Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became widely accepted that the attackers were predominantly black , although there was little evidence for this belief . |
| 2 | It goes on to state that the cell had no electricity and no floor covering , the prisoners were allowed few clothes and they received only two meals a day , one consisting of a single very small momo ( steamed bun ) and the other of a small cup of wormy vegetables . |
| 3 | Article 9 , for example , after declaring the right to freedom of thought , conscience and religion , goes on to state that : |
| 4 | The accounting policy note on associated undertakings goes on to state that the directors believe that equity accounting for associated undertakings would not give a true and fair view of the group 's income . |
| 5 | In view of such associations , Teaching Quality goes on to state that ‘ the Government attach high priority to improving the fit between teachers ’ qualifications and their tasks as one means of improving the quality of education' . |
| 6 | The Definition Order then goes on to state that : " Following will be treated as Soviet Nationals : Ataman Group 15 Cossack Cav Corps ( incl Cossacks and Calmucks ) Resferve " Units of Lt-Gen Shkuro Caucasians ( incl Mussulmen ) . |
| 7 | He goes on to state that the great coat charity is alive and is charged to Holborough Court Estate and was paid until his death by William Lee Esq . |
| 8 | The Act goes on to state that any future parliamentary enactment is subject to this new order ( ibid. , section 2(4) ) . |
| 9 | Section 57(2) goes on to state that a sale by auction is complete when the auctioneer announces its completion by the fall of the hammer , or in some other customary manner . |
| 10 | He goes on to argue that the bourgeoisie have always used sections from within the ‘ dangerous classes ’ to control those who are overtly troublesome , perhaps following the maxim that ‘ it takes a thief to catch a thief ’ , when he argues : ‘ for one and a half centuries the bourgeoisie offered the following choices : you can go to prison or join the Army ; you can go to prison or go to the colonies ; you can go to prison or you can join the police ’ ( ibid. 23 ) . |
| 11 | He goes on to argue that the reality is different from the rhetoric . |
| 12 | So , even though he continually contrasts the value of everyday experience with the emptiness of Aristotelian procedures , he in fact goes on to argue that everyday experience also is powerless to give us knowledge of the nature of things . |
| 13 | This obviously reintroduces the scepticism which Descartes had hoped to avoid , and it increases when Malebranche goes on to argue that our perceptions of a material world could not anyway be caused by that world even if there were one , but must be caused by God . |
| 14 | He goes on to argue that the emergence of organised crime networks is bound to happen in a capitalist system . |
| 15 | He goes on to argue that as the right side of the brain has no language capacity , the knowledge it acquires can not be put into words : this may explain the failure of his attempts to do so . |
| 16 | Rose Shepherd goes on to argue that a first affair , usually based on attraction , leads to further affairs based on nothing more than boredom , loneliness , resentment , or the need for further boosting of confidence once the first extramarital partner has bowed out . |
| 17 | He goes on to argue that these fantasies are not as personal , not as individual as at first appears , since they are such fundamental , childhood fantasies as castration fears , oedipal fears , and so on . |
| 18 | Burr cites indisputable evidence that living organisms are associated with electro-magnetic fields , which change as the organisms change , but then goes on to argue that these fields control morphogenesis by acting as ‘ blueprints ’ for development , which is a very different matter . ’ |
| 19 | The London Society implicitly recognises this when it goes on to argue that a DG would allow the president 's post to become part-time , thereby allowing the senior partner of a major practice to take it on . |
| 20 | Morris goes on to argue that the Melanau image of the spirit world reproduces this social environment by representing the cosmos as ‘ a kind of loose composite or ‘ international ’ society knit together by a commonly held ‘ rule of law ’ ' ( 1967 : 214 ) . |
| 21 | It goes on to argue that scientists do not know enough about natural fluctuations in fish populations in the wild to be able to advise on how many can safely be taken at any time . |
| 22 | He goes on to argue that the situational theory , the defence of established institutions , most closely meets these criteria . |
| 23 | In an article responding to the gauntlet hurled down by Professor Griffith , Lord Devlin does not deny the homogeneity of attitudes of the appellate judges , but goes on to argue that this is probably inevitable . |
| 24 | McLuhan then goes on to argue that the electric media are restoring many of the characteristics of speech : immediacy , aural and tactile rather than visual qualities , ambiguity , multiple points of view , non-linear montage , and collective experience . |
| 25 | He goes on to argue that : |
| 26 | Shanken goes on to argue that the factor analysis methodology may be manipulated by merely recombining a given set of securities and that therefore on its own the factor model is inadequate as it is incapable of economic interpretation . |
| 27 | He goes on to argue that we can learn to cope with the anxiety associated with an anticipated event or with a recent unanticipated event by mastering progressively greater amounts of stress . |
| 28 | Um , he says , and goes on to explain that in Norway a small , useless knife sometimes seen about the person of hunters and campers who have little idea is known as a ‘ mouse castrator ’ . |
| 29 | Bradbury goes on to explain that this ‘ shift or lapse ’ is ‘ usually identified with the thirties , when realism and politics came back ’ ( 86 ) . |
| 30 | He goes on to explain that he was never a follower of Spinoza ( the seventeenth-century philosopher , who identified God with Nature ) . |