Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he lacked Zhivkov 's taste , Ceauşescu showed greater consistency of purpose : Zhivkov survived his fall and lived long enough to explain that he had not really been a Communist after all ; Ceauşescu never gave his judges the satisfaction of hearing him renounce his beliefs . |
| 2 | I know of one company where everyone became so highly motivated that most of them left , because they now found frustrating a pace which they had found acceptable before . |
| 3 | It was n't long after the conversation about the Ivor Novello Award that he became much more resolved that he did n't need Ken Pitt as manager , so I said to him that the only thing he could do in that case was to get an attorney who would break the contract . |
| 4 | Fabia had been in her room for a good half-hour before she cooled down sufficiently to realise that maybe her reaction to Lubor 's hauling her into his arms had been a little — fierce — perhaps . |
| 5 | The words used also usually say that the auditors are to act as experts and not as arbitrators , and the commercial tradition is that they should not be arbitrators . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , all right , so I thought the decision was surprising , but I 'd long since realized that if I allowed that sort of thing to keep me awake at night I was going to be a chronic insomniac . |
| 7 | Back on the storm-front , lightning flashed and thunder exploded in long runs that seemed to envelop the length of the mountain chain as if spread by a giant paint-roller . |
| 8 | Inside and outside seemed so absolutely separate that once again Zen , drifting off into pleasantly dopey inattention , had the sensation of being a mere spectator of screen images , some television documentary about hardy men who did dangerous work for big money . |
| 9 | He 'd once mockingly said that their relationship had been written in the stars ; if it had been then she was going to have to find some way to unwrite it , fast ! |
| 10 | The sixteenth-century merchant who was so proud of his oriel windows would be astonished if he came back today to find that behind them management was managing and typists typing . |
| 11 | The second came back safely to reveal that men only just have the lion 's share . |
| 12 | He 'd never exactly believed that his life was charmed youngest in a family of seven in Stoke Newington would have been a damned strange place to start out from if that had been the case — but he 'd never believed himself to be one of life 's victims either . |
| 13 | Though he 'd never really believed that any woman would behave that coldly and that violently in response to an attack . |
| 14 | It was only when the implications of child-centred teaching ( the village school at its best ) became more widely appreciated that impetus was given to ‘ informal ’ or ‘ open ’ education . |
| 15 | He had feared for the project 's viability , particularly after it became more widely known that the old lady was to be put through her paces only a matter of days later and just a few miles down the road on the steeply graded Bodmin & Wenford Railway . |
| 16 | Beginning by a fantastic attempt to construct pedigrees where sons were their own fathers , I became gradually so involved that I remember wondering if God the Father were in truth only the child that grew up into Jesus Christ . |
| 17 | Chen Li-an , Minister of National Defence , confirmed in early March that Taiwan was planning to purchase 16 Lafayette class frigates from France at a cost of some US$4,800 million . |
| 18 | Dr Tom McManus of the IIRS got up again to say that an assistant to Dr Selikoff at Mount Sinai had told him they were unable to associate any increase in asbestos-related disease to exposure below 100 nanograms , while 100,000 was considered tolerable in a factory ! |
| 19 | The model developed so far suggests that only random movements in aggregate demand will cause real aggregate output to deviate from its natural or normal level . |
| 20 | All the scientific evidence collected so far suggests that biotechnology is really very safe . |
| 21 | The Bank of England stepped in yesterday to signal that a drop in UK interest rates would be premature and longer-dated gilt edged stocks gained as much as £1 . |
| 22 | The fact that the price fell so steeply indicated that the gamble on the harvest had paid off , but due to delays and maladministration peasants were still starving , as we have seen . |
| 23 | Those who adopted the third and final position — although the arguments were rarely in practice as clear as this — went further still to argue that pupils should be brought together not only under one roof , not only studying one curriculum , but also within mixed-ability groups . |
| 24 | I looked up again to see that she was still asleep and then I began leafing through the pages , curious to see whose names were entered there . |
| 25 | We went back upstairs to find that all the contents of our lockers had been thrown out over the floors , mixed up , trampled on , and that the lockers themselves had been hurled around the room , across the beds , which had been stripped , and out of the doors . |
| 26 | I thought I managed very well considering that tears were running down my cheeks most of the time . |
| 27 | The Secretary of State sought earlier today to suggest that this comparative survey ’ Youth and work : transition to employment in England and Germany ’ somehow backed up the Government 's record . |
| 28 | The results presented so far imply that the information acquired during non-reinforced exposure to a stimulus , like that acquired as a consequence of other conditioning procedures , requires the presence of appropriate contextual cues if it is to be fully retrieved . |
| 29 | All the models of passive rifting discussed so far assume that rifting is more or less a symmetric process ; that is , we would expect the opposing passive margins formed through continental break-up to have a similar structure and morphology because they have experienced a similar tectonic history . |
| 30 | Most of the examples discussed so far imply that transfers of money are gifts rather than loans , although the distinction between these two is not always clear . |