Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This section has attempted to show that more research is needed into the make-up of multiple estates in the earliest periods for which documents exist . |
| 2 | John and Elizabeth Newson , authors of a report into the extent of parental punishment in the UK published yesterday , say : ‘ The majority of British parents interviewed seems to believe that physical punishment is an inevitable and probably necessary aspect of ordinary child upbringing . ’ |
| 3 | There has been some controversy in recent years over the effect which the plague had on the population , and the bacteriologist J. F. D. Shrewsbury has tried to argue that bubonic plague could not , by its nature , have destroyed as high a proportion of the population as historians have claimed ( 102 ) . |
| 4 | US officials , fearful of a growing budget deficit , were reported to have emphasised that any rise in German interest rates would reduce the chances of further cuts in US interest rates , and thus place additional strains on the economy . |
| 5 | Earlier , during talks with US treasury officials , the president of the German Bundesbank , Karl Otto Pöhl , was reported to have stressed that German interest rates were the lowest in the European Communities ( EC ) , and that hardly any other country in the world had achieved such a positive combination of strong growth and low inflation . |
| 6 | Their Australian coach Darryl Van De Velde seemed to have found that elusive consistency last season , but such an assumption was shattered by Castleford 's spectacular collapse over the final weeks . |
| 7 | In the case of Archer-Shee , which is said to have established that such income is income of the beneficiary , it appears to have been conceded by the Revenue that it was not to be so treated as regards liability for Income Tax . |
| 8 | Recent incidents and events on the environmental stage — beginning , at least in Europe , with the explosion at the Chernobyl reactor — seem to have reawakened that ancient fear of nature 's retribution that so haunted our hunting and gathering ancestors . |
| 9 | On the whole experiments seem to have confirmed that considerable movement of shingle offshore only takes place where pebbles are stirred up by wave action , though currents may contribute to their direction of fall . |
| 10 | Both local authorities seem to have accepted that some service development of this sort was a desirable addition to the Cramlington employment base . |
| 11 | ‘ If you knew how bored I get trying to answer that same question … ’ |
| 12 | But last week he admitted having advised that any application for a licence should emphasise the ‘ peaceful use ’ of the products . |
| 13 | Public concern , legislation , departmental procedures , and pressure on professional staff would have combined to ensure that effective action was taken . |
| 14 | In this remark , perhaps the earliest preserved utterance of an English housewife , she certainly seems to have assumed that such food would be a normal part of the family diet . |
| 15 | Ranasinghe Premadasa , the dead president , appeared to have learnt that indiscriminate killing of Tamils was not going to make the problem go away . |
| 16 | I think I 've come to realise that Western dress is shallow . |
| 17 | Classical elite theorists had sought to show that liberal democracy was a utopian ideal incapable of realization . |
| 18 | Very late in the day they had written to say that some arrangement had fallen through and they would be prepared to play us if they could find sufficient members interested in taking part . |
| 19 | They 've got to learn that this business is plagued with fantasists and people with grudges . |
| 20 | You 've got to note that this training , you would like this training |
| 21 | Playing the fringes of the metropolis , Lily had used to hope that one day , looking up on the prompt side , she would see one of George Edwardes 's scouts . |
| 22 | If Parliament had meant to say that any distribution or publication should suffice , it could very easily have said so ; the courts are bound to make sense of the words that Parliament has in fact used . |
| 23 | They wanted to try to ensure that that area was n't flooded by high tides and so forth . |
| 24 | You have agreed to ensure that any information which we may require for the purpose of providing the services set out in this letter is made available to us , as and when we may reasonable require . |
| 25 | You have agreed to ensure that any information which we may require for the purpose of providing the services set out in this letter is made available to us , as and when we may reasonably require . |
| 26 | You have agreed to ensure that any information which we may require for the purpose of providing the services set out in this letter is made available to us , as and when we may reasonably require . |
| 27 | You have agreed to ensure that any information which we may require for the purpose of providing the services set out in this letter is made available to us , and when we may reasonably require . |
| 28 | you know , people have got to realize that this day and age er children are taught not to talk to strangers |
| 29 | People in the City to whom I have spoken say that private enterprise will never finance it . |
| 30 | Furthermore , none of the considerations I have adduced suggest that political violence will rapidly diminish , still less disappear . |