Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] that [noun] " 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 interesting to note that Baines in his History of Lancashire tells us that there are no mines at work in this Parish , nor any minerals found , except some fine specimens of copper ore which are picked up occasionally near the brooks in Rusland ! |
| 4 | It is perhaps appropriate to remember that childbirth is not some minority interest . |
| 5 | SIR — On a day the Daily Telegraph 's front page carried John Major 's warning that the UK faces break-up , it was somewhat ironic to read that Jamie Salmon believes it is ‘ time to send Scots , Irish into exile ’ . |
| 6 | In those days there seemed so many vistas ahead that I did not mind when I began to go public : it was sufficiently gratifying to feel that Eliot wanted to print some of my work in his good time and in mine . |
| 7 | We have become so habituated to market relations that it can seem merely banal to observe that types of work which make a loss will , within market production , be reduced or discontinued , while types which make a profit will be expanded . |
| 8 | ‘ But Dad , I feel so ashamed to think that Mr and Mrs Lewis will 'ave ter mix with our kind of neighbours , and you know what Mum 's like when she 's 'ad a few drinks . ’ |
| 9 | She was so pleased to learn that Barbara Coleman was eager to talk to her again , and that she had been given the perfect reason for spending part of her day revelling in Chagall 's colour , that she smiled as she cut inland towards Maurin 's gallery . |
| 10 | I WAS so pleased to read that people are reverting to real Christmas trees instead of the ghastly , glittering artificial things that have been popular for so long . |
| 11 | An audience listens to music , not to words ( in fact , especially in choral music , the words are frequently indistinguishable , or so difficult to grasp that listeners ignore them ) . |
| 12 | As to the rest of the disc , it 's perhaps fair to state that Klemperer 's Johann Strauss will not please those who favour a relaxed ‘ Wienerisch ’ approach to such music , but there can surely be few complaints about the Mendelssohn . |
| 13 | It is very difficult to provide identical conditions for the measurement of six different forms of instruction , therefore it is not entirely surprising to see that Baldwin and Rudolph found , in contrast to Kuo 's results , when comparing a tape/slide show and a library tour , that the former was not necessarily superior as a method of instruction . |
| 14 | It is perhaps surprising to find that Jacques married for the first time on 31 March 1728 at the age of 55 . |
| 15 | Her family and acquaintance would have been greatly astonished to learn that Camille considered herself prematurely grown-up , and she herself was waiting for the day when she could tame her anger into cold bitterness and frame it into phrases as cutting as tempered steel . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Suppose , then , that the wage rate is flexible and that the economy is sufficiently competitive to ensure that labour market equilibrium is achieved . |
| 18 | They go on to say that large firms ‘ are constrained in some way [ in making these decisions ] by the requirement to make profits and serve consumers ’ , but it is nevertheless appropriate to stress that companies will usually have options about how to manage the impact of changed market conditions or technology : the company is not merely a passive instrument of the market . |
| 19 | The unusual nature of these counter-examples indicates that they are indeed the exceptions which prove the rule , and it is normally reasonable to assume that coins made from the same die were produced at the same time and place . |
| 20 | Woman-centred psychology , too , is generally happy to assume that men 's ‘ cultural and biological experiences are mostly different from those of women ’ ( Aitkenhead 1987 : 299 ) , and to adopt conventional ideas of what these different experiences entail . |
| 21 | She got the distinct impression that Melissa was n't best pleased to find that Luke had company . |
| 22 | By 1857 when Agassiz 's Essay on Classification appeared , as an introduction to a never-completed work on the natural history of the USA , it was already difficult to believe that Noah 's flood had really been a world-wide catastrophe with animals surviving two by two ; indeed Agassiz 's work on ice ages had involved reinterpretation of data that seemed evidence of the Flood . |
| 23 | Following the Tustain decision both limbs of this test are satisfied before the institutions invest , and it is no longer necessary to show that Newco remains close after it has actually acquired the business and commenced trading . |
| 24 | Although some remarkably conservation-conscious agents exist , it is generally true to say that land-agents have played , and continue to play , a significant role in hastening the destruction of the English landscape by intensive agriculture . |
| 25 | UN Under-Secretary-General James Jonah , after heading a 10-member delegation to Mogadishu , the Somali capital , on Feb. 29-March 4 , declared himself " deeply depressed to note that efforts to relieve the starving people of Mogadishu have been recklessly disrupted " . |
| 26 | Of course , it is always possible to say that people are suffering from false consciousness ( women , for example , are continually suffering from the illusion that they are not being exploited in the home ) but that is surely too patronising a view to be taken at all seriously . |
| 27 | For instance a large chunk of those voters who did declare firmly their intention to vote Labour were still prepared to recognise that Michael Fallon has done a good job as a constituency MP for the town since his election victory in 1983 . |
| 28 | There are two problems here : the first that is it is not always easy to determine that censorship has taken place in libraries . |
| 29 | This would seem to be unreasonably early considering that Scorton is a tourist area which gets large numbers of visitors on Bank Holidays . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |