Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was very small , sandy-haired , sharp-featured and with his sense of smell so well developed that it was rumoured that he had sniffed out a suicide in Epping Forest even before the animal predators got to it . |
| 2 | Thus , in early 1944 the Cambridge Board finally tacitly acknowledged that the central issues over which the WEA and the District had refused to surrender any of their principles during the period 1937–39 had been justified . |
| 3 | And Titleist once again rewarded that trust with more wins , more top finishes and more money earned than all other balls combined . |
| 4 | Turning to the controversy over where a world revolution could begin , Marx and Engels 's stress on the determination of political events by economic change and the historic role of the proletariat both strongly suggested that a socialist revolution would occur first in one of the most industrialized economies ( such as England , France or Germany ) where the organized working class was largest . |
| 5 | Microsoft Corp yesterday also announced that it will stop selling its Cobol Professional Development System product on June 30 and instead reinforce the strategic alliance it has had for five years with Micro Focus Plc . |
| 6 | Eugenists like Scharlieb and Alice Ravenhill insisted that biology now conclusively proved that responsibility for safeguarding the nation 's morals lay with women . |
| 7 | Equally , it appears that the Cambridge Board also tacitly accepted that although he was its tutor , Shearman 's personal commitment to the WEA meant that provision of courses in Bedfordshire was arranged through the WEA county Federation and thus exclusively organised by the District . |
| 8 | Mr Paine , I feel sure , will be a candidate for some award or other and I trust he will remember the couple whose bravery obviously far exceeded that called for in the normal course of duty . |
| 9 | What McDowell is challenging is the notion thus unanimously upheld that the belief-expressive feature of assertions is essential to our understanding of the extra-linguistic purpose of statements of a natural language : |
| 10 | To me , who on a good day just about understood that there was no danger of the water 's getting into the wiring system and fusing everything or worse , and was amazed that the record-player did n't run erratically , the whole set-up was a major miracle . |
| 11 | On the first limb of the response , the Royal Commission rather lamely noted that the procedures of some tribunals have become ‘ legalistic ’ , mainly because the law governing their work has become more complex , and recommended that procedures be reviewed ‘ to ensure that applicants in person are able to conduct their own cases wherever possible ’ . |
| 12 | At officer level , the Cambridge Board through Hickson and Pateman not unreasonably argued that its initiatives in rural areas had been successful ; not least because of the financial support received from LEAs who were prepared to grant-aid provision of liberal adult education by the Board more generously than that provided through the District . |
| 13 | Her reading of the passions of men and women in the past so often revealed that ecstatic love ended in tragedy . |
| 14 | Eddie had been dead ten long years , a life so abruptly terminated that she had never come to terms with it . |
| 15 | Even in contemporary Western democracies , a government so powerfully entrenched that it may not feel troubled by the agitation of its enemies , detractors or of its powerless minorities , may court the danger of violent reaction . |
| 16 | Assessment of capital very much influenced that , and it was ‘ of the highest importance ’ that it was at all times a proper influence . |
| 17 | ‘ And the poor thing so badly trained that it can not be brought into a Christian household . ’ |
| 18 | Saudi Arabia and other members also disagreed over the interpretation of the ‘ marker ’ crude price set at the previous year 's OPEC conference in Bah , with a resolution so widely phrased that each member could do whatever it chose . |
| 19 | And Mr Jones in his own world never once suspected that Jo would dream of seeing that boy again after that fateful night , that seemed so long ago . |
| 20 | That is what the illogical anti-contraception stance of the Roman Catholic Church is in effect saying — and as that film so vividly illustrated that would mean a mini-genocide going on inside every male every minute . |
| 21 | Beatty 's aim was to keep Hipper so closely engaged that the Germans could not break off the action until Jellicoe arrived ; Hipper 's task was to lure Beatty to destruction at the hands of Scheer . |
| 22 | Guests walked out of a glittering gala in Belfast 's Europa Hotel when Best said that Pele ‘ was n't bad for a nigger ’ . |
| 23 | Further American aid was offered , although the US Treasury no longer believed that the United States alone could find the resources to remedy Britain 's problems . |
| 24 | Gerard said that " all kinds of Hyssope do grow in my Garden " and disdained to describe it , any more than Dioscorides did : " as being a plant so well known that it needed none " ( description ) , and it was illustrated in an Italian Herbal published in 1744 , where it was called H. vulgaris . |
| 25 | But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion . |
| 26 | His ‘ white heat ’ speech not only demonstrated that he was aware of the scientific revolution that was changing Britain but also associated Labour with efficiency , modernisation and planning . |