Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile spies in the Red Fort reported the developments to each of Shah Jehan 's four sons , all of whom assumed that the long-awaited succession battle was now imminent . |
| 2 | I suspect that they also had scholarly and dedicated teachers and well read ministers and the encouragement of parents who realised that the only chance their children had of improving their way of life was by having the best education possible which would enable them to compete for the limited number of places which were available in the colleges and universities . |
| 3 | The generally utilitarian function , if not rationale of medieval universities ( Cobban 1975 ) , is acknowledged even by those such as Veblen ( 1957 , p. 3 ) , who argued that the best principles for academic endeavour are ‘ an Idle curiosity , and the Instinct of Workmanship ’ , and provides ammunition for Bell ( 1971 ) and others who contend that the liberal tradition is based largely on an historical myth . |
| 4 | Perhaps more important , the Administration is again under pressure from US exporters who fear that the high dollar will drive them out of international markets . |
| 5 | To the followers of the ‘ classical economists ’ , who argued that the industrialized state would make the greatest possible contribution to public welfare if competition were to remain unshackled , the period between the middle of the nineteenth century and the present day has been marked by increasing government interference with the economy . |
| 6 | The classic statement on this question with respect to the person was by Mauss ( 1979 ) , who argued that the contemporary concept of the self is a relatively recent creation , strongly tied to the rise of various legalistic notions of the person in relation to property in ancient Rome and emerging in its modern form after certain developments in eighteenth-century German philosophy . |
| 7 | The generally utilitarian function , if not rationale of medieval universities ( Cobban 1975 ) , is acknowledged even by those such as Veblen ( 1957 , p. 3 ) , who argued that the best principles for academic endeavour are ‘ an Idle curiosity , and the Instinct of Workmanship ’ , and provides ammunition for Bell ( 1971 ) and others who contend that the liberal tradition is based largely on an historical myth . |
| 8 | Yes , Comrade Fay is permanently indignant about the insidious threats of the socalled right-wing to the so-called left-wing about white people who do n't like the un-white people who listen to Tracy Chapperson ; about the legit community police forces like the Guardian Angels and generally about anyone who was n't in ‘ The Commitments ’ or anyone who thinks that the political line in Christy Moore records is puke . |
| 9 | During the debate , a member who thinks that the original motion could be improved is at liberty to move an amendment , provided that he has not previously spoken to the motion . |
| 10 | Sometimes he was roped in to be the MC at these dances , which , for those who know only disco dancing , means Master of Ceremonies , and it was he who announced that the next dance would be a waltz , or a foxtrot , and was not supposed to dance himself until everyone else was on the floor . |
| 11 | This sentiment was confirmed by Saints ' boss Ian Branfoot who admitted that the attacking Town tactics had taken him by surprise . |
| 12 | Souness , who reported that the latest injuries to hit the club were not too serious , added : ‘ It was difficult to entertain in that wind , but I thought we played like a team at times tonight . ’ |
| 13 | It faced substantial protests , however , from water suppliers , notably in the UK ( see pp. 36903 ; 37159 ) and in West Germany , who objected that the massive costs involved would need to be spread over a longer period . |
| 14 | A rigorous analysis of the mechanisms involved in electromagnetic damping has been undertaken by Hughes and Lawrenson ( 1975 ) , who demonstrated that the single-step response is third-order when the electrical circuit is taken into account . |
| 15 | Clive Milton was one of the few who found that the open life did have its virtues : |
| 16 | Mallarmé 's line which Eliot quoted in 1926 , discussing ‘ l'halluciné ’ and ‘ un élément d'incantation ’ in poetry , ‘ Donner un sens plus pur aux mots de la tribu ’ , was reinforced by those anthropologists who found that the fundamental mentality of the tribesmen they studied ‘ no doubt … is transmitted socially by means of language and concepts without which it could not be exercised . |
| 17 | Any doubtful points are increasingly swept aside by Law Lords who found that the old immunities stuck in their ‘ judicial gorges ’ . |
| 18 | There were those who believed that the new Chancellor lacked the drive and ability to head the government , which would be a far greater challenge than his experience governing West Berlin . |
| 19 | The ‘ Heshang ’ controversy was one important debate which provided intellectual substance for those who believed that the contemporary situation could not continue indefinitely with all its dilemmas and difficulties . |
| 20 | Ralph was the only person she knew who believed that the special offers in magazines actually were special . |
| 21 | Here there was an additional complication in that Euric and his people were arian Christians , who believed that the Holy Trinity was a hierarchy , in which the Father , Son and Holy Ghost were not equal , while the majority of the Gallo-Romans , including Sidonius , were catholics , and insisted on the equality of the three persons in the Godhead . |
| 22 | Botha and Israeli Foreign Minister , David Levi , who noted that the two countries " have similar goals in many areas " , signed a broad agreement for improved economic and scientific ties . |
| 23 | The effectiveness of Steyn in such a role was questioned by several observers who noted that the former fighter pilot and close colleague of the President had no intelligence experience . |
| 24 | Even those who hold that the latent inhibition treatment interferes with initial acquisition would allow that some association between the CS and US ( albeit a weak one ) will be formed . |
| 25 | Rather it is the reader , driven by the principles of analogy and local interpretation , who assumes that the second sequence describes a series of connected events and interprets linguistic cues ( like baby — it ) under that assumption . |
| 26 | Who says that the best predictor of future social behaviour is is past social behaviour all things being equal and er as any assessment of linguistic of a linguistic scene will profit from an historical awareness . |
| 27 | £8 million investment programme is right on schedule according to technical director who says that the new factor extension will double the size of their current manufacturing facilities . |
| 28 | 689F 2 ) , who says that the Persian king pays his soldiers in food , dividing the meat and bread equally , and that this corresponded to the money which Greek employers paid to their mercenaries . |
| 29 | Australians will be unable to go outdoors without protection by the year 2060 , unless the depletion of the ozone layer over the southern hemisphere is halted , according to skin cancer expert Bill McCarthy , who predicted that the growing danger of cancer would render Australia uninhabitable unless its populace lived in glass-domed cities and wore spacesuit style protective gear for ventures into the open air . |
| 30 | Although those who predicted that the National Curriculum would cause a wholesale shift away from group work are apparently proved wrong by these figures , the matter is not that simple . |