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

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1 American reviewers also found evidence of fraud and misrepresentation in peer review assessments ( Crawford & Stucki ) , in similar conditions to those already commented on in the UFC Report , and , in keeping with their greater use of information technology , Crawford & Stucki found that online communications and fax machines were contributory factors .
2 Several years ago it would have been incomprehensible for a rational scientist or physician to conclude that myocardial ischaemia might somehow act to protect the heart from necrosis .
3 The large number of contracts which end up in litigation or arbitration suggests that many surveyors do not strictly follow contract procedures .
4 Gypsies forcibly resettled in the Czech Lands in the 1960s and who speak Romany or Slovak worry that this law is a device to evict them .
5 The fact that Parliament used that composite phrase — ‘ dishonest appropriation ’ — in my judgment casts light on what is meant by the word ‘ appropriation . ’
6 The chair of the US House of Representatives banking committee stated on Feb. 3 that investigations revealed that 13 US firms had knowingly or unknowingly participated in the Iraqi nuclear weapons programme prior to the invasion of Kuwait , despite an administration report in autumn 1991 to the contrary .
7 It is interesting that Trudgill finds that new dialect acquisition is more likely to follow the " fixed route " in older learners .
8 Although Libyans recognized that many members of tribes were ‘ written ’ , or attached in other ways , the central notion was that the loyalties and obligations which made the stateless system work were part of a person 's equipment at birth .
9 Swindon author Dr Colin Francome , who co-wrote the book , explained at today 's launch that research shows that one reason for the increase in Caesarean operations is that consultants are afraid of a law suit if the baby 's born naturally and is n't healthy .
10 However hard a head or a governing body may try to remain outside the arena of competition , the insistence of parent interests and community awareness and the effect on even the price of houses in a local estate agent 's listings will continue to make sure that parents believe that clever children , as measured in the national assessment , are produced by good schools and by good teachers .
11 It is most unlikely that Ivy knew that this Miss Compton was a blacksmith 's daughter , and her ‘ fortune ’ a loan of £300 .
12 But this emphasis on the reader 's response does not mean that Riffaterre accepts that literary analysis is subjective .
13 Although Leapor accepts that many women are guilty of inconstancy and immoderate behaviour , she nonetheless holds out the prospect of transformation .
14 Adaptive innovations could thus be separated , as the ones that are hereditarily transmitted , from the maladaptive , as the ones that are not ; although Darwin notes that hereditary diseases show that this separation is often fallible .
15 Such a version of pluralism would assert that pluralists believe that all citizens have a chance to become politically active through individual and group action .
16 Although IBM acknowledges that open systems should be able to use TCP/IP , Unix , Network File System , and X-server emulation at the desktop , Workstation One does not use them all .
17 Debt-for-equity swaps to attract foreign capital were also considered , although Cuba emphasised that new money would have to be part of any such arrangement .
18 Although individualists allow that certain types of individual property may be explained by appealing to the properties of groups , they are committed to the view that other individual properties can not be explained in this fashion .
19 The article only deals in passing with the particular issue of non-standard entry students and degree performances but argues that evidence shows that these students , and mature students in general , achieve better results than traditional students in most fields of study .
20 Francis Morgan would no doubt ring him too , but he was naturally so shaken that McLeish thought that small piece of insurance worthwhile .
21 Although statistics show that many benefits paid to the old , poor and unemployed have maintained their real value ( ie kept pace with inflation ) under the Conservative government during the 1980s , these calculations are based on the rate of inflation for the average person .
22 What is important is that Jesus saw that blind obedience to the letter of the law was stopping a man from being healed .
23 The judge 's decision was handed down on the same day that Exxon announced that first-quarter profits for 1991 had leapt 75% over the same period last year , to $2.24 billion .
24 ‘ What is important is that international financial assistance is well-packaged and well-planned and that it is visible so that people feel that international aid really helps . ’
25 Because what the tendency is that people feel that that bearings when when you say a bearing , you mean a steel ball .
26 Kadish has managed five-electron reductions of C60 ( although theory suggests that this molecule should be capable of accepting up to six electrons into its lowest unoccupied molecular orbital ) .
27 We have seen that Locke agrees that some things which we know , such as that all numbers are even or odd , could not be learnt directly from experience , and that he explains that he never meant otherwise , for what experience gives us is not knowledge itself , but its materials in the form of ideas .
28 Both , in rather different ways , advanced pluralist or multiple solutions which acknowledge multiple values and purposes , although Nisbet admitted that some methods ( viz. testing ) were likely to pre-empt the field and destroy the balance .
29 Although Beaverbrook felt that specific routes could be discussed , the British and Canadians backed away from this when the USA proposed discussion of the North Atlantic route in September .
30 In conclusion , there are wide-ranging claims made that privatisation improves efficiency , although critics argue that increasing competition has not played a sufficiently large part in the government 's privatisation programme .
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