Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv prt] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | what to do when you stand up there like an idiot so to sum up that the three most important things the span of conception nerves and clusters . |
| 2 | I went to the bookies to put a bet on it , only to find out that the odds had shortened to 14–1 . |
| 3 | It did not take Creggan long to work out that the Men could n't reach him . |
| 4 | It did not take her long to work out that the meal was going to cost her considerably more than she 'd saved by spending a rather miserable night in rue Roland . |
| 5 | My aim is only to point out that the situation is more complex than a simple division between ‘ Western monotheism ’ and ‘ Eastern polytheism ’ . |
| 6 | When , not long before his execution , he passed comment on the mass-murder of the Nazi camps , it was only to point out that there were problems in supply and control during the last days of the Third Reich . |
| 7 | It is not enough only to point out that female choice might favour a bizarre male trait ; if the trait is deleterious , one must also explain why the female preference is not then selected against , for the females will produce sons with the bizarre trait . |
| 8 | I interpose that merely to point up that when Jackie talks of ‘ guilt ’ and ‘ conscience ’ and ‘ pain ’ , these were perfectly real things to him . |
| 9 | ( This is not meant to be a criticism , for I doubt whether we can work effectively without such things ; it is merely to point out that modernity enters the church far more easily than the church enters modernity . ) |
| 10 | I say this not as any kind of boring Hemingway boast , merely to point out that if you are having trouble conceiving , my advice to you would be to rush out and buy a pair of green suede baby shoes . |
| 11 | The gaps in our data do not make it possible to say anything of statistical value , merely to point out that the evidence fragmentarily available suggests that it was by no means exceptional for women to be sole breadwinner in a household , usually in three precise sets of circumstances : in widowhood , with or without children ; after marriage when the husband was away , unemployed or chronically sick ; when unmarried , either living alone or — more frequently in our sample at any rate — caring for and responsible for an elderly parent or sick sibling . |
| 12 | It is not our purpose to review these initiatives , merely to point out that this has been the single most important factor responsible for the change in budgetary climate in local government in recent years . |
| 13 | One of his men had been foolish enough to point out that the Company Captain was unlikely to want to use the cooker and that there had n't been anybody in that cell in all the eight years he 'd been there . |
| 14 | In later conversations about Ulster , Law was frank enough to point out that bloodshed in Ulster would be the best way of ensuring an electoral landslide for the Unionists . |
| 15 | But of course it is not enough to point out that such claims can be made implicitly . |
| 16 | Erm links with N Y T E C was the next thing on the agenda , just to report back that Jane and Paul have had a long meeting with Roger and Helen from the Tech . |
| 17 | Erm Nick has obviously talked about the er , the phasing of the estate erm , just to point out that the reason for it , perhaps seeming a bit of long drawn out er affair , it 's , it 's a , a minimum time as far as erm , all the people who have been negotiating feel it 's achievable in if we are to make sure that the estate does n't remain a building site as as a as a total entity fo , at any time , so this site here will not commence until this site is completed so that there will be some er , rest bite for the bungalow residents and of course , somewhere to park their cars in the in the interim . |
| 18 | Th do n't want to extend the the d debate on this , just to point out that paragraphs thirty five and thirty seven , P P G three , both related to local plan policies and not to structure plan . |
| 19 | That , that 's , just to point out that |
| 20 | also like to point out that Highland Spring is is erm a national product . |
| 21 | That is not to say that someone who is using word processing or a similar application will not be able to make the best of a desktop publishing package but rather to point out that new skills will need to be learned , new concepts understood . |
| 22 | This is not to deny that plan-making is a very valuable function of our local authorities ; it is rather to point out that the existing powers to implement their plans are restricted by the price that the market puts on some land , and by the fact that the planners ' resource is in the hands of private owners rather than at the disposal of the community . |
| 23 | In one sense this is simply to point out that we can always demand to have an explanation explained . |
| 24 | The success or failure of this operation is certainly not under discussion here , my reason for bringing it in being simply to point out that music , even good music , can be written which does not abide by standard formal principles . |
| 25 | I pause here to point out that items such as dressings are available on prescription . |
| 26 | but you , you 've , you build up the strength in yourself and believe that your , your in vulnerable and then to find out that you are vulnerable , it really scary |
| 27 | It was left to Ramsay however to point out that Dunbar was not likely to tamely accept such demotion , and the attitude of his forces was uncertain , to say the least . |
| 28 | That gave us an opportunity to meet people from other parts of the diocese and actually to find out that we really are one family ! |
| 29 | This is why the idea of the ‘ educational toy ’ is so fraught with difficulty : the trick is never to let on that it is supposed to be educational , in case you transmit your own anxieties . |