Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was widely reported that armed police had besieged the state-owned Jerada colliery , which had been occupied for 10 days in late December 1988-early January 1989 by 400 miners . |
| 2 | ACAS has long recommended that criminal offences outside employment should not be treated as automatic reasons for dismissal . |
| 3 | The Dallas daily says that General Motors and General Electric have met several times in recent months to examine ways to increase their influence over the likes of IBM Corp , Compaq Computer Corp , Dell Computer Corp and Apple Computer Inc , quoting executives involved in the talks and industry analysts and the pact could create a consortium with a requirement as many as 100,000 desktop personal computers annually . |
| 4 | Its scarcity contributed to its status as the most universally accepted precious substance , but this only ensured that unceasing efforts were made to reduce scarcity by increasing supplies . |
| 5 | But however modest the proposed immediate reform might be , it was rightly seen that large issues of principle were raised by the direction in which society and the political system were moving . |
| 6 | Thus , the very nature of the demands made upon the state by the capitalist system leads to a form of the state that can not necessarily ensure that capitalist interests are furthered . |
| 7 | It so happens that other chemists , supporting more conventional organic ‘ primeval soup ’ theories , have long accepted that clay minerals would have been a help . |
| 8 | However , it is not good enough to assume that physical restrictions to access to college buildings can be removed , in one fell swoop , by the construction of a ramp or the fitting of a handrail . |
| 9 | In fact , the Port of Rotterdam offers you a variety of facilities so complete that other ports can only dream of them . |
| 10 | ( Ayer , 1972 , p. 6 f. , 1980 , pp. 60–63 ) We do none the less believe that certain connections hold between cause and effect . |
| 11 | From this whole picture of ignorance and inactivity , and of continuing dissent even where there was knowledge , we can only conclude that legislative acts were commonly accepted , even by those responsible for them , as expressions of hope or at best long-term intention , rather than as strictly enforceable legislative acts . |
| 12 | I would very much hope that other parents would not feel that they ought to be doing to the same thing , unless their circumstances were very similar . |
| 13 | I would very much hope that other parents would not feel that they ought to be doing to the same thing , unless their circumstances were very similar . |
| 14 | Though he rightly acknowledges that large parts of the country were unaffected by this enclosure movement , his concentration on it gives us a somewhat unbalanced picture . |
| 15 | The industrial relations literature has long noted that high levels of membership are ‘ predominantly sustained by informal group pressures from workmates ’ ( Brown and Wadhwani , 1990 , p. 14 ) . |
| 16 | ( Meliaceae ) but durian seeds are so damaged that ground-walking animals are thought to be the principal effective agents possibly sun-bears , or even tigers . |
| 17 | Some people fondly believe that chess-playing computers work by internally trying out all possible combinations of chess moves . |
| 18 | So although the absence of key workers in Newham meant that there were few boundary disputes , it also meant that the development officer could become very closely involved in organising other services , and perhaps feel that other services took advantage of the Home Support Project and showed less involvement than would have been necessary without the project . |
| 19 | Lawyers ' appeals to fairness and justice do not necessarily mean that economic indicators such as efficiency are banished from the debate altogether ; rather , economic and noneconomic factors must both be taken into account . |
| 20 | ‘ The revelation that Libya was involved does not necessarily mean that previous allegations against Syria and Iran are false , ’ said Anat Kurz , of the Jaffee Centre for Strategic Studies in Tel Aviv . |
| 21 | This does not necessarily mean that working-class boys commit more delinquencies , but that they are more likely to fall foul of the legal system . |
| 22 | Which she foolishly assumed would be easy , because she had foolishly assumed that Irish villages were like English ones . |
| 23 | It only means that certain sets of economic processes are more referrent to a local area than others . |
| 24 | Because she was naïve enough to think that married men did n't flirt with other women ? |
| 25 | Many prep schools use small classes as their trump card in their marketing campaigns rightly claiming that small classes allow each child to have a big slice of teacher time . |
| 26 | And yet , over a century after Jack The Ripper 's grisly murders — so foul that simple descriptions would make you puke — no-one is any the wiser about his identity … |
| 27 | In an exchange rate union , the existence of national currencies necessarily implies that economic agents have to bear exchange rate related costs with respect to intra-union transactions . |
| 28 | However , this does not necessarily prove that direct taxes are more efficient in economic terms than indirect taxes , for the following three reasons : |
| 29 | Tizard ( 1977 ) , whilst rightly arguing that new families need to be totally in control of the way they bring up their adopted children , is also prepared to concede that ‘ just as there are some couples willing to adopt handicapped children , others , especially if given the support of other adoptive parents , may be willing to adopt children who retain links with their natural families ’ . |
| 30 | Motion two six four , quite rightly recognizes that environmental issues are a growing concern . |