Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He seemed quiet and rather withdrawn that morning , but he very often was so I did n't take too much notice . |
| 2 | So given that kind of broad definition what is specific , or what is different . |
| 3 | ‘ Whatever happened to part them , she considers herself so tainted that marriage is out of the question . ’ |
| 4 | Further , while it was said that the decision of Browne J. in the Bognor Regis case [ 1972 ] 2 Q.B. 169 had been generally approved , or not criticised , by textbook writers , and by the Faulks Committee in 1975 , it was not suggested that Parliament had in any legislation apparently treated that decision as representing settled law . |
| 5 | It had to be possible , for someone else had obviously located that opening . |
| 6 | It is by no means conspicuous , and is so scattered that identification can be a problem even with × 20 . |
| 7 | One is constantly reminded that life is short , so I suppose I should . |
| 8 | As with all CAB advice work , the public must be aware of the service available , but in particular in hospital and prison work the clients must be constantly reminded that confidentiality is paramount . |
| 9 | It was obviously felt that protectionism , a policy which Austen Chamberlain 's father had encouraged , might attract Austen and his supporters back to the centre of the Conservative Party . |
| 10 | It so happens that other chemists , supporting more conventional organic ‘ primeval soup ’ theories , have long accepted that clay minerals would have been a help . |
| 11 | I remember an English don once coming to me at the end of a meeting , and saying that she had suddenly seen that evening in Jesus Christ the answer to the rather negative existentialist framework into which her life had been cast . |
| 12 | You 've only had that car a fortnight and you 've already done about five hundred about four hundred and fifty pound worth of damage . |
| 13 | Merely persuaded that resignation was in my best interests . |
| 14 | M. Louis Vaudable of Maxims personally supervised that affair and created an exquisite new dish of caviar and poached quails eggs . |
| 15 | But if you take a proportion of it , you 're only offered that proportion again . |
| 16 | ‘ The thing is , ’ explains Derry , ‘ that women to us and women to you are two different things because women in the Forest are like something out of , uh , they 've all got that sort of hillbilly vibe about them . |
| 17 | It had only sounded that way to his western ears — because the words had been Chinese ! |
| 18 | Good did not overcome evil simply because we knew more — technological progress merely raised that struggle to a higher and potentially more devastating level . |
| 19 | Fortunately nowadays the need for women to be wholly involved in the birth process is more widely recognized , and it is better understood that technology is not the only priority for a safe and acceptable birth . |
| 20 | They had all reached that stage following a crisis , which can often be more difficult than the crisis itself , when it is no longer a matter of one superhuman push , but husbanding resources for an indeterminately prolonged period of stress . |
| 21 | The dance music is both fiery and resilient , and the mystic landscape of the famous epilogue so tantalisingly evoked that value judgements fade away as surely as the music 's vision itself . |
| 22 | That was one reason why I was so exhausted that morning . |
| 23 | More literally translated that verse runs like this : ‘ I may cover his face with the present that goes before my face ; and afterwards I shall see his face ; perhaps he will lift up my face . ’ |
| 24 | However , women in a similar position are not necessarily ascribed that status . |
| 25 | He had not long declared that poetry was a ‘ mug 's game ’ ; and Rupert Doone , not the most accomplished of public speakers , got rather tied up by trying to say that Eliot was not himself a mug and yet somehow implying that , for saying such a thing he must be . |
| 26 | While Luce wondered if she 'd only imagined that emphasis on the he Michele went on , ‘ I chose this room especially for you . ’ |
| 27 | At his own suggestion , Reg said Singh had personally removed that clause from my contract with his nail clippers . |
| 28 | The flow of water in and out of the Pool is so greatly impeded that evaporation under the grilling sun has made the waters very salty indeed . |
| 29 | Although the Critique had been intended to rescue Marxism from the sclerosis of Stalinism , Sartre found that his theory of history , far from explaining what had gone wrong when the most radical political theory turned out in practice to be one of the most oppressive , had rather shown why it had necessarily happened that way . |
| 30 | THE unpublished works of great men are sometimes better left that way , but not in this case . |