Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I regret only that the article entitled ‘ Philosophy and Politics ’ and published in The Criterion for January 1938 , is not better . |
| 2 | Later , in The Sense of Order , my book on decoration , I say somewhere that the shepherd boy who cut a twig from a willow tree and made a little pipe to play a tune on may have been a great genius but we can not tell . |
| 3 | Many pilots select the days on which they fly so that the weather is near ideal and not too windy . |
| 4 | Some say diffidently that the ERM has been assaulted by an extraordinary and unrepeatable event ( German unification ) ; or that the underlying imbalances which caused last September 's breakdown ( the pound and some other currencies were over-valued against the D-mark ) have now been sorted out . |
| 5 | Either they dispute the sceptic 's right to assert the conclusion , or to assert it as a conclusion ; or they suggest directly that the conclusion can not be true , and that hence they are excused from considering any suggested reason for believing it . |
| 6 | We report here that the development of TCR - CD4 - CD8 - T-cell precursors into TCR + cells expressing CD4 and/or CD8 requires the presence of both major histocompatibility complex class II + epithelial cells and fetal mesenchyme . |
| 7 | We have made direct microspectrophotometric measurements of patches of foveal retina from Old World monkeys , and report here that the distribution of long- and middle-wave cones is locally random . |
| 8 | You then say immediately that the total of the days added are 74 . |
| 9 | We shall elaborate on this simple division below but suggest here that the wealth of literature on the former ( see , for instance , Burton et al. 1978 and Perry 1981 ) has yet to be matched by a similar volume of work on the latter . |
| 10 | The House of Commons Agriculture Committee put forward 43 recommendations for change but their conclusions suggest strongly that the Committee did not appreciate the severity of the conservation/agriculture conflict in the uplands and the impact of habitat loss . |
| 11 | The references in the Directive ( quoted above ) to conservation of the countryside suggest strongly that the thinking behind its drafting equated the continuation of farming in the uplands as synonymous with conserving the countryside . |
| 12 | One could relax the postulate of decisiveness of inhibition , and propose instead that the activation of letter detectors was more-or-less rather than all-or-none . |
| 13 | ‘ I propose therefore that the Recorder be asked to address the people , he being considered as the mouth of the City ’ . ' |
| 14 | I feel we need a poet to tell of the contribution made to our Christian Aid Week by those who stay at home and bake so that the baking stall can be kept so magnificently supplied every day . |
| 15 | Then turn you map so that the map symbol lines up with the real landmark . |
| 16 | If you ca n't slow down , then deliberately pause so that the person who 's listening to you has an opportunity to mentally catch up on what you 're saying . |
| 17 | The idea is to find a molecule that will attach itself to methane and then react so that the methane is converted into a product that is useful as a fuel ( New Scientist , vol 97 , p 441 ) . |
| 18 | Then they relax so that the ear returns to maximal sensitivity just in time for the returning echo . |
| 19 | Our results show directly that the heat of adsorption is significantly increased . |
| 20 | Surveys of local records that have survived show clearly that the rank and file of local Councils were overwhelming Baptist and Congregational . |
| 21 | Experiments show clearly that the energy dissipation does not occur roughly uniformly throughout the turbulence ; there are patches of intense small eddies involving high dissipation and other patches where there is little dissipation . |
| 22 | They show convincingly that the belief in women 's capacity for boring and repetitive work is part of industrial folklore : if it were true , turnover rates should be no higher in industries which offer such work than in those where the work is more intrinsically interesting . |
| 23 | Other examples show however that the person of which the infinitive event is predicated is not always the speaker : ( 4 ) … but he was differently designed , full of desires and aspirations , itching at the fingers , lusting with the eyes , whom the whole variegated world could not satisfy with aspects . |
| 24 | I hope therefore that the Department of Transport will do whatever possible to increase motoring costs by such methods as petrol taxes and road pricing . |
| 25 | Allegedly , I read somewhere that the killing of native American Indians was the biggest genocide in world history . |
| 26 | It will be a matter for consideration whether the fact that the plaintiff has passed on the tax or levy so that the burden has fallen on another should provide a defence to his claim . |
| 27 | I consider also that the decision in question was flawed to a degree by undue weight being given to the question of a disorderly collapse . ’ |
| 28 | If a definition of postmodernism rests on the removal of subjectivity , then several of the nouveaux romans cited demonstrate forcefully that the subject is a site of contradictions . |
| 29 | Finally , despite all the pejorative remarks and many statements along the lines of ‘ I personally do not think very highly of headhunters ’ , most accept fully that the headhunting business in Britain is here to stay . |
| 30 | Well , I could go to the casting and asked him to put the pattern in and fire it for it , to cut the sand out like that , you know so that the metal 'd run in like that and you 'd got the big head as you wanted , you know and er it 'd take you like castings with the machine and all that sort of thing , it was all hand stuff you know and yeah |