Example sentences of "[that] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sure , he is told , steady travel can make a person feel like that for an instant ; yet it is obvious that short-term memory for him is like a labyrinth . |
| 2 | From Table 6 and Table 7 , we see that short-term memory has already started to decay after 15 seconds , but has not completely decayed until somewhere between 15 and 25 seconds . |
| 3 | Table 7.1 thus also supports the contention made in the first half hour of this chapter that short-term contract workers in the service sector are mainly " voluntary " temporary workers . |
| 4 | Yet it can not alter the fact that short-term success had costly long-term effects . |
| 5 | However , we shall see that the upshot of the monetarist position is : ( a ) that short-term demand management may do more harm than good ; ( b ) that there is a close relationship between changes in the money supply and changes in money national income in the long-run ; ( c ) that without government interference the economy will tend towards its ‘ natural ’ rate of unemployment . |
| 6 | Few authorities consider that short-term emission reduction options can prevent the first stage of a smog occurring . |
| 7 | Some economists have argued that short-term unemployment should be excluded from the official figures in order that the statistics be made more useful to policy-makers . |
| 8 | It is an important signal that short-term politics matter more than the longer-run question of how to house the next generation . |
| 9 | This means that short-term interest rates on loans due to mature in a year tend to be generally lower than the long-term interest rate on loans of longer maturity . |
| 10 | Ensure that modified software is formally approved before the modification operation is recognised as complete . |
| 11 | It has accepted that progressive aging of the population necessitates a parallel increase in numbers of doctors . |
| 12 | Certainly it was up there with ‘ Girl You Need A Change Of Mind ’ by Eddie Kendricks — both innovative examples of soul music that combined drive and drama in a subtle new form . |
| 13 | In an election dominated by the unification issue , it was notable that combined share of the vote won by the CDU and its Bavarian sister-party , the Christian Social Union ( CSU ) , was only 43.8 per cent , a smaller percentage than in any of the West German general elections except that of 1949 . |
| 14 | Last June both Zilog Corp and National Semiconductor Corp announced chip sets that combined voice , modem and facsimile capabilities and already a number of board-level products are coming to market that incorporate them . |
| 15 | Then he added , in a tone that combined statement , claim , threat and ultimatum : ‘ Mine . ’ |
| 16 | He turned that lop-sided grin towards Virginia , sho shrank into her chair , appalled . |
| 17 | And if your schedule shows that Accidental Damage to Buildings is included |
| 18 | Mulvey argued that mass-market cinema has been structured around the ‘ spectacle ’ of women 's images . |
| 19 | Heat and chemicals make the hair lose moisture and — as so many of us heat-dry and style our hair , and have perms and colourants — it 's no wonder that dry hair is becoming commonplace . |
| 20 | The demise of deep coal mining and hte cessation of mine water pumping into the almond catchment in the early 1970s has depleted river flows to the extent that dry weather flows in the river are now quite inadequate to assimilate increased volumes of sewage effluent from developing areas . |
| 21 | Moreover , the ozone deposition velocity is so low over water ( 0.1cms -1 ) that dry deposition can not explain the rate of ozone loss apparent in Fig. 1 during morning hours . |
| 22 | If a relatively simple redesign of an existing product is to be carried out it will start in the appropriate box , for example that labelled design and development , and that labelled prototype/testing may or may not be invoked , depending on the confidence level that the task can be successfully carried out . |
| 23 | Er the er the breeders ' evening now what happened on this breeders ' evening is that the they run the raffle then give us our expenses out of it so that eleven pound eighty is the is the part of the raffle proceeds which we need to , to e to er for our expenses , you 'll see on the other side erm that we spent that eleven eighty , six eighty for er refreshments and five pound for the rent . |
| 24 | Gorbachev , interviewed in West Germany , suggested that Islamic fundamentalism might have played a part in the disturbances . |
| 25 | Marc Laframboise , an investigator for the Canadian Liberal Party , emphasised that Islamic Jihad in Beirut claimed responsibility between four and eight hours after the incident . |
| 26 | The latest controversy centred on an amendment to its Islamic Law Administration Act passed by the Selangor State Assembly on July 19 , 1989 , which permitted formal conversion to Islam of minors without parental consent , on the grounds that Islamic law deemed a person an adult from the onset of puberty . |
| 27 | The protesters demanded that Islamic law or sharia be made the sole source of legislation . |
| 28 | By the time Tiare was ten , her mother made the girl promise never to marry until she was at least nineteen , telling her that hasty love affairs never led to happiness . |
| 29 | These changes do reflect a recognition of the growing importance of part-time work ( which is where most of the new jobs have been created in recent years ) and a recognition that full-time work is difficult for many lone mothers to sustain , given their domestic responsibilities . |
| 30 | It is probably fair to say that full-time tribunal chairmen are considered of roughly equal status to circuit judges , with Presidents , regional chairmen and lawyer members of appellate tribunals roughly equal to High Court judges . |