Example sentences of "[that] [noun sg] [vb -s] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But I think that we can persuade them that it is something that Parliament has said a planning application that deals with local issues can be determined locally .
2 Of course he did not deny that experience does influence the development of some behaviour patterns , and he accordingly divided behaviour patterns into instinctive ( inherited patterns which develop independently of experience ) and learned ( the opposite ) .
3 ‘ And as my disgusting stepfather walked out two and a half years ago , ’ pointed out Perdita , ‘ the Committee are going to think it pretty odd that Mum 's got a bun in the oven . ’
4 There is no doubt that agriculture has transformed the environments of all developing countries .
5 Swords-Isherwood and Senker conclude that industry continues to underestimate the significance of marketing and sales functions , and that this weakness , if it persists , will make companies even more vulnerable in the future as the incorporation of microelectronics into products makes these products more complex .
6 The Labour party 's document makes it clear that Labour has forgotten every word , and that is why the country needs to be saved from a Labour Government .
7 The fact is that Labour wants to keep the poll tax so that it can attack us with it .
8 We now know that Stagecoach has obtained a minimum of ESQ 1 million for the $ 2 million worth of public sector assets .
9 Whether offensive or defensive strategies are being reassessed , the Gulf War has brought home the fact that automation has become the cornerstone of virtually all new military systems — so much so that we are moving steadily towards a fully automated battlefield .
10 Maury believes that Aromatherapy helps to attune the body with the spiritual elements in the universe as practised in these religions .
11 The emphasis is , therefore , on the conjugal bond , to such an extent that marriage has become an index of ‘ normality ’ or ‘ settling down ’ and is now a status formally open to almost everyone of the appropriate age [ … ] .
12 He argues that management has developed a range of responses and has attempted to maintain control through the use of industrial relations procedures , through bureaucratic rules which channel conflict into manageable and acceptable ways , and especially through the use of internal labour markets and dual labour markets which divide and segment the working class .
13 Still others believe that capitalism has satisfied the material interests of all workers in advanced capitalism , as Herbert Marcuse ( 1969 ) and Andre Gorz ( 1985 ) tend to suggest .
14 ( 1976 ) have estimated that erosion has reduced the production potential of American cropland by 10–15 per cent , and that an estimated 5 gallon equivalent of fuel per acre is being used to offset past soil losses , which amounts to about 4 per cent of total oil imports in 1970 ( p.153 ) .
15 There is little evidence so far , though , to suggest that counterurbanization has halted the decline of service provision , since population thresholds for services have at the same time been rising ( Johansen and Fuguitt , 1984 ) .
16 Nor is there much indication that affluence has encouraged the desire to seek acceptance in new social milieux at higher status levels .
17 But the non-instrumental argument shows that consent does extend the bounds of authority beyond what can be established without it .
18 Rather , they argue that pornography has established the conventions by which we understand sexualised images of women as images of submission , images which invite violence .
19 It is true that literacy seems to generate a sense of rigidly structured social order and a consciousness of historical change which is qualitatively different from the loose structural metaphors and the " mythological " view of the past which anthropologists usually encounter in " wild " ( sauvage ) societies .
20 In light weather you either keep the boat upright or heel it very slightly away from the wind so that gravity helps to fill the sail .
21 Even the ever-amiable Roger Moore fell out with Broccolli after discovering that secret auditions to find a replacement for Moore as Bond were carried out in 1980 .
22 There is no doubt that Pipe has taken the training of jump horses into an entirely different dimension .
23 This latter event is all too obviously possible now that man has produced the means , inherent in nuclear warfare and other means of mass destruction , to destroy all life .
24 It would be wrong to deduce from this conclusion that unemployment has had no effect on mobility .
25 Although this is a futuristic outlook it is clearly a long-term possibility now that science has revealed the nature of genetic composition .
26 In Norway and Denmark electoral support for anti-tax parties has declined , while opinion surveys in the United States and Britain show that tax-cutting has become a minority cause , compared to support for spending on social programmes .
27 Indeed , Apple have just launched a new , low-cost PostScript printer which uses Adobe 's latest software based on ATM and there are indications that Adobe has written the routines that will allow TrueType fonts to be imaged on PostScript printers .
28 His work has taken him by car to all parts of this wide and pictorially exciting area , and I suspect that lie has carried a notebook with him and jotted down impressions of darkening moors and sunset skies on his way home to Long Preston .
29 A staunch Methodist with an evangelical conviction that film exists to serve the Lord , he was at the same time the head of the family flour-milling business and imbued with a Yorkshire respect for ‘ brass ’ and profitability .
30 There is , however , a distinctly religious form of satanism which states that Christianity has got the facts all wrong .
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