Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does seem rather odd to say that death is for the good of the person involved . |
| 2 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 3 | It is perhaps appropriate to remember that childbirth is not some minority interest . |
| 4 | Sociolinguists may be somewhat surprised to note that Language and Disadvantage remains one of the most popular topics , with almost all courses at all levels giving it special emphasis . |
| 5 | Suppose , then , that the wage rate is flexible and that the economy is sufficiently competitive to ensure that labour market equilibrium is achieved . |
| 6 | There are two problems here : the first that is it is not always easy to determine that censorship has taken place in libraries . |
| 7 | Dr John Habgood , speaking in the Lords during the second reading debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill , said : ‘ Christians are no more required to believe that humanness is created in an instant than we are required to believe in the historical existence of Adam and Eve . ’ |
| 8 | This understanding may be due to the farmers being highly tolerant because there are so few walkers , but if you 've ever sat down to have a chat with a shepherd on the windy fellsides you might be more likely to say that tolerance and friendliness is in their nature . |
| 9 | It was admitted that occasionally the good were afflicted too , and that in these cases God was probably testing their faith , or even possibly allowing them their purgatory on earth , but on the whole the Church found it more satisfactory to believe that madness was punitive and well-deserved . |
| 10 | Again , the detailed survey cross-tabulations showed that , when they did have comments to make , old people , unskilled manual workers and — particularly , though hardly surprisingly — people without bank accounts were all specially likely to say that bank loans would be difficult to arrange . |
| 11 | Curious to think it overlapped with young realists like Amis , Iris Murdoch and John Wain ; still more curious to think that Wain was a pupil of Lewis and a junior member of Thursday evening meetings in his Oxford college . |
| 12 | It is altogether more surprising to find that quantum mechanics also causes us to re-evaluate words like " and " and " or " . |
| 13 | But it was a good deal more surprising to find that class patterns were not more obvious . |
| 14 | In a review of John Betjeman 's verse-autobiography Summoned by Bells ( 1960 ) , Philip Larkin remarked approvingly that Betjeman , in his triumphant lucidity , had managed to bypass the whole light industry of exegesis ; that Eliot 's famous demand about the need of poets , in the present state of civilisation , to be difficult could only be an ingenious bit of intellectual job-creation , a Modernistic charter to make work for unemployed critics ; and that the tradition of Kipling and A. E. Housman stood ready to hand for instant revival , ever eager to prove that poetry can still enjoy a reading public if only the poet is prepared to be simple , moving and memorable . |
| 15 | It is similarly naive to believe that management who have relied on these external services will necessarily be able to control them when they are brought in-house |
| 16 | It 's also important to realise that air depleted of ozone can travel to other areas through wind currents and transfer the problem . |
| 17 | It is also important to realise that weeding of crops is manual rather than by mechanically applied chemicals , therefore taking much longer and being less cost-effective . |
| 18 | It is also important to realise that alternative and less toxic antimicrobials were probably available for the patient who had sepsis due to Escherichia coli and renal impairment . |
| 19 | Any quality assurance programme should encompass the concepts of effectiveness in achieving the benefits desired and efficiency in reaching and giving priority to the people for whom the service is intended ; it is also important to ensure that money is spent effectively and not expended on other less important areas of need . |
| 20 | It is also important to ensure that attention is paid to other areas . |
| 21 | It is clearly essential to ensure that property is properly valued , not only on its existing use value for bus operations , but on other bases such as its full development value . |
| 22 | It is probably fair to say that communication has sometimes been more effective at very local level where local sharing of concerns over mutual clients has been possible where inter-agency relationships are good . |
| 23 | It would be unduly optimistic to assume that management skills have risen to a level such that costs undertaken can be assumed to be equivalent to value . |
| 24 | Unfortunately it is also true to say that suicide is very common among the elderly and it is to that subject that we now turn . |
| 25 | Yet Russians with bank accounts abroad will probably be among the most reluctant to believe that theory can be turned into practice . |
| 26 | If , for example , two people watch young tearaways behaving in an abusive manner towards them from a safe distance across the street , a conviction would be proper only if they were really likely to fear that violence would be likely to be used against them ( or another ) . |
| 27 | It is now uncontroversial to assert that bureaucracy performs political roles in the context of the contemporary state ( though there is still much controversy as to precisely which roles are performed and what , if any , their structural consequences are ) . |
| 28 | Far better to remember that ivy does provide a very useful overwintering site for many small mammals and insects and also an essential nesting or roosting site for favourite garden birds . |
| 29 | Perhaps , for the first time , it is now true to say that money does not automatically equal power . |
| 30 | It is particularly heartening to note that telephone ownership amongst pensioners has climbed from 49.8 per cent of households in 1979 to nearly 86 per cent ten years later . |