Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] that [det] " in BNC.

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1 He was quite right to claim that each of the four cells at the end of the cleavage would form a normal larva .
2 It would be possible to acknowledge that this type of emotional layer exists in human beings , and that it finds expression in the brutality men are capable of inflicting on one another .
3 It would be absurd to claim that this day is already near .
4 and you knew what he , and he would sell you what he , there was no cons , no trying to pretend that this was best , and this was
5 My hon. Friends are right to emphasise that that status operates within the NHS .
6 On reflection it should be possible to see that all sterling remittances and receipts to and from abroad will be transacted using sterling accounts in UK banks which are the property of banks located abroad .
7 It is strange to relate that this well-known symbol has been comparatively neglected by social scientists and especially by social psychologists .
8 It is strange to relate that this short stretch of water should be such a barrier but the hills of Wouldham and village are as foreign to some people of Halling as any parts of the world and in fact there are some who travel all over the country and to some places abroad , but have lived all their lives in the village without ever setting foot on the further banks of the river .
9 It was pleasant to know that that fact had been noted among the critical young gentlemen who comprised , as far as it could be done , Edwin 's set .
10 For my part I think it is right to accept that that was in the eyes of the appellants a formality .
11 It is pleasant to find that this believer in the perfectibility of mankind was a good father to them all .
12 It is interesting to see that some developments in reading instruction are stressing the need to help pupils cope with text organisational problems .
13 Irrespective of the immense problems posed by the preservation of electronic record that the traditional archives are now having to face , it would be wrong to claim that many of these problems are entirely new or unchallenged .
14 However it would be wrong to claim that this represented a view of existence .
15 When it was put to them that they were taking jobs away from men , many working-class women were prepared to agree that this was " not fair " .
16 Patrick had been interested to see that all traces of the damage the insurgents had wrought in the Green — the trenches they had dug , the trees they had felled — had vanished , and the only evidence of the 1916 Rising were the bullet holes in the stonework of the hotel where the rebels had fired on the British troops positioned on the roof and in some of the upper rooms .
17 Two of the three patients who were found to have coeliac disease were over 70 years old suggesting that this diagnosis should not be dismissed because of the patients age when iron deficiency is being investigated .
18 It is interesting to discover that many of the complicated variations used in handling the speech of others also appear when thought rather than speech is dealt with ( see Table 5.2 ) .
19 The CTP proclaims that the link between the perceived object and the perception is just an ordinary bit of the great causal nexus of nature ( it needs to believe this , as we shall see presently ) and yet it is prepared to accept that this segment of the chain has a rather privileged status ; at the very least , that it has a beginning and an end .
20 I 'm not prepared to accept that any more than I am prepared to accept the hogwash that we heard from Bob Morgan and his Liberal Democrats , because of course it may be extremely comfortable for him to be acting like a beached dolphin on the shores of Abu Dhabi , but the fact of the matter is , of course , that the Liberal Democrats , with or without the backs of their envelopes and cigarettes packets , are extremely unlikely to be making any national legislation , so they are quite comfortable in being able to observe how others might or might not do it .
21 If you 're keen to invest in property and you 're particularly flush at the moment , you 'll be interested to know that all this could be yours for thirty thousand pounds .
22 In the face of such evidence it was a little difficult for at least some of the non-poor to accept that such conditions should continue and that free enterprise could bring them to an end largely unassisted .
23 We are very willing to accept that those parts of the judges ' visitorial jurisdiction which were not incident to the administration of justice in the courts passed down through the routes suggested by Sir William and Professor Baker , but in the context of the present case , where the court has for the first time to inquire into the particular function which is being performed , we are not satisfied that the whole of the visitorial jurisdiction passed by this route .
24 She was great as Beattie — and it was heartening to find that most of the other winning ads had humorous themes .
25 It is unrealistic to assume that all the Palestinians currently living in the Arab states , whether still in refugee camps or integrated into their host society , could or would want to return to a West Bank-Gaza Palestinian state . ’
26 It would be unrealistic to assume that any assessment process based solely on one assessor 's judgement of another 's competence would always be regarded as completely valid and reliable .
27 Family construct theory suggests that it would even be wrong to assume that such ‘ good ’ family relationships are wanted by some families which actually rely upon ‘ bad ’ family relationships .
28 It would , however , be totally wrong to assume that all apparitions are angels on assignment .
29 One is that it would be wrong to assume that all or even most judges have viewed the distinction in a purely instrumental fashion .
30 However , it may be wrong to assume that this inability to create a coordinated response is a bad thing : a truly-integrated response to the cities from the Conservative governments elected in 1979 and after might have been even more detrimental to the major conurbations than it has been .
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