Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] 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 However , it is generally accepted that none of the items which supplement the basic 17 questions provide additional information of value .
4 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 .
5 It is also believed that none of the injured has made a complaint to the police .
6 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 .
7 And they , knowing me to be one not prone to exaggerated statements , well understood that something of an extraordinary nature was impending .
8 ‘ They have not yet admitted that none of my proposals would force a patient to travel long distances for treatment against his or her will ; that no doctor will have any new financial incentive to refuse elderly patients on to his list .
9 The Louvre 's spokeswoman Sylvie Poujade has recently commented that everyone at the Louvre is sick and tired of the affair , which has turned into a living nightmare .
10 Boy never thought that anything on the television was ever about anything except his own life .
11 He had never believed that anything like this could happen to him — this being , he supposed , love at first sight — but he acknowledged that it had .
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