Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] that [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contrary to popular belief , recent studies reveal that wood ( especially firewood in the shape of logs rather than small twigs and branches ) has become so scarce that in many villages only the rich can afford to buy it . |
| 2 | The Arabic , for example , is ambiguous in respect of whether it is the copy or the itself that Yusuf Bali — who held the kadilik of Bursa for a time in the 840s-wrote ; and , on the evidence of the signature alone , it seems entirely possible that at some point , perhaps during his kadilik , he made a copy of the which Molla Husrev subsequently attested to be a true copy . |
| 3 | The situation is so serious that for any government to do what is necessary , it will have to be hated . |
| 4 | The reality of this breakdown in relations is confirmed by letters written by Alcuin in 790 in which he reported a quarrel between Charlemagne and Offa so serious that on both sides traders were forbidden to sail . |
| 5 | .. [ which ] in the case of people who are not constitutionally sound becomes so dangerous that in many cases it develops into a ‘ consumption ’ … and the wisest course for such people to adopt is to leave England and cross the sea . |
| 6 | In keeping with the grand design , the sewers designed by Haussmann and his great engineer Belgrand were so magnificent that to this day they form part of the tourist 's Paris , for it is possible to cruise through these huge well-lighted caverns in a boat . |
| 7 | Erm I 'm not so sure that in some cases er it , it 's to our members benefit . |
| 8 | It is perhaps unlikely that at this stage in the history of research into Hebrew poetry any completely new observations can be made . |
| 9 | This was so important that for each of the national developments a full time National Development Officer ( NDO ) was seconded for a year from a college . |
| 10 | If it is somewhat bizarre that after all the arguing , all the effort , the video souvenir of the event should be enormously disappointing to the band , it 's not more ironic that the fact that after the show the support act stole all the headlines — for all the wrong reasons . |
| 11 | Is it perhaps true that for many of the English , poetry has never been anything else but a superior parlour game ? |
| 12 | Thus , it was rather ironic that in this , his best series , he bowled hardly any ; instead , he took his wickets by adapting his bowling to the slow conditions of a rainy summer , reducing his pace a fraction and making the ball move around more . |
| 13 | The differences between them and their mainland cousins were only small , but if such changes had taken place , was it not possible that over many millions of years , the cumulative effects on a dynasty of animals could be so great that they could bring about major transformations ? |
| 14 | It is not impossible that on this sea voyage he was accompanied by Panaetius , who , according to a very fragmentary and dubious passage of the index Stoicorum , apparently travelled by sea with Scipio at about this time ( col. 56 , ed . |
| 15 | And I have pointed out in my papers that you must bear in mind perhaps that er quite a number of Rich er quite a number of the districts in North Yorkshire are of county scale in their sheer size and that therefore it is not inappropriate that at that level that the policies would be refined . |
| 16 | It was not surprising that at this moment the image of her mother — the canon 's widow in the dark flat near Westminster Cathedral should rise up before her . |
| 17 | In Friedmann 's models , the galaxies are all moving directly away from each other-so it is not surprising that at some time in the past they were all at the same place . |
| 18 | It is not surprising that in many of the contests over the centuries , no archer has been able to ‘ ding doon ’ the papingo . |
| 19 | It is not surprising that in many or most of the cases , particularly the more modern ones , the act itself is unlawful . |
| 20 | For this reason , it 's not surprising that in some careers friendship blossoms between people taking the same path . |
| 21 | Consequently , it is not surprising that in this period the main philosophical schools tended to reject the idea of progress and to hold cyclical views concerning the nature of time . |
| 22 | It is not surprising that in this period of increased sensitivity to the emerging ecological problem we find the first Utopia based upon ecological as well as social ideals . |
| 23 | Is it not surprising that after several years of unremitting devolutionist propaganda from the Scottish Constitutional Convention , support for devolution is almost at an all-time low , according to the opinion polls ? |
| 24 | Perhaps they were not aware that in this respect de Pomiane was often simply harking back to his Polish origins , thereby refreshing French cookery in the perfectly traditional way . |
| 25 | She was rather glad that at that moment the waiter brought them their porcheddu . |
| 26 | It is always possible that despite all the behaviour there are actually no sensations going on there at all , or at least different ones from those we imagine . |
| 27 | Now , I leave entirely on one side the question why on earth the present ratio between profits and incomes generally is so supremely right that for all time it ought to be preserved , or at any rate allowed only to diminish , regardless of anything else that happens , such as the growth of savings and accumulation of capital . |
| 28 | While the approach taken by the US courts has been much more progressive than that which has been adopted in Britain , it is nonetheless clear that in neither jurisdiction do directors owe a duty of disclosure when trading on impersonal stock exchange markets . |
| 29 | But it seems more likely that on this occasion a handful of key politicians and civil servants actually took the lead ; Peter Walker at the Department of the Environment ( DOE ) and Robert Carr , Home Secretary ( the Home Office set up the Urban Deprivation Unit in 1972 ) , were clearly influential , and Derek Morrell was a key official over CDP in the Home Office . |
| 30 | It is more likely that in many situations there is a conflict of interest between capital and labour over this issue and thus a need to negotiate the outcome . |