Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [that] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is now widely realised that a comprehensive education for a mentally handicapped child should continue over a longer time than the normal educational period of 5–16 years . |
| 2 | It had seemed a little exaggerated that an elderly woman could move so rapidly and catch a younger man off guard . |
| 3 | The high frequency vibrations were so highly favoured that an infinite amount of energy would be present in them . |
| 4 | There was a huge smooth branch very close to where Little Billy was sitting and he suddenly noticed that a small square patch of bark on this branch was beginning to move . |
| 5 | It was long thought that a mere redistribution of duties without any reduction in the total number of employees required or the total amount of work to be done did not amount to redundancy . |
| 6 | My opera was performed yesterday , the 13th , for the first time and was such a success … the whole theatre was so packed that a great many people were turned away … |
| 7 | Reigning in their verbal and facial expressiveness to play a character so damaged that a big speech is possible ( if at all ) only at the end , they subsequently receive an award from a jury awed that they were clever enough to play so dumb . |
| 8 | In the Persian Gulf Soviet leaders have long demanded that an extensive American naval base in Bahrain be dismantled and argued that no comparable Soviet base exists in this region . |
| 9 | How else could it be so swiftly known that a prominent member of the Royal College of Acupuncturists , say , had been picked up during the night and pinched for drunk-driving ? |
| 10 | On Oct. 15 , 1989 , a controversial retrial of 15 Islamic extremists ( who had been associates of Bouiali-see above ) was abandoned after the defence had successfully argued that a regional court was not competent to try their case following the Supreme Court 's refusal to do so . |
| 11 | These techniques of consumer targeting are now so widely applied that a separate chapter must be devoted to them . |
| 12 | In negotiations , Britain has offered to cut its emissions of sulphur dioxide to 71 per cent of 1980 levels by 2005 , whereas it is widely accepted that a total cut of 80 per cent by 2000 is necessary . |
| 13 | While it is now widely accepted that an effective solution should rely in major part on a co-ordinated interagency and interprofessional effort ( DHSS , 1988 ) , the possibilities range from those that provide immediate relief ( tertiary prevention ) to long-term strategies designed to change attitudes , values , behaviour and circumstances ( primary prevention ) . |
| 14 | When Djilas eventually decided that a new class had emerged in communist society he did not include all administrative officials but rather the ‘ party or political bureaucracy ’ , by which he appeared to mean state functionaries who were also party members . |
| 15 | It is generally taught that a low paddle angle and wide blade action imply poor style and inefficient paddling . |
| 16 | It is worth noting how paternal authority overrode differences in occupational status and in income : in this particular case the father was a canteen cook , and Zuwaya generally considered that a lower occupation than one deemed intellectual . |
| 17 | We have already noticed that an unfamiliar proper name is very difficult unless there is a helpful context . |
| 18 | However , it is easily seen that a single false positive will create a fork in a map ( a loop in a graph or a shared branch in a tree ) . |
| 19 | We have just argued that an important feature of research is its concern with the nature of the event under scrutiny . |
| 20 | For we have already seen that an increased proportion of defendants committed for trial to the Crown Court during the 1990s has led to an expanded population of remand prisoners . |
| 21 | But within these categories , each cell has a wide range of potentialities : we have already seen that an ectodermal cell can give rise to skin or , if induced by the eye cup , to lens . |
| 22 | We have just seen that a non-resonant photon will normally leave an encounter with a molecule unchanged in energy , but it may very rarely lose energy to the molecule and emerge as a Raman-shifted photon of lower energy . |
| 23 | We 've already decided that a typical organization will in fact use the same procedures and work instructions on all its work , because an , a typical organization manufactures ice-creams . |
| 24 | I have already said that a 24-h interval is not enough for such a loss to be seen . |
| 25 | I think that it is generally agreed that a positive way forward is to have a partnership between farming and environmental interests . |
| 26 | In the context of large-scale industry , I have already shown that a substantial part of the means of production is the object of possession by impersonal institutions — capitalist enterprises — and the object of socialism must be to reconstruct this impersonal possession in such a way that enterprises both follow a plan of production consistent with the maximum satisfaction of the democratically-constructed ‘ needs ’ of the working population as a whole , and are open to democratic participation , on equal footing , of the workers within the enterprise . |
| 27 | America has already shown that a free market in air travel works . |
| 28 | We have already noted that a substantial proportion of old people live alone ; one-third of those over 65 do so and the proportion increases with age . |
| 29 | It was a curious comment , when he would have already known that a Conservative Party election broadcast , The Journey , would show him rediscovering his south London roots from the windows of his prime ministerial limo . |
| 30 | It is generally assumed that an individual candidate has little influence on voting behavior : party is the decisive factor , though the candidate can have some impact . |