Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Leisure Society the employed are an elite of highly educated and skilled professionals who work full-time , but the wealth created by the equipment they have designed and operate is dispersed rather widely so that the mass of the population are able to live reasonably well off the products of the automated machinery cared for by the core elite . |
| 2 | A boxer before the war , Charles Nungesser had been smashed up so badly that by the time of Verdun he had to be lifted bodily into the cockpit and could only use one leg on the rudder controls . |
| 3 | It seems likely that the party had done so well then that there was little room for further advance , rather than that its performance in 1990 was especially poor . |
| 4 | The long-established Manx cat is certainly as abnormal as any of them , with its strangely abbreviated backbone and the problems this causes , but its presence at cat shows was accepted so long ago that nobody now objects to its inclusion . |
| 5 | What you need to do is to be able to provide a private sector a certain level of certainty , that the concession will be er granted long enough so that one can recover both your costs an=and certainly be able to make a profit and so er to the extent that the franchises that are being considered are short natured , seven years , er that becomes rather disadvantageous and unattractive er concessions of twenty and thirty and forty years , and and really thirty thirty to forty year period er do make it in fact make it very attractive for private sector involvement . |
| 6 | Peter Gabriel 's commitment to world music is well known : here the political elements in his work , usually understated , were pushed well forward so that you wound up as moved by his concern as by his skill . |
| 7 | A pencil mark should be made on the pipe around the mouth of the fitting after the pipe has been pushed fully home so that the pipe can then be withdrawn about 10mm from the fitting on installation . |
| 8 | the arrangement was placed low down so that the angle of view presented me this as interesting a set of shapes as possible . |
| 9 | Birds become dehydrated very quickly and their water supplies soon run out , they are crammed together so tightly that their body heat is suffocating and the unlucky ones die . |
| 10 | A brown kisscurl fell over his forehead ; he chortled often , showing the sly , boyish grin and the self-satisfied air of one who had been told once too often that he was a lovable rascal . |
| 11 | The flow advances in a manner similar to that of pahoehoe flows on dry land , and the pillows are budded off so quietly that the cameramen were able to swim up to within less than a metre of the swelling pillows . |
| 12 | The CICB said the woman were abused so long ago that their cases had to be considered under the pre-1979 rules which excluded compensation for offences committed by relatives living under the same roof . |
| 13 | Coordination and balance will be severely affected so much so that we hold ourselves rigid in order to avoid falling over . |
| 14 | Then they all saw that the royal lance , which had stood upright at the door of the tent , had been flung down so violently that its point had pierced the breast-plate of his piled armour ; and the shaft of the lance was twisted and discoloured , all the armour dinted , and the royal pennant charred as if it had been burned . |
| 15 | Historically , engineering has had to distance itself from the sound of metal-bashing , and agriculture has become fiercely scientific and managerial ; while the obvious skill element in medicine and veterinary work only comes after a thoroughly academic grounding ( though it is sometimes pointed out rather unkindly that surgeons evolved from barbers ) . |
| 16 | It should be pointed out once again that those feminists who say that , on account of the male symbolism , Christianity is impossible for them , are not thereby necessarily ‘ anti-men ’ . |
| 17 | It should perhaps be pointed out once again that even registration affords only prima facie evidence of title . |
| 18 | I am known all too well that it 's big rough galaxy out there , full of more surprises than the human imagination can conceive of . |
| 19 | Services should be provided near enough so that people do not to have to venture further than their local shops or post office . |
| 20 | And the view should not be ruled out too summarily that all our desires grow up from the fact that certain things have been found immediately pleasurable . |
| 21 | ( submerged so long ago that the neighbours |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The perspectives , the horizon points , the viewing angles all had to be worked out beforehand so that camera shots would enable the backdrops to appear as natural continuations of the sets , instead of suddenly sloping up or downhill . |
| 24 | Maidstone was used to all this and he had got the procedures worked out so well that very little mess was involved . |
| 25 | Do you have any recollections of any particular disputes and maybe an answer that you could possibly sort of , make a few comments on whether you felt the the procedures were worked out so finely that they in fact prevented disputes because they were so long and drawn out perhaps or er it took the fire out of disputes if you like ? |
| 26 | But if if their medication 's not being taken correctly then obviously that creates problems . |
| 27 | Wail until you have calmed down enough so that you can voice your concerns and listen to his replies . |
| 28 | Haran has suggested however that in a few cases " the intended number is the first of the two " ; 29 but in Job 33.14 and Ps 62.12 , which he cites , it can be maintained much more convincingly that it is the second number that is " intended " or the more precise . |
| 29 | In some places metal sinks and is covered over so quickly that even Victorian losses can be out of range ; at the other end of the scale I found a 14th century key in a wood , that came up from a depth of only 2 inches . |
| 30 | However , this information needs to be given very carefully so that it does n't anger or hurt the person . |