Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children have since constantly complained that the twins should not be walking in the middle of the road . |
| 2 | In the erotic landscape on which her thoughts now opened , the illusory and the actual were so intimately twinned that only the most cautious eye might distinguish between them ; and at each passionate encounter the symbolic and the literal seemed to enfold their embrace more tightly . |
| 3 | It is less widely known that there was a comparable ( although much smaller ) dyeing industry in Ireland based on Nucella lapillus which seems to have been known of as far away as Minehead in Somerset ( Cole , 1685 ) . |
| 4 | Dr Estelle Ramey , professor emeritus of physiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine , USA , explains that ‘ your system is so delicately balanced that it 's very difficult for your body to make two types of hormones at once . |
| 5 | Zhukov had long since realized that there was little money in photographic portraiture and had turned his talents to other , more profitable sidelines . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , all right , so I thought the decision was surprising , but I 'd long since realized that if I allowed that sort of thing to keep me awake at night I was going to be a chronic insomniac . |
| 7 | Hindus have long since seen that we have to transcend separateness . |
| 8 | The tenants , on the other hand , had long since realised that if they could n't boil a kettle or breathe and do all the things normal families do without causing condensation dampness , then there must be something wrong with the houses , not with the people who live in them . |
| 9 | She had long since decided that , in her own words , ‘ legend always triumphs over historical fact ’ . |
| 10 | Both the military and civilian sector in the RSA have long since discovered that the only replacement for a Dakota is another Dakota ! |
| 11 | MESSRS McAndrew and Davison have long since discovered that , post-retirement , the world is their oyster . |
| 12 | The Navaho had long since learned that the best way to live was to stick to the land no white man would want to take from him . |
| 13 | But they had long since agreed that there was nowhere to touch the English countryside . |
| 14 | She had long since abandoned that hope . |
| 15 | Moreover , the cross breeding of domestic animals and livestock had long since proved that such changes could be artificially induced . |
| 16 | It was so skilfully effected that Giles and Cavell were metres away before Maria realised what was happening . |
| 17 | It was so skilfully managed that almost before Lindsey knew what was happening the pressure of his hand was drawing her away . |
| 18 | It should be possible to obtain a compromise which is effective in the legislation and which says , in effect , ’ There will be some crossings which are so rarely used that people are not inconvenienced by their closure . ’ |
| 19 | And here was the bonus : the positive charge of the proton is so effectively shielded that it will now be able to encroach much closer to the nucleus of a neighbouring atom without being repelled ; the chance of bumping into it and undergoing nuclear fusion , ‘ cold fusion ’ , thereby became a real possibility . |
| 20 | The point is to resurrect the lives of women obscured by their more famous male spouses or contemporaries ; but too often these have been so effectively overshadowed that the biographies are pious constructions rather than recon structions . |
| 21 | These techniques of consumer targeting are now so widely applied that a separate chapter must be devoted to them . |
| 22 | This argument appealed to what I called the ideal of protected expectation , that collective force should be used only in accordance with standards chosen and read through procedures the community as a whole knows will be used for that purpose , procedures so widely acknowledged that they are matters of general social or professional convention . |
| 23 | Some are so widely separated that their motion relative to each other is too small to be measured at all , and all we can really say is that they are travelling through space together , at the same rate and in the same direction . |
| 24 | This is now so widely accepted that it seems less like a theory , or even a theoretical framework , than a piece of common sense ; and in one form or another it encompasses the views of the majority of Anglo-American philosophers and neuroscientists about the basis of consciousness or , at the very least , of perception . |
| 25 | What evidence is there to show that the system of law and democracy in the European Community is so well established and so widely accepted that it should supersede the means by which we have governed ourselves peacefully through several centuries of war and revolution on the Continent ? |
| 26 | If one were to peruse the extensive range of surveys of the applications of the rational expectations hypothesis to macroeconomics , one would come across a different framework of analysis , one which is so widely accepted that it is rarely explained in any detail , still less is its theoretical basis probed critically or its conclusions called into question . |
| 27 | In the large public company it is now accepted as part of conventional wisdom that the shareholding is so widely dispersed that each shareholder does not own a significant enough proportion of the company to perform any of the functions of monitoring and supervising the directors that the legal model casts upon him . |
| 28 | As you might expect from such headlong cross-breeding and hybridizing in the incessant search for something different and new , the various types are so widely stretched that the edges tend to run into each other and merge , and the dividing line becomes ever more difficult to discern . |
| 29 | Saudi Arabia and other members also disagreed over the interpretation of the ‘ marker ’ crude price set at the previous year 's OPEC conference in Bah , with a resolution so widely phrased that each member could do whatever it chose . |
| 30 | Speech processing is so complex and so little understood that we want as few assumptions built into the development architecture as possible . |