Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] that [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it has been widely recognized that both plural and singular references are possible under many circumstances ( Eschenbach , Habel , Herweg & Rehkämper 1989 ; Garrod & Sanford 1982 ) , the present results reveal just how prevalent singulars can be , even given a grammatical grouping cue like and . |
| 2 | The branch manager , Christopher Drogoul , was indicted and pleaded guilty to 60 counts of defrauding BNL , thereby suggesting that neither the USA nor Italian authorities had prior knowledge of the loans . |
| 3 | But one rarely thinks that clearly about things one has no experience of . |
| 4 | Macmillan eventually realised that only Australia and New Zealand would resist the pressure and advised South Africa not to press for readmission as a republic . |
| 5 | I can not remember to what extent organ donation was common in 1967 , but the Latey Committee expressly recommended that only 18-year-olds and older should be authorised by statute to consent to giving blood : see paragraphs 485–489 . |
| 6 | It was odd enough to see that rather feminine room crammed full with so many stern , dark-jacketed gentlemen , sometimes sitting three or four abreast upon a sofa ; but such was the determination on the part of some persons to maintain the appearance that this was nothing more than a social event that they had actually gone to the lengths of having journals and newspapers open on their knees . |
| 7 | Although often unreliable , the weapons carried by the crew of a War Wagon are sufficiently varied that even if some of them malfunction , some of the others are bound to work . |
| 8 | It will be comforting to me at any rate personally to know that even so eminent a , a , er an ornament of the present administration as my Noble Friends also found these th th this material a matter for stumbling and was not perhaps inclined to give it a crown of lucidity . |
| 9 | One 11 year old who was asked about the shape of the Earth replied that he knew he was supposed to say that it was shaped like a sphere , but that he thought people only say that so that it would fit easily on a globe : |
| 10 | And will he be far-sighted enough to guess that even DNA may itself have been a usurper of yet more remote and primitive replicators , crystals of inorganic silicates ? |
| 11 | Like their peers elsewhere in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union , the Communist rulers of Romania were shrewd enough to know that not even village idiots believed the official media . |
| 12 | Yes , we spent quite a lot of time alone together , started going to bed and all that , and yes we were sensible enough to know that even when you 're falling in love you should n't live entirely in one another 's pockets . |
| 13 | But the Dutchman is smart enough to know that even though the practice session at the stadium went well , his strike-force still suffer from the age-old Irish problem . |
| 14 | Like Clough , Graham has enjoyed virtual non-stop adulation as a manager , but he 's realistic enough to know that today 's fickle fans demand instant success . |
| 15 | Beddington had lived long enough to know that very few people were quite what the public considered them . |
| 16 | The poor sod was only sayin' that ter make 'er act a bit sensible . |
| 17 | If a particular monkey is chased and harried for as long as ten minutes , it may become so stressed that eventually it gives up trying to escape and sits to face its death without screaming or even resisting when the hunters finally seize it . |
| 18 | Before the First World War , many Marxists believed , as we shall see , that world capitalism had become so internationalized that even the political struggle for national independence made no sense ( or worse , it was reactionary ) . |
| 19 | Then one long hum that slowly faded , became part of the silence . |
| 20 | Many are the times me wife and I have sat at the table with a large sheet of graph paper and worked it all out , only to find that either my ruler 's idea of an inch does n't tally with the real thing , or the width of a pencil line on the plan actually equates to a foot in real life . |
| 21 | I had to retrace my steps and double back around areas that proved too soft only to find that everywhere else was as bad . |
| 22 | It was a weird , time , with white rastas , art-school escapees , old rockers and punk fanzine costermongers coming together to discover that maybe they did have something in common after all . |
| 23 | And you only mentioned that briefly , once , at management team meeting and it was included in all the discussions , you know Ray was the first one , you know . |
| 24 | He had obviously decided that too much deliberation would allow his nerves time to needle him . |
| 25 | My honourable friend the member for has rightly said that only thirty one percent of the people bother to vote and so why be bothering with new things at all . |
| 26 | These were furnished with fountains , seats , grass and trees and were so organized that nearly every quartier of Paris could give its inhabitants a place for relaxation . |
| 27 | After all in an age where everyone is becoming more environmentally aware , perhaps it is only fitting that even artists are getting into recycling . |
| 28 | Nida similarly explains that ‘ in some Nilotic languages the passive forms of verbs are so preferred that instead of saying ‘ he went to town ’ , it is much more normal to employ an expression such as ‘ the town was gone to by him ’ . |
| 29 | I want only to suggest that however closely those match , however complete they are , therefore , in the pairs they form , they all also work as imagines of the writer 's relation to language , now confident , now uncertain , now lonely , now roistering and so on . |
| 30 | I would love to see Réaux on stage in one of the great Weill parts — ‘ My ship ’ is good enough to suggest that here , at last , perhaps , is the Liza Elliott we 've been waiting for . |