Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | No-one should ever think that what they were doing was too small . |
| 2 | Down round the equator , nobody 'll even accept that they 're seeing you . |
| 3 | And er and although it nobody could ever say that the union was politically motivated er it it 's strange to relate that at union meeting when the general strike started and we of course we were n't in the T U C we were too small anyway , although I know that there 's been unions with twenty eight members in the T U C now . |
| 4 | And me granny to help me and he was the land nobody could really find that if you came across it one nasty day well you 're there and you 're kind of stop there if the went away . |
| 5 | They looked phoney , but only because they looked new ; once they had cracked and weathered and slumped a little , nobody would ever credit that they might just as well have been built as concrete and glass shoe-boxes . |
| 6 | Nobody would ever claim that a bacterium was a conscious strategist , yet bacterial parasites are probably engaged in ceaseless games of Prisoner 's Dilemma with their hosts and there is no reason why we should not attribute Axelrodian adjectives — forgiving , non-envious , and so on — to their strategies . |
| 7 | Nobody can seriously suggest that we turn back the clock entirely and return to the world of Constable 's Haywain , where there was a good deal of misery and hunger amidst all that beauty . |
| 8 | Nobody can seriously propose that all promises should become enforceable ; to abolish the doctrine of consideration , therefore , is simply to require the Courts to begin all over again the task of deciding what promises are to be enforceable . |
| 9 | No-one could seriously believe that the king had been a worshipper of the cult . |
| 10 | One may tentatively suggest that at least one English fabliau version of the tale given by Chaucer to the Shipman stood between a French source and Chaucer . |
| 11 | In any case one may well think that the sheer effort of dotting ‘ i's and crossing ‘ t's was draining . |
| 12 | Yet one may also assume that royal interest was more constantly engaged in collecting fines for damage to the king 's highway than in ensuring that the damage was repaired . |
| 13 | This can be claimed for romantic and romance , but is not appropriate in the case of arable farmer , nor of foreign policy or animate nouns from ( 7 ) , nor of new in ( 17 ) nor naked in ( 18 ) ; and it would clearly not apply for nuclear scientist either ; while there does exist a noun nucleus , which is certainly the etymological origin of the adjective , the scientist is , synchronically and in the usage of the ordinary speaker , to be connected with the indefinite notion of nuclear matters ( where , for example , Latin would have used the neuter plural of an adjective ) rather than directly with nucleus ; one may reasonably guess that many speakers to whom the word nucleus is quite unfamiliar would nevertheless feel they understood quite satisfactorily a headline which read : TOP NUCLEAR SCIENTIST GOES MISSING ! |
| 14 | But one may reasonably dispute that the French fabliaux are pornographic by this definition either . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , one may reasonably presume that the major changes in the marine faunas at this time followed from the regressions caused by the Hercynian orogeny . |
| 16 | One may even agree that the best key to interpretation and evaluation is their principle of the reconciliation of opposites . |
| 17 | As Lord Wilberforce said in Suisse Atlantique : One may safely say that the parties can not in a contract have contemplated that the clause should have so wide an ambit as in effect to deprive one party 's stipulations of all contractual force : to do so would be to reduce the contract to a mere declaration of intent . |
| 18 | In each case , our intuition agrees with Bolinger that the adjective acts to qualify the description inherent in the noun , rather than the entity identified by the noun ; one may readily agree that there is a significant contrast between these and the following adjectives , in predicative position , which he gives as instances of referent-qualification ( in our terms , instances where the adjective is straight-forwardly assigned to the entity of the subject and shares the same referential locus ) : ( 3 ) the student was eager the man was hungry the lawyer was criminal ( One might , though , add the comment that criminal is seldom used ascriptively of human beings as opposed to their actions . ) |
| 19 | Since one thinks that there must be something in common to all good things one may then conclude that it must be pleasure . |
| 20 | One must presently conclude that management does not view the current internal audit function as a significant service — thus , on occasions , questioning its very raison d'être . |
| 21 | This explains the abundance of deltaic sediments in the stratigraphical record of the continental areas , but one must also expect that such sediments will either not exceed a critical maximum thickness , such as that suggested above , or they must have been deposited in a tectonically subsiding trough . |
| 22 | One must also stress that there is an insidious tendency to assume that once the population figures had reached their lowest point , their subsequent recovery was continuous ; surviving evidence , however , suggests the contrary : that periods of rising population were at best intermittent and liable to sudden check from new epidemics . |
| 23 | One must also accept that the programmer of the cells had a different logic from ours , or at least a curious sense of humour . |
| 24 | One must also remember that the bulk of the clergy both in Ireland and in the remainder of catholic Europe came from rural backgrounds , where the sense of God is , or was , part of the air one breathes ( Acquaviva 1979 ) . |
| 25 | Of course , one must also remember that a live pianist will be capable of making mistakes , so allow for some nervousness and do n't get too ambitious . |
| 26 | If the burden becomes too much and the responsibilities too great , one must always feel that one can turn to somebody who is more knowledgeable , or has broader shoulders and who will share the burden . |
| 27 | When one carries out patient care , one must always remember that the needs of the patient take precedence over the needs of the learner . |
| 28 | One must never forget that the reality of the twentieth century is not the reality of the nineteenth century , not at all and Picasso was the only one in painting who felt it , the only one . |
| 29 | When one is asking questions , however , one must never forget that the answers come from the respondents , so one must always be thinking about those respondents . |
| 30 | One must never assume that an elder who can not discuss personal desires does not need an environment in which such desires can crystallize and find expression . |