Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] that [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You got so that the first thing you did every day was to go into the kitchen and say good morning to it . |
| 2 | ( 2 ) Granting the application , that the central objective of the category of public interest immunity involved was the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force ; that therefore , in view of the public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice of some members of the disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , and of the extensive publicity already attaching to the authority 's documents following B. 's successful appeal , it could not be said that those who had co-operated in the authority 's investigation would regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses would withhold it , if the court were to release the documents to the applicants to enable them to defeat if they could an allegedly corrupt claim in damages ; that the imperative public interest in the case was that the applicants had a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they sought so that the grave allegations which they made , and were the same allegations that had troubled the Court of Appeal sufficiently to allow B. 's appeal , could be properly tested in the courts ; and that , accordingly , B. 's undertaking would be varied to allow him to hand over to the applicants those of the authority 's documents which were incorporated in his appeal bundle , the applicants for their part undertaking to use those documents only for the purposes of defending the present libel proceedings pursued against them ( post , pp. 927G — 928A , B ) . |
| 3 | The Party Programme , adopted at the same congress , promised only that the Soviet Union would ‘ do what it could ’ to assist socialist-oriented states in the developing world ; and authoritative commentaries made it clear that the USSR preferred the peaceful settlement of regional conflicts rather than the ‘ export of revolution ’ . |
| 4 | Pollution ‘ experts ’ joked merrily that the only drawback of the clean air policy was that , with less sulphur pollution , mildew had also returned . |
| 5 | HOWARD WILKINSON promised yesterday that the New Year will bring in the old Leeds United . |
| 6 | It transpired later that the social workers were all under instruction to have identification . |
| 7 | found this to be so , and demonstrated also that the latent inhibition produced by brief exposure to the odour was unaffected by contextual change . |
| 8 | Later I found out that a standby wife had got halfway down the aisle before turning back , remorseful at abandoning her husband , leaving one empty seat — my seat , I brooded , as I waited for the next flight . ) |
| 9 | We were very upset when we found out that a dual carriageway might be built in the fields past the wild duck pond behind our home . |
| 10 | It certainly seemed that a chapter of my life was closing , and I felt even more disgruntled when I found out that the other girls had all managed to get postings near their homes for their final few months in the Service . |
| 11 | I mentioned earlier that a particular meaning might be made accessible but that it does not necessarily follow that it will be acceptable . |
| 12 | If I could add there , subject to the proviso that erm I mentioned earlier that the western relief road is pursued on the basis of a single carriageway road . |
| 13 | We found then that the bigger the objective lens was the more light could be got and the bigger you could make it , so as I got bigger and got er the chance of making my own lenses and building up lenses of various kinds , I found that I could get quite a good magnification . |
| 14 | Four years ago , the then Scottish Secretary , Malcolm Rifkind , overturned an independent recommendation that the centre remain open , and promised instead that a new hospital would be built and a post-graduate dental institute funded at the university . |
| 15 | We proposed previously that the three patterns of physical relation between H pylori and gastric epithelium could represent stages in evolution of bacterial infection . |
| 16 | One of the models had peeked at the audience from behind the heavy velvet curtains that draped the stage and reported breathlessly that every spindly-legged gilt chair in the crowded hall was taken . |
| 17 | Sidgwick , for example , argued thus that the typical duties recognized by common sense could not be self evident and necessary since the clashes between them needed to be resolved by appeal to a more fundamental principle , that of the principle of utility , and that it was therefore this alone which possessed such a status . |
| 18 | He took them by a tortuous route to a pub called The Black Dog , which made a change from horses and pookas , until she recollected uneasily that a black dog was one of the devil 's traditional earthly disguises . |
| 19 | As he peered through his mind 's eye it seemed rather that the deepest water changed into a different type of material which sank down and down forever , tossed by its own fierce storms , swayed by its own currents that were swifter than any ocean 's — until far off elsewhere there surfaced from this immaterium yet other seas of life , which were other worlds . |
| 20 | Indeed , most of the intelligentsia assumed outright that the post-war society would be a socialist society , and that one of the chief justifications for fighting the war was that socialism should be its outcome . |
| 21 | ‘ I think it reflects on how we played together that the entire front five are in the party , ’ he said . |
| 22 | And she also noticed straightaway that the open fire feeding an oven to one side and a water boiler to the other was very like the one Sister Cecilia had introduced her to . |
| 23 | During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–5 , the BMJ noted ominously that the Japanese were capable of great feats of endurance on account of their strict attention to the laws of hygiene . |
| 24 | We noted above that the major legislation affecting insurance companies is contained in the Insurance Companies Act 1982 . |
| 25 | The next morning orders came through that the able-bodied were to begin the trek to India and the rest get to Myitkyina to take the chance of a plane . |
| 26 | Reporters in Vilnius noted meanwhile that the Lithuanian population remained calm and apparently unperturbed by what were widely regarded as Soviet provocations : a pro-independence rally on April 7 organized by Sajudis drew a crowd of up to 300,000 people . |
| 27 | That this performance was completely open to all-comers signalled unequivocally that the Gorbachevian renaissance was a reality . |
| 28 | It seemed yesterday that the conflicting ideas would be sorted out by President Mobutu , and that a political settlement was in sight . |
| 29 | I noticed also that the chief executive of Courtauld 's said that the Labour party 's proposals for a statutory minimum wage would lead to big job losses . |
| 30 | He believed also that the monastic community at Canterbury with a primatial archbishop at its head was the source of order throughout the whole huge area of the archbishop 's primatial authority ; he thought too that this was part of an unchanging order of things , which should not be made the subject of political bargaining either with the pope or the king . |