Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which current Conservative cabinet minister was reputed to have said of John Stonehouse 's faked suicide , ‘ This goes to show that old politicians never die , they simply wade away ’ ? |
| 2 | This involves showing that reasonable care was not taken in the manufacture . |
| 3 | Along with the rise of local voluntary and community groups , often funded by the local council , this has ensured that local authority politics have increased markedly in both their visibility and their differentiation . |
| 4 | This has supposed that feminist effort should be devoted , first , to showing how the ‘ images ’ in question oppress or denigrate women , and second , to offering positive images of women to replace these . |
| 5 | Typically this has meant that economic policy has emphasised the primacy of industry over agriculture , investment over consumption and exports over imports . |
| 6 | This has meant that many enthusiasts for computing in the humanities have an uncomfortable sense of crisis , a feeling of promise unfulfilled . |
| 7 | This has meant that many studies tend to concentrate on the objective assessment of a fiscally quantifiable reality . |
| 8 | As far as study of the mystics is concerned , this has meant that modern readers have felt inhibited about discussing these texts and have attributed to them an abstruse esoteric quality ; this is ironic in view of the fact that the mystics themselves proclaim their experience to be of fundamental human importance — and essentially simple . |
| 9 | This has meant that domestic plumbing has been brought within the reach of the competent handyman . |
| 10 | This has meant that common law and equity have developed alongside one another and equitable principles have helped to extend the bounds of remedies available . |
| 11 | This has meant that dead animals are left by the roadside for the council to collect , and the local slaughterhouses have been receiving sick animals as some farmers try to use it as a replacement for the knacker 's yard . |
| 12 | This has meant that legally-held guns and those applying to hold them are already subject to very tight controls . ’ |
| 13 | This has meant that underground aquifers , which supply much of the water requirements of the south-east , have shrunk to the lowest level on record . |
| 14 | One English study showed accident rates of 5–9 year olds 15–20 times higher in residential areas than the 17–59 age group , whilst another has shown that young pedestrians account for 38 per cent of recorded casualties in residential area accidents and young cyclists a further nine per cent . |
| 15 | But for those of us who are gardeners , the bitter experience of the winter of 1981–82 has shown that extreme cold can do lasting damage . |
| 16 | This seemed to indicate that those areas with full-time farmers were the most efficient but there were many other factors to be considered . |
| 17 | Sometimes the author 's identity is given away by some small detail reflecting a habit of expression or thought , and this seems to confirm that each writer has a linguistic " thumbprint " an individual combination of linguistic habits which somehow betrays him in all that he writes . |
| 18 | This seems to indicate that most drivers have heeded the message of drink driving campaigns . |
| 19 | The basic components of Maslow 's theory are often presented as a pyramid , but this seems to imply that those needs situated at the top of the pyramid are more important than those at the bottom . |
| 20 | This included ensuring that adequate materials were used and that the specification was embodied in the propellers . |
| 21 | Interesting to have seen that young sneak thief about in the hotel , Lord Boddington switched thoughts , disturbed by memories of unhappier days . |
| 22 | A report to a Brussels meeting of the Group of 24 ( G-24 ) leading industrialized countries on Jan. 30 had found that G-24 assistance to Eastern and Central Europe amounted to US$38,000 million . |
| 23 | Some have intimated that these contacts , while not illegal , raise suspicions that the superfund 's huge cache for money may have turned into a political slush-fund , spread around to fertilise the candidates of loyal Republicans . |
| 24 | Some have argued that this policy of ambiguity and delay reflected wishful thinking on his part , a misguided belief that he could somehow parlay his personal standing with all parties into a new consensus that would hold the communities together long enough for a French-financed modernization programme to work its magic . |
| 25 | Far from freeing resources for other priorities , some have suggested that each rouble of imported equipment requires an average of five roubles in investment support . |
| 26 | It was easy to keep promising that some sun and heat would work its usual miracle but it had been a hard , cold winter and almost everyone had suffered from influenza , Mrs Browning worst of all . |
| 27 | However , in 1334 Edward III had agreed that this tax should become a stereotyped levy based upon fixed quotas for each locality . |
| 28 | The law introduced on Oct. 7 had stipulated that any candidate for the presidency had to be supported by 50 mayors and 400 town councillors . |
| 29 | The first of these has meant that systematic surveillance is carried out by the branch over organizations that regularly organize demonstrations and marches or are involved in industrial disputes . |
| 30 | Mr McSharry is supposed to have suggested that jubilant M Delors might care to take charge of the negotiations himself , since he had caused the mess in the first place . |