Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [that] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If the changes wrought by the Glorious Revolution in England seem , by contrast , much more limited , it would be wrong to react too far and suggest that very little of significance was achieved by the events of 1688 – 9 . |
| 32 | I was only going to agree with you actually , and I was just going to back-up what Michael said , and say that obviously we 've got people like Amnesty International , and I know it 's a very hard-working local branch , but obviously , the money it 's raised is going to benefit people overseas . |
| 33 | He prepared vaccines from these bacteria and found that frequently a marked improvement occurred in the health of the patient after treatment by injection of the appropriate killed vaccine . |
| 34 | Influenced by Cézanne , early Cubists such as Picasso and Braque recognised a continuity of space and found that initially this required a rejection of the continuity of line associated with Art Nouveau . |
| 35 | Gazzard et al. ( 1976 ) used a questionnaire to ask patients who had taken overdoses of paracetamol about their knowledge of the effects of this substance and found that only 11 per cent knew about the possibility of severe hepatic complications that can occur after an interval of several days . |
| 36 | For the first fifty seven of them to be set up , at a cost of half a million pounds , did a survey and found that only twelve of the fifty seven were financially viable and that did n't include the Trust . |
| 37 | He restated the government 's view that township violence stemmed from confrontations between ANC and Inkatha supporters and proposed that therefore he , Mandela and Inkatha leader Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi should meet urgently to consider establishing " an active full-time monitoring mechanism " on the efficacy of existing measures to combat violence " . |
| 38 | Declaring his identity , and announcing that here was the Regent of His Grace David , King of Scots , he demanded the presence of the Lord Dacre . |
| 39 | … children are used to feeling dissatisfied with their work , to expect chiding from the teacher and often mockery from their friends and to find that even when they 've tried their hardest , the results do n't reflect the amount of effort expended . |
| 40 | Linfield 's board , alarmed by the adverse publicity , released an unprecedented statement outlining their position and policy , and revealing that over 70 Catholics had played for the club in the past . |
| 41 | Senor Gomorro was fined 350 pounds and told that illegally importing an animal is a serious offence . |
| 42 | He was severely reprimanded for having spared the Dragoon against orders and told that never again would he be welcome in their ranks . |
| 43 | One day I was called back from my duties of covering the coroner 's and juvenile courts and told that henceforth I was to be the paper 's " walking reporter " tramping the Dales and picking up whatever stories I could find . |
| 44 | He is cautious about all the hype that has surrounded Alpha from the time of announcement and warns that too much is being promised by a chip that was designed in the first instance to provide a Unix migration path for VAX users . |
| 45 | If you choose steps , do n't forget when estimating quantities and cost that only three walls are needed , and allow about 1.2m for seven normal-size concrete steps into a shoulder-deep pit , and about 2m overall in front of the car . |
| 46 | Oh I 'll go there and finish that perhaps this afternoon or tomorrow , anytime there 's no-one 's to go there only me now is n't it . |
| 47 | I 'm glad everyone is well at your end , and hope that still applies , as it does here . |
| 48 | We assumed that at each hospital the same proportion of missing or inadequate records ( 317/5167=6.1% ) were cases of Alzheimer 's disease and estimated that about 43 cases of probable Alzheimer 's disease ( 6.1% of 707 ) were omitted because of lost or inadequate records . |
| 49 | It seems reasonable to draw these strands together and to presume that considerably more than a thousand teachers are now working in off-site units . |
| 50 | Wang Laboratories Inc plans to lay off more than 1,000 more people from its 13,500-strong workforce — a pale shadow of the 31,500 in March 1989 , and says that even more cuts may be needed in the next several months . |
| 51 | Bell Labs notes that fault tolerance is common in hardware and in operating systems , but generally too costly for many software systems , and says that as far as it knows , these are the first general-purpose software modules , and they set a trend toward low-cost fault-tolerance in user-level software . |
| 52 | This Act prohibited sex discrimination in admission to schools , appointment of teachers ( with exceptions for single-sex schools ) and careers advice , and stipulated that neither girls nor boys should be refused access to ‘ any courses , facilities or other benefits provided ’ solely on the grounds of their sex . |
| 53 | It was simply a question , Fred declared , of having ‘ a nose for news ’ and added that only a competent reporter could make a good story out of unlikely ingredients . |
| 54 | Most studies which have attempted to establish laws about reaction time have assumed that stages ( a ) and ( c ) are relatively short and consider that effectively all the time is taken up by central processes . |
| 55 | Table 2 gives data for roughland loss and shows that over 70,000 hectares of moorland and roughland were lost in these 6 upland-areas between 1950 and 1980 . |
| 56 | Table 1 gives the results of the analysis of 105 neuritic plaques in stained tissue from the temporal cortex and hippocampus of five clinically and pathologically characterized cases of AD and two aged controls , and shows that less than 10% of plaque cores contain aluminium deposits , which are usually co-localized with silicon . |
| 57 | I was pleased to hear that you managed to obtain ten sets of the papers and confirm that both Neil and Geoffrey Sinclair already have a set . |
| 58 | And so it was that a man who had tried his hand at a whole variety of working-class jobs but who was no friend of the labour unions could , as part of his episodic film Intolerance , quite effortlessly recreate a clash between workers and police that is so lifelike as to seem like a newsreel and to suggest that perhaps every subsequent labour riot followed its pattern . |
| 59 | Choo train 's in the car go and wipe that just take it downstairs and just plonk it on there |
| 60 | The subject tends to intimidate many farmers and yet it was in some ways a natural extension of the record keeping and budgeting that already existed on most farms at present . |