Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb infin] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be suggested that he may simply qualify somewhat and say that it is wrong for others to tell such lies and not for him , and that there is no purely logical inconsistency here . |
| 2 | It was a pointless ‘ command ’ , for Baldwin was on the edge of nervous collapse , irritable , complaining and , in the closer judgment of Jones , ’ entirely without resource The Downing Street secretaries circumvented the King by getting an haphazardly chosen doctor ( they had previously tried fourteen others , all of whom were away ) to come in and certify that the Prime Minister had to go . |
| 3 | ‘ But one thing I do n't want to happen as time goes by is to sit down and say that I did n't do as well as I might have done in another tournament because I did n't put in enough effort . |
| 4 | Do n't get me wrong on this , this is not in any way , shape or form meant to be a criticism , what we 're trying to do here is to sit down and say that by tomorrow night , can we organise ourselves any better . |
| 5 | Stupid of me , really , but I was so desperate to make him lie down and relax that I — ’ |
| 6 | It is always dangerous to prophesy , but I am prepared to do so and say that it will not be possible to hold the pound at DM2.95 . |
| 7 | My difficulty is as as you 've already heard I 've got no mandate to speak about particular locations or even sectors within Selby District although clearly I do have a mandate as I already have said to come along and say that we feel Selby District is an appropriate location . |
| 8 | But if you can get somebody to come along and say that then er erm y your case gets a lot stronger . |
| 9 | ‘ And all we shall have to do is to stick together and confess that this dreadful accident did happen a little bit earlier and we all felt devastated but there was a full house and we all felt we owed it to the public that the show should go on . |
| 10 | to get together and communicate that because it 's set down as target you 've got to do it so you will , you will set the time aside where it 's easy enough |
| 11 | There are those who even dare to say that we should intervene militarily and hope that some form of peace will come about as a result . |
| 12 | One response is to turn away and say that research is difficult and irrelevant and so rely on practical experience and rules of thumb . |
| 13 | I 'd even go a step further than the physical necessities of being able to see and hear properly and say that the audience must be in the right mood , too , to receive the message . |
| 14 | Now I 've not mentioned this not totally creditable episode in Milton 's life , I 've not mentioned it simply to make him unlikeable to you , but to go on and say that the kind of egoism which issues in this way in his life issues in a rather different way in his worth . |
| 15 | And I like to think in fifty or a hundred years ' time it will not be possible for any orchestra to play sloppily and claim that it is not possible to do better . |
| 16 | ‘ I want to do more and feel that I can , now that I 've brought up my family . ’ |
| 17 | Most people , I think , would now agree that contempt for science did n't do Britain any good , and most would go further and admit that it is absurd to grow up ignorant of science in a world dominated by its theories and their application . |
| 18 | I would go further and suggest that it is also ideologically unsound . |
| 19 | However , I should like to go further and suggest that the minimum term of appointment of the governors of the institution should be eight rather than five years , to ensure that it goes way beyond the electoral cycle of any member state . |
| 20 | Indeed , I would go further and conclude that at least in relation to the last three payments the plaintiffs were not under a mistake of law but were strongly of the view that they were under no liability to pay . |
| 21 | Whether one could go further and show that any particular process was specific to a particular memory , in that it represented it and only it within the brain , remained to be seen . |
| 22 | The plaintiff must go further and show that the doctor is not suitably qualified or that the examination is not necessary or that he has a reasonable apprehension about the particular doctor which , if realised , might make a fair trial more difficult than if another doctor were to examine him . |
| 23 | I would go further and accept that the armoury of common law defences , such as those which prevent recovery of money paid under a binding compromise or to avoid a threat of litigation , may be either inapposite or inadequate for the purpose ; because it is possible to envisage , especially in modern taxation law which tends to be excessively complex , circumstances in which some very substantial sum of money may be held to have been exacted ultra vires from a very large number of taxpayers . |
| 24 | We might speculate further and say that they probably lived very close to the well because of the importance of water in the life of a Middle Eastern family . |
| 25 | There were fouls galore , and the Town , to their credit , admitted the disgrace : ‘ If what we served up on Saturday is football , well , the sooner its death knell is sounded the better ; may we go further and say that never do we wish to see anything like it again . ’ |
| 26 | I would go further and say that we have kept it on the statute book already — there was an opportunity not to retain it during the passage of the emergency provisions Act , but we did retain it then . |
| 27 | I would go further and assert that typing simple programs into the computer is a useful spelling and reading experience . |
| 28 | They must go further and establish that there was , in a legal sense , compulsion by something actually done or threatened , something beyond the implication of duress arising from a demand by persons in authority , which suffices in a true colore officii case . |
| 29 | Some might go further and add that , contrary to popular — and some scholarly — belief , people do , in any case , usually speak in well-formed sentences . |
| 30 | Some would go further and argue that the wide-ranging emphasis of records of achievement on recording a great variety of skills and personal qualities , as well as specific attainments , is a reenactment of the old elementary school concern with civic virtue and Godliness as well as basic competence in the ‘ three R's ’ ( Hargreaves , 1986 ) . |