Example sentences of "[conj] that [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , we can move far beyond purely descriptive statements recording that this or that apparently arbitrary subclass of adjectives is ungrammatical in this or that position ; it is possible , even at levels of such fine detail as in the grammaticality of ( 60 ) beside ( 59 ) , to find principled explanations for the patterns of grammaticality , based ultimately on the intensional distinction between qualification and assignment . |
| 2 | It would be folly to pretend that at least part of me does n't love independence or that very independent women make the most adaptable of wives . |
| 3 | It is pointless to deny that a dictatorship can rest on popular support , or that under certain circumstances a majority of the people can be persuaded to support or endorse illiberal and anti-democratic policies . |
| 4 | Every serious practising critic knows a secret which is less often publicly discussed , namely , that there exists no ready-made corridor between the sealed chambers of stylistic investigation and that equally unventilated space in which the object of study is reconstituted as narrative structure . |
| 5 | In this process , strong clashes of will are inevitable , but with luck parents and children will come out of the experience confident that their security is not jeopardized by conflict , and that seemingly unmanageable feelings and impulses can be harnessed and contained . |
| 6 | There is every reason to believe that this degree of movement was typical of the corn-growing regions , but we have to constantly bear in mind that one part of England may have very different experiences from another and that even neighbouring communities might have contrasting stories to tell . |
| 7 | It has been suggested that the racism of the new racist is not so new and that even so-called red-necks justified segregation in deracialized terms ( Weigel and Howes , 1985 ; see also the criticisms of Sniderman and Tetlock , 1986a , 1986b ) . |
| 8 | It has also been claimed that towns were centres of consumption rather than production and that even local trade was insignificant in volume because of poor transport facilities , while long distance trade was with few exceptions restricted to luxuries because there was no mass-market . |
| 9 | However , it became increasingly obvious during the next two years that the Ryder Report had been over optimistic about the market share of Leyland , and that even large injections of capital were insufficient to overcome the problems of poor labour relations , low productivity and entrenched attitudes . |
| 10 | It was like a ‘ ghost ship ’ — he used those words — the three masts standing black against the white of the low , snow-mantled line of the shore opposite and that enormously long bowsprit jutting out from the wooden hull of the ship ‘ like a lance ’ . |
| 11 | You walk in here with a bagful of goodies and that preposterously expensive bottle of wine , looking like shit would n't stick to your shoe , and want me to pretend that we 're married , we 're happy , and that it 's always happened like this . |
| 12 | This weakness left Egypt an easy prey for the rising Ottoman empire that seized the country in 1517 , making it then a province of Istanbul and that loosely structured empire that was to dominate the Middle East until 1918 . |
| 13 | He was a little shorter than myself , rather stocky with broad shoulders and that slightly duck-toed walk I find so attractive in athletic young men . |
| 14 | The plaintiff must prove that a duty of care was owed to him , that this was broken and that reasonably foreseeable damage was caused as a result . |
| 15 | And then Sylvia came in with apologies and that perennially green hat , and we lowered the lights while she recited De Musset 's ‘ Nuit de Mai ’ . |
| 16 | Traditional corporate-planning theorists are said to ignore these facts , concluding that rational models lead to effective performance and that highly segmented organizations are really tightly coupled systems ( Weick , 1976 , 1985 ) . |
| 17 | It has now been confirmed , however , that Bt is a ubiquitous soil microorganism and that highly active strains of Bt can be found in a wide variety of environmental samples . |
| 18 | These remarks of Chomsky have often been quoted , and adduced more often than not , almost gleefully at times , as evidence in support of the view that linguistics has no relevance to language teaching and that therefore applied linguistics , as it relates to pedagogy at least , is vacuous . |
| 19 | For : very nicely made out of very posh wood , well finished , with a good chunky neck and that very practical compound radius fingerboard , with top-class hardware to finish it off ( the Wilkinson is deservedly this year 's tremolo , while both the locking Schallers and the Seymour Duncans are excellent ) . |
| 20 | We want to take some control and show Dillons what can be done and that too cautious buying does n't necessarily pay . ’ |
| 21 | The historian 's main difficulty in examining these problems is that medieval man was not statistically minded , and that consequently precise data are not available to us in our search for answers to problems . |
| 22 | His fears for the future , his growing worry about you — and that rapidly shrinking cage of hatred he shares with Jamie . ’ |
| 23 | In fact even if one succeeds in dissociating oneself from some of the more romantic claims that are made on its behalf it 's easy to get the discouraging impression that communication without words is after all a residual topic and that once orthodox language has been subtracted all that is left is a rubbish heap of nudges , shrugs , pouts , sighs , winks and glances — or to put it another way that non-verbal communication is simply the behavioural exhaust thrown out of the rear end of an extremely high-tech linguistic machine . |
| 24 | His meritocratic ‘ decency ’ registers with extraordinary precision exactly that balance between the desire for a more ‘ caring ’ self-image , which led committed Thatcherites , with heavy hearts , to ditch Mrs Thatcher , and that deeply self-interested calculation , which remains her enduring contribution . |
| 25 | When questioned over the possibility of the EC issuing regulations ( which must be followed exactly ) as opposed to directives ( where the result must comply , but the means by which the result is obtained is not stipulated ) 0 , the DoE pointed out that although there was ‘ a greater certainty with regard to regulation ’ it was important to bear in mind that different countries have different administration regimes and that directly applicable regulations could , therefore , cause problems . |
| 26 | And that stupidly provocative remark had n't helped . |