Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Younger children , in contrast , appear more confident that a particular situation will provoke a particular emotion ; they have fewer doubts about the diagnosis of other people 's emotions and less insight into the voluntary control of emotion . |
| 2 | Detention of a whole class may technically still be lawful , although it is becoming increasingly likely that a judge would have doubts about the reasonableness of this course of action where it is known that there may only be one or two culprits . |
| 3 | It is becoming increasingly clear that a transition plan , developed with the individual during the final years of schooling , to which all agencies agree to contribute is the only practical way of coordinating local services . |
| 4 | For it is becoming increasingly clear that a semantic theory alone can give us only a proportion , and perhaps only a small if essential proportion , of a general account of language understanding . |
| 5 | It may appear rather odd that a book on an emerging language devotes a chapter to the process of translating meaning from that language to another and vice versa ( especially when this second language will be , virtually always , English ) , but the development of BSL , and its community of users is so bound up in its treatment by hearing people that it is essential to have some discussion on the matter . |
| 6 | ‘ It really touched me and made me feel quite sad that a man should have died in the street from hypothermia so I 've decided to try and do something to help ’ she said . |
| 7 | We consider that shoppers need to be made fully aware that a seller 's commission might make the advice they get in a shop or garage at least potentially biased . |
| 8 | We had decided very early that a useful little earner would be to provide B & B facilities catering mainly for railway enthusiasts and the building and grounds should therefore be returned to something like their original appearance . |
| 9 | Yet paradoxically , this very scope itself demanded rapid resolution of such stresses , particularly since as time went on it would become more apparent that a much greater momentum and will than that supplied by the Treaty of Rome would be required to push the Six firmly into economic union and political unity . |
| 10 | The Reverend Allen 's successor dealt in motor bikes to supplement his pay , but by the 1930s the parish had become so small that a vicarage seemed unnecessary , and it was sold . |
| 11 | There appears to be little evidence that as a society we have become so rich that a substantial number of people are at this point . |
| 12 | In local authority work today committee work has become so important that a great measure of power is given to committees . |
| 13 | The provisions determining exactly whether or not anything has been added have , predictably , already proved so unclear that a Revenue statement of practice ( SP5/92 ) has been issued to resolve some of the more obvious difficulties of interpretation . |
| 14 | As the original film revolved around Tom Cruise 's driving exploits ( as well as the usual ‘ heartbreaking ’ love story ) it seems only logical that a racing game would be the end product of a computer conversion . |
| 15 | If an animal can be looked after or rescued on the Sabbath day , then it seems somewhat strange that a person in need could not be helped . |
| 16 | Reading through Robert Green 's trade card it seems highly unlikely that a client would want to purchase outright such items as the velvet pall , the room hangings , the large silvered candlesticks and sconces , or the feathers and cloaks , for these objects would be of little or no use to the purchaser once the funeral had taken place . |
| 17 | It seems almost certain that a large comet hit the Earth , throwing up vast quantities of junk into the air so that the planet 's surface temperature dropped drastically . |
| 18 | It seems almost self-evident that a subject catalogue should at least conflate singular and plural noun forms , and remove possessive endings and the English " ing " suffix . |
| 19 | It seems almost inconceivable that a project plan , policy document , or even a more abstract methodological contribution on conservation , if well-organised and technically sound , will not have a beneficial impact in the real world . |
| 20 | ‘ It seems very remarkable that a woman would walk out , leaving her children like that . ’ |
| 21 | At our next meeting we were able to have a long chat , I found very frank and easy to talk to and felt very much that a two way supportive relationship developed quite quickly , as opposed to supporter-supportee ( does this word exist ? ) . is now 14 months old and we have contrived to get together on a regular basis . |
| 22 | Only in a few cases is it unclear whether a crater is volcanic or from an impact , and in comparably few cases does it seem more likely that a crater is of volcanic origin . |
| 23 | While it might seem very odd that a museum which is home to such Rembrandt masterpieces as the ‘ Jewish bride ’ , the ‘ Academy lesson of Dr Deyman ’ , the ‘ Night watch ’ and the ‘ Self-portrait as the Apostle Paul ’ , would allocate the funds for a much less impressive work , the Rijksmuseum has long made Rembrandt purchases a priority . |
| 24 | Anselm was to learn too late that a landowner had more to fear from grasping tenants beneath him than from the king above . |
| 25 | To this day , public fascination with the disaster remains so strong that a flourishinhg market has developed for Titanic memorabilia . |