Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This led to a vast number of prosecutions , usually in the magistrates ' court , because the authorities were quite careful about alleging that less damage had occurred than would give the protesters the option of having a jury trial , something for which most of them would have very happily volunteered . |
| 2 | To demonstrate that learning and memory retention can be improved in animals injected with peptides and tested under highly contrived laboratory conditions is very different from showing that human memory can be helped by popping a pill . |
| 3 | Their support is then usually too late to avert psychiatric disorder as research is clear in showing that most disorder associated with life events develops quite rapidly after the event . |
| 4 | ( Elster is , however , wrong in thinking that natural selection can not reach the mixed ESS of the Hawk-Dove game . ) |
| 5 | Two days later the secretary general , Archbishop Felici , responded to this by announcing that all schemata would be reworked while the Council was in recess . |
| 6 | Monetarists have attempted to counter this by arguing that any increase in spending by one group in the economy , with no accompanying increase in the money supply , will tend to raise interest rates and so ‘ crowd out ’ spending by some other groups . |
| 7 | I 've become very stubborn about finding that safe place , and I 've refused to let life overwhelm me … |
| 8 | Society is ambivalent about recognising that elderly people have a legitimate wish to continue to express their sexuality in physical ways . |
| 9 | Intel is firm in stating that this device is not a 486 with 386 pin outs and point out that the 486 has cache and burst I/O characteristics that require a 486 design on the main board in order to work properly . |
| 10 | Wherever we have an X in a real live animal , where X is some organ too complex to have arisen by chance in a single step , then according to the theory of evolution by natural selection it must be the case that a fraction of an X is better than no X at all A and two fractions of an X must be better than one ; and a whole X must be better than nine-tenths of an X. I have no trouble at all in accepting that these statements are true of eyes , ears including bat ears , wings , camouflaged and mimicking insects , snake jaws , stings , cuckoo habits and all the other examples trotted out in antievolution propaganda . |
| 11 | What marks the ‘ explanation ’ range is the assertion of only the weak determinism involved in claiming that similar effects always occur in similar conditions . |
| 12 | I have n't been around this long without learning that funny things happen to people who know too much about mob business . ’ |
| 13 | In Road to Divorce , he is much closer to concluding that affective individualism is a ‘ Bad Thing ’ . |
| 14 | For such a straightforward concept , the game manages to turn up surprises galore by ensuring that different approaches are adopted for each particular screen . |
| 15 | President Reagan is probably right in thinking that private companies could introduce innovations to what has become rather a moribund operation . |
| 16 | You are right in thinking that such products are carbohydrate sources too . |
| 17 | Robert Leeson ( 22nd January ) may be right in suggesting that Just William might not have wanted to be a Tory minister , but he did have parliamentary ambitions . |
| 18 | Government Ministers may well be right in saying that Labour Party policies would bring the country to its knees . |
| 19 | But he is right in saying that existing road space must be rationed — electronic devices are the obvious method — and public transport radically enhanced . |
| 20 | Shelley gazed as he sang , wondering if Dr Rafaelo had been right in saying that this act was only showmanship , with no genuine feeling or emotion in it . |
| 21 | I think I 'm right in saying that this week the government announced that an extra one point six million pounds was being made available for yourselves and the English Tourist Board to , in an sense , overcome some of the projects , some of the problems that you 've been facing . |
| 22 | But he has been right in saying that urgent measures have been put off for too long . |
| 23 | But Amin Rajan could also be right in predicting that financial houses will have a declining influence in the City . |
| 24 | The comment from , Scottish & Newcastle 's finance director , was typical : ‘ I think it 's a very important concept that the board through management is responsible for seeing that internal control works and for the day-to-day detection of fraud , while the auditors also have a responsibility where it is material and affects the annual accounts . ’ |
| 25 | You will be held responsible for ensuring that all work adheres to regulations . |
| 26 | As I have said , the inspectors are responsible for ensuring that all vehicles are safe and roadworthy . |
| 27 | Information is recorded on standard forms at screening and these are sent to the appropriate care management and assessment team , which is responsible for ensuring that each stage of the assessment and care management cycle is completed ( box 3 ) . |
| 28 | Housing for Rent — local authorities should be responsible for ensuring that rented housing was available for all local people in need of it , provided wherever possible from the existing housing stock ( in contrast to Tai Cymru 's present policy of forcing housing associations to build new houses ) . |
| 29 | The National Grid was to be responsible for ensuring that sufficient power was provided by the generating companies to the distribution companies at all times . |
| 30 | The accounts department is responsible for ensuring that top management is aware of the financial state of the company and for advising it on appropriate actions to ensure that it remains sound . |