Example sentences of "[conj] that [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small wonder that few managers read on , or that most mainstream management academics see business ethics as a ‘ soft ’ subject . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't like the look of that bull , ’ said Lydia , ‘ or that simply colossal pig . |
| 3 | So it was that the affairs of Bedford 's House of Industry came under scrutiny by a Mr. Adey who wrote to the then mayor , Dr. George Witt , saying that he ‘ would certainly recommend that that nearly useless building , at present , should be taken advantage of to form an extensive union of parishes for workhouse purposes ’ . |
| 4 | And it 's quite clear that that very high death toll from flu last winter was not because the vaccine was n't working , but because the vaccine was n't getting into the people who needed it . |
| 5 | I suggest not , and that most long-term core portfolios should contain them , remembering that in the short-term extra volatility can arise from currency fluctuations . |
| 6 | The turning point , the moment when the era rightly began , came during those years between America 's Sixties triumph — Neil Armstrong 's first footsteps on the Sea of Tranquillity in 1969 — and that most doleful moment of the Seventies , when the last US Marines were evacuated from the roof of the embassy in Saigon in 1975 . |
| 7 | And take comfort from these two decorating truths , confirmed by much experience : that too perfect rooms are as boring as too perfect people , and that most successful decoration is the result of successful elimination . |
| 8 | Any computer shop will tell you about the various comms packages available for your machine , though bear in mind that some can be quite difficult to set up ( and that most American software can not handle the Prestel standards ) . |
| 9 | The miscellaneous poor supported the Paris Commune , but its activists were the more skilled workers and craftsmen ; and that most marginal section of the poor-the adolescents — were under-represented among them . |
| 10 | The matter is discussed in detail in Chapter 9 , where it is suggested that the quality of stock on the shelves can only be maintained through extensive stock revision , and that most public library authorities would at present benefit from allocating at least 40% of their bookfunds to stock revision . |
| 11 | Tories and Labour decry each other 's failures to voters who seem to believe , against all experience , that success is their birthright , and that only political stupidity deprives them of it . |
| 12 | There is the grudging recognition that , as it stands today , the House of Lords is an indefensible anachronism and that only limited legitimacy ( and therefore power ) can attach to a second chamber whose membership is largely based on heredity and which has an overwhelming and permanent majority for the Conservative Party . |
| 13 | However , both the Turin police headquarters and the anti-terrorist squad said they knew of no particular cause for alarm and that only normal security measures had been taken . |
| 14 | Elsewhere , significant explorations were made of the types of cooperative support that could be developed , between schools and teachers from different schools , and between a variety of other educational institutions such as colleges , polytechnics , universities and that peculiarly British innovation , the teachers ' centre . |
| 15 | It denies at once the sovereignty of the State , and that more subtle doctrine by which the State is at once the master and servant of law by willing to limit itself to certain tested rules of conduct . |
| 16 | ‘ It may be that the Institute ought to take a stricter line in future and that more disciplinary action will be taken , ’ said Investigation Committee secretary Gordon Porter . |
| 17 | Although data relating to the seasonal distribution of runoff are limited , there are indications that post-drought recharge rates of forest soils are reduced and that more rapid flood response is characteristic of all stages of the rotation cycle when compared with non-afforested catchments ( Binns 1986 ) . |
| 18 | When you compare Quattro Pro 4 to other DOS spreadsheets , you can quickly see that there 's life in the old operating system yet , and that more graphical environment is where things are heading . |
| 19 | The model showing the significance of loss of mother to adult depression by Brown and his colleagues given above suggests that not only is loss of mother an independent vulnerability factor in the aetiology of depression , but that both premarital pregnancy and institutional care could also be considered as vulnerability factors ( see Harris et al. , 1987a ) . |
| 20 | The lightweight ‘ On And On ’ gains pounds as that naggingly effective chorus does what all choruses are supposed to do and lodges itself in your memory banks . |
| 21 | One day soon I will rip its beak off and glue it onto the end of my own fine aquiline conk , and , secure in my new disguise , I 'll be down to the Inland Revenue Enforcement ( B ) in Barrington Road and scrabbling frantically at my tax inspector 's trousers ( I may be wrong , but I picture them as that specially rich shade of brown polyester-and-worsted that only Dunn & Co can achieve ) before you can say , ‘ Well , what 's got into you , dearie ? ’ |