Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children have since constantly complained that the twins should not be walking in the middle of the road . |
| 2 | Sit down , she said and the girls sat down thankfully feeling that the only lesson they really enjoy that weather would be swimming lesson . |
| 3 | Both the military and civilian sector in the RSA have long since discovered that the only replacement for a Dakota is another Dakota ! |
| 4 | The Navaho had long since learned that the best way to live was to stick to the land no white man would want to take from him . |
| 5 | I would much rather say that every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you , the part of you that chooses , into something a little different from what it was before . |
| 6 | MBO and venture capital fund investors are only slowly appreciating that the trade-off for the lower risk inherent in transactions that are more carefully selected and more conservatively structured than those typical in the mid-eighties has to be lower anticipated rates of return , whether the exit is via a trade sale or a flotation on to a less than receptive equity market . |
| 7 | The point is to resurrect the lives of women obscured by their more famous male spouses or contemporaries ; but too often these have been so effectively overshadowed that the biographies are pious constructions rather than recon structions . |
| 8 | These techniques of consumer targeting are now so widely applied that a separate chapter must be devoted to them . |
| 9 | As you might expect from such headlong cross-breeding and hybridizing in the incessant search for something different and new , the various types are so widely stretched that the edges tend to run into each other and merge , and the dividing line becomes ever more difficult to discern . |
| 10 | ‘ The breakfast was so badly cooked that the girls could n't possibly eat it , so they were hungry . ’ |
| 11 | That is happening simply because the prison service has been so badly mismanaged that the staff are disaffected . |
| 12 | She was so badly tortured that the authorities had to send her to hospital . |
| 13 | But the prize is so infinitely rewarding and so badly needed that a little hurt surely should be acceptable on the way . |
| 14 | But these have been so badly eroded that the controlling guards of critical thought are down . |
| 15 | He also believes that a Martian might be able to understand symbols ( and so apparently assumes that the Martian is not going to be at all like any future ( IBM computer ) . |
| 16 | I sympathise with my hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun ( Mr. McKelvey ) but surely he has been a Membeer long enough to know that the Government do not care . |
| 17 | But , at least , it lasted long enough to show that the potential and the will were there . |
| 18 | One of the six proposed tests for confirming brain-stem death is that ‘ No respiratory movements occur when the patient is disconnected from the mechanical ventilator for long enough to ensure that the arterial carbon dioxide tension rises above the threshold for stimulating respiration . ’ |
| 19 | The high frequency vibrations were so highly favoured that an infinite amount of energy would be present in them . |
| 20 | Twenty minutes later she found herself inside the Head 's office , white and trembling , so obviously terrified that the Head herself was taken aback . |
| 21 | After so long thinking that the reason for our kidnap had been bad feeling between Britain and Iran , and knowing that , before the Rushdie affair at least , fences had been mended , it was hard to believe now that it had all been a mirage . |
| 22 | How else could it be so swiftly known that a prominent member of the Royal College of Acupuncturists , say , had been picked up during the night and pinched for drunk-driving ? |
| 23 | Some were very short descriptive items , perhaps just mentioning that a person ( or persons ) had appeared on a remand hearing in court . |
| 24 | The fact that the price fell so steeply indicated that the gamble on the harvest had paid off , but due to delays and maladministration peasants were still starving , as we have seen . |
| 25 | The Kufra agenda had fifteen items : discussion of the first two was leisurely , so generously chaired that the assembly had to discuss the rest hurriedly in the last two evenings . |
| 26 | She appeared taken aback , as if she had only just realised that the pair of them were not alone . |
| 27 | Under capitalism the market and the desire to accumulate wealth appear to be a sufficient basis for social interaction and for regulating communal life ; things and impersonal economic mechanisms have replaced people 's commitment to each other while ‘ the ancient conception in which man always appears ( in however narrowly national , religious or political a definition ) as the aim of production , seems very much more exalted that the modern world in which production is the aim of man and wealth the aim of production ’ [ p. 84 ] . |
| 28 | Silken and smooth and so deeply loving that the pain was there again … |
| 29 | By the mid-1970s collectivist policies and the constraints on government they represented were so deeply entrenched that a virtual counter-revolution was required . |
| 30 | The Bank of England stepped in yesterday to signal that a drop in UK interest rates would be premature and longer-dated gilt edged stocks gained as much as £1 . |