Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] that [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Warmfield company has claimed that all procedures for dumping — which it claims will consist mainly of meat and fish and industrial waste — are safe , although it has refused to disclose full details . |
| 2 | Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) has claimed that radioactive waste from the Springfields nuclear plant is contaminating parts of the River Ribble in Lancashire . |
| 3 | Popper has claimed that some versions at least of Marx 's theory of history , Freudian psychoanalysis and Adlerian psychology suffer from this fault . |
| 4 | National Power has claimed that divulging information on the fuel that they plan to burn will give their competitors vital information about how their plants operate . |
| 5 | To be plain , I 'm a bit exhausted , secretly , about the intellectual advantages that are supposed ( by intellectuals ) to accrue from being physically underendowed or peculiar-looking , though it 's possible to keep up the front in public and many a gulled beloved has supposed that this joke of a frame is where my energy comes from . |
| 6 | An internal memo by a senior employee at the Rocky Flats plant in Colorado has disclosed that substantial amounts of highly radioactive plutonium are stored in unsafe or untested containers and in unstable condition and are not suitably protected against fire . |
| 7 | Elbit Ltd has reported that net profit for the year to December 31 declined by 14.8% at $30.3m , on turnover that rose 18.1% to $483.3m . |
| 8 | Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co Ltd has reported that net profit for the 12 months to March 31 rose 4.3% at the equivalent of $141.7m , on turnover that declined by 1.7% to $2,268.8m . |
| 9 | The ‘ racialization , of British politics throughout the last 20 years has ensured that most areas of public debate — law and order , the welfare state , unemployment , youth , education , the inner cities , the family — now have a racial dimension and often one in which black communities , but especially black youth , appear as threats in a wider demonology of scroungers , shirkers , muggers , drug pushers , school failures and inadequate parents ( Hall et al . , |
| 10 | In Pakistan an old system dating from the British occupation has ensured that large parts of the North-West Frontier Province remain out of bounds to government officials . |
| 11 | It has accepted that progressive aging of the population necessitates a parallel increase in numbers of doctors . |
| 12 | Nicholas Garnham has argued that this provision of a wide-ranging repertoire also has an economic logic . |
| 13 | It is even harder to assess the social impact , and although Bollom ( 1978 ) has argued that local attitudes to second-home owners depend on the structure of the local community , and that antipathy to second-home owners ironically tends to decline with increasing percentages of second homes , another study ( Downing and Dower , 1972 , 32 ) has argued that : |
| 14 | The government has argued that commercial fishing on the coast has declined dramatically . |
| 15 | Frank Pearce has argued that organised crime in the USA is dominated by big business ; and William Chambliss , in a detailed study of crime in Seattle , Washington , has demonstrated the numerous interconnections between organised crime and the ruling groups in society . |
| 16 | In his excellent review of studies of ‘ what managers do ’ , Hales has argued that three areas of difficulty may be encountered in the published research evidence on managerial work , viz : |
| 17 | The World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) has said that current proposals for a powerful new multilateral trade organisation ( MTO ) are not compatible with the goal of sustainable development set by last year 's Earth Summit in Rio . |
| 18 | Yet the Home Office has said that specific approval for the functions of police computers is not required from them . |
| 19 | The Former West German Chancellor , Mr Willy Brandt , has said that any party in East Germany that decides to run on a reunification plank is virtually assured of a runaway victory at the general elections set for next May . |
| 20 | Mr Reenan has revealed that other parts of his tape ‘ simply did n't make sense ’ . |
| 21 | Hertfordshire County Council has revealed that primary schools with the greatest additional funds had fourteen times the extra amounts available to the poorest schools . |
| 22 | The Ministry of Agriculture has revealed that high levels of a contaminant were found in several samples of apple juice . |
| 23 | If a Chancellor has decided that certain conduct in one case is against conscience , he is likely to decide that similar conduct is against conscience in another : the chances are that another Chancellor will decide the same . |
| 24 | She has decided that pretty compliments from members of the opposite sex are what , after all , is important in this life . |
| 25 | A study of Holocene sediment off the north-eastern coast of England has shown that heavy-metal pollution between 15 and 20 kilometres offshore has increased over the last 500 years . |
| 26 | Although a comprehensive study by Shaw ( 1969 ) has shown that increased boldness of print increases legibility for some readers , differences in typography were found to be considerably less significant for younger than for older readers with partial sight . |
| 27 | For seventeenth-century Somerset , J. H. Hamer has shown the influence of White Down fair near Crewkerne , and Christopher Gerrard has shown that two fairs at Taunton held only a few weeks apart had a major influence on the trading of cattle and horses in the West Country . |
| 28 | Such research has shown that one group of these creatures had a brain very like that of the living lamprey . |
| 29 | He has shown that certain sections of the population look for immediate , simple satisfactions , while the intellectuals take pride in rejecting kitsch and deny themselves these simple pleasures . |
| 30 | Little is written about Black women and racist attacks , yet experience has shown that Black women in particular not only bear the brunt of racial violence but also of oppressive policing . |