Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if she has already enjoyed the satisfaction of having climbed to a new standard of proficiency , higher than she has been before , why should she care one way or another to know that others have not yet reached this standard ? |
| 2 | But though they are not physical in their nature , and though it is difficult or impossible to conceive that they are physical in their origin , they are , for Darwin and his followers , factors in the evolutionary process in its physical or organic aspect . |
| 3 | Many , unable or unwilling to see that by the 1890s the emergence of the proletariat had redefined the terms of the class struggle , failed to cut themselves adrift from their bourgeois and petty-bourgeois roots . |
| 4 | This can be seen from ( 10 ) , where one feels that seeing and loving are potentially predicated of any support capable of realizing these actions ( " you " , " him " , " anyone " ) . |
| 5 | When implies something similar in ( 62 ) , where one understands that the speaker felt she did n't dare move before the moment evoked by when . |
| 6 | Others use the term sub or proto-proletariat to mean that these members of the urban poor are in the process of becoming a working class , though they have not yet achieved this status . |
| 7 | Where armed groups operate , it is common for the police or military to claim that political suspects have died in an ‘ encounter ’ . |
| 8 | Any work of art is a complex vibratory system to which our senses and nervous system respond , and any object such as the sacred wooden boards or Tapundas , or the stone Tjinas of the Aborigines , many of which are inscribed with the serpent motif , or any object that has been submitted to human veneration through actions or desires , remains charged with psychic power that can be transmitted or given off in energetic emanations providing there has been no transformation of the original material used in its creation . |
| 9 | Purée can be gradually thickened by adding flour , oatmeal , potato , rice , or any staple that the family uses until it reaches the consistency of mashed potato . |
| 10 | London & Metropolitan reported that losses before tax fell from £100.3m to £26m in 1991 . |
| 11 | Lord Rothschild appeared on television to give a Dimbleby lecture in which he authoritatively reassured the public that the risks of nuclear power were negligible : if those risks were not , in fact , accepted , it was because the public were too stupid or ill-educated to realise that they were objectively ‘ acceptable ’ . |
| 12 | Through the successive phases of his career — at Gainsborough , Gaumont-British and then at his own Ealing Studios — he was to show that his talent lay in finding the most talented people available , giving them the best context to work in , inspiring and stimulating their efforts and intervening where necessary to ensure that the best possible film came out of the production process . |
| 13 | It took Ruth a second or two to realise that he was replying to her question , not to the thoughts which whirled around in her head . |
| 14 | It took Donna a moment or two to realize that it had been activated by some kind of electric eye . |
| 15 | Maxie went on : ‘ Y ’ see , everyone who was at the tea will keep reading the social pages for the next day or two to see that their names are in the report of it ; and , with luck , inside that time , on the same pages there 'll be a report about your Morals Committee — then they 'll know why you had the books , and old Miss Angus will be put in her place . |
| 16 | One or two mentioned that they would look forward to the course and that if they were not going to an ATB event they would be out anyway . |
| 17 | There have been one or two irksome omissions — Elektra , Die Frau ohne Schatten , productions that were highlights of the Strauss centenary celebrations in Salzburg and Vienna in 1964 — as well as one or two works that Karajan has recorded but not conducted in the theatre since Ulm or Aachen . |
| 18 | It took Mr Gorbachev a year or two to perceive that he held a hopelessly weak hand — that the Soviet Union could not possibly match the enormous economic and technological resources Mr Reagan commanded and was prepared to employ , including the much-maligned Strategic Defence Initiative , which Mr Shultz strongly supported . |
| 19 | The way he went on looking at her made her flesh heat , and she took a second or two to ensure that her voice would emerge steadily before saying , ‘ I want to make one thing absolutely crystal-clear , Luke . ’ |
| 20 | The firm says it is doing work for IBM in other areas but declined to be more specific , although that suggests that IBM may have taken on board the message that it needs outsiders to run some of its key business units . |
| 21 | I assumed , in my usual mechanistic way that that meant that everything that looked like being cancerous had been cut out . |
| 22 | I I 've always assumed that that meant that it would be such a tremendous lever for the enemy to hold someone like that . |
| 23 | I hope that that demonstrates that the persistence of my hon. Friend has , if nothing else , at least found the receipt that hitherto had been missing . |
| 24 | And I think that that shows that er you know the distribution of er non rationed food was not quite what |
| 25 | And that that shows that it that is true of working . |
| 26 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that that shows that there is scope , through a range of Government and quasi-government bodies , to encourage action beyond what can be done with direct Government money ? |
| 27 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that that means that since 1979 there has been a two thirds increase in capital spending compared with a cut of one third when Labour was in power ? |
| 28 | Can the hon. Gentleman confirm that that means that the average family in this country would be approximately £2,000 better off if it lived in Italy ? |
| 29 | I hope that that means that the trend is that we shall plateau soon and thereafter we shall see unemployment reducing . |
| 30 | I hope that that means that support will be forthcoming . |