Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does seem rather odd to say that death is for the good of the person involved . |
| 2 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 3 | It is perhaps interesting to note that Baines in his History of Lancashire tells us that there are no mines at work in this Parish , nor any minerals found , except some fine specimens of copper ore which are picked up occasionally near the brooks in Rusland ! |
| 4 | It is perhaps appropriate to remember that childbirth is not some minority interest . |
| 5 | SIR — On a day the Daily Telegraph 's front page carried John Major 's warning that the UK faces break-up , it was somewhat ironic to read that Jamie Salmon believes it is ‘ time to send Scots , Irish into exile ’ . |
| 6 | In those days there seemed so many vistas ahead that I did not mind when I began to go public : it was sufficiently gratifying to feel that Eliot wanted to print some of my work in his good time and in mine . |
| 7 | We have become so habituated to market relations that it can seem merely banal to observe that types of work which make a loss will , within market production , be reduced or discontinued , while types which make a profit will be expanded . |
| 8 | ‘ But Dad , I feel so ashamed to think that Mr and Mrs Lewis will 'ave ter mix with our kind of neighbours , and you know what Mum 's like when she 's 'ad a few drinks . ’ |
| 9 | She was so pleased to learn that Barbara Coleman was eager to talk to her again , and that she had been given the perfect reason for spending part of her day revelling in Chagall 's colour , that she smiled as she cut inland towards Maurin 's gallery . |
| 10 | I WAS so pleased to read that people are reverting to real Christmas trees instead of the ghastly , glittering artificial things that have been popular for so long . |
| 11 | An audience listens to music , not to words ( in fact , especially in choral music , the words are frequently indistinguishable , or so difficult to grasp that listeners ignore them ) . |
| 12 | As to the rest of the disc , it 's perhaps fair to state that Klemperer 's Johann Strauss will not please those who favour a relaxed ‘ Wienerisch ’ approach to such music , but there can surely be few complaints about the Mendelssohn . |
| 13 | It is very difficult to provide identical conditions for the measurement of six different forms of instruction , therefore it is not entirely surprising to see that Baldwin and Rudolph found , in contrast to Kuo 's results , when comparing a tape/slide show and a library tour , that the former was not necessarily superior as a method of instruction . |
| 14 | It is perhaps surprising to find that Jacques married for the first time on 31 March 1728 at the age of 55 . |
| 15 | Her family and acquaintance would have been greatly astonished to learn that Camille considered herself prematurely grown-up , and she herself was waiting for the day when she could tame her anger into cold bitterness and frame it into phrases as cutting as tempered steel . |
| 16 | Sociolinguists may be somewhat surprised to note that Language and Disadvantage remains one of the most popular topics , with almost all courses at all levels giving it special emphasis . |
| 17 | Suppose , then , that the wage rate is flexible and that the economy is sufficiently competitive to ensure that labour market equilibrium is achieved . |
| 18 | It is not possible to argue that Part XV of the Taxes Act 1988 deems that interest to belong to the American . |
| 19 | It 's not possible to say that U2 sound like blah , which is great . |
| 20 | Thus it is not possible to say that drivers attend to information differently for different road types . |
| 21 | It would appear that states prefer to act legally where possible and it is not possible to claim that states are unaffected by legal prohibitions on war , but the regularity with which such a large proportion of states are prepared to use force illegally — despite their total commitment to law-abidingness within their territories and the apparent lack of any retributive consequences of such illegalities ( unless defeat in war is unhelpfully labelled as a punishment ) — raise doubts about the parallels between municipal and international law in terms of the parameters of the concept of law . |
| 22 | He was not afraid to show that Johnny is this guy with all of these problems on his sleeve . ’ |
| 23 | I was not prepared to agree that Britain could be outvoted on any substantive issue of foreign policy . |
| 24 | It is perhaps not appropriate to insist that Zuwaya , resisting government regulation , had an image of a different kind of economic order , consistent with or derived from their image of Arab government , and opposed to the principles of Islamic socialism . |
| 25 | They go on to say that large firms ‘ are constrained in some way [ in making these decisions ] by the requirement to make profits and serve consumers ’ , but it is nevertheless appropriate to stress that companies will usually have options about how to manage the impact of changed market conditions or technology : the company is not merely a passive instrument of the market . |
| 26 | It is not naive to argue that politicians , or if you prefer some politicians , have commitments to ideals . |
| 27 | It is not unusual to find that countries adopt the best parts of both strategies in order to tackle air pollution problems . |
| 28 | This is not supposed to suggest that events can not be said to occur straightforwardly in the real but rather that when set up in any series , narrative , or history they are constructed as such events retrospectively by the historian . |
| 29 | With few notable exceptions , legal department tend to be small to medium in size and it is not uncommon to find that solicitors work along . |
| 30 | It is not reasonable to suggest that hooliganism is merely inflated by the press and best treated by ‘ radical non-intervention ’ . |