Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] that [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The company has claimed that in environmental terms , there is " little to choose " between pampers and traditional cloth nappies .
2 The first declaration he gave to Pineau to take back to France would almost certainly have disappointed resisters : its denunciation of the Third Republic was a little too sweeping for Pineau 's taste ( one has to remember that by this stage the bitter experience of Vichyism and Nazism was beginning to rehabilitate the reputation of republicanism in France ) , and it had almost nothing to say about social or economic reform .
3 Research has shown that over long periods of time , the stock market does tend to exhibit semi-strong efficiency .
4 Persson has shown that in many cases , the database coverage is often not long enough to show major changes in science .
5 Recent research has shown that in such cases it is more likely that the animals and humans had been eaten by other predators , such as leopards an hyenas .
6 Gill Burke has shown that in Cornish mining villages , for example , the worlds of men and women were close until the 1880s and 1890s .
7 This study has shown that after ileocolonic resection for Crohn 's disease , neoterminal ileal blood flow as measured by laser Doppler flowmetry falls as the endoscopic recurrence severity grading increases .
8 Ellen Ross 's work has shown that among working-class Edwardians the marriage contract entailed a precise understanding of duties and obligations regarding maintenance ( on the part of the husband ) and household management ( on the part of the wife ) , but little by way of intimacy or romantic love . ’
9 Recent renovation work has shown that beneath these modifications the fourth-century church is virtually complete .
10 It hardly needs emphasizing that on any question that is interesting , such as social roles of the sexes , we would have to be able to read the historical record better than we now can in order to arrive at any strong conclusions about what is biologically discouraged .
11 As soon as someone gives you ten to the minus eight , you can say , Well if I want to convert that into real money ,
12 Even the World Bank has proposed that in Latin America , where one per cent of the people own half the land , they should pay a heavy income tax .
13 Current experimental work with mothers and infants sleeping together in sleep laboratories is tracing the interaction of their patterns of breathing , and has found that in such conditions infants spend less time in deep stages of sleep .
14 Ingram has found that in many parts of southern England the levels of these practices were much higher in the 1620s and 1630s than they had been in the middle years of Elizabeth 's reign ; and Jeremy Boulton has discovered that between 80 and 98 per cent of all the potential communicants of two large suburban parishes in London were receiving annual communion during the late Elizabethan and Jacobean periods-a very high proportion by any standards .
15 AOPA was actively involved throughout the campaign to save West Malling and has found that in several instances residents in the neighbourhoods of airfields have been opposed to flying , but when they were made aware of the horrors of what the possible alternatives would be , they then realised what a valuable green and friendly asset a local airfield could be .
16 It has emerged that in 1980 Wallis 's second wife , Martha Hyer Wallis , took four of his paintings , replacing them with copies , to raise a $1m loan .
17 He wants to argue that we do join civil societies and that we can under certain circumstances erm decide to quit them and , overall of course against Filmer he wants to argue that in this respect a civil society is radically different from the family .
18 With some justification Dr Grassi , who has studied this particular recruitment , has concluded that at this time ‘ the road to Westminster passed through York ’ .
19 Finally , erm various terms have been erm thrown around about new settlements being an engine of growth and a sinkhole for future growth , erm the only point I want to make there is that any future growth beyond the present structure plan period of two thousand and six would of course be subject to the planning system , there is no automatic erm growth erm of any new settlement that is proposed or may be proposed beyond two thousand and six , and Mr Davis has indicated that at that time a new study will be carried out on the relative merits of the alternative options that were seen at that time .
20 China 's finance minister Liu Zhongli has announced that on 1 July 1993 China will adopt new rules relating to corporate financial affairs and new accounting standards .
21 However , the European Commission has estimated that for most countries this budget accounts for between 10 and 20 per cent of GDP ( Evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Communities , 1987/8 HL 72 , p. 17 ) .
22 A more important Christian observation is to note that laicisation has meant that as institutional Christianity has been forced out of the control box of the modernity machine it has lost its authority .
23 Consideration of the effects of stress in the workplace has meant that for many employers the workaholic has become bad news .
24 The inexorable growth of specialization has meant that in many cases the concept of the discipline ‘ as a whole ’ is now largely historical , and the time has long gone when one person could command a general understanding of all its facets and branches .
25 Debt has meant that in some parts of Africa development has ground to a halt .
26 The High Court has confirmed that in such circumstances input tax recovery should be apportioned .
27 By contrast , R. H. B. Conacher of Upjohn Ltd has stated that in clinical trials various behavioural side-effects such as nervousness ‘ occurred in patients receiving placebo at a rate indistinguishable from that in patients receiving Halcion ’ .
28 Meeks has suggested that in that year the United States still did not possess truly great stations to match the European models .
29 Evidence from inspections carried out by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has suggested that in some areas up to 42 per cent of Britain 's farms could be polluting rivers and groundwater .
30 And what will he do to ensure that in future years the system pays up at the beginning of the year , not a third of the way through it or later ?
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