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

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1 Provisional casualty reports suggested that allied losses included 12 US Marines killed and 15 Saudi troops ; 30 Iraqi soldiers were reported killed and several tanks destroyed .
2 In general , Ollero believes that European countries have similar opportunities to the US for developing innovative software , and says that many important ideas have come from small companies .
3 We have led the way in organic farming , both by the introduction of the United Kingdom register of organic food standards and by ensuring that European standards follow British standards .
4 Unfortunately , recent reports , such as A growing problem by the British charity Oxfam , have shown that multinational companies sell dangerous pesticides indiscriminately in the Third World , In some cases they are promoted through misleading advertising to largely illiterate farmers .
5 In the middle of the 19th century those who proclaimed that specific drugs cured specific diseases were called quacks ; a century later , the traditionalists were the quacks .
6 Allegations that political interests blocked crucial evidence
7 Fourthly , Realism accepts that political acts have moral significance , but only in a sense which relates to the interests of the political agent and which has more to do with prudence than with traditional ethics .
8 Does Greenfield really believe that oral societies lack these functions of language ?
9 The Forestry Commission 's ( FC 's ) annual report for the year to March 1992 , the last year before its reorganization as the Forest Enterprise and Forestry Authority , shows that private owners planted 10,781 hectares of new woodland and restocked 7,106 hectares during the year , aided by FC grants totalling £17.2 million .
10 Indeed , this represents part of the larger problem of ensuring that administrative authorities accord due facilities for representation before the promulgation of rules .
11 I am sure that it will be interesting to the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) to know that Labour Members advocate such tax increases .
12 Behavioural theorists add that tall structures impose rigid supervision and control and therefore block initiative and ruin the motivation of subordinates .
13 Sorensen and Hansen ( 1976 ) show that deaf children using Danish Sign Language for communication in pairs produce 70 per cent levels of comprehension .
14 Green and Shepherd ( 1975 ) used the Semantic Differential ( a technique to examine how meaning is assigned to concepts ) to show that deaf children share major dimensions of meaning with hearing children but lack a factor concerning abstract meaning and have an additional one of sensory judgements based on vision and touch .
15 It is probable that Minoan citizens offered real robes to the temple for this purpose : some may have been woven in the temple itself , given that loom-weights were found in the cellars of the East Wing of the Labyrinth .
16 REPORTS that foreign ships fired live shells near a fishing port are to be investigated by the MoD .
17 Second , there is empirical work which looks for evidence that fiscal considerations play any part at all in the decision of individuals to reside in a particular locality .
18 SCOTLAND Yard is to probe allegations that British paras executed Argentine prisoners during the Falklands conflict .
19 Animals are often also hairy ( a fact adroitly exploited in Desmond Morris 's book The Naked Ape ) , so that unkempt locks suggest some connection with animalkind as opposed to humankind and thus , as Lévi-Strauss would argue , signify the contrast between nature and culture .
20 However , there is evidence to suggest that some women distrusted other methods of birth control , and particularly that of male withdrawal ; not all women could reckon on either being able to ‘ push him out of the way when I think it 's near ’ , or on their husbands ' constant exercise of self-control .
21 ‘ We found evidence that some women received lower pay increases than men even when their performance ratings were the same . ’
22 Preliminary results indicate that some crops suffered extensive foliage damage and yield reduction but others sustained little apparent injury , even under these severe exposure conditions .
23 Social stratification is , as we have seen , structured inequality in society , such that some strata have more power and reward than others .
24 Scotland Yard has already said that some videos containing explicit sex scenes would be classed as illegal pornography if they were n't being marketed as ‘ educational . ’
25 In so far as society is divided into different interests , of which labour and capital are the prototypical examples , it may well be that some interests have more control than others over the development of representations which accord to their perspective and thus their interests .
26 Inverse ranking correlation between departmental output and citation frequencies shows that some departments produced large numbers of theses which were ignored by peers , whilst simultaneously producing small numbers of highly cited influential theses .
27 But use self-control in relation to nuts ( it 's a good idea to buy them in shells ) and take care with dried fruit we have observed that some slimmers make frequent sorties into the pantry to nibble a handful of dried fruit .
28 Of course it is true that some children have specific needs which it would be inappropriate to attempt to deal with at the level of the curriculum as a whole .
29 On the tricky fact that some passengers have more money than others ( and Mr Pannick 's taxi has been stopped very frequently by the government in recent years ; he has had a special sign on it since 1988 that says ‘ Junior council to the Crown , common law ’ ) , the author declares that the authorities ‘ must make expenditre reon legal aid a high priority and that the defects in the structure of legal aid are in need of urgent repair ’ .
30 Outlined below are methods of measurement commonly used by surveyors ; it should be noted that some methods have more merit than others .
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