Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the two bodies to be declared as interfering it is sufficient to find only that any surface of one body has an intersection with any of the surfaces of the second , within their boundaries ( including holes ) . |
| 2 | Mothers and daughters tend to develop a close grooming association which tends to persist so that these close relatives have about the same rank , the daughter 's being contingent upon that of the mother . |
| 3 | As a sentencing judge you are always looking for options erm a variety of options to impose so that each individual sentence that you impose on a defendant is tailored to either the rehabilitation or the punishment ends of sentencing . |
| 4 | So I was quite pleased , at the end of my United Airlines flight to Chicago , to discover merely that one of my two bags was missing . |
| 5 | There has been a tendency to accept uncritically that all policies which help small firms are to be recommended since it is the small firm sector which in future will create new jobs and new wealth . |
| 6 | I would like them to know also that this is still first and foremost a people company , and that it will stay that way . |
| 7 | Of course it is one thing to state baldly that modern Christians are often ineffectual in their witness and live in a privatised world , cut off from the mainstream of social life , but it is quite another thing to make out a case that it is so . |
| 8 | 1.5 Comparison of motor types The system designer is faced with a choice between hybrid and variable-reluctance stepping motors and his decision is inevitably influenced by the application ; it is not possible to state categorically that one type is " better " in all situations . |
| 9 | The latest sighting of Hamilton-Jones at the Kelvin Hall prompted Ward to report yesterday that senior officials would meet quickly to discuss methods to prevent him from competing . |
| 10 | But to hear now that That Woman was living in the Dower House , the very woman on whose account his mother had been incarcerated there , filled him with such distress that he could barely find the strength to be civil . |
| 11 | We are trying to suggest here that academic enterprise may be useful as long as it is placed in its proper social context . |
| 12 | His personal situation is , then , appalling ; but the anniversary is as good an occasion as any to restate emphatically that this is about much more than one person 's predicament . |
| 13 | But she wanted to experience again that lovely swooning feeling only he seemed able to invoke . |
| 14 | Whilst legislative reforms such as changes in the abortion laws and the law governing homosexuality are viewed as essentially liberal measures , we are not to assume therefore that this was indicative of a period of unproblematically increasing sexual liberation . |
| 15 | This leaves him free to claim also that scientific objectivity can lead to the discovery of truth ( Stark 1958 : 126 ) . |
| 16 | The examples we have reviewed enable us to see clearly that mystical power may assume many contrasting shapes and forms , but that what determines its moral evaluation is simply the purpose for which it is employed . |
| 17 | Surgeon Des Soares added : ‘ The Princess sat down and touched patients , and we want to ram home that this illness is not a curse of the gods . ’ |
| 18 | We feel that it is much better to recognize clearly that some roles should be the teacher 's province and that the program designer should not try to employ the program in such roles . |
| 19 | Sara began to understand then that this was his way of paying out Jenny for her flirtation with James . |
| 20 | With intelligent programming , the computer should have been able to recognise either that this particular customer needed an overdraft or that he has probably just become redundant and that mortgage repayment might soon present a problem . |
| 21 | Responding to the Handsworth events Douglas Hurd was moved to argue forcibly that such events were senseless and reflected more on those who participated in them than on the society in which they took place : ‘ The sound which law abiding people in Handsworth heard on Monday night , the echoes of which I picked up on Tuesday , was not a cry for help but a cry for loot ’ ( Financial Times , 13 September 1985 ) . |
| 22 | We have only to look at the string of sell-offs of assets of the former National Bus Company groups after privatisation to demonstrate conclusively that those are not far-fetched fears or exaggerated concerns . |
| 23 | And we have in fact been able to demonstrate already that this is so . |
| 24 | Thus the theory of light was unified with the theory of electromagnetism , although it took another 30 years before Heinrich Hertz was able to demonstrate positively that electromagnetic waves did exist . |
| 25 | While it is difficult to argue convincingly that one system of taxation is superior to another , strong positions are still taken according to ideological commitment . |
| 26 | To get round this uncomfortable fact Fforde would have to argue either that all collectivist legislation emanated from governments of the left , or that all Conservative governments before 1979 were in some way not truly Conservative . |
| 27 | Hard to realise too that another contrasting world , that of a tranquil countryside is close at hand . |
| 28 | The shipowners knew there was a commodity market at the destination and that prices would be liable to fluctuate so that any delay could lead to a diminution of the value of the cargo . |
| 29 | All the more disappointing therefore to learn later that some Seniors members who had blackballed me for Muirfield had now put in an objection to my joining this club too . |
| 30 | His Catechism of a Revolutionary is a classic in the tactics of terrorism , and it came with an agreeable click of fittingness to learn recently that this work earned a place on the bookshelves of Stalin . |