Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] that [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My joy of getting into Halton was short-lived , In the first term I was up before the Head , a delightful fellow called B , A , Smith who kindly explained in a most embarrassed way that in spite of appearing to have satisfactory results in other departments , my school results were as poor as he could recall in all his experience . |
| 2 | The implication of this , however , is that directors should be the sole arbiters of the appropriateness of their working methods ; the suggestion that ‘ rational shareholders would not have it otherwise … for their welfare is maximised by decisions that yield the highest profits net of the costs of gathering information and making the decision ’ , adds nothing beyond the empirically unsupported assertion that on balance , if left alone , managements will make decisions in the most cost-effective way . |
| 3 | As a non-philosopher I always used to find that slightly depressing statement that of Eyre 's about beauty , and it seemed to me that one could immediately follow that by saying just because there 's a word for it maybe you have it because you like it and you want to use it and is n't that self-validating in a sense . |
| 4 | The unfortunately British idea that at school , as well as a place of learning and a place where you grow from a child into an adult , is a kind of military disciplinary academy , I think is most unfortunate . |
| 5 | The case has been made that neutralisation is potentially attractive only to relatively minor states that by virtue of their strategic position or symbolic political value have become or threaten to become the focal points of contests for control or dominant influence between principal regional or global rivals . |
| 6 | The RAF was thought to be responsible for 32 murders over 20 years , the most recent being that in April 1991 of Detlev Rohwedder , head of the Treuhand privatization agency [ see p. 38155 ] . |
| 7 | I 'm sure you know that the Bank of England the Bank of England have made a very strong point that on balance there should be more non-executive directors than executive directors in the company and , er it is felt very strongly that to get a good mix of non-executive directors really does protect the shareholders ' interests and , er I think we 're very much following the lead , er , of the Bank of , of England , erm , in this particular respect . |