Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The infant death rate was still high enough , especially among the poor , for parents not yet to have become complacent ; meanwhile , the promise was held out , and for the first time could be kept , that babies could be successfully reared provided that medical advice was faithfully followed . |
| 2 | Here he was surprised and a little frightened to find that he was being carried further out to sea . |
| 3 | While listening to Mrs Wimbush 's diatribe , Juliet had slowly come to realise that although this was Thorn House it was no longer the maternity home Elaine had known . |
| 4 | Milton Friedman 's widely reported remark that ‘ We are all Keynesians now ’ was an exaggeration , even for the time , but it did convey the Zeitgeist of the 1960s . |
| 5 | Tests on earlier buildings so treated revealed that up to one in twenty houses soon showed signs of damp penetration . |
| 6 | Edna was obviously charmed to find that Celia had married such a presentable husband who was a heart specialist into the bargain . |
| 7 | We have not yet been sufficiently educated to realize that the risk of dying from the greatest killer disease in the Western world could be drastically reduced if only we took preventative measures by eating sensibly and looking after our bodies . |
| 8 | The conclusion seems to be that if I recognize that I have once wrongly claimed to know that p , then I can not ever claim to know that p unless I can show a relevant difference between the two cases . |
| 9 | The diversity of museum collections in general requires that these practices be sufficiently flexible to accommodate the unusual object or set of circumstances , and yet sufficiently disciplined to ensure that realistic standards can be established and maintained . |
| 10 | ( c ) When she raised the question of blood transfusions the only response was to lull her into a sense of false security , both the staff nurse , in her express words , and Dr. F. in his demeanour and the obstetrics staff nurse explicitly , all sought to indicate that it did not much matter since there appeared to them to be no prospect of a blood transfusion becoming necessary . |
| 11 | Made in the reign of Calixtus , it was obviously seen fitting that it should end the series of pictures of the popes involved in the struggle . |
| 12 | He was somewhat consoled to find that she seemed to be genuinely interested . |
| 13 | And er , I thought , oh he 's only got to put that in oven |
| 14 | That had been wrongly interpreted to mean that Conran was actively seeking a suitor . |
| 15 | I am much induced to believe that from an examination of the foreign correspondence of that Society ( of which W. Watson of Bartlett 's Buildings is sollicitor ) [ sic ] some traces might be found which might lead to discover some of Mr. Stone 's accomplices . |
| 16 | A note in his voice that he had long cultivated indicated that the discussion was at an end . |
| 17 | Uneven demographic distribution , diplomatic and military considerations , the location of major industries , commercial relations , cultural influences and the centralization of political and administrative power in either St Petersburg or Moscow ( ancient and modern ) have all helped to ensure that cis-Uralian Russia has enjoyed a near-monopoly of European and North American scholarship in this field . |
| 18 | There are men who toil because work is a pleasure to them and there are others who toil because work is a duty ; but the great majority of men are only stimulated to labour that in amount or character is distasteful to them , by the hope that they may be able , in the first place , to maintain themselves , and secondly to marry and maintain a family … |
| 19 | The clouds must be sufficiently isolated to ensure that clear air can be found by flying out of the lift . |
| 20 | The struggle over the succession between Ahidjo and Biya , in spite of its curious circumstances , had only served to emphasize that the succession problem remained alive and unresolved . |
| 21 | Enough remained to show that the northern one was at least g by 7. 5 m ( 292 by 242 ft ) , with two rooms of unequal size at the back , while its southern counterpart , of which only the rear 2.5m ( 8 ft ) was recovered , had apparently lain in a walled compound measuring 13 by 6 m ( 42½ by 19½ ft ) . |
| 22 | " I 'm only authorized to say that the aircraft has been prepared for friday . " |
| 23 | However , this relationship has not so far been sufficiently investigated to ensure that a given design will be stable in fast forward flight . |
| 24 | I was much encouraged to find that the most unlikely audiences appreciated modern poetry , and Eliot 's perhaps most , though that was perhaps due to my own advocacy . |
| 25 | So I went rushing round to a friend of mine who fortunately had some and I said I want to see your walking , and I was much comforted to discover that they do actually use all six legs . |
| 26 | The politicians that Stockman so despised knew that the dismantling of the welfare state and the elimination of federal largesse were not options available to them — public opinion polls had made that very clear . |
| 27 | Stanger has an appetite for apparently lost causes that rarely allows opponents to commit errors without getting punished . |
| 28 | You are obviously determined to believe that I deliberately and maliciously set out to destroy you , knowing as I did how much you had already been hurt . ’ |
| 29 | As many have observed , the recognition that gender is so constructed implies that it can be altered . |
| 30 | When used on a daily basis , food digestion is greatly improved ensuring that essential dietary elements are assimilated by the horse in the most effective manner ; thereby helping maintain balanced growth . |