Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [that] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a bet , he had once broken into the flat where a certain Vice-Questore was entertaining a lady friend and removed the couple 's clothes so stealthily that the Vice-Questore thought something supernatural must have occurred and came over all religious for a while . |
| 2 | Though Leith , with her high sense of responsibility , would much rather that the Norwood & Chambers file had landed on somebody else 's desk . |
| 3 | In addition , the new regulations continued the pre-war advantages for university-provided liberal adult education which further weakened the relative position of the WEA so much so that the Ashby Committee reported that university income for adult education had exceeded £550,000 in 1951–52 in contrast to the WEA 's income of little more than £130,000 for that year . |
| 4 | Indeed , this first step proceeded so smoothly that the EEC decided to speed up the timetable of tariff reductions . |
| 5 | As to my husband , he does what he is told as ever and I have faced the truth long ago that the Brownings are more important to him than I am . |
| 6 | Today is the actual anniversary of the tragic night in Tottenham when Eubank crushed Watson — and it is only recently that the Islington fighter has started to make a real recovery . |
| 7 | It is only recently that the DES has introduced ethnic monitoring in mainstream institutions and some LEAs embarked on equality targets . |
| 8 | And when we begin to gain , if only the merest glimpse of the deeply ingrained brutalities and prejudices embodied in what was judged to be ‘ right ’ , then we can see more clearly that the Garotter 's Act was not so much a moment of panic which led respectable England off its true course , but a mature expression of the existing social relations — including the self-assumption of the mighty , and their attitudes and actions towards the lower orders and the plebs . |
| 9 | The Department of the Environment ( DoE ) had foreseen difficulties with the Directive , and now asked the Department of Health for advice on nitrate levels , most probably so that the UK could argue for laxer standards . |
| 10 | You will have spotted straight away that the Caribbean is not exactly renowned for the quality of its knitwear . |
| 11 | The extreme snobbery of this abstruse observation would have been rude had it been clear , for Lydia knew perfectly well that the Molesworths were the sort of people who picnicked in lay-bys , bringing little chairs and tables and using the car boot as a sort of sideboard . |
| 12 | It was here presumably that the Pathan woman had erred . |
| 13 | When I asked how the Public Accounts Committee could examine what I regarded as gross excesses and a gross dereliction of duty by the Secretary of State for Transport , I was told — quite properly that the PAC could investigate only specific charges . |
| 14 | And then too that the Bayonnais became overbearingly careful of their wealth and success , which they protected by placing chains across the river mouth to keep out marauders and by imposing stiff customs duties that enraged the local Basques . |
| 15 | In those circumstances we have no alternative but to adopt the course dictated by the Convention and order the child 's return to Canada forthwith so that the Ontario court may proceed with its consideration of what is best for his welfare . |
| 16 | Royal Air Force records are fuller and more accurate than those of the S.A.S. From these I have learned only very recently that the Stirling concerned ( LJ 850 ) belonged to 620 Squadron . |