Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried again and again to explain that an electric cooker needed a more powerful circuit than other equipment , but no-one would accept such an idea . |
| 2 | Er yes chair , I 'm not going to repeat the point I made yesterday but simply to clarify that the proposal Mr has outlined is not a proposal incorporated in the deposit U D P . |
| 3 | ‘ Here 's another of those men who run away and then say that they have forgotten who they are . |
| 4 | Even more importantly , there is every reason to believe , with Mary Midgley , that the basic assumption behind cultural relativism/behaviourism that human beings are totally plastic and devoid of innate structuration is false : ‘ Sensible psychologists have tended more and more to admit that people do have some genetically fixed tendencies ’ and she continues that ‘ What makes this admission hard , is the very strong impression still prevalent that we have to choose between considering these tendencies and considering outside conditions ’ ( 1979 : 20 ) . |
| 5 | Science travels hopefully but rarely claims that it has arrived . |
| 6 | This is what we are going to do now and besides assuming that q=q1=-q2 we will also state that the two opposite charges are infinitesimally close to each other . |
| 7 | A hundred years ago , most people would have violently and indignantly denied that they ever felt the desire to make love with anyone other than their marital partner . |
| 8 | Whilst Hooker defended the Church 's beliefs and practices in the name of reason , Andrewes went further and boldly asserted that the Anglican Church was part of a Catholic and Universal Church and was maintaining its true traditions which had been corrupted by Rome . |
| 9 | There is a human characteristic that we like to think , see things in , in very clear cut ways and you 're saying we should n't go overboard and just think that Boris Yeltsin because of his courage standing on the tank and , and helping to prevent the coup , we should n't go overboard and think that he 's er the most marvellous human liberal democrat who ever walked the earth . |
| 10 | On that sun-drenched day at Maubisson I kept my fingers well hidden , smiled politely and quietly prayed that these wolves in human flesh were seeking other quarry apart from us . |
| 11 | I watch him play both and quietly agree that for a nine-year-old gaelic football offers a more interesting challenge ; more skills , more individual expression and less opportunity for what nine-year-olds call glory-hunting . |
| 12 | She emerged immediately and dramatically to announce that she would be continuing with the contest with the aim of winning on the second ballot . |
| 13 | And when he had tried to bully the guards into making an exception in his case , their officer had politely but firmly stated that there could be no exceptions had n't Shih Berdichev insisted as much ? |
| 14 | He had brilliantly and successfully argued that the Toraja religion was one and the same with whatever " Hindu-Balinese animism " might be — and thus Toraja religion was permitted to survive . |
| 15 | ‘ Hi , Ma , ’ he said mechanically and then realized that his grandmother was also present . |
| 16 | More recently , these hidebound attitudes have changed , in that educated , intelligent Christians accept that there is little need for God to perform a miracle ( unless , moving in mysterious ways , He particularly wants to ) when He can create the same effect using natural processes ; while scientists have begun more and more to recognize that there may be more truth in the mystical writings of the Christian and other religions than they have previously been prepared to admit . |
| 17 | This is a different Switzerland , an area where places to play and places to relax somehow live side by side with that never-to-be-suppressed Swiss past , which looks down on it all , smiling benevolently but quietly insisting that the twentieth century must keep its place and show respect . |