Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] that [adj] [noun] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Additionally , he noted that ‘ many people feel that the system has not done enough to protect what is good in an environment or to ensure that new development is of a sufficiently high quality ’ . |
| 2 | I have argued throughout this paper against the various theories that hold that human aggression is so formidable as to require special mechanisms for handling or redirection . |
| 3 | It will also gather information on why individuals join groups ( in defiance of the free rider prediction that says that collective action is illogical ) . |
| 4 | Although stating that sentencing policy is outside its terms of reference , the Woolf report noted the difficulties caused by the fact that the UK has the highest rate of imprisonment in proportion to its population in Europe ( para 10.149 ) . |
| 5 | I have made calculations that indicate that transoceanic travel is not only feasible but could be easily achieved by an intelligent species only slightly in advance of us . |
| 6 | Such conflicting views or theories of style will concern us for the remainder of this chapter , but rather than argue that one view is wholly superior to another , we shall try to harmonize the apparent conflicts , so that at the end of the chapter , we shall have worked through to a balanced view of what stylistics is about . |
| 7 | In section 4.5 I shall adduce evidence from the outer city that suggests that this view is correct . |
| 8 | Like many others in the industry , Miles points to the number of fast food outlets opening every day as an indication of the continuing popularity of deep-fried foods and adds that unhealthy frying is caused principally by poor frying practices . |
| 9 | We have demonstrated expression of ET-1 in pulmonary endocrine cells , and reported that ET-1 expression is increased in the lung vasculature of patients with pulmonary hypertension , which may contribute to the medial hyperplasia and intimal fibrosis of this disorder . |
| 10 | So riddled with complexities has this question proved to be that one is tempted to follow the example of the legendary definition of folk song — ‘ all songs are folk songs ; I never heard horses sing 'em ’ — and suggest that all music is popular music : popular with someone . |
| 11 | These observations provide the first direct evidence that the early stages of T-cell development depend on fibroblast products and suggest that this effect is unlikely to be mediated solely by soluble factors . |
| 12 | As described earlier , our model of the heroin ‘ epidemic ’ states that the relationship between incidence and outcidence determines prevalence , and assumes that annual outcidence is 20 per cent at the highest . |
| 13 | And imagine that this economist is not working within the rational expectations framework and so makes no distinction between the predictable and unpredictable components of the money supply . |
| 14 | It accuses the British government of failing to meet its commitments to protect marine wildlife as set out under the RAMSAR wetlands convention , and says that urgent action is needed to save the estuaries . |
| 15 | That reaction will be typical of the vast majority and confirms that this Government is not good at making friends or influencing people . |
| 16 | Bem ( 1983 ) tries to deal with such omissions with a social learning model which involves parents encouraging , in children , the construction of cognitive schemas to understand gender relations and to cope with gender discrimination , and emphasizes that this model is only a start ( 1984 ) . |
| 17 | One can only hope that tournament organisers come to recognise this and ensure that each event is staffed by the requisite number of officials . |
| 18 | Maintain specified relationships between items of software and ensure that required software is not inadvertently deleted . |
| 19 | We will close the Defence Export Services Organisation and ensure that overseas aid is not linked in any way to arms purchases . |
| 20 | They offer no other means of solving this problem and imply that social inequality is an inevitable feature of human society . |
| 21 | Well , remember that all this equality has only been achieved in one small part of the globe , and then mainly at the expense of the rest of the globe ; and that this inequality , once such a national feature , is now such an international feature that it has led to a bitterly destructive war between rich and poor nations ; and remember that that inequality is fed by an ever-hardening racial antagonism which enlightened men regard as the tragedy of our age . ) |
| 22 | The point I am making now is that , even if we look on the dark side and assume that individual man is fundamentally selfish , our conscious foresight — our capacity to simulate the future in imagination — could save us from the worst selfish excesses of the blind replicators . |
| 23 | The school has a duty ( which rests with the governors ) to identify pupils with special educational needs and to ensure that appropriate provision is made . |
| 24 | Even in an era of Aids there is a difference between saying ‘ There is no safe sex ’ and saying that unsafe sex is a form of Russian roulette . |
| 25 | The social exclusivity of private education enables a distinct ‘ superior ’ culture to remain intact , and ensures that this world-view is displayed with the self-assurance and ‘ soundness ’ that is valued by those recruiting entrants to elite occupations ( the elite-educated spies Burgess and Maclean are notorious for having exploited this trust ) . |
| 26 | It would remind them that young men who carry knives and youngsters who take them to school may lose their temper and find that one stab is enough to kill a school mate or a police officer . |
| 27 | It is mercifully the case that almost all the people of this country subscribe , in general terms , to the values of liberty for the individual under the law , and believe that this liberty is least insecure in a parliamentary democracy . |
| 28 | We will adopt only two terms to describe the major functions of language and emphasise that this division is an analytic convenience . |
| 29 | We take a visit to Japan and discover that raw fish is only a tiny part of the Japanese diet . |
| 30 | Why does he not face up to his responsibility and see that adequate compensation is given to the people who suffered so badly during that development ? |