Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Classified by Japanese officials as " reactor grade " not " weapons grade " , the shipments had nevertheless triggered concern among critics of nuclear proliferation who warned that some countries had fabricated crude nuclear devices from plutonium of the kind Japan was shipping . |
| 2 | The data used in the example may look unusual and have indeed been chosen for simplicity , but readers who suppose that these values are exceptionally troublesome are encouraged to experiment with others to confirm the reality of the problem . |
| 3 | However , these defects were largely solved by Litzenberger and Ramaswamy who concluded that risk-adjusted returns are higher for those securities offering higher dividend yields . |
| 4 | He is the mathematician who says that intelligent life in the Universe does not exist , because if it did we would be knee deep in space probes by now . |
| 5 | Now their successes have been tarnished in a report by school inspectors who say that educational standards have fallen and the marking was far too lenient . |
| 6 | Many others , however , agreed with the sole practitioner who felt that unlimited liability ought to be accepted as part of the ‘ burden and responsibility of being a member of a profession ’ . |
| 7 | Another angle on psychological differences between blacks and whites is given by Worthy and Markle who argue that white sportsmen do better at self-paced activities , ‘ ones in which the individual responds , when he chooses , to a relatively static or unchanging stimulus ’ , whereas blacks have an edge in reactive activities , ‘ in which the individual must respond appropriately and at the right time to changes in the stimulus situation ’ ( 1970 ) . |
| 8 | Rollin is thus at variance with Regan who argues that all research involving harm to animals , and this includes killing them painlessly , must be stopped ( 1983 : 397 ) : ‘ If nonanimal alternatives are available , they should be used ; if they are not available , they should be sought ’ ( 388 ) . |
| 9 | The trend towards a more nationalistic variety of communism , independent of Moscow and resting on the approach of mass mobilisation advocated by Mao , inspired those Korean communists who felt that this approach could prove valuable for their own party in the future . |
| 10 | The discussion which follows in the Report for young people in general is based mainly on a rating which is established by subtracting the number of employers who think that young people are worse than older workers from those who think that they are better on each of these attributes . |
| 11 | As Owen 's lawyer , I can promise you that I 'm going to sue the socks off the drunken driver who caused that terrible accident , ’ he vowed firmly . |
| 12 | A notable convert to their point of view was Harrison Salisbury of the New York Times who argued that American withdrawal from the South would not produce a takeover by the North . |
| 13 | The chairman who ventured that mild criticism was well-placed to do so . |
| 14 | The use of such tests is a controversial issue , with on the one hand , anti-abortion lobbies arguing that life begins at conception and that therefore all abortion is wrong , through to womens ' groups who believe that such tests should be available to all pregnant women of all ages , so that those who do not wish to take the risk of giving birth to a mentally handicapped child may take the appropriate actions to prevent it . |
| 15 | This is a paradoxical fact for those empiricists who think that new theories are derived from the facts in some way , but it is quite comprehensible when it is realized that precise experimentation can only be carried out if one has a precise theory capable of yielding predictions in the form of precise observation statements . |
| 16 | It would be a foolhardy author who assumed that Young Reader automatically meant Uninformed Reader . |
| 17 | This point is further reinforced by Peirce who argued that all language , all inquiry and all knowledge is essentially social in character . |
| 18 | Individualists who deny that these claims explain anything at all are , in effect , simply reasserting the hegemony of the interest from which individualism draws its life , while holists are pursuing their own concern with the constraining power of society . |
| 19 | On Jan. 25 , however , Tanjug quoted statements by four refugees from Shkodër who said that anti-Stalinist demonstrations had taken place there on Jan. 11 and 14 , involving up to 7,000 people ; that there had been many arrests ; and that police reinforcements were patrolling the city and the surrounding area . |
| 20 | Applicants who consider that this exception may apply to them should seek detailed advice by writing to the Registry . |
| 21 | Applicants who consider that this exception may apply to them should seek detailed advice by writing to the Registry . |
| 22 | Educational dogmatists who insist that middle-class values ( and hence , speech ) must not be foisted on working-class children ; a society which has never had any real commitment to the idea of education as a key to social mobility ; guilt-ridden liberal sentimentality about working-class cultural identity . |
| 23 | Their claims were supported on the same day by UK Foreign Office sources who said that Iraqi forces were pursuing a policy of " tremendous inhumanity " . |
| 24 | Perhaps the most resonant phrases in the whole debate came from the pro-rights organiser who suggested that future centuries would come to regard our attitude to animals with the same horrified disbelief we now feel for the periods which practised slavery . |
| 25 | The passage into law has failed fully to satisfy campaigners who argue that proper parity has still not been won for Scots families . |
| 26 | If you 're the sort of person who thinks that Parliamentary democracy is a reasonably important thing , you could n't take much pleasure from the findings of the enquiry into the way Rover was sold off . |
| 27 | ( b ) A person who knows that another person consents to sexual intercourse under a mistaken belief referred to in paragraph ( a ) shall be deemed to know that the other person does not consent to the sexual intercourse . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ For the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) and without limiting the grounds upon which it may be established that consent to sexual intercourse is vitiated — ; ( a ) a person who consents to sexual intercourse with another person — ; ( i ) under a mistaken belief as to the identity of the other person ; or ( ii ) under a mistaken belief that the other person is married to the person , … shall be deemed not to consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( b ) a person who knows that another person consents to sexual intercourse under a mistaken belief referred to in paragraph ( a ) shall be deemed to know that the other person does not consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( c ) a person who submits to sexual intercourse with another person as a result of threats or terror , whether the threats are against , or the terror is instilled in , the person who submits to the sexual intercourse or any other person , shall be regarded as not consenting to the sexual intercourse ; and ( d ) a person who does not offer actual physical resistance to sexual intercourse shall not , by reason only of that fact , be regarded as consenting to the sexual intercourse . ’ |
| 29 | Activity Catechist — the person who ensures that all friends and helpers in the group have what they need to prepare themselves for the sacred experience — both in equipment and atmosphere . |
| 30 | It would be a bold person who claimed that these channels and mechanisms , comprehensive as they are , provide a guarantee of reliability in all contingencies . |