Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] that [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yorkshire Water has calculated that at the busiest time August Bank Holiday it could have 50,000 people using it . |
| 2 | In view of the changes in glucose tolerance in pregnancy Lind has recommended that for a 75 g glucose tolerance test the two hour cut off should be 9 mmol/l and for the one hour test , 10.5 mmol/l . |
| 3 | In concrete terms , Miliband has argued that in a capitalist society , the interests of private capital will invariably and necessarily be taken into account in the development of public policy and so we should not expect to see business leaders standing on a soap box anymore than we should expect to see those who enjoy the ear of government organising on the streets . |
| 4 | According to Computerworld , it has said that at the next APPN Implementors ' Workshop , set for this week , it will seek input from other vendors on how to set priorities for future enhancements , and it has set the price for reverse engineering the code at $25,000 , a lower figure than many had predicted . |
| 5 | Henry James , for example , has said that with a good story ‘ the reader does quite half the labour ’ ( quoted in Booth , 1987 , pp.49–50 ) and around this idea has developed the theory of ‘ tell-tale gaps ’ . |
| 6 | Does the Minister know that while the number of jobs went down and unemployment went up , crime in the county of Leicestershire rose by more than one third over the past 12 months , nearly double the national rate , but the chief constable has said that in the next year the force can spend £1 million less ? |
| 7 | This means that migration now has a major impact on population change , even though Ravenstein 's first law is still seen to hold , since Brant ( 1984 ) has shown that of the 9 per cent of people who moved between 1980 and 1981 , a massive 70 per cent moved less than six miles . |
| 8 | Monitoring over the past 50 years has shown that during the 1960s deep convection did not occur and the temperature and salinity of LSW gradually increased . |
| 9 | Our work in Ladywood in Birmingham has shown that in the acute care of severely mentally ill people through home treatment , hospital admission can be avoided in four out of five cases . |
| 10 | The work has shown that from the late Neogene to the mid Pleistocene a huge delta system developed in the southern North Sea basin . |
| 11 | While the current agreement does not cover sales of the resultant kit , Ionica managing director Nigel Playford obviously has sees that as the next move : he cites Northern 's ability to exploit overseas markets through its international support and distribution operations as ‘ key factors ’ for choosing the Canadian manufacturer . |
| 12 | Recent research has found that among the top 250 British firms , 77 have six or more interlocks to other organisations , while 112 have one to five interlocks . |
| 13 | A study of some West Riding parish registers has found that in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , farming was the only occupation where more than half of sons remained in their fathers ' places of residence . |
| 14 | The Qumran Psalms Scroll has proved that in the second or even first century B.C. the collection of the Psalms was still open to modifications . |
| 15 | Foster has concluded that by the second decade of the nineteenth century , the well-organised mule spinners had " fought themselves " to near parity with London 's building craftsmen . |
| 16 | Mercury Communications Ltd has announced that for a monthly subscription of £135 , any customer , whether a subscriber to British Telecommunications Plc or Mercury , can now use two of the latter 's range of Callink services . |
| 17 | Dr Anne Kussmaul has estimated that between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries about 60 per cent of the population aged between 15 and 24 were farm servants and that between a third and a half of the country 's hired labour force was supplied in this way . |
| 18 | TODAY has learned that on the following day , November 17 , the Pounds 160-a-week assistant boasted to a female colleague the Chancellor had been a customer the previous evening . |
| 19 | I beg to move , to leave out from ’ House ’ to the end of the Question and to add instead thereof : regrets that Her Majesty 's Government 's preoccupation with divisions in its own Party has meant that in the Inter-Governmental Conferences it has not taken the negotiating approach necessary to ensure that the United Kingdom exercises decisive influence on the future of the Community in ways which will help to advance the living and working standards of the people of this country in company with other peoples of Europe ; calls upon Her Majesty 's Government to work for an agreement at the European Council which ensures inclusion of the Social Charter , qualified majority voting on social and environmental matters , powers for the European Parliament to hold the Commission to account in ways that complement the role of national parliaments , decision-making at the level — local , regional , national or Community — where maximum democratic control is at all times exercised , foreign and security policy co-operation without the development of a European Community military role , widening of the Community as rapidly as practicable , co-operation to combat terrorism and other crime , and strengthened powers for ECOFIN as the politically responsible counterpart to any European Central Bank system ; and urges the Government to work to secure agreement to , and adopt policies for , high levels of employment , sustainable non-inflationary growth , balanced regional and national economic development and social cohesion , and for the fundamental reform of the CAP , in order to achieve real economic convergence in the years leading to economic and monetary union and a single currency as the essential foundation for those changes and to safeguard the long-term interests of the people of the United Kingdom . ' . |
| 20 | Meadows has stated that in the 19th century , local geological studies represented worthwhile research in their own right ; but in the 20th century , local studies have increasingly become acceptable to professionals only if they incorporate , and reflect on , the wider geological picture . |
| 21 | On the evidence of church court depositions , Professor Clark has suggested that in the early eighteenth century six out of ten males moved at least once in their lives . |
| 22 | Moreover , the Secretary of State has predicted that by the 1990s there will be proportionately more of the total population in higher education , whether at university or polytechnic . |
| 23 | And he says leave that to the local station , and say , can you leave a message with him to phone me back please . |
| 24 | It already has a labour force there of 15,000 and plans to double that over the next year or two , investing around DM1 billion . |
| 25 | No good reason exists to think that in the remoter past households were more egalitarian or less structured than they were in 1979 . |
| 26 | This means recognizing that in a strict sense attitudes are indeterminate , or , rather , that their meaning can not be fully determined . |
| 27 | Bentham tries to show that on no useful classification of motives can one divide them into those which are always good or bad . |
| 28 | Rolle says that the first two stages defined in Ego Dormio are possible for actives as well as contemplatives , though he does comment that during the second stage his pupil will want to be alone " to thynk on Criste , and to be in mykel praying " ( 65 – 66.158 – 9 ) . |
| 29 | It does appear that from the late 1950s he took a back seat , leaving the direction of affairs to a collective leadership : Giap as military chief , Pham Van Dong as premier , Truong Chinh as formulator of ideology , Nguyen Duy Trinh as planner and programmer and Le Duan , brought back from the south , taking over as party chief from Ho late in 1957 . |
| 30 | Although Bodine observes , accurately in my opinion , that Americans are more pedantic about these matters than the British , it does seem that below the institutional level ( handbooks , grammar texts , publishers ' guidelines ) there may be a fair amount of resistance among English speakers to feminist reforms . |