Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] that a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is now widely realised that a comprehensive education for a mentally handicapped child should continue over a longer time than the normal educational period of 5–16 years . |
| 2 | It had seemed a little exaggerated that an elderly woman could move so rapidly and catch a younger man off guard . |
| 3 | The typical small businessman in Hong Kong now has business interests in southern China , to complement his existing connections through kinship , and would much prefer that a cheaper project be put in place , with a view to the needs of Greater Hong Kong as they will be in the 21st century — this after full consultation with the Chinese authorities . |
| 4 | The high frequency vibrations were so highly favoured that an infinite amount of energy would be present in them . |
| 5 | Galbraith ( 1976 ) put forward the idea that in the technological world the technology is so demanding that a given new technology is handled in the same way anywhere in the world no matter what the local culture . |
| 6 | Gazing down below me , I suddenly realised that a huge curtain of mist and rain has swept across the water and was fast obscuring the tundra below . |
| 7 | This was necessary not only to secure that a substantial part of the development ‘ returned to the community ’ , but also to prevent a two-price system as existed under the 1954 Act . |
| 8 | I then tell them a story which they act out : one day the children all set off home only to find that a great big hole has opened up in the playground . |
| 9 | Adele duly did just that , fondly imagining that a lone fireman would come out to her East Street home in an anonymous van with the suitable cutting equipment . |
| 10 | There was a huge smooth branch very close to where Little Billy was sitting and he suddenly noticed that a small square patch of bark on this branch was beginning to move . |
| 11 | It just so happens that a framed photograph of Clarence Winchester in his 50hp Caudron biplane at Hendon circa 1915 adorns the Collectair office wall ! |
| 12 | It was long thought that a mere redistribution of duties without any reduction in the total number of employees required or the total amount of work to be done did not amount to redundancy . |
| 13 | The extra security alone showed that an important event was brewing . |
| 14 | We did so not because we did not want money spent on community care , but because we did not necessarily believe that a one-track policy was the best way to ensure the ideal form of care . |
| 15 | It so happened that a local head of a special school was very involved in this campaign . |
| 16 | But it is sobering to reflect that Bowes could devote so much time and energy to assembling his huge collections , a task that preoccupied him for many years , without apparently caring that a main source of his wealth , coal , was blighting lives and blighting the countryside . |
| 17 | My opera was performed yesterday , the 13th , for the first time and was such a success … the whole theatre was so packed that a great many people were turned away … |
| 18 | The Government resolutely refused to comment until in January 1978 we suddenly heard that an exasperated Lord Rosebery had broken off the sale and given Sotheby 's the go-ahead to auction the contents in May . |
| 19 | We can only surmise that a few basic signalling systems emerged early in evolution and were then modified in subtle ways to meet the unique signalling requirements of different cells . |
| 20 | Reigning in their verbal and facial expressiveness to play a character so damaged that a big speech is possible ( if at all ) only at the end , they subsequently receive an award from a jury awed that they were clever enough to play so dumb . |
| 21 | In the Persian Gulf Soviet leaders have long demanded that an extensive American naval base in Bahrain be dismantled and argued that no comparable Soviet base exists in this region . |
| 22 | Indeed , one can only wonder that a deep , profoundly intelligent and inherently human European culture is retreating to the background before the primitive revelry of violence and pornography and the flow of cheap feelings and low thoughts . |
| 23 | Notice that , if the adjective is not initially ( in the constructional sense ) applied to the noun phrase , it does not necessarily imply that an extralinguistic correlate of the latter must initially lack that property , and it is even compatible with the speaker or hearer knowing that the property does apply to the referent ( see ( 36 ) to ( 40 ) ) . |
| 24 | The testing process is absolutely vital , not only to ensure that a significant problem exists which would be alleviated by a harmonizing measure but also to identify it accurately . |
| 25 | In higher education , we naturally believe that a fundamental aspect of the student 's programme of studies consists of getting the student on the inside of just such internal standards of reasoning in the discipline he or she is studying . |
| 26 | Also , a few hookworm eggs in the faeces , although confirmatory evidence of infection , do not necessarily indicate that an ailing dog is suffering from hookworm disease . |
| 27 | How else could it be so swiftly known that a prominent member of the Royal College of Acupuncturists , say , had been picked up during the night and pinched for drunk-driving ? |
| 28 | He merely postulated that an educated and skilled worker was more productive than an illiterate and unskilled labourer and that this explained the difference in their wages . |
| 29 | So learning that a particular symbol on a computer keyboard , situated in a particular room , delivers a banana from a feeder , is really the same kind of mental activity as recognizing the shape of a banana plant in a forest and remembering where to find it again the next day . |
| 30 | I can only suppose that a large bird took hold of the ring on top of the box with his talons , and flew away with it . |