Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] that [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if you want to see that old mother of yours it 'll have to be by road . ’ |
| 2 | The reason why many ethologists would now prefer to explain ritualization as an arms race is that they have increasingly come to realize that selfish competition among individuals is the rule in the animal world . |
| 3 | Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) has claimed that radioactive waste from the Springfields nuclear plant is contaminating parts of the River Ribble in Lancashire . |
| 4 | National Power has claimed that divulging information on the fuel that they plan to burn will give their competitors vital information about how their plants operate . |
| 5 | To be plain , I 'm a bit exhausted , secretly , about the intellectual advantages that are supposed ( by intellectuals ) to accrue from being physically underendowed or peculiar-looking , though it 's possible to keep up the front in public and many a gulled beloved has supposed that this joke of a frame is where my energy comes from . |
| 6 | Elbit Ltd has reported that net profit for the year to December 31 declined by 14.8% at $30.3m , on turnover that rose 18.1% to $483.3m . |
| 7 | Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co Ltd has reported that net profit for the 12 months to March 31 rose 4.3% at the equivalent of $141.7m , on turnover that declined by 1.7% to $2,268.8m . |
| 8 | It has accepted that progressive aging of the population necessitates a parallel increase in numbers of doctors . |
| 9 | Nicholas Garnham has argued that this provision of a wide-ranging repertoire also has an economic logic . |
| 10 | The government has argued that commercial fishing on the coast has declined dramatically . |
| 11 | Frank Pearce has argued that organised crime in the USA is dominated by big business ; and William Chambliss , in a detailed study of crime in Seattle , Washington , has demonstrated the numerous interconnections between organised crime and the ruling groups in society . |
| 12 | Yet the Home Office has said that specific approval for the functions of police computers is not required from them . |
| 13 | The Former West German Chancellor , Mr Willy Brandt , has said that any party in East Germany that decides to run on a reunification plank is virtually assured of a runaway victory at the general elections set for next May . |
| 14 | If a Chancellor has decided that certain conduct in one case is against conscience , he is likely to decide that similar conduct is against conscience in another : the chances are that another Chancellor will decide the same . |
| 15 | A study of Holocene sediment off the north-eastern coast of England has shown that heavy-metal pollution between 15 and 20 kilometres offshore has increased over the last 500 years . |
| 16 | Although a comprehensive study by Shaw ( 1969 ) has shown that increased boldness of print increases legibility for some readers , differences in typography were found to be considerably less significant for younger than for older readers with partial sight . |
| 17 | Such research has shown that one group of these creatures had a brain very like that of the living lamprey . |
| 18 | Experience has shown that this section of the policy is quite straightforward . |
| 19 | Oil company-funded research on Jurassic and Palaeocene hydrocarbon reservoir sequences has shown that stratigraphic variation in heavy-mineral provenance is a firm mineralogical basis for correlating sandstones and sets important constraints on possible locations of source areas , sediment-transport pathways and evolution of depositional systems . |
| 20 | Von Hirsch ( 1983 ) has noted that this disenchantment with rehabilitation and the revival of the concern with justice and proportionality have been quite wrongly labelled as a revival of classicism . |
| 21 | All of this is unlikely to present much of a problem to most of the larger operators with their own hygiene and quality control management , although even they will need to ensure that any programme of training and retraining of personnel is controlled and recorded . |
| 22 | If the landlord will not accept the amendment , then the tenant 's adviser should seek to ensure that any dispute about the rent is determined by arbitration rather than by an expert . |
| 23 | Markusen ( 1980 ) has remarked that efficiency depends upon which side of the dinner table you are sitting on.7 Davidoff ( 1976 ) has observed that rationalising housework in the economic sense is in itself an absurdity since , after the Second World War at least , the majority of housewives are unpaid . |
| 24 | Rosalind Krauss has observed that this principle of textual reproducibility was prevalent , although at the same time given ideological denial , in modernism , itself . |
| 25 | The so-called ring fencing of local authority housing revenue accounts in 1990 has meant that current spending on housing has to be financed out of the revenue raised from rents alone . |
| 26 | Relaxation of the international cold war has meant that military intervention by powerful countries from either the western or eastern blocs — from Cuba to France — will be much less frequent . |
| 27 | The very fact that the installation of a protective system is considered presupposes that some degree of control of the fire is desired , and if this is the case , the degree of control required must be capable of being quantified . |
| 28 | ( Ladislav Bittman , a senior officer of Czech intelligence in the 1960s , has stated that day-to-day supervision by KGB liaison officers extended to departmental level ) . |
| 29 | So , as they had done with the relations of production , Marx and Engels tried to show that this state of affairs was not inevitable , but the product of a specific historical development . |
| 30 | David Eversley ( 1983 , p. 89 ) has suggested that marital breakdown on average leads to 1.5 new households in the medium term for every old household that is dissolved . |