowing look more attractive than shorter-term borrowing even when ( given that the great majority of people prefer to pay off their debts as quickly as possible ) this may not be best for people .
20 If the Region is fragmented , no one small council will be able to support a team of this size , and you will appreciate that two or more one-person teams can not be as effective .
21 ‘ Others , including myself , believe that non-punitive but truly compensatory damages awarded by the courts of the United Kingdom are preferable to the exorbitance of emotionally-driven jury awards , ’ he said .
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