Example sentences of "[adj] that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About a quarter of a mile later they were still with me , and it became clear that choosing between dignity and entertaining the village was no longer an option . |
| 2 | Much of the indebtedness of these middle-income countries arose through borrowings in private sector capital markets , mainly the euro-currency markets , and although it was feared that the banks involved were seriously at risk it is becoming clear that rescheduling of debt by the banks with the debtor countries has been possible . |
| 3 | In the light of this general conclusion which will be substantiated from Chapter 7 onwards , it becomes clear that sharpening the tools of policy-making and increasing the ‘ expertness ’ of government personnel should no longer be the central concern . |
| 4 | If BR could not make a case for seven trains for one of its most profitable routes , it was clear that plans for a second tranche of HSTs for the Cross Country group of services would not satisfy the new criteria . |
| 5 | The glare dimmed and outlines of roofs and trees and angles at street junctions , lampposts , signs , doorways , scaffolding and cranes — too molten to look up at at two in the afternoon — calmed into focus , became distinct against the astounding pure clarity of the sky , and later became so sharp and clear that looking at them was like a note you could not hear but only sense within the ear by some change in vibration . |
| 6 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
| 7 | They all made it clear that handing patients over to the press was a regular occurrence ( a point that none of the committee commented on or asked questions about ) . |
| 8 | It is clear that finance , even for a small museum , can not be taken lightly , but this is generally felt to be a project that the Society should go ahead with , if at all possible . |
| 9 | It was on the tip of Jehan 's tongue to suggest that Alexei was allowing himself to be used only because it suited him ; but it was clear that discussing the subject was making Jehana unhappy , and so he said nothing , sitting quietly beside her until suddenly she got up and went into the house . |
| 10 | The car was so low it looked as if a giant had tried to stub it out and it was clear that getting out of the bucket seat gave the Greek momentary altitude sickness . |
| 11 | Nor is it clear that support for proportional representation would win votes : in the ITN exit poll , 52 per cent said they preferred the present system , including 45 per cent of those who voted Labour . |
| 12 | But there are some instances documented in the literature where people are quite clear that support given to in-laws is really being given to the blood relative . |
| 13 | It is , as suggested earlier , becoming clear that support for applied research is more attractive to funding bodies than support for fundamental research . |
| 14 | The majority of the indigenous cattle of Scandinavia are naturally polled : it seems that the northern stockmen , who because of the demands of climate needed to house their animals for long periods , appreciated long ago that horns could be awkward at close quarters and it is clear that polled stock were deliberately bred in Scandinavia from early times . |
| 15 | But the white paper makes clear that expanding its market will depend on success by the Scottish generators in exporting power to England , Wales and Northern Ireland . |
| 16 | It is becoming increasingly clear that export performance and investment abroad can not be considered solely in the light of such traditional factors as relative export prices and financial rates of return of investment . |
| 17 | It is clear that sign language perception will involve both hemispheres . |
| 18 | However , as to the first point it does seem clear that changes once made by a Greek artist were assimilated by others with extraordinary celerity . |
| 19 | Hansen ( 1980 ) makes it very clear that signed Danish is not the same as the Signed English that has developed in the USA , and she believes it to be a more flexible and efficient natural language form . |
| 20 | Speculation that its soldiers would attack the town of Pailin on the Thai border has died down , as it became clear that to hold Pailin would be more of a liability than an asset . |
| 21 | As the implications of another disastrous election defeat begin to be analysed , it is clear that calls for the Labour Party to embrace PR as a way of breaking the Tory stranglehold are gaining in strength . |
| 22 | How far Anselm had travelled along this road , and how much further he would still travel , are questions to which an answer must be sought in the reign of Henry I. But it is clear that Anselm in exile was beginning to see events , if not through Hildebrandine eyes , at least with shades of Hildebrandine colour . |
| 23 | Delegate Geoff Wright , from Leeds city Council , recently awarded an MBE for environmental services , said ‘ It 's clear that recycling domestic waste is fast becoming a growth industry in its own right , which can only be good news for waste avoidance in our towns and countryside and for the economy . ’ |
| 24 | However , it has become clear that to implement such knowledge in language processing systems it is necessary to use semantics in its broader sense , i.e. using encyclopaedic knowledge and general knowledge . |
| 25 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal has also made it clear that conduct ‘ which a literal interpretation of the written words of the contract might appear to justify ’ may in practice amount to a destruction of the relationship of trust and confidence . |
| 26 | Bearing that in mind , it is tolerably clear that conduct which is itself tortious is always unlawful means . |
| 27 | The code word for locking Germany into the alliance with France is , of course , ‘ Europe ’ , although it is far from clear that using the methods of the 1950s , strengthening the legal structure of the EC , can continue to serve their purpose , since the legal structure itself would inevitably be more and more influenced by Germany . |
| 28 | However , it is far from clear that term ‘ registered auditors ’ was fully understood by either the supports or detractors of the proposal . |
| 29 | Comparison between studies is therefore difficult ; although all make it clear that caring for a dementia sufferer can be extremely stressful . |
| 30 | Perhaps the mightiest indoor rally ever held in Britain , Mosley had no sooner begun to speak than it became clear that organised Red gangs , each hundreds strong , were occupying positions in every part of the huge arena … with the sole intention of preventing the speech being heard . |