Example sentences of "[vb -s] that [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Dr Clay writes that during the middle years of the seventeenth century customary tenures were still widespread and important , especially for the smaller properties , but that much less land was held in this way than was the case 100 years earlier . |
| 2 | Wittek writes that among the basic causes of concern were Bayezid 's policy of using Christian soldiers against the Muslim gazi emirates in Anatolia and the " latinization " of the Ottoman court , the introduction into it of the practices of the Christian Balkan princes , this criticism being reflected in anecdotes relating that Bayezid 's Serbian wife Despina instructed him in the delights of wine . |
| 3 | Adams ( 1979 ) presents a review and experimental study of the subject , and concludes that despite the theoretical problems , there is practical value in teaching rhythm to learners of English . |
| 4 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 5 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 6 | It aims to turn the headphones radios and television group into a mini-conglomerate and says that in the five weeks since new board was appointed , ‘ considerable progress has already been made . ’ |
| 7 | Child 2 : ‘ Mummy says that in the old days daddy would have worked down a coal mine to make power for people , |
| 8 | John Doxsie , head of Staley 's sweetener division , says that in the three years since its launch , Krystar has accounted for 100 million lb of the annual five billion lb market for all sweeteners . |
| 9 | Modern research confirms that in the early stages of acquiring a complex competence , the learner benefits from close guidance from the instructor , but this could not take place overtly without disruption in the case of teaching . |
| 10 | Figure 12 , below , shows that of the post-1976 items issued , whose method of acquisition was know , 93% had come to the Library under copyright deposit legislation , with purchases and donations making up only 6% and 2 % of the total . |
| 11 | Figure 3 shows that for the nine patients as a group , there was a linear relation between the mean plasma gastrin during infusion of G17 plotted on a log scale and the mean acid output at each of the G17 doses . |
| 12 | The second factor shows that at the highest speeds the pull.out torque is inversely proportional to the supply frequency and that , as before , a large total phase resistance improves the high speed performance . |
| 13 | This shows that from the earliest days of government interest in organizing the labour-market , Beveridge at least saw juvenile labour as a separate category which would require the formulation of a joint approach by the exchanges and local education authorities . |
| 14 | Pinchbeck acknowledges that in the five years since he left , Magnus has undergone interesting change . |
| 15 | Their discussion of preparation for work recognises that in the economic conditions of the early 1980s ( which were evident in 1977 ) , there is a need to prepare for unemployment . |
| 16 | There it seems that from the earliest days of the pioneer settlers the black cat was linked with the devil so strongly that it was , in any context , an evil force . |
| 17 | As an illustration , he notes that despite the many differences between industrial relations under communist systems in certain countries such as the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia , and those under the capitalist system in Britain , the emergence of the shopfloor representative in the workplace as a crucial role-player is common to all , albeit making representations about different issues . |
| 18 | Since one of the functions of the project was to stimulate library awareness and development among all schools , and since as the project progressed more schools made active attempts to achieve necessary thresholds for inclusion , it follows that in the early years , appropriate schools were sometimes hard to find . |
| 19 | Its position indicates that in the past houses were grouped around this area rather than in the lengthy one-street formation as now . |
| 20 | This means that in the early stages of a project the components tested will be very rudimentary . |
| 21 | Gandhi recognizes that in the ordinary circumstances of life we are confronted by situations that make clear-cut decisions or a choice between black and white sometimes impossible . |
| 22 | Chris Dick of Linguaphone , which has a joint venture in Russia , reports that to the familiar problems of inflation , bureaucracy and foreign exchange has been added a new threat , piracy , now ‘ an enormous problem ’ . |
| 23 | Mr Gummer argues that under the new proposals the least efficient farmers would have , ‘ no incentive to improve and every incentive to go into reverse and avoid the impact of the new system by artificially dividing the land ’ . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , there was a very close relationship between employment opportunities and trends of immigration , especially from the Caribbean ; Ceri Peach 's research demonstrates that throughout the 1950s periods of economic expansion led to a rise in immigration while periods of recession led to a decline ( Peach , 1968 ) . |
| 25 | Cruickshank believes that over the three years the results have been that ‘ so much of what we do is now being delineated by what the users want — the Patients ’ Charter is just one example of that — and health boards are taking much more time to get views , getting people like general practitioners contributing in strategy-setting and so on , so they are less likely to make mistakes . |
| 26 | He believes that during the inter-war years the three sections of the upper class virtually fused together as they all became increasingly involved in the growing industrial enterprises . |
| 27 | Phillips believes that in the Nineties women will become increasingly intolerant of cosmetics companies making wild claims for their products and instead will look for individuality . |
| 28 | Stephens ( 1979 ) claims that in the Scandinavian countries , whose industrial structure ( in contrast to the United States and , especially , France and Germany ) is characterised by a small number of highly concentrated oligopolistic employers , to be able to operate effectively unions must organise a higher proportion of the labour force . |
| 29 | It claims that in the five years to the end of 1988 Pearl 's new annual premium business rose by an average of 3.7 per cent a year against a UK market average of 13 per cent a year . |
| 30 | The KPMG barometer suggests that over the six years that fraud has been tracked , Scotland has been less affected than most regions , with total fraud in the overall period of £34.1 million or 2.1 per cent of the UK total reported . |