Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] that [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes that one photographer on board the Queen Mary on her maiden voyage sent film back to Fleet Street by carrier pigeon . |
| 2 | Very roughly , Fodor argued that this kind of blanket objection to representational theories of mind does not work against the mental-sentence kind of theory for the simple reason that we know just what it would be like for a system to work on the mental-sentence principle . |
| 3 | On Jan. 30 , the US authorities revealed that two members of a Cuban family were wounded by Cuban security forces while attempting to flee to the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay . |
| 4 | A study in one polytechnic found that 11% of the bookstock was in circulation , while in another two samples taken from law and the humanities revealed that three issues per volume was the average use per annum , and that two-thirds of the items were loaned in a two-year period . |
| 5 | By May 18 the development ministers of the EC member states agreed that some $5,000,000 of emergency aid would be granted to Somalia , to be channelled through European non-governmental organizations as well as through the UNHCR . |
| 6 | All the small states fear that any strengthening of the European Parliament , where they have relatively few seats in comparison with big brothers like Britain and Germany , will lead to a weakening of their influence by comparison with the Council of Ministers , which they attend as equals . |
| 7 | Gummer admitted that current estimates of traffic growth , and hence traffic-related pollution , were incompatible with sustainability . |
| 8 | The rapid advances in this field suggest that computational analogues of human reasoning abilities will become increasingly difficult to distinguish from the real thing , and if a mechanistic view of biological systems is taken , this in itself may provide sufficient proof of the ability of non-biological systems to develop the ability to process ideas and communicate concepts . |
| 9 | First impressions in the field suggest that large areas of ice-free Antarctica are sterile . |
| 10 | The Food Safety Directorate say that all packets of cling film should carry health warnings . |
| 11 | HS reported that advance booking of laboratory space and facilities is desirable to optimise use . |
| 12 | Experts say that two glasses of red wine a day — taken with meals — helps prevent heart disease . |
| 13 | Yet a survey study of the 1983 election found that this section of the electorate was the most right-wing of all on issue questions about privatization , incentives versus equality , trade union rights , and comprehensive schools , and that over 70 per cent of them voted Conservative in the election . |
| 14 | If it were abolished , that would have the blessing , as far as I am aware , of every local authority association , the Institute of Revenues , Ratings and Valuation , and the Child Poverty Action Group , the very strong blessing of the citizens advice bureaux — and the enormously authorititative support of the Audit Commission , which , in its report , had this to say on the subject : ’ Local authorities say that large numbers of income support recipients are in arrears with community charge payments for 1990/91 . |
| 15 | The next day the Irish Times reported that 711 ex-workers of Raybestos Manhattan in New Jersey in the US were sueing the company and its asbestos supplier , Johns Manville , for $2 million each in workers ' compensation and punitive damages awards . |
| 16 | And although disagreeing in significant respects with Schwoerer , W. A. Speck concludes that significant inroads on the royal prerogative were made by the Revolution settlement , and that " the debate on the nature of the monarchy did end decisively in 1689 with the victory of those who argued that it was limited and mixed " . |
| 17 | An early Inland Revenue analysis of the revaluation suggest that 240,000 businesses in England face increases of 100 per cent or more in their annual bills ; about 230,000 rises between 50 and 100 per cent and a further 390,000 increases of between five and 50 per cent . |
| 18 | WACC 's folk media programme revealed that traditional forms of communication can be harnessed for effective social change when adapted and backed by a strong motivation and social consciousness . |
| 19 | The Department admitted that seven questions in the original specimen were ‘ too difficult ’ . |
| 20 | Through his work , Freud realised that some taboos of the time were much more commonly breached than was acknowledged by society . |
| 21 | In 1981 a joint working party of the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Royal College of Radiologists recommended that direct access to radiological services is essential to family doctors ; it shortens the investigation time and improves the quality of service offered by general practitioners . |
| 22 | Monetarists argued that excessive growth in the money stock was the root cause of the inflationary problem , and that any tradeoff between inflation and unemployment was at best temporary . |
| 23 | A new survey recently published by the CIOB found that three quarters of the members surveyed believed that the banks have a negative policy towards the construction industry . |
| 24 | I wonder how many readers realise that new regulations from the Department of Health might make certain foods less available . |
| 25 | These authors found that oral administration of aspirin was associated with inhibition of platelet prostaglandin synthesis and suggested that this finding might explain the known effects of aspirin in inhibiting the platelet-release reaction and in prolonging the bleeding time ( Quick , 1966 ) . |
| 26 | The data suggest that optimal outcome for the fetus can be achieved only when maternal phenylalanine concentrations are close to normal from early gestation . |
| 27 | Researchers for the Lord Chancellor 's Civil Justice Review found that three quarters of local authority tenants , half the private tenants and two-fifths of mortgage borrowers failed to go to court . |
| 28 | Hydro reported that net profits in the third quarter of 1991 were NKr 39m ( £1 = NKr 11 ) , compared with NKr 101.4m in the same period in 1990 . |
| 29 | These considerations suggest that conceptual analysis in criminal law is complex , turning upon philosophies of mind and action , theories of the social function of law or upon moral philosophy . |
| 30 | On Jan. 21 Radio Mogadishu reported that 7,275 tonnes of food aid awaiting distribution in the city 's port had been looted . |