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

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1 Provisions of May the fourth had been seriously overstepped but the communists did not realize this and thought that more land was available for redistribution .
2 Wemicke ( 1874 ) confirmed this and showed that auditory comprehension was linked to the left hemisphere .
3 One can only hope that tournament organisers come to recognise this and ensure that each event is staffed by the requisite number of officials .
4 The first merely points out the difficulties with scepticism ; the internalist would accept this and say that these difficulties have to be faced and not ignored .
5 Many technical experts in this country do not believe this to be sensible and know that similar views exist amongst their European colleagues .
6 Here what we had was a case of the supreme court , well I 'll say more about this later , but the supreme court declaring segregation by race to be unconstitutional and requiring that these decisions be recognized and enforced by relevant authorities .
7 Athelstan was pleased to see that it was empty and insisted that this time he should be host .
8 The legislation mandates that imported or factory-made goods be identified as such and required that any objects offered for sale as ‘ Indian ’ must be accompanied by proof that their maker or makers are of Indian ancestry , i.e. , members of a federally recognized tribe .
9 ‘ You are coming home with me now , and if you so much as open that foul mouth of yours , I 'll beat you within an inch of your life . ’
10 The Engineering Council expects registrants to adhere to good engineering practice wherever and whenever possible and considers that this Code of Professional Practice will assist registrants in achieving this standard .
11 The churches , however , are doing all they can to encourage as much dialogue as possible and to ensure that effective communication plays a key role in the democratic process .
12 The government , therefore , established the Kenya Reinsurance Corporation in 1971 and decreed that all underwriters reinsure part of their business with Kenya Re .
13 The Egyptian government expressed regret over the US decision on June 21 and stated that direct negotiation and continuous dialogue were the only way to resolve the dispute .
14 Police spokesman Graeme Jarvis commented she was very , very lucky and added that woollen clothing and wet-weather gear had probably saved her life .
15 Since Hubel and Wiesel began publishing their work in the late 1950s , there has been an increasing appreciation of the way in which nervous systems are so structured as to ensure that certain events of special importance to the organism have an increased likelihood of triggering activity in the relevant places .
16 It hopes its own order book is solid but knows that double ordering is going on in the sector .
17 Her pure unforced natural soprano soared into the air above them all and showered that hard school of auditors with a sprinkling of lovely notes that they turned into tears .
18 The exploration of dramatic configurations has revealed possibilities that are so many and varied that any list would be incomplete , if only for lack of tomorrow 's development .
19 All the more important , then , to stand protected from the like and ensure that all things — not excluding alcohol — conspire to bear visible witness to that ruddy hue sported by the English living in the Tropics . ’
20 I felt the meeting was useful and hope that further co-ordination will enable all of us to campaign more effectively against the major road schemes that threaten Glamorgan and Gwent .
21 A sequence and no dates is as useful as knowing that one site lies to the west of another without knowing how far .
22 Hooliganism involving Dutch supporters has become so frequent as to suggest that another blanket ban of a nation 's clubs might be necessary .
23 Aid workers in Freetown were quoted as estimating that between 3,000 and 5,000 Sierra Leonean civilians and Liberian refugees had been killed by the NPFL since incursions began in March [ see p. 38136 ] , and the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva was quoted on May 4 as saying that 10,000 people had fled from the border area .
24 This does no more than emphasise that these rooms are ready to accept the lower valued articles , and as such must surely appeal to the ordinary collector .
25 This is not to say that all investors or brokers are compulsive gamblers any more than to say that all drinkers are alcoholic .
26 But in order to become philosophically interesting ( rather than simply an intellectual freak ) he must do more than assert that higher standards of evidence are better .
27 But proving the necessity of crime requires more than showing that some things that were formerly criminal are now important parts of healthy social life ( even if we were to accept that we can objectively determine what constitutes healthy social life ) .
28 Some criticise aspects of his theories , for example that the first 5 years of childhood are all important and say that all years of childhood are vitally important .
29 The results are shown in Table 5.3 and indicate that substantial numbers were experiencing each symptom , with some posing a problem for the majority of carers ( losing or hiding things , dangerous or risky behaviour , falling , repeating questions or actions , being restless , angry or irritable , despondent or depressed , or uninterested in what was going on ) .
30 Old ladies trapped in time imagine they are in 1929 and love 's first blossoms are just around the corner , an old man feels angry and cheated that 40 years of his life have disappeared .
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