Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [subord] [v-ing] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | His position could be summed up as saying that so long as it has not been established beyond doubt that God does not exist , we should believe in God . |
| 2 | The new deviance writers went further than suggesting that the appearance of crime ( on which positivists built their theories ) was in fact the product of the criminal justice system . |
| 3 | Moreover , although the Rules sprang from this conflict , they did not in terms go further than saying that persons in custody should not be questioned without first being cautioned . |
| 4 | Yet in both cases in Parliament the section was put forward as providing that only the marginal cost would be treated as taxable . |
| 5 | If this is to be taken seriously as meaning that through learning language , rather than geography , history or other social sciences , pupils acquire better understanding of foreign cultures , then teachers need knowledge of the relationship between language and cultural learning . |
| 6 | Just as the pure scientist , from his [ or her ] early training , absolves himself [ or herself ] from the uses to which his [ or her ] discoveries are put , rather than seeing that the discoveries themselves are inescapably linked to an economy on which he [ or she ] depends for support , so the applied scientist accepts that others define the goals that he [ or she ] has to achieve rather than seeing that his [ or her ] own means or technology itself presupposes a social order , set of priorities or goals . |
| 7 | When Nietzsche is quoted directly as arguing that " tropes are not something that can be added or subtracted from language at will ; they are its truest nature " , de Man 's paraphrase seems innocuous : The mode of paraphrase frees de Man from the obligation of theoretical presence in his discourse while still allowing him to translate Nietzsche 's text into the terms of his own problematic . |
| 8 | Kenya 's new director of wildlife , Richard Leakey , was quoted recently as saying that government neglect had ‘ permitted the poachers to have our parks to themselves as private hunting blocks with their vehicles , modern weapons and chain saws ’ . |