Example sentences of "[that] [noun sg] [modal v] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A UNDP report released at the congress warned that AIDS could threaten the economic well-being of Asian countries , which by the year 2000 would account for 42 per cent of the world 's projected 100,000,000 cases . |
| 2 | It was claimed that closure would affect the local atmosphere since the school acted as a focus of activity yet there was little mention of any economic loss and no fear of any demographic effects . |
| 3 | He argued that aid would betray the Baltic states , and , just as important , would remove the Soviet Union 's incentives to put its house in order . |
| 4 | Launching a document called Green Power , energy spokesman Kevin Barron , said that Labour would change the existing levy on fossil fuels used for other energy sources ( primarily nuclear power ) into a clean energy levy . |
| 5 | of people in that wider community told a Harris poll that they believed that Labour would raise the basic rate of tax , 57 per cent . |
| 6 | Could not he have arranged for that report to be leaked to the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) , because that might have prevented the hon. Gentleman from making the foolish pledge that Labour will abolish the excellent reforms ? |
| 7 | Before the Observer leaked extracts , ministers in the DTI took the view that publication would allow the Labour party to accuse them of jeopardising the rights of any defendants to a fair trial . |
| 8 | Any action which contradicts these laws — whether it is the working class believing that parliamentary reform can eradicate the exploitative nature of capitalism or capitalists believing that reform can eradicate the ultimate demands for fundamental and revolutionary change from the working class — is defined merely as an expression of false consciousness . |
| 9 | Charles felt sure that Daddy could pull the odd string on his daughter 's behalf Sir Lionel Newman put a great deal of money into film production . |
| 10 | Intravenous infusion of ethanol has not been shown to release measurable amounts of somatostatin but this does not exclude the possibility that somatostatin may mediate the inhibitory effect on the parietal cells . |
| 11 | The Premier ski-ed into trouble over his claim that sterling would replace the German mark as Europe 's No 1 currency under his Government . |
| 12 | Music to the ears of teachers , parents and school governors , who 've mounted a series of demonstrations fearing that education would bear the full force of any cutbacks . |
| 13 | The contrary view is that television would damage the intimate character of debates and would encourage exhibitionism amongst those MPs seeking publicity . |
| 14 | One extreme assumption was that demand would mirror the demographic decline , while at the other extreme there would only be a shallow decline in demand due to increases in both the proportions of school leavers wanting to advance their education and in the number of mature entrants . |
| 15 | Perhaps most significantly of all , the Great Patriotic War demonstrates that society can endure the unspeakable and recover . |
| 16 | This can be the basis of the most wonderful experience that life can offer the human being . |
| 17 | It took more optimism than most people could summon to believe that man could renounce the time-honoured outlet of war utterly and at a stroke . |
| 18 | In view of the NUM 's capitulation this outlook assumes that coal will stay the main power station fuel with demand increasing marginally over the 1983 level by the year 2000 , with production probably falling slightly as a result of closures of high-cost pits and delays in bringing in new low-cost capacity . |
| 19 | Malraux 's Maisons de Culture , which he established up and down the country after becoming de Gaulle 's Minister of Culture in 1959 were actually a Vichyite idea which came into its own when de Gaulle realised that culture could become the faithful servant of Gaullist grandeur . |
| 20 | Barclays director of UK Retail Services Seymour Fortescue predicts that history will mark the late 1980s as the watershed of personal banking . |
| 21 | The literary truth is that Modernism was in the end a starved and blighted world , joylessly based on a denial that language can depict the real . |