Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] that [prep] " in BNC.

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1 a lot of men are not very good at taking a women 's opinion but I do n't necessarily regard that as a translation into some form of male misogyny .
2 I should perhaps explain that for many years it had been a regulation in UK registered public transport aircraft that when flying below 15 000 feet hand operated microphones were prohibited .
3 Since I mention native speakers ' feelings in this connection , and since I am elsewhere rather sceptical about appeals to native speakers ' feelings , I had better explain that in this case my evidence comes from the native speakers of English I have taught in practical classes on transcription over many years .
4 However , unless money is not a consideration you will perhaps feel that at its much lower price the DG issue with Frantz and Eschenbach is the one to have for this repertory .
5 However , this does not necessarily ensure that in practice ‘ the allocation of [ training ] responsibilities , which will be different in every organisation , [ will be ] clear and unambiguous ’ , or that the training will be planned and implemented , systematically and uniformly .
6 ‘ We plant cabbages , ’ said Wordsworth in a letter , ‘ and if retirement in its full perfection be as powerful in working transformations as one of Ovid 's gods , you may perhaps suspect that into cabbages we shall be transformed . ’
7 So , I do n't , I do n't personally see that as a direct threat at all and I think that also our , our er , our newspapers do n't have any particular political bias of any sort , I think they treat each issue on its merits .
8 And , from my experience , I can only believe that in some measure , the courts are guilty of supporting the police in this attitude , for the sake of maintaining a status quo .
9 Pollini 's technique is legendary , and I can only report that in his fiftieth year ( a large retrospective mid-price boxed set please , DG ! ) , there are still no discernible chinks in the armour ( indeed , a recent Petrushka Three Movements at the RFH would appear to suggest that he is , if anything , playing better than ever ) !
10 Nor would Nevton any better understand that on a deeper level he had tried to force Hope into himself or force himself in Hope and , despite initial success , discovered a fierce resistance .
11 I can only guess that by then he had so established himself in my mind as a man who was trying to help women that I was no longer objective .
12 We can only hope that since the incident he has had some serious therapy , both on his flying and on his mental state .
13 One can only hope that in their visits to these firms over the last few days , Ray Noorda and Roel Pieper were sufficiently persuasive .
14 ‘ I can only hope that in the course of your … investigations the evidence against me is not too incriminating . ’
15 It may merely indicate that during the early phase of production there were social reasons for indicating one particular identity amongst many , whereas later on such small-scale variation in social identity had been replaced by larger political institutions which were not indicated in the same manner .
16 The gradient is the tan of the angle , but you can only read that off the graph if you 've got the same units .
17 doctor if you do n't agree with what it says , erm , you can obviously mention that to and er er along speedily say in the course of this week , the matter can be mentioned in formal to me , erm one morning at ten o'clock next week I would of thought .
18 Better tell that to Reverend Morey next time you see him . ’
19 And I should perhaps add that to this day I am practically innumerate .
20 There is reference in paragraph two point two to the local ombudsman and I , I , I should perhaps add that during the year in question , there is one current matter er which er with the subject of the referral to the local ombudsman and that of course has not been included because of definition reasons in this report .
21 I would only add that in a situation in which it is necessary to consider operating the machinery of the Convention , some psychological harm to the child is inherent , whether the child is or is not returned .
22 We 've given them three hundred and sixty-four thousand pounds of extra funding , which we could legitimately have taken away as , particularly in the way that it was done , and as I understand it they er , revealed their V I P protection two months early to the Home Office , and therefore cut our S S A by a substantial amount , and I would even perhaps start that as a , as I could , as a series of criticisms about the way the police maintain their budget , and about the way that they have responded .
23 Ministers might justly argue that in this case the dissent is also politically ambiguous , given the diverse support for the amendment .
24 On the other hand , we might somewhat irreverently say that ex post settling up — in the form of a higher probability of honours ( knighthoods etc. ) than in private industry — provides some compensation .
25 Standing lonely and remote in a geographical position roughly half way between the Orkneys and Shetland Islands people that know Fair Isle would perhaps agree that on most days it rather belies a somewhat optimistic name .
26 However , if we had a matrix of order 100 , it would have 9900 off-diagonal elements , and we can only say that at each stage the sum of the squares of these elements would decrease by 1/4950 at least ; convergence to diagonal form is likely to take very much longer than for a small matrix .
27 I can only say that on the evidence of Tesco 's cheapest , the rest will have a hard job keeping up .
28 Doctor goes on when one considers her potential life in terms of an academic achievement and marriage with a family , one can only say that without a shadow of doubt she has been devastated and her emotionally devastation will I fear , increase over the years , unquote .
29 One can only say that in that case there are an awful lot of them — ‘ the pits of Angband seemed to hold store inexhaustible and ever-renewed ’ ( S , p. 157 ) .
30 I can only say that in dealing with derelict land , providing new jobs and building factories we dwarf anything that the Labour party ever contemplated .
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