Example sentences of "that [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ecologists agree that eating less meat is better for you and the environment . |
| 2 | I have seen it — Not long ago , in Moscow on quite another mission , I tiptoed up the great empty staircase and , with a diplomatic passport in my pocket , stood in the eternal dusk that shrouds old ballrooms when they are asleep — With its plump brown pillars and gilded mirrors , it was better suited to the last hours of a sinking liner than the launch of a great initiative . |
| 3 | The change in the orbit of the earth is too slow to be observed , but this same effect has been observed over the past few years occurring in the system called PSR 1913+16 ( PSR stands for " pulsar , " a special type of neutron star that emits regular pulses of radio waves ) . |
| 4 | Typically the literature on trade policy in the presence of imperfect competition has derived optimal tariff and subsidy policies that maximize economic welfare . |
| 5 | The general approach adopted in the current research is to discover the task settings that maximize young children 's spatial performance , and to investigate the degree to which performance transfers from these to other settings . |
| 6 | Competition and selection may be expected to yield traits that maximize rapid and early reproduction and the production of the largest possible brood or litter . |
| 7 | I detached her gently from her twig and she writhed in anger , exposing her paler stomach and all her spiky little paws that clung leechlike to the branch to which I returned her . |
| 8 | Any program that receives favourable reviews from enough teachers should be considered for — distribution as it stands but on a national basis — production to a professional standard — transferability to other microcomputers — publication by national system — publication by commercial publishers . |
| 9 | The list of diseases that slurry could spread is a formidable one , including anthrax and tetanus , but the one that receives most attention is salmonellosis . |
| 10 | Just as the Baroque composer relied on the opening phrase to establish the affect of a given movement , so it is only the start of the magic episode that receives special musical attention . |
| 11 | The situation of the local families is aggravated by the presence of commercial radio and TV , which broadcast mainly foreign programmes that undermine local cultural traditions and create deep dissatisfaction by portraying lifestyles which are unattainable . |
| 12 | nevertheless , there are many films that undermine this argument , suggesting that British character wo n't do as an explanation of poor filmmaking . |
| 13 | In a wide-ranging challenge to the opposition of multiculturalism to antiracism as an adequate framework for educational debate , Ali Rattansi argues that , in the wake of the Burnage Report , it is necessary to identify new priorities that undermine old certainties . |
| 14 | It can be either a chronic pattern ( like a record that plays all the time ) or a ‘ triggered ’ pattern . |
| 15 | IT WAS the moment that laid bare the myth that Princess Diana could ever be Queen . |
| 16 | Another possible way of controlling colonic pressures is through 5-HT 3 antagonists such as odansentron , a compound that slows colonic transit in normal sucjects . |
| 17 | But they stressed that bringing civil servants to Canary Wharf would not necessarily save the project and added that the Government wanted Canary Wharf or any future owner to pay the £400m needed for an extension of London Underground 's Jubilee Line to Docklands . |
| 18 | The group estimated that bringing coaxial links into the average British home would cost between £200 and £300 . |
| 19 | They seem to think that bringing foreign coal into this country and burning it in place of British coal will do something to limit carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 20 | In an update of the story on the second anniversary of the disaster , Barron 's , the American business magazine , quoted Vincent Cannistraro 's dismissal of Juval Aviv 's Interfor Report as ‘ absolute nonsense ’ , and the more recent NBC and ABC newscasts that shared some of its conclusions as ‘ total rubbish and fabrication , . |
| 21 | This would result in a shorter report and give useful encouragement to companies that develop innovative forms of reporting . |
| 22 | On their sitting-room wall hangs a big calendar illustrated by glossy colour photographs of Mr Deng 's visit to southern China in early 1992 — the pilgrimage that relaunched radical economic reform in China . |
| 23 | In that work it is possible to see clearly the relation between his insistence on totality and the Romantic aesthetic of totality as the inner necessity that moulds all works of art . |
| 24 | The methodology determines those theories from the history of physics that constitutes good physics whilst it is just those good theories against which the methodology is to be tested . |
| 25 | These ‘ ideas , formed the basis for group action and it is the way in which these spontaneously evolve and are carried out that constitutes one of the most active elements of ‘ hanging about ’ … |
| 26 | The lifeworld both provides the basis of meaning on which communicative action can draw and it is also a product of the exchange of meaning that constitutes communicative action . |
| 27 | Thus Newton 's laws of motion form part of the Newtonian paradigm and Maxwell 's equations form part of the paradigm that constitutes classical electromagnetic theory . |
| 28 | The theoretical analysis is conducted using a short run stochastic Mundell-Fleming model of a small open economy that produces tradable and non-tradable goods , and which faces a number of transitory domestic and foreign , demand side and supply side disturbances . |
| 29 | For example , some governments would probably not have spent as much on telecommunications as they have done without the stimulus of a foreign-dominated export sector that produces hard-currency earnings , and the expectation that such facilities , however expensive , would attract even more companies . |
| 30 | When the mutation that produces aposematic colour first appears in the population it will be rare ; but it will nevertheless be common in particular families , as it will be present in many of the siblings in those families with the mutation . |