Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] that [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are a façade : they are confined to the most superficial aspects , and scope for real variety is so limited that they in fact quickly become clichéd , standardized , themselves . |
| 2 | The fundamental problem with the CAP is that , in an attempt to keep farmers on the land , the price mechanism has become so distorted that none of its objectives is now being realised , and at a high cost . |
| 3 | The luthier , Tony Rockett attempted to track down a new steel rod for my bass , only to discover that nobody in this country supplies Warwick spares . |
| 4 | For centuries civilised man thought poetry was the pinnacle he must reach for — ’ He caught himself suddenly and smiled for the first time Blanche had known him to , the embarrassed smile of a passionate devotee who suddenly discovers that everyone around him , whom he thought entranced by his obsession , was in fact sniggering behind his back . |
| 5 | It is perhaps reassuring that they at least recognised utter nonsense when they wrote it , if disappointing that this was essentially a confession of failure by a Ministry whose central function had been to coordinate energy policy . |
| 6 | It was definitely a totally one-off accident , and I can only hope that nothing like that ever happens to me . ’ |
| 7 | If the horse had been doped , it could only mean that someone in Bill 's yard had been involved . |
| 8 | But the agency does have the job of approving materials and devices ( as well as drugs ) intended for the treatment of disease , and way back in the late 1960s it rightly concluded that none of the artificial hearts available was fit for the task for which it had been designed . |
| 9 | However , it is generally accepted that none of the items which supplement the basic 17 questions provide additional information of value . |
| 10 | We have already seen that someone with a voidable title can nevertheless transfer to an innocent purchaser a perfect title , provided he does so before his title is avoided . |
| 11 | I assure my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon , North-West ( Mr. Malins ) that an examination of other elected assemblies which can be paralleled to ours in Europe , America or elsewhere shows that we in the British House of Commons spend three , four or even five times longer debating legislation . |
| 12 | Certain astronomers now incorrectly assume that everything about our circumstance must be unspecial , insignificant , and just plain mediocre . |
| 13 | As I just knew that everybody on the truck had a clear conscience , they could n't possibly be interested in us , could they ? |
| 14 | By these we do not just mean that lots of people do research and take time over it . |
| 15 | But he strenuously denied that anything of the sort had been going on anywhere in Europe around the time of the Lockerbie disaster . |
| 16 | Changes announced yesterday mean that anybody with a disposable income of more than £61 a week will have to contribute a maximum of one third of his or her income above the limit rather than the present quarter . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm not making light of the situation , it 's very very serious , and we are still hoping that somebody in Wales will come forward to be our main sponsor . |
| 18 | We always said that someone at the office called Jenkins had taken me to the local wine bar after work and we 'd run into some old girlfriend of his and Gillian who knew this girl vaguely was with her and we sort of got on immediately and made another date . |
| 19 | Miro once said that everything in his paintings and sculptures was derived from something he saw . |
| 20 | Walker also found that none of the 11 pronouns resolved correctly by the original BFP but not by Hobbs were made to fail when the alteration was made . |
| 21 | Though there was less overall pessimism about job prospects throughout the UK over the next few months , the survey also showed that one in five firms expects fresh redundancies and only 17 per cent predict job increases in the three months to June . |
| 22 | I 'd also bet that none of the girls in the class is one whit more likely to become a lesbian , or to have the pure white robe of her maidenhood smirched in any way . |
| 23 | It is also believed that none of the injured has made a complaint to the police . |
| 24 | Ley hunters also argue that plenty of leys are marked by archaeologically-homogenous sites . |
| 25 | ‘ Do you know what a vestry is , children ? ’ asked a friend of mine , probably hoping that none of them did . |
| 26 | I also suggested that they off Ollie his own warm secure bed downstairs , or at least out of the bedroom , to avoid giving him the ultimate rank-defining liberty of sleeping with the real top dogs . |
| 27 | It is right now to insist that nothing in the Anglo-French study shows AZT to be ineffective in the late treatment of AIDS ; it is to be hoped that point will be tested by a new controlled study . |
| 28 | She could not now pretend that none of this was known to her , that she was still simply a diligent and faithful daughter , loyal handmaid of a noble art . |
| 29 | The NZRFU rather prides itself on its official-player liaison , of treating its players handsomely , and it rather hopes that they in turn would treat the NZRFU with courtesy , if not affection . |
| 30 | By the end of the period of imperial expansion , in the middle of the twentieth century , it was widely believed that everyone in the world should be a citizen of an independent and sovereign state and should have the same rights as all the other citizens in the state , but in 1500 very few people would have understood such a notion . |