Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was probably her most annoying characteristic that in a room full of beauties she would comport herself as one with a right to be there , and there was nothing in the world that anyone could do to disabuse her . |
| 2 | My joy of getting into Halton was short-lived , In the first term I was up before the Head , a delightful fellow called B , A , Smith who kindly explained in a most embarrassed way that in spite of appearing to have satisfactory results in other departments , my school results were as poor as he could recall in all his experience . |
| 3 | She might think he was a little coarse doing that after saying he despised her , but so what ? |
| 4 | I find little to choose between ‘ Silver ’ ( ADD ) and ‘ Laser ’ ( DDD ) , although the latter 30 or so titles , from Philips Germany , have highly futuristic designs that to my mind sit ill with the largely ‘ classic ’ repertoire . |
| 5 | On the only aged willow that in all the field remains . |
| 6 | The implication of this , however , is that directors should be the sole arbiters of the appropriateness of their working methods ; the suggestion that ‘ rational shareholders would not have it otherwise … for their welfare is maximised by decisions that yield the highest profits net of the costs of gathering information and making the decision ’ , adds nothing beyond the empirically unsupported assertion that on balance , if left alone , managements will make decisions in the most cost-effective way . |
| 7 | IT IS a rather puzzling irony that in a country where we are apparently so obsessed with our homes , such a huge proportion of our new houses are mass produced boxes which are put up speculatively by developers who have little knowledge of their end customers ' needs and requirements . |
| 8 | That I think recognizes a possibility , by no means a probability , but a possibility that Paul might move away from home and the more real possibility that in due course that Mr and Mrs might be unable to bear their part further as carers . |
| 9 | Given a subject , already identified , and given the wholly reasonable assumption that in our linguistic thoughts we do not equate properties with entities , there would be no conceivable point in introducing a property , and introducing it with the sense of " this completes what I am about " unless that property is to be taken as applicable to the subject . |
| 10 | He said in a deceptively reasonable tone that in the Legion everybody took the blame for everybody else 's mistakes . |
| 11 | As a non-philosopher I always used to find that slightly depressing statement that of Eyre 's about beauty , and it seemed to me that one could immediately follow that by saying just because there 's a word for it maybe you have it because you like it and you want to use it and is n't that self-validating in a sense . |
| 12 | Many delegates reiterated Blix 's observations , but there was also general agreement that in the wake of the Chernobyl accident in 1986 [ see p. 34460 ] efforts to restore the nuclear option worldwide would only be successful if public confidence in the operational safety of nuclear facilities could be restored . |
| 13 | There is also general recognition that for many years prisons have failed to meet these objectives . |
| 14 | Not only is there no suggestion in the biographical sources or in documents that Fahreddin Acemi ever held a kadilik , but there is also positive evidence that for long periods in his Muftilik he could not have been kadi of Edirne , at least , since someone else was . |
| 15 | Planetary interiors are ultimately expected to experience declining temperatures , and there is some fairly direct evidence that to some extent this has already occurred in Mercury . |
| 16 | The unfortunately British idea that at school , as well as a place of learning and a place where you grow from a child into an adult , is a kind of military disciplinary academy , I think is most unfortunate . |
| 17 | Despite the " Boy Wonder " tag , he countered the quite genuine complaints that with the elementary aids available — basically just a compass and air speed indicator — it was virtually impossible to find a German target in the face of spoofs/dummies and the mounting numbers of fighters , as well as flak and searchlights . |
| 18 | The case has been made that neutralisation is potentially attractive only to relatively minor states that by virtue of their strategic position or symbolic political value have become or threaten to become the focal points of contests for control or dominant influence between principal regional or global rivals . |
| 19 | The RAF was thought to be responsible for 32 murders over 20 years , the most recent being that in April 1991 of Detlev Rohwedder , head of the Treuhand privatization agency [ see p. 38155 ] . |
| 20 | Because I think one of the most worrying things that for the soldiers at the front was will their family be looked after and will their land sort of be alright when they get back |
| 21 | In fact , this guitar is such a closely guarded secret that at the time of writing there are n't even any pictures available . |
| 22 | The temptation is to view these publications and the exhibition as a proliferation of surfaces which are in a sense pretty vacant reminders that despite the essentially teleological nature of the Situationist project , it is now immobilised and its documents merely a contribution to culture as the spectacular remains of an abandoned revolutionary ideal . |
| 23 | I 'm sure you know that the Bank of England the Bank of England have made a very strong point that on balance there should be more non-executive directors than executive directors in the company and , er it is felt very strongly that to get a good mix of non-executive directors really does protect the shareholders ' interests and , er I think we 're very much following the lead , er , of the Bank of , of England , erm , in this particular respect . |
| 24 | The " I am lay " is a very old ritual that in other countries you can only read about in history books . " |
| 25 | It is an all too sobering thought that in 1993 we have not developed the mechanisms which will enable us to index , search , and analyze those data according to our very many and particular research interests . |
| 26 | At the root of the mixture of emotions that Kylie felt that day was the very real feat that despite the fame and fabulous wealth that might lie ahead of her , her future might not allow her to ever again be part of as precious and close a group of friends as she was during her Neighbours days . |
| 27 | It 's been known for a very long time that from these cases you can isolate this organism C diphtheria bacterium which you saw in the practical classes and has this distinctive stayed property where er certain granules can be stayed up and also the arrangement of the cells is rather reminiscent of what called Chinese lettering . |
| 28 | Mr Lumsden said : ‘ There is a very very strict rule that during a General Election nothing that the Government does can intrude on the election process . ’ |