Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I do agree with some of his points — the need for more public courses and more emphasis put on rules of etiquette — I was somewhat alarmed to read that in the interests of quicker play , we high-handicappers were being relegated to a boring , 9-hole course until we improve our game enough to join ‘ the big boys on the big-boys ’ course ’ . |
| 2 | The resultant online , interactive database is designed to be so easy to use that after a few minutes practice even novices can make very sophisticated searches and will have nearly instantaneous access to a vast storehouse of information hitherto accessible only after tedious , time-consuming and costly searches through individual issues . |
| 3 | ( It is somewhat remarkable to note that after such stirring events , the committee went on to draw the master 's attention to the fact that a horse had been observed grazing in the paddock , which had been let for sheep only . |
| 4 | If the word Gruyère on the packet can induce people to buy the product in question ( I have tasted it ; and it seems only fair to say that of its kind it is of a matchless ignobility ) then it becomes clear that it is a too innocent belief in authenticity and the efficacy of the ancient formula which has made us such easy victims of the purveyors of the farmyard-fresh Surrey chicken from the battery house , the mountain-brook trout from the breeding tank , via the deep-freeze , the hedgerow-ripened blackberry pie-filling out of the cardboard box . |
| 5 | All we can say is that logical , easily perceptible solutions are always preferable to enigmatic ones , which may have forms so difficult to perceive that to the listener they seem formless . |
| 6 | This was the proper enterprise of the loving wife , to defend her man ; the men performed their acts of authority and occupied the seats of visible influence , but you did n't have to be especially keen-eyed to see that behind the card-players and the drinkers , the officials in their pompous uniforms , the clerks with their mounds of bureaucratic forms , the farmers and the peasants , women were standing . |
| 7 | It seems somehow presumptuous to believe that in 1989 Europe has emerged into a cloudless world in which such things are now no longer possible . |
| 8 | ‘ As Scotland is little known to the greater part of those who may read these observations , it is not superfluous to relate that under the name Aberdeen are comprised two towns standing about a mile distant from each other , but governed , I think , by the same magistrates . ’ |
| 9 | In the United States , however , it is precisely because churches are so full , and wealthy , that it is not easy to see that in fact secularisation in the form of ‘ laicisation ’ has gripped the church by the throat . |
| 10 | It is not hard to see that in Homage to Sextus Propertius Pound is centrally concerned with just this question , and is defending his own scale of priorities against Hewlett 's or Newbolt 's . |
| 11 | However , if we acknowledge that family communications follow a pattern developed over time , and this can be usefully observed and adapted with younger families , is it not reasonable to assume that with older families too such a process could be helpful in some cases ? |
| 12 | It seems not unreasonable to argue that in a modern primary school all staff , and especially those with formal responsibilities of any kind over and above the class-teacher role , should have clear and properly negotiated job specifications . |
| 13 | It is not difficult to see that in understanding such an exchange we make a great number of detailed ( pragmatic ) inferences about the nature of the context in which ( 32 ) can be assumed to be taking place . |
| 14 | It is , therefore , not surprising to discover that in some , though not all , export oriented zones ( EOZs ) the rights of workers to organize is curtailed , either formally or in practice , and that trade unions are either suppressed or manipulated through government-TNC collaboration ( see Edgren , 1982 ) . |
| 15 | Although allowed to visit her husband only rarely during his twenty years in Spandau , she and her six children had never ceased to support him , and I was not surprised to hear that during their father 's absence all six had obtained university degrees . |
| 16 | While not doubting the pharmacological dimension to drug-addiction , it is nevertheless true to say that in many cases this is only an external consequence of an existing internal dependency which is just as addictive , even though repressed . |
| 17 | Despite these particular difficulties with older urban areas , it is generally true to say that in less than a decade the Dutch created and adopted a revolutionary residential environment which , even in car-dominated cities , displayed many of the benefits of the street in the pre-motorised era . |
| 18 | Although the existence of the statutes indicates certain offences which sometimes creep into public life , it is most gratifying to note that amongst the many tens of thousands of councillors serving voluntarily year by year in this country a prosecution under this Act is very rare indeed . |
| 19 | One of the dangers of majoritarianism is that majorities are always apt to forget that in another context they might constitute a minority . |
| 20 | Whilst not denying the symbolic role of leaders , radical elite theorists are more concerned to establish that behind the diversity of official power holders in every liberal democracy there is a defacto centralization of ‘ real ’ decision-making power in the hands of a core executive : the locus of the power elite . |
| 21 | It is probably more accurate to say that as a package the new employment system used traditional symbols to make the unfamiliar appear customary . |
| 22 | I believe it would be more accurate to say that by using a solicitor , you 're dealing with a highly trained specialist in conveyancing and related matters , who , if not a property specialist in terms of marketing , may well employ one , a description which applies to no estate agent , let alone a ‘ handful ’ . |
| 23 | Our everyday awareness of these value-laden distinctions makes it all the more necessary to stress that in social anthropology ( and sociology ) ‘ culture ’ is a neutral term . |
| 24 | Indeed , it is rather illuminating to discover that within the first few pages of her book — and before she has even introduced her own work — she peremptorily dismisses the idea that genius is akin to madness . |
| 25 | It is probably fallacious to assume that at every level a pebble beach was formed : if the rocks eroded are weak , such as clay , or both fairly weak and chemically attacked by the sea , such as certain types of limestone , there may well have been no or very little beach material formed . |
| 26 | It is probably patronising to say that in both cases the window dressing is up to Kensington standards , but it is . |
| 27 | It is also interesting to note that in the case of A5pC6 and T8pC9 junctions , the transition to B II almost causes the facing phosphate to change at the same time with final ε-ζ values of +18° and +26° respectively . |
| 28 | It is also interesting to note that in the aftermath of the October Crisis both Castro and Kennedy sought to exploit the low point in Soviet-Cuban relations . |
| 29 | my Lord I think it 's also helpful to add that in the case erm , er your Lordship will find at er , maybe helpful if you could very briefly look at that judgment my Lord |
| 30 | It is also important to remember that in commercial plastics the basic polymer is not the only constituent . |