Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [verb] [that] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Writing as a Marxist influenced by the philosopher Louis Althusser , Castells argued that urban sociology , especially that developed by the Chicago School , was ‘ ideological ’ By this he meant that urban sociologists had never stopped to ask what was actually theoretically significant about cities and city life . |
| 2 | In Chapter 10 we saw that existing oligopolists would have an incentive to advertise too much , not because advertising provides additional consumer information about the product , but because it raises the fixed cost of being in the industry , thereby making it harder for new firms to enter the industry . |
| 3 | The Letter calls him king of all England and Denmark and the Norwegians and of some of the Swedes , which if genuine implies that he already claimed Olaf 's throne , and Florence of Worcester says that in 1027 he heard that some Norwegians were discontented , sent them large quantities of gold and silver , and secured an undertaking of future support . |
| 4 | In Chapter 5 we discovered that physical laws expressed as tensor equations automatically retain their form under general transformations . |
| 5 | The strikes had taken on an important political dimension when workers formed a free trades union ‘ Solidarity ’ , and in 1981 it seemed that Soviet tanks would be needed to restore order . |
| 6 | In Chapter 3 I observed that most feminists have been more interested in studying linguistic sex differences than in critiquing or questioning this activity . |
| 7 | In the simplest I found that many owners saw their houses as white elephants . |
| 8 | From Table 16.1 we see that direct taxes — in the form of income tax , capital taxes , corporation tax and petroleum revenue tax — are expected to produce 35.0% ( 80.4/229.8 ) of total government receipts in 1992/93 . |
| 9 | In halting Danish she explained that proprietary brands would not relieve the pain . |
| 10 | In a number of cultures where both mystical strategies are available we find that social inferiors employ possession against superiors whose ultimate authority they grudgingly accept , whereas witchcraft ( or sorcery ) accusations are reserved for challenging unacceptable authority . |
| 11 | In Chapter 13 we saw that these differences allow people to earn very different income levels in a market economy . |
| 12 | With a squad of 16 it means that five players spend a majority of their time watching . |
| 13 | The inclusion in NHS consultants ' contracts of a formal commitment to teaching is a step in the right direction in that it acknowledges that most doctors teach to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 14 | Amidst all the changes which took place in Eastern Europe during 1989 , the opening of the borders between East and West Germany on Nov. 9 , 1989 ( see p. 37025 ) was perhaps the most significant event to NATO members in that it confirmed that such changes , in particular the evolving relationship between the two Germanies , demanded an assessment of how NATO should respond and what its future role would be . |
| 15 | In Chapter 14 we saw that risky activities on average will need to earn a higher rate of return to compensate for the higher risks involved . |
| 16 | Notice also that we can express any class of asset as a proportion of total assets or liabilities and remember too that in section 1.1.5 we said that these ratios are arrived at as a matter of deliberate choice and are assumed to represent portfolio equilibrium . |
| 17 | Holomisa had ended Transkei 's state of emergency on Nov. 7 , 1989 [ see p. 37033 ] , freed ANC and PAC prisoners , and encouraged contact with the ANC ; during a visit to the United States at the end of January 1990 he said that these measures showed a commitment to change and to unity on the part of all black people , and that he wanted to make Transkei 's independence an instrument of liberation for South Africa . |