Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] that [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't even noticed the pickets and I can only presume that they had parted before me as I walked towards them as they still do today . |
| 2 | All over the country hurt and disillusioned journalists and would-be journalists wondering why they had never received a reply could only presume that they had been rejected . |
| 3 | Much of this research has been done by TV advertising agencies and TV organizations themselves — so we can only assume that they have used it to shape their programs to appeal to that level of consciousness . |
| 4 | The bad news was that for some reason our shore watchers had missed her actual departure and could only guess that she had been gone about an hour . |
| 5 | People would obviously conclude that I had died a coward . |
| 6 | Finding the largest numbers of drug users in our largest cities and towns does not necessarily imply that they have proportionately more drug users than smaller communities . |
| 7 | The armoured or plated dinosaurs include some species that seem too heavily burdened with protective armour to have been very active , but this does not necessarily mean that they had to be cold-blooded . |
| 8 | Whether any of these works would not have been produced under a ‘ Son-of-Sam ’ regime is debatable , but what is not debatable is that being convicted and imprisoned does not necessarily mean that one has actually committed an offence nor that what that person produces is of no value to society . |
| 9 | This last point does not necessarily mean that you have to be using a page description language but , for the moment at least , it amounts to the same thing . |
| 10 | However , his failure to leave before 6 February 1981 did not necessarily mean that he had ‘ waived ’ the breaking of his contract . |
| 11 | The fact that a practitioner has a copy of the Blue Book ( which contains the Institute 's regulations and guidance notes on investment business ) on his shelf does not necessarily mean that he has read and understood it , and in some firms the Institute 's Investment Business Gazettes ( which announce changes to regulations and other requirements , and provide a general round-up of developments likely to affect authorised firms ) are filed away unread if they are kept at all . |
| 12 | Conversely , the presence of the defendant in this country , either at the time of the transaction or when proceedings were initiated , will not necessarily mean that he has a sufficient connection with this country in respect of the relief sought against him . |
| 13 | Heuristic information ( that is , suggestions about how best to search ) is often more easily exploited when the language is enlarged , but that does not necessarily mean that it has to be made more expressive . |
| 14 | ‘ Just because I knew Mills was suspected of betraying someone does not necessarily mean that I had anything to do with his unfortunate death . |
| 15 | Paige could only admit that she had never seen a better male specimen . |
| 16 | Any selection of a few new titles , therefore , is bound to be especially arbitrary ; I can only plead that I 've made it as wide as possible . |
| 17 | Rushing around the apartment like a madwoman , she 'd hastily thrown some clothes into a case — and she could only pray that she had n't forgotten anything vital . |
| 18 | When he got back to London , he could perhaps pretend that he had been spending a few weeks in Hawthornden Castle on one of their writers ' scholarships . |
| 19 | As the hon. Gentleman introduced the subject of colour of dress , I can only say that I have been listening to him for almost 18 years and I wish that he would sometimes change the colour of his tie . |
| 20 | Thank you very much , I can only say that I have always felt it a privilege to be part of N C V O. Er , I have enjoyed my time enormously and if I 've had any role that I feel that I 'm proud of , it 's constantly bringing members to mind . |
| 21 | De Niro does n't seem particularly keen to discuss his reasons for wanting to run a restaurant , and will only say that it 's been a vague dream of his for a while . |
| 22 | Busy parents can justly retort that they have so little time to check on their children , that they can not always follow through their threats to discipline them . |
| 23 | You will probably already know that I have taken over Nick Gibbs as editor of Woodworker magazine . |
| 24 | One might easily assume that it has always been an important road . |
| 25 | Let's just assume that we 've hit that , erm that would have been |
| 26 | Can you just confirm that it 's never been the practice to have an oral statement in this house on er prescription charges , neither under this Conservative government nor indeed under the pre previous Labour government who were always deeply embarrassed by increasing prescription charges . |
| 27 | You will soon see that I have been right all this time . |
| 28 | With Deana still listening , she could scarcely claim that he had misheard . |
| 29 | The RAF can thus boast that it has held England 's try-scoring record since 1921 , the year Lowe broke the previous best . |
| 30 | But do you somehow wish that you had been reunited with Richard Burton ? |