Example sentences of "and [vb base] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 With regard to homage , it will suffice to say that there was as yet no papal decree against the homage of ecclesiastics to laymen ; and Anselm certainly thought that there was no objection in principle .
2 As artfully devised as any 19th-century print to convey an impression of grand scale , the photograph and title together imply that the voices of the choir are a sound-portrait of the wealthiest college in Cambridge : a realm of gilded statuary , lofty pinnacles and heraldic shields .
3 ' ’ I trust to have word from you by this messenger , and delay only to know that you wish me to proceed .
4 But the old man insists , and Hoccleve eventually confesses that his great problem is anxiety ( ‘ encombrous thoght ’ ) , and the Beggar offers to cure him , if he will unburden himself and listen to Reason .
5 A month ago , when Jim Bob and Fruitbat jokingly suggested that it might be vaguely amusing to tie in the , if you will , ‘ concept ’ of the album with a foreign press conference to promote it , they did n't think that the marketing johnnies at Chrysalis and EMI would take them at their word .
6 Cleo and Javelot soon discovered that it was occupied by five individuals , who were stowed away in far chambers like ideas in a vast empty brain .
7 How could I have seen your son Scathach in a vision , and named a land Bird Spirit Land out of my childish dreams , and arrive here to find that you know about Bird Spirit Land , and Bavduin ?
8 Abercrombie and Urry also claim that the professional-managerial class is ‘ proportionately and politically stronger ’ in the USA than in other capitalist countries .
9 The analysis offered by Kintsch and Vipond essentially argues that research on readability has been thoroughly practical , but hopelessly unanalytical .
10 … With regard to the provision of state benefits , I am advised and do verily believe that [ the mother ] would be eligible for financial assistance under either the Ontario General Welfare Assistance Act ( administered by local municipalities ) or the Family Benefits Act ( administered provincially by the maintenance branch of the Ministry of Community and Social Services ) .
11 Adorno and Marcuse both argued that popular culture did not have critical potential in that it was not part of an autonomous cultural sphere as were certain high cultural works of art .
12 By arranging housing visits six to eight weeks before the transfer , the employee can find property for rent , sign the necessary agreements and return home knowing that the property will be ready on the date of transfer .
13 They are a lesson in honesty and hard graft , and have also proved that continual capitulation is not the only way to sustain a musical career .
14 Using the yeast model , they have demonstrated different effects with different degrees of succussion and have also shown that the rest period between finishing the succussion of one potency and sampling it for dilution to prepare the next potency is important .
15 Some thinkers have gone further and have even said that Abelard 's idea of sin is superficial and inadequate .
16 Other investigations , using different research designs , point to the same conclusion , and have further demonstrated that the association is probably , as Karlsson suggests , largely genetic in origin .
17 I 'm worried that niether is particularly tall , and have always felt that in the League you need one monster and one player with a bit of class and speed .
18 I grew up on movies and have always believed that if cameras had been invented before Ur and Og first trod the stone age boards then no one would ever have bothered to invent plays , they would have just leapt straight into the cinema .
19 They have been collecting goodies from all over the globe , with no trouble or expense spared , and have recently announced that they have just paid a world record price for a rather small amount of tea .
20 During my researches for material to complete this book I have found that railwaymen in particular have been reluctant to allow their names to be used in a story , and have sometimes insisted that even the name of the location be changed ; perhaps they fear leg pulling from their workmates !
21 Sociologists have been quick to point out the obvious absurdity of this — without , of course , seeing the nonsensicality of their own position — and have rightly observed that no one is born into a vacuum , that cultures and the individuals within them vary , and that individual psychology is powerfully influenced by traditional and cultural factors of which a purely individualistic approach can not take account .
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