Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a number of reasons for thinking that such information transmission may be easier to manage if it occurs within firms than if it is subject to market transactions , and this means that there is a case for thinking that R&D activities ( particularly the D ) may have to be part of a vertically related structure that extends back into important input markets , and forward into downstream consumer markets ( see Teece , 1986 , Geroski , 1992 , and Jorde and Teece , 1990 , who apply these arguments to the antitrust treatment of co-operative R&D ventures ) . |
| 2 | On the contrary , law-giving was an important part of Christian kingship , and there are consequently good reasons for thinking that some aspects of Wulfstan 's activities would have been welcome to him , for he was certainly concerned to appear the Christian king ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 3 | There are however immediate reasons for thinking that this stance is imperceptive . |
| 4 | One of the reasons for believing that cross-species extrapolation is possible at all is that all living animals have evolved from common ancestors that existed at some time in the distant past . |
| 5 | In this chapter I want , first of all , to outline some of the reasons for believing that different types of animal have different types of brain , and second , to discuss ways of getting round some of the difficulties created when we want to make extrapolations between species . |
| 6 | As I shall describe , there are good reasons for predicting that black holes should exist , and the observational evidence points strongly to the presence of a number of black holes in our own galaxy and more in other galaxies . |
| 7 | However , it does not affect the force of his reasons for saying that all definitions of good in natural or metaphysical terms are wrong headed . |
| 8 | Consciousness is structured and there are reasons for supposing that this structure differs with the socio-economic situation of the experiencing subject . |
| 9 | When the life of a child can so easily hang in the balance , is there not a case for recommending that all parents attend a practical course in first aid , rather than relying on the printed page ? |
| 10 | Responsibility for seeing that these conditions are complied with post-authorisation lies in the first instance with the trustee company . |
| 11 | It is clear that as a matter of prudent management in a firm of any size one of the partners or a senior member of staff should be given overall responsibility for ensuring that all partners and employed solicitors ( whether or not held out as partners ) comply with these basic requirements of professional practice ( by keeping a check on replacement and renewal dates , collating relevant statistical information , ensuring timeous completion and posting of applications , etc ) and that the firm is spared the embarrassment of financial penalties or , even worse , an unwanted dissolution . |
| 12 | Also , the responsibility for ensuring that such planting is actually carried out is now a binding part of the clearance contract , as is the application of initial fertiliser to ensure the success of newly sown legumes . |
| 13 | Someone ( logically the senior partner ) should take personal responsibility for ensuring that this aspect of the life of the firm is kept under constant review . |
| 14 | A new Minister of State should be appointed in the Department of Health with responsibility for ensuring that national policy objectives are consistent with resources available to public authorities charged with meeting those objectives . |
| 15 | When in 1859 Charles Darwin published The Origins of Species , he had no intention of implying that random mutation of genes and natural selection could account for the emergence of life on earth ; but it was inevitable that some of his followers would try to project his hypothesis backwards , and speculate that life might somehow have been generated spontaneously in gaseous , primeval slime . |
| 16 | I have of course no intention of suggesting that this intellectual and , by implication , political revolution went on without a single hitch . |
| 17 | Finally , it is essential to minimise re-finance risks by ensuring that flexible bank loan facilities are made available to meet certain expenditures associated with the project . |
| 18 | The African National Congress ( ANC ) , however , asserted that they entrenched " minority privileges by ensuring that any majority party is powerless " . |
| 19 | Wearily he said : ‘ Miss Washbrooke , you have taken the responsibility of deciding that those knives were sent by a hoaxer and not a murderer . |
| 20 | The very primitive signalling systems available and the extreme difficulty of ensuring that any order was understood and obeyed were equally important obstacles in the way of an original or aggressive admiral . |
| 21 | If a non-competition covenant appears likely to infringe Article 85(1) exemption is possible under Article 85(3) although such an exemption is unlikely to be granted in respect of restrictive covenants because of the difficulty of showing that such provisions fulfil the four requirements set out in Article 85(3) that must be satisfied if an exemption is to be available . |
| 22 | We fell into the white stereotype of assuming that Bangladeshi women would find the use of various checklists and written records foreign . |
| 23 | During the last ten years there has been considerable progress towards ensuring that thematic work is incremental , that undue repetition is avoided and that the skills , attitudes , concepts and knowledge of the integrated subjects are taught sequentially . |
| 24 | Paul Sweezy , in his book The Theory of Capitalist Development , criticised Bukharin 's equations as follows : ‘ Bukharin in his formal presentation of the expanded reproduction scheme , makes the error of assuming that capitalist consumption always remains the same … he seems incapable of imagining an increase in capitalist consumption . ’ |
| 25 | It is an atavistic reaction , born partly of disappointment that decades of believing that infectious diseases are a danger past and partly from the underlying despair of those infected with HIV and the anger of the groups that represent them . |
| 26 | The end-of-year panic on discovering that other teachers had covered more had led to a general feeling that the quicker topics were completed the better . |
| 27 | I have in recent years got into a deal of trouble in certain Commonwealth countries by claiming that any all-Canadian or Australian squadron was not as good as a mixed squadron . |
| 28 | Tawell 's counsel , Fitzroy Kelly , had already insulted the jury 's intelligence by suggesting that prussic acid found in Sara 's body was due to eating too many apples . |
| 29 | This move had a dramatic effect on the income of pensioners in 1948 , but flawed the Beveridge scheme in the long run by ensuring that many pensioners would have to continue resorting to means-tested benefits . |
| 30 | This is one issue on which the hon. Gentleman might have commenced his supplementary question by saying that most people in Wales are pleased with the way in which the Government have fought for the British lamb industry as a whole and that Welsh consignments have been fought for , too . |