Example sentences of "that the [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But many democrats , in France and elsewhere , were concerned that the traditionally dominant minority of the rich and propertied should no longer be able to stand in the way of the will and the interests of the great majority . |
| 2 | The eventual settlement will form a target for other workers and the Government will be anxious that the traditionally independent company will keep the award nearer the inflation rate , currently 7.3 per cent . |
| 3 | However , extensive research shows that the stereotypically female role of mother , as well as other social disadvantage , is actually associated with vulnerability to depression and broader distress ( Brown and Harris , 1978 ; Richman , 1974 , 1976 ; Moss and Plavis , 1977 ) . |
| 4 | It would appear that the slightly superior performance of the complex algorithm does not justify the increase in execution time . |
| 5 | WITH MILLIONS of spotty young upstarts being so alarmingly eager to please at the moment , I guess that the slightly askew likes of Strangelove should be welcomed with open charms . |
| 6 | The receiver of the call could give evidence that the grossly offensive message was received on a public telephone . |
| 7 | The car had been washed but not valeted and its general condition suggested that the 58,160 mileage was genuine — something that the decidedly patchy service history was unable to confirm ( the vehicle arrived at Ritchie Motors without a service book ) . |
| 8 | Léon Cohn-Casson had believed that the sooner all Jews lost any traces of separate identity the better . |
| 9 | Byrne 's letter was very nearly counterproductive , as it convinced Smith 's trade union backers that the sooner this contest was over the better . |
| 10 | Experience has however shown that the sooner these letters are written providing the above information the better are the prospects of success . |
| 11 | But sometimes when we say that every person is only required to sacrifice a little we mean that the antecedently expected sacrifice is small , i.e. that the odds that he will have to sacrifice a lot are small . |
| 12 | What is clear , however , is that monitoring is rarely a simple exercise , that the time-scales of the sponsors of monitoring and environmental research are rarely long term though most science is inevitably of this nature and that the increasingly multinational nature of such work necessitates a degree of management not always present in local or nationally based schemes . |
| 13 | She held them out and Belinda saw that the normally slender fingers were fat and bloated . |
| 14 | A company request that the normally prolonged negotiations be ‘ concertina-ed ’ into a week-long brain storming session has been rejected . |
| 15 | The coincidence between the ordinary predicative and clausal positions is all the more striking in that the inherently restrictive adjectives can not be so used in predicate qualifying position ( where restriction for identification is not appropriate ) ; this is why there is a further contrast between ( 57 ) and ( 59 ) , even though the adjective is one of this inherently restrictive group in both cases , and despite the fact that the property THIRD is certainly compatible in itself with the noun ox : ( 57 ) she considers the Admiral ( to be ) the worst ( e.g. of the village 's gardeners ) ( 58 ) she declared the squire ( to be ) the lazy ( 59 ) the revellers had eaten the ox the third ( 60 ) they ate their steaks well done Example ( 60 ) shows that eat can support predicate qualifiers , so that incompatibility between the verb and the construction can not be given as a reason for the ungrammaticality of ( 59 ) . |
| 16 | So , at end-1984 , therefore , the nuclear industry is looking more bullish than for many years , despite the fact that the environmentally committed Greens are strongly represented in state and federal parliaments . |
| 17 | I realized that the cheerfully forceful woman I had seen the day before must have been Mrs Maureen Kenny herself . |
| 18 | Behind his insistence that the intensely hierarchical system of submissions be changed , lay Jenkins 's determination that the Home Secretary had to be allowed sufficient scope to use his political judgment in weighing up alternative courses of action . |
| 19 | It may be worth pointing out to new customers who prove reluctant to pay on time that the keenly competitive rates being charged on the haulage contract can only be maintained if customers settle promptly . |
| 20 | It did so after the Federal Electoral Commission ( FEDECO ) decision that the officially recognised PRP was that led by Aminu Kano . |
| 21 | Although it is too fanciful to believe that the later Last Tango in Paris could have been influenced by John and Mary , there are nonetheless similarities between the two seemingly worlds-apart movies . |
| 22 | Records i Southampton archives confirm that the heavily laden animals , each carrying about two hundredweight , plied the long route from about 1400 AD to 1650 AD . |
| 23 | From graph B it can be shown that the heavily cratered terrain on Mercury extends back to about 4200 Ma , and the intercrater plains would then be older than 4200 Ma . |
| 24 | The hon. Gentleman will know that the generally accepted purpose of Select Committees is the monitoring of individual Departments . |
| 25 | Recently there has been speculation that the generally disappointing effects of hypotensive drug therapy in mildly hypertensive subjects may result from the deleterious metabolic side-effects of the agents themselves Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial Research Group ( 1982 ) . |
| 26 | There are now signs that the generally negative attitudes may be changing . |
| 27 | If the answer to that question is ‘ yes ’ , then the rational expectations hypothesis implies that the generally expected position of the aggregate demand curve will be AD 1 . |
| 28 | It appears to be that the generally unskilled nature of the labour force helps to determine that the processes of UK industry are , by present international standards , relatively simple and low productivity ones ; the country is locked into comparatively simple technology because it does not have the technical expertise to use technology to the fullest effect . |
| 29 | When others give up he 'll still be running , convinced that the seemingly intractable problem can be overcome . |
| 30 | But remember : you have to believe that the seemingly intractable problem can be cracked . |