Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast to peoples who believe that their communities have existence through time through rules of corporation , the Piaroa do not understand ‘ community ’ and the relationships of which it is comprised as a political given that allows for continuity through time . |
| 2 | He was quite right to claim that each of the four cells at the end of the cleavage would form a normal larva . |
| 3 | I think I am right to claim that I was the first to adopt this plan vs Rudi Douven at Charlton in 1983 . |
| 4 | Keith Flett is right to claim that Labour needs active grassroots supporters to defeat the Tories ( Letters , 24 April ) . |
| 5 | Salvidge was right to claim that Leith had overstepped the mark and that he had no mandate for his action , but it is clear that he rather than Salvidge really represented the views of the National Union . |
| 6 | I fear that the Secretary of State was not right to claim that the Bill is universally welcomed . |
| 7 | It would be possible to acknowledge that this type of emotional layer exists in human beings , and that it finds expression in the brutality men are capable of inflicting on one another . |
| 8 | It would be absurd to claim that this day is already near . |
| 9 | The old and lonely are very vulnerable , and if you have sounded detached , preoccupied , or hurried during the conversation they can easily feel hurt and rejected ; and that hurt can be like an emotional graze that will remain painful until you are able to see them again and heal it . |
| 10 | He was surely right to caution that the declaration of a right by a court is perhaps best viewed as the beginning of a political process in which power relationships loom large and immediate . |
| 11 | During the televised hearings on Aug. 30 the three bankers each admitted that lax credit controls had contributed to their banks ' involvement in the recent scandals . |
| 12 | It is not possible to arrange that the second derivatives as well as the first derivatives of the coefficients all simultaneously vanish , because there are insufficient free variables . |
| 13 | By choosing t suitably it is possible to arrange that t and τ are equal at some large distance R. This choice is . |
| 14 | Is it possible to arrange that they be given blanks and do n't know which are the blanks and which are the real , because otherwise there 's a risk after you 've done this the schools will suspect that they 're low , and therefore they will add a little on to their blank or something like that . |
| 15 | ‘ How refreshing to see that you believe in fostering good relations between management and staff , ’ he drawled lazily . |
| 16 | Five million more motor cars on the roads since 1980 mean that there is bound to be more damage to , theft from and taking of motor vehicles . |
| 17 | For instance , it is possible to contend that the nouveau roman may be more accurately described as modernist or late modernist when compared with the apparently more subversive avant-garde experimentalism of the Tel Quel group , whose claim to be the natural successors of the revolution inaugurated by Finnegans Wake would be difficult to refute . |
| 18 | In La Route des Flandres , the fluctuations between first and third person mean that it is not possible to contend that the novel 's discourse is organized entirely around the consciousness of the central character Georges , who otherwise seems to be re-creating his experiences in the course of a night in bed with the widow of his commanding officer , some time after the wartime conflict . |
| 19 | Even th your chief supporter , the T N A , on September the nineteenth agreed that it was far better , it was far better to use the untapped human resource than to load the ca th the cost on to the community charge payer . |
| 20 | A one-time Italian band singer , Donald Forcillo-Rose , came out of the woodwork in October 1980 to claim that he and June were lovers when she was just sixteen and he was twenty-six , and that she became pregnant . |
| 21 | Rightly or wrongly we believed that as long as we were discriminated in every walk of life it would be absurd to pretend that everything was OK in rugby and play against the English and then go back to the township . |
| 22 | He might concede that it is indeed absurd to pretend that in asserting an existential proposition we are in effect talking about all the things in the world . |
| 23 | But when a goods engine makes its appearance from the outer darkness , it is possible to realize that the shunters ' apparent madness is nothing but the acme of method . |
| 24 | A Soviet official leading an AAPSO mission to Kuala Lumpur in the spring of 1971 affirmed that the USSR welcomed all policies of neutrality and non-alignment if they were ‘ directed towards all countries ’ . |
| 25 | To someone such as I , who had the vague but tenacious idea that Indians communicated in pictures only , a fragile method , it is pleasant to see that one scholar of native American languages calls the manuscripts ‘ the largest corpus of texts ’ of them and ‘ a remarkable resource ’ . |
| 26 | Even so , it 's very pleasant to see that a goodly swathe of video cards is supported directly . |
| 27 | If you find next time you need that remedy that it again does not work , put another mark on the bottle and give it one more chance before discarding the whole bottle . |
| 28 | Does each think that the real money is on the other side ? |
| 29 | It would appear that states prefer to act legally where possible and it is not possible to claim that states are unaffected by legal prohibitions on war , but the regularity with which such a large proportion of states are prepared to use force illegally — despite their total commitment to law-abidingness within their territories and the apparent lack of any retributive consequences of such illegalities ( unless defeat in war is unhelpfully labelled as a punishment ) — raise doubts about the parallels between municipal and international law in terms of the parameters of the concept of law . |
| 30 | No more is it possible to claim that the strict code of social morality and convention which helped to sustain the political system was held in place from outside against the will of most Japanese people . |