Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the decision to commit US ground-based forces , estimates as to the numbers which might ultimately be deployed rose quickly and , on Aug. 10 , it was widely leaked that the administration had adopted a " contingency plan " involving the use of 250,000 ground troops should full-scale fighting break out with Iraq . |
| 2 | The statute occasionally provides in so many terms that the information may be used in evidence ; sometimes that it may not be used for certain purposes , inferentially permitting its use for others ; or it may be expressly prescribed that the evidence is not to be admitted ; or again , the statute may be silent . |
| 3 | D'Arcy felt instinctively irritated that the générale seemed more worried about scandal than their client 's predicament . |
| 4 | The minister has since explained that the committee found conflicting evidence in a ‘ preliminary report ’ from Indianapolis , the home of Lilly 's research laboratories . |
| 5 | As she lay blinking blindly into the unfamiliar darkness , her ears filled with a strange background hum , her tired and sleepy brain slowly realised that the sound which had awoken her had been her own desperate sobbing . |
| 6 | It is widely recognized that the proportion of women who suffer mental disorders — particularly depression — exceeds that of men ( Cochrane , 1983 ) . |
| 7 | Little recognized that the cause was an abnormal birth which produced brain damage and secondary spasticity of the limbs . |
| 8 | The government accused Czechoslovakia ( which represented Cuba 's diplomatic interests in the United States ) of " hypocritical inconsistency " — sheltering asylum seekers while requesting official protection to deal with the " consequences " of such an action , and additionally claimed that the episode was aimed at causing embarrassment in the run-up to the July 26 celebrations . |
| 9 | It was widely reported that the UK Ministry of Defence had reserved the right to dispose of its decommissioned nuclear submarines at sea , although the UK finally voted for the proposal . |
| 10 | It was widely reported that the UK had unsuccessfully argued at the committee meeting for a total suspension of the ERM and also that requests had been made for Germany to reduce its interest rates . |
| 11 | It was widely reported that the Republican party placed considerable pressure upon Thornburgh to contest the Senate vacancy — his Pennsylvanian background was seen as a considerable advantage — which was seen as crucial to the party 's hopes of recapturing control of the upper chamber in 1992 . |
| 12 | The committee overwhelmingly voted that the platform should once again contain , as it had since 1980 , the demand for a constitutional amendment to prohibit abortion . |
| 13 | Initially Ramos expressed no opposition to the ruling but , on Aug. 17 , he altered his position following pressure from central bank governor Cuisia who had said that individuals would not be let off past breaches ; Justice Secretary Franklin Drilon , who had initially merely commented that the judge had made an erroneous decision , since the new regulations were not even in effect at the time of the ruling , later instructed government lawyers to investigate the possibility of an appeal against the dismissal of charges . |
| 14 | However , for optimum performance the size of control intervals and control areas should be so arranged that a sequence set record will be stored on the same cylinder as the control area it indexes . |
| 15 | None the less , it seems likely that the course of studies was so arranged that the students would pass through the same grades of medreses as those in which they would later teach : such would in any case seem to have been the practice in later times . |
| 16 | The dance has to be so arranged that the mistake must appear accidental . |
| 17 | In such a setting , too , conversation is more likely to be encouraged if the furniture is so arranged that the interviewee and the interviewer are not physically separated by a desk ; that the chairs are reasonably comfortable and in a position to allow eye contact ; and that there are no unplanned interruptions . |
| 18 | Catriona wiped down the last of her tables and suddenly realised that the conversation around her had stopped . |
| 19 | There was a hint of panic in the air yesterday , as though the markets suddenly realised that the grapeshot fired by the authorities last week might be heading in their direction . |
| 20 | There is one small river at Ebenat , but that has become so polluted that the relief workers have to bring in water by tanker . |
| 21 | ‘ One of them , ’ he recalled , ‘ had a son so paralysed that the boy could n't even laugh . |
| 22 | Looking back on that period , Mr Li lamented , ‘ Some sectors of the economy were so decentralised that the state 's ability to exercise macro-control was weakened . ’ |
| 23 | Yet Howard saw , all too often , that the effect of a prison sentence might be health so broken that the ex-prisoner was unemployable . |
| 24 | The following year , on the recommendation of the Royal Commission on Income Tax ( 1920 ) , the child allowance was increased to £30 and the income limit removed altogether on the grounds that ‘ in all ranges of income some regard should be had to the taxpayers marital and family responsibilities ’ … and that ‘ rates of tax should be so adjusted that the taxation to be borne by each class should be redistributed among the individual taxpayers in that class with due recognition of family obligations ’ ( Section VIII ) . |
| 25 | With this aim in view , he makes explicit that what the sceptics deny is the possibility of knowledge of ‘ the inner nature of things … what the things are in themselves ’ ; when they say that there is no criterion of truth , ‘ they are not speaking of what things appear to be and of what is revealed by the senses … but of what things are in themselves , which is so hidden that no criterion can disclose it ’ . |
| 26 | J. Boyett , Manager of Central Services and Special projects at Standard Chartered Bank , replied that , ‘ The Bank 's experience in using Headhunters is so limited that a response to your questionnaire would be worthless . ’ |
| 27 | The education authorities , probably under the influence of Chamberlain , obviously recognized that the gathering of information concerning industrial conditions needed to be linked to the exchanges , as did the mechanism of registration . |
| 28 | Far below the Earth 's surface , the rocks are so compressed that the pores are closed . |
| 29 | I would agree with that , Chairman , but I think that it should be so considered that the building 's been built first . |
| 30 | He has obviously forgotten that the Government decided not to introduce a tax on world income in 1989 , following consultation and representations from the Labour party . |