Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] that [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It would be possible to acknowledge that this type of emotional layer exists in human beings , and that it finds expression in the brutality men are capable of inflicting on one another .
2 To someone such as I , who had the vague but tenacious idea that Indians communicated in pictures only , a fragile method , it is pleasant to see that one scholar of native American languages calls the manuscripts ‘ the largest corpus of texts ’ of them and ‘ a remarkable resource ’ .
3 are clearly right to emphasise that new forms of politics and people 's support of these politics must be in some way connected to changing social structures and crises within capitalist society .
4 In respect of IAS 9 , Research and Development Costs , and IAS 23 , Borrowing Costs , E 32 proposed that immediate recognition as an expense should be the preferred treatment for all such costs .
5 It is pleasant to find that this believer in the perfectibility of mankind was a good father to them all .
6 It is interesting to see that some developments in reading instruction are stressing the need to help pupils cope with text organisational problems .
7 Patrick had been interested to see that all traces of the damage the insurgents had wrought in the Green — the trenches they had dug , the trees they had felled — had vanished , and the only evidence of the 1916 Rising were the bullet holes in the stonework of the hotel where the rebels had fired on the British troops positioned on the roof and in some of the upper rooms .
8 The CTP proclaims that the link between the perceived object and the perception is just an ordinary bit of the great causal nexus of nature ( it needs to believe this , as we shall see presently ) and yet it is prepared to accept that this segment of the chain has a rather privileged status ; at the very least , that it has a beginning and an end .
9 Although I hoped that I would find that the church stood at least on one circle , I was not prepared to find that four Circles of Time passed through it !
10 We are very willing to accept that those parts of the judges ' visitorial jurisdiction which were not incident to the administration of justice in the courts passed down through the routes suggested by Sir William and Professor Baker , but in the context of the present case , where the court has for the first time to inquire into the particular function which is being performed , we are not satisfied that the whole of the visitorial jurisdiction passed by this route .
11 The US negotiating team , led by Max Kampelman until his retirement in December , had on Oct. 30 proposed that anti-missile tests in space be permitted but that a limit be placed on their scope , with a specific assurance that the USA would limit to 15 the number of satellites deployed in a Strategic Defence Initiative ( SDI , or " Star Wars'-see p. 36760 ) test .
12 This assumes that both contributions to the strain are additive so that .
13 A French government report released on July 2 showed that foreign orders for French weapons had soared by 70 per cent in 1990 to F33,400 million ( US$5,400 million ) , largely because of the Gulf war .
14 This shows that similar guidelines for decompression of the biliary tree after open cholecystectomy , can be applied after laparoscopic cholecystectomy as well .
15 Although some consider that this method of electricity generation offers one of the synthetic fuel industry 's best options , the project has stirred up much opposition from those believing its contribution — 4,300 barrels of oil daily — a drop in the ocean .
16 Now I can see that I was wrong to assume that mere dedication to a craft ineluctably results in fine work , but it was that conviction which drove me to put Jean-Claude and his work on the map .
17 It would be wrong to suggest that any segment of an eighteenth-century electorate was truly independent , and a number of ties joined the freeholders to the party , or interest , of a local politician .
18 These studies were not " wrong " , but it would be wrong to conclude that this pattern of interest-group politics holds for all issues .
19 It would therefore seem sensible to conclude that greater control over the availability and sale of firearms would make an important contribution to the prevention of suicidal behaviour .
20 Western powers were wrong to believe that tsarist troops in Poland were aimed at the heart of Europe , for they were needed where they were .
21 At best , this focused that subtle blend of doctrine and awareness of its living reality defended by Walter Hilton and Reginald Pecock , at worst it encouraged the superstitious substitute for the work of faith which was labelled idolatry by the Lollards , those enthusiasts for the study of Scripture who tended to confuse its letter with its spirit .
22 It would be foolish to believe that any group of people can interact without a political undercurrent .
23 Mr Patten said this meant that all releases of waste from large industrial processes would be considered together before a discharge licence was granted .
24 Thucydides wanted to give a wholly reliable account of the wars between Athens and Sparta ; and this meant that unverified assumptions about the past had to be excluded . ’
25 This meant that fine tuning of the system in many areas , particularly on the personnel side , had to be held in abeyance until the payroll was running smoothly .
26 Meanwhile , some argue that that pool of resources could be expanded further by allowing solicitors to plead in more types of case .
27 Taken together with the finding that an initial RVF superiority on a visual reaction time task gave way to a LVF superiority when subjects were required to simultaneously hold in memory a list of nouns ( Hellige , Cox and Litvac , 1979 ) , this implies that dynamic shifts in attention are insufficient to explain all perceptual laterality effects .
28 This implies that any differences between forward and futures prices will be inconsequential .
29 This implies that random features of the flow are dominant .
30 This means that substantial control over work performance rests with employees themselves .
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