Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became widely accepted that the attackers were predominantly black , although there was little evidence for this belief . |
| 2 | One client referred for counselling eventually admitted that she was starving herself as a way of preventing conception ; she did not want another child , but her husband had pressurised her to become pregnant . |
| 3 | But soon the consciousness of security became so ingrained that we lost all temptation to enquire about the nature of work with which we were not immediately concerned . |
| 4 | During the third century synodical government became so developed that synods used to meet not merely at times of crisis but on a regular basis every year , normally between Easter and Pentecost . |
| 5 | As a result of Napoleon III 's grave error of judgement , the affair of the Holy places became so inflamed that it set the powers on a collision course which led to the Crimean War . |
| 6 | Last season it became so inflamed that he had to pull out of the Carolls Irish Open at Portmarnock . |
| 7 | On occasion , so many people turned up to a Baldersdale funeral and the church or chapel became so crowded that people had to stand outside . |
| 8 | The indentured labourers hoped to be able to set up as independent farmers once they had worked off the costs of their passages , but the islands soon became so crowded that they were unlikely to be able to do this . |
| 9 | They became so celebrated that they were disturbed by tourists . |
| 10 | Seymour Hicks , the famous singer , once became so infuriated that he stopped the orchestra in the middle of his song , turned to the girl and snapped , ‘ Dear Lady , shall you finish your story or shall I finish my song ? ’ |
| 11 | At one meeting , Branson became so exasperated that he walked off his own boat and paced up and down the towpath outside to cool down . |
| 12 | The Job Control commands given below assume that ( i ) the instructions and data for the statistical data definition are held in a file called PMMLIB.GIMMSTATDAT and ( ii ) the GIMMS-generated data file will be written to another file called PMMLIB.GIMMSPOLYDAT which will be opened on unit 12 . |
| 13 | He may prefer only to claim that they apply once ethical language and judgement are understood in the way he recommends . |
| 14 | Before the two Prime Ministers ' next scheduled meeting ( by then set for Aug. 27 ) , however , Meciar suddenly announced that the HZDS side would not be attending . |
| 15 | Main shock and aftershocks together demonstrated that the fault runs north-south . |
| 16 | She picked up the bag , checked inside to see that everything was still there , and was about to confiscate the switchblade when she heard the sound of a police siren in the distance . |
| 17 | Whilst ICL has duly announced that it is to support Santa Cruz Operation 's SCO Unix MPX for multi-processing , Open Desktop environment and the SCO communications suite on its Intel Corp 80486-based personal computers , the OfficePower-on-SCO validation work — see above — was actually carried out on an Apricot Computers Ltd box . |
| 18 | Britain 's growth rate has rarely exceeded that on the continent by more than one percentage point . |
| 19 | Over the past few months , for instance , our Government has single-handedly ensured that the new directive on efficiency standards for boilers ended up far weaker than initially proposed by the commission . |
| 20 | Godard has revealingly said that cinema is dependent on capitalism in two senses : first in the making of the film and second that ‘ in film the money comes back in the image ’ ( MacCabe 1980 , p. 27 ) . |
| 21 | Gestetner made pre-tax profits of £27.2m last year on sales of £900.3m , but the company has since said that trading in Europe has deteriorated and that it sees only a small profit for the half to end-April.Inchcape is buying the shares from Bermudan-registered Chiltern Capital Ltd , quoted in Australia . |
| 22 | This was made the payoff in the Sunday Correspondent 's interview with the PM , though it has since emerged that the sequence of the conversation was altered . |
| 23 | It has since emerged that several aircrew were reluctant to continue the slaughter . |
| 24 | No one ever asked me to do so — though everyone has since assumed that , for all eternity , it will be my round of drinks . ) |
| 25 | Even Mr Murray , who appeared on television to condemn Peking for its butchery , has since acknowledged that ‘ at the end of the day , we have to live with these guys . |
| 26 | Initial documents were sent to Dublin from Britain in January , but Mr Barnes has since revealed that more documents were supplied by London as recently as July . |
| 27 | The Statistics Branch of the Northern Ireland Department of Commerce has since confirmed that the slump in industrial production was similar to that of the earlier strike in 1974 . |
| 28 | He was charged $65 for a call that never got through , and the Inter- Continental has since confirmed that ‘ for technical reasons , charges for all international calls out of Zaire commence as soon as the line rings , as opposed to when the party telephoned actually picks up the receiver ’ . |
| 29 | She has since discovered that owner Pauline and her colleague Sue are both very knowledgeable and extremely helpful in spite of the fact that Tessa had obviously bought her machine elsewhere . |
| 30 | The minister has since explained that the committee found conflicting evidence in a ‘ preliminary report ’ from Indianapolis , the home of Lilly 's research laboratories . |