Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [verb] that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It even became possible to consider that the horse might also have a mind ! |
| 2 | When one considers the amount of time , effort and money involved in the preparation of those papers and the hearing of them it is , in my opinion , becoming essential to ensure that the number of frivolous appeals ( some of which are perhaps made out of ‘ cussedness ’ to cause the officers involved as much trouble as possible ) is reduced . |
| 3 | The rise of spirit smuggling , gin , rum and brandy , reflects an increase in national consumption , but we do not know enough to suggest that the drinking culture was changing in the countryside and in the small towns . |
| 4 | Because of the poor response to gluten free diet and the presence of lymphoma it seemed reasonable to consider that the malabsorption was as a result of an enteropathy associated with the lymphoma ( EATCL ) rather than simple coeliac disease . |
| 5 | Research International says that the proportion of farmers under 35 dropped from 39 to 14 per cent between 1987 and 1991 and the number with under 10 years ' experience dropped from 10 per cent to four per cent . |
| 6 | The case against the defendant was indeed a strong one and for that reason their Lordships would not be prepared simply to recommend that an acquittal be ordered , but they do not feel able to say that the jury would inevitably have convicted , if the defence had been furnished in advance with the three statements in question and if the jury had received the accepted direction on evidence as to character and guidance from the trial judge on the problem , whatever it was , indicated when they first returned to court . |
| 7 | Calculations based on the assumption that the fertility and mortality rates of 1933 would remain unchanged showed that the population of this country would be halved in the course of a century . |
| 8 | From mid-October to mid-November Baldwin behaved as though lie still hoped that the King might retreat and the affair blow over . |
| 9 | It might sound ridiculous to suggest that the sun could shrink to being only a few miles across . |
| 10 | It is hoped that they will keep the client in power , but today , as in Stalin 's day , additional measures are thought necessary to guarantee that the client remains reliable himself . |
| 11 | The 1990 final figure fell 3,800,000 short of the earlier estimates of the Census Bureau , which , together with numerous complaints of inefficiency and a lack of resources , led many to suggest that the census had undercounted the population . |
| 12 | In 1895 , when the ratemahatmaya of Katugampola Hatpattu in Kurunagala complained that Low Countrymen from Chilaw district were stealing cattle and removing them to their own district , the Low Country mudaliyar concerned replied that the charge was false , and that Kandyans were involved in the few cases of cattle stealing . |
| 13 | Here it seems hard to say that the party seeking to rely on the exemption clause is contracting on his own written standard terms . |
| 14 | In retrospect it seems obvious to say that the laying of burr veneers onto any substrate is temperature sensitive but that is being wise after the event . |
| 15 | It seems natural to assert that the extent to which managers deviate from owners ' interests will depend upon the degree of scope available to them and the degree to which they are constrained . |
| 16 | It seems reasonable to conclude that the situation described by economists as a " backward-sloping supply curve for labour " , meaning that contrary to expectations a higher price produces a decrease in labour offered , was less generally true in the mid eighteenth century than it had been earlier . |
| 17 | Whatever the disagreements , it seems reasonable to say that the period circa 1890–1914 witnessed ‘ an unprecedented advance of machine technique and of mechanisation generally and automatism in particular ’ . |
| 18 | It therefore seems reasonable to suppose that the function of the brain is to mediate these more flexible links between stimuli and responses . |
| 19 | It seems reasonable to suppose that the definition of a language as a subject for learning should in some way be informed by theories about the nature of language in general on the one hand and by descriptions of languages in particular on the other . |
| 20 | Now it seems reasonable to suggest that the competence/performance distinction might also mark the division of responsibility between syllabus and methodology , with the former specifying the knowledge to be acquired and the latter providing conditions for its behavioural realization . |
| 21 | In addition , it seems reasonable to assume that the development will attain an occupancy rate much higher than that at present . |
| 22 | The end of the coil is closed , and it seems reasonable to assume that the animal started growing as a coiled shell . |
| 23 | Even then , it seems reasonable to believe that the number of beneficiaries of such spillovers is limited . |
| 24 | In effect , it seems safe to conclude that the performance of feudal services by the King of England as duke of Aquitaine and count of Ponthieu was very largely a non-issue . |
| 25 | It seems fanciful to imagine that the existence of a handful of male victims and female defendants would have any impact either on the future development by the judges of the substantive law of rape or on the handling of rape cases by the police , or indeed on the way that rape is generally perceived . |
| 26 | For that reason alone I feel able to say that the decision of the justices was wrong and that therefore this court is able to substitute its own discretion . |
| 27 | Because of this policy , ‘ the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher , by reason of its many limitations and exceptions , today seldom forms the basis of a successful claim in the courts ’ and it seems fair to remark that the rule ‘ has hardly been taken seriously by modern English courts . ’ |
| 28 | The church 's spokesman , Bishop Joseph Duffy , said : ‘ We feel obliged to state that the wording proposed is basically flawed because it guarantees less than the total exclusion of deliberate abortion . ’ |
| 29 | None the less , it seems plausible to suppose that the loss of the OR in the pre-exposed group might retard the formation of a light-food association simply because it reduces the likelihood that these subjects will see the light at the start of conditioning . |
| 30 | However , since access to lexical items appears to be at least partly an automatic process in which words are accessed as a result of unplanned factors ( such as prior mention by the present speaker or an earlier speaker ) , it seems plausible to suggest that the production system should be able to adapt in order to incorporate automatically accessed lexical items into current constituents . |