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

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1 Formerly , the difference between the Germans and the French was that the Germans wanted to await greater economic convergence before implementing a monetary union , while the French thought that this goal should be achieved by economic dirigisme , including monetary union .
2 In the face of such evidence it was a little difficult for at least some of the non-poor to accept that such conditions should continue and that free enterprise could bring them to an end largely unassisted .
3 The Japanese say that these fish are five-coloured , the hues being red , white , black , dark and light blue .
4 The success of these development corporations prompted organizations such as the Town and Country Planning Association in the 1970s to suggest that some kind of development agency for the inner cities should be created ( Town and Country Planning Association , 1979 ) .
5 In Norway , a re-survey of 1,000 lakes studied in the 1970s showed that many lakes have actually lost more of their neutralising capacity in recent years , although sulphate levels are falling .
6 It consists of Newton 's laws of motion plus his law of gravitation , the latter asserting that all pairs of bodies in the universe attract each other with a force that varies inversely as the square of their separation .
7 2.4.2 as may be [ reasonably ] required by the Architect provided that no modification shall be made pursuant to this clause 2.4.2 which would substantially alter the design layout nature capacity or standard of construction of the Premises as provided for in the Building Documents or substantially prejudice the use of the Premises for the purpose specified in the Lease It may be preferable to substitute the word " materially " for the word " substantially " in clause 2.4.2 as the latter suggests that some alteration less than substantial may be permitted but which could result in not inconsequential prejudice occurring to the design or use of the premises .
8 In a way this too is made true by The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings combined ; for the latter predicts that some elves will refuse to leave Middle-earth , however much they may ‘ dwindle ’ , while the former shows that others remain in Valinor , once part of the Earth , though now in some mysterious way sundered from it .
9 It had been decided in a case following the 1976 act that that right still existed .
10 But developments in the eighties suggest that these fears are not as worrying as the very real fear about other libraries in Britain .
11 In both cases the MMC held that these companies were efficiently run and had contributed to substantial cost savings , the Schumpeterian view of monopoly to which we referred in Chapter 9 and illustrated in Figure 17–2 .
12 Barry is the first to admit that most movie stars are a bit of a letdown in the flesh .
13 Perhaps the biggest worry that most people have about embarking on an electronic coursework scheme is the problem of potential viruses .
14 The Prayer Book debates of 1928 and the arguments over tithes in the 1930s showed that many Unionists still counted the interests of the Church high in their priorities , but the battles were no longer party ones .
15 Trends in sickness absence since the 1950s suggest that these costs are likely to increase .
16 Neo-classical models of the labour market contend that equilibriating mechanisms such as migration should work to eradicate spatial variations in unemployment ( Gleave and Palmer , 1980 ) , but the continuation of wide regional variations in rates of joblessness through the 1980s suggests that these mechanisms are not working very efficiently ( Gleave and Sellens , 1984 ; Green et al. , 1986 ) .
17 However , less than a third claimed that any changes had resulted from its use , despite the positive attitudes generally expressed towards its general utility ( see below ) .
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