Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ernst Mayr rather unkindly remarks that Jenkin 's article ‘ is based on all the usual prejudices and misunderstandings of the physical scientists ’ . |
| 2 | It will , of course , be located somewhere so obscure that Dougie Donnelly will be required to voice-over a map on a television commercial explaining how you can get there with the family this Sunday . |
| 3 | Children have since constantly complained that the twins should not be walking in the middle of the road . |
| 4 | On the other hand , there are some sufferers from addictive disease — Particularly cocaine users — who may for quite some time be highly respectable and law-abiding and thereby wrongly assume that they are not addicted . |
| 5 | The Chairman will make sure that it stays going in that direction and everybody works together rather than against each other so you got a high score there you know and as we saw in the you might not think you 've got those Chairman 's skills but then what you did in the group where you were quite a central part of what was going on perhaps indicates that these can be developed . |
| 6 | Sit down , she said and the girls sat down thankfully feeling that the only lesson they really enjoy that weather would be swimming lesson . |
| 7 | After somewhat flippantly suggesting that he head a couple of hundred miles south to the banks of the River Thames , I pointed him in the direction of a purple clad stand just two along from our own . |
| 8 | A man could not become completely impoverished , but it only rarely happened that anyone grew rich . ’ |
| 9 | The opening pages are ravishing : exquisite cor anglais and oboe plaints , the tenderest of string bass solos , and an organ so discreetly reassuring that it sounds locked deep in the subconscious . |
| 10 | In the erotic landscape on which her thoughts now opened , the illusory and the actual were so intimately twinned that only the most cautious eye might distinguish between them ; and at each passionate encounter the symbolic and the literal seemed to enfold their embrace more tightly . |
| 11 | It is less widely known that there was a comparable ( although much smaller ) dyeing industry in Ireland based on Nucella lapillus which seems to have been known of as far away as Minehead in Somerset ( Cole , 1685 ) . |
| 12 | Dr Estelle Ramey , professor emeritus of physiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine , USA , explains that ‘ your system is so delicately balanced that it 's very difficult for your body to make two types of hormones at once . |
| 13 | Zhukov had long since realized that there was little money in photographic portraiture and had turned his talents to other , more profitable sidelines . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , all right , so I thought the decision was surprising , but I 'd long since realized that if I allowed that sort of thing to keep me awake at night I was going to be a chronic insomniac . |
| 15 | Hindus have long since seen that we have to transcend separateness . |
| 16 | The tenants , on the other hand , had long since realised that if they could n't boil a kettle or breathe and do all the things normal families do without causing condensation dampness , then there must be something wrong with the houses , not with the people who live in them . |
| 17 | She had long since decided that , in her own words , ‘ legend always triumphs over historical fact ’ . |
| 18 | Both the military and civilian sector in the RSA have long since discovered that the only replacement for a Dakota is another Dakota ! |
| 19 | MESSRS McAndrew and Davison have long since discovered that , post-retirement , the world is their oyster . |
| 20 | The Navaho had long since learned that the best way to live was to stick to the land no white man would want to take from him . |
| 21 | But they had long since agreed that there was nowhere to touch the English countryside . |
| 22 | She had long since abandoned that hope . |
| 23 | Moreover , the cross breeding of domestic animals and livestock had long since proved that such changes could be artificially induced . |
| 24 | It was so skilfully effected that Giles and Cavell were metres away before Maria realised what was happening . |
| 25 | It was so skilfully managed that almost before Lindsey knew what was happening the pressure of his hand was drawing her away . |
| 26 | I would much rather say that every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you , the part of you that chooses , into something a little different from what it was before . |
| 27 | Because it so rarely happens that we all treasure it when it does . |
| 28 | It should be possible to obtain a compromise which is effective in the legislation and which says , in effect , ’ There will be some crossings which are so rarely used that people are not inconvenienced by their closure . ’ |
| 29 | MBO and venture capital fund investors are only slowly appreciating that the trade-off for the lower risk inherent in transactions that are more carefully selected and more conservatively structured than those typical in the mid-eighties has to be lower anticipated rates of return , whether the exit is via a trade sale or a flotation on to a less than receptive equity market . |
| 30 | But above all , engineers are only slowly acknowledging that many Western solutions , principally water-borne sewerage systems , are not the right answer for many parts of the Third World . |