Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Estimates suggest that little more than 5 per cent of the stock of machine tools were numerically controlled . |
| 2 | The poll tax returns for some areas in the West Midlands suggest that little more than one village in ten had resident gentry , and in Leicestershire the situation seems to have been similar , and to have remained so into the sixteenth century . |
| 3 | From the 1570s onwards , even in the conservative south-west of the country , statements by testators which indicate a belief in solafidianism appeared regularly in the preambles of large numbers of wills , although the comments which the same testators made when leaving bequests to charities suggest that many still found it difficult to appreciate that good works could play absolutely no part in their salvation . |
| 4 | Candida Lycett Green adds that this aptly describes many of the houses in her irresistible book The Perfect English Country House ( Pavilion , £17.99 ) . |
| 5 | Much recent research in social cognition has stressed that many apparently complex tasks satisfy all or many of the conditions for being automatic in this sense ( e.g. social categorisation — Higgins , Rholes & Jones , 1977 ; Higgins , 1989 ; causal attribution — Bargh , 1984 ; social interaction — Langer , 1978 ) . |
| 6 | However , I hope that the hon. Gentleman will recognise that earlier today I announced record inward investment figures for Wales , and we have every right to be proud of those figures . |
| 7 | We urge that all commercially marketed aids to stopping smoking should undergo the same regulatory scrutiny . |
| 8 | I now realise that this strangely formulated substance with weird physical properties may have been the culprit ’ . |
| 9 | When you what what , say that all again |
| 10 | While Unani medicine has completely died out in the area where it was born and developed , I had not been surprised to find that like almost every other tradition which has ever come to Delhi it still survived intact in the alleys of the Old City . |
| 11 | Some species may be receiving sufficient light to grow plenty of healthy foliage , but will always lack that little extra needed to produce flowering shoots . |
| 12 | Sally could taste the cigarettes and beer and found that that too was exciting . |
| 13 | A World Bank study in 1986 found that four newly industrialized countries ( Colombia , South Korea , Mexico and Thailand ) obtained as much as 72 per cent of their revenue from indirect taxes . |
| 14 | Maxfield ( 1987 ) in looking at the fear of crime , found that this profoundly affected a minority of people 's lives . |
| 15 | Women do need to become much more political , because the rules are defined by men and politics , as in fact has just been pointed out , are defined by men , in subtle ways as well a structural ways , and one of the subtle or not so subtle ways is in fact to insist that parliaments starts that ten o'clock in the morning |
| 16 | It is worth pausing here momentarily to observe that such legally provided remedies can be morally justified even when applied to people who are not subject to the authority of the government and its laws . |
| 17 | Eric relates an anecdote about finding out how certain animals only mate for four years and thinks that this probably applies to humans . |
| 18 | We will define the responsibilities of non-executive directors and insist that all publicly quoted companies have them on their boards . |
| 19 | It should be emphasized that this rather high-flown detour from our primary thrust in this book has not been made in order to identify the nature of philosophy . |
| 20 | Shuddering , she realised that this no longer mattered . |
| 21 | However , she sipped her coffee and realised that this really would n't do . |
| 22 | Last week the Northern Regional Health Authority announced that 221 mentally handicapped people would be moved out of the hospital over the next three years . |
| 23 | It is now recognized that many seriously disabled patients can not be resettled into open employment but their need for real work can be met , none the less , by providing a special working environment where good job performance and long-term achievements are rewarded . |
| 24 | Moore grants that all very great goods are organic unities which have pleasure as a part . |
| 25 | I think in certain aspects as as a team member it could be me er low in dominance I mean that that certainly is me |
| 26 | God , they have said , is ‘ being ’ or ‘ being itself ’ ( by which they mean that all else has to be ‘ something ’ , whereas God as pure being simply ‘ is ’ ) . |
| 27 | Then unc giving unc of which the solution is ( any method from 2.5 may be used ) unc and it is readily checked that these also satisfy the fourth equation . |
| 28 | And then he wondered why it was that he had n't heard that satisfying little clunk the coin usually made as it dropped inside the machine . |
| 29 | They do not seem to have noticed that many predominantly market economies suffer from inflation , and often very rapid inflation . |
| 30 | ‘ Your eyes have gone dark , and your mouth looks thinner and you 're pale again ; I 've noticed that that always happens when you 're unhappy , ’ he said . |