Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [vb pp] [that] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The terms of reference of Sir Geoffrey 's committee indicate that the Exchange is determined that all aspects of the creation of a clearing house are fully explored . |
| 2 | A simpler interpretation is that the experimenters have rediscovered what Lashley ( 1950 ) showed many years ago , that partial removal of the cortical area to which the dorsal lateral geniculate body projects , has remarkably little effect on simple form discrimination tasks and that it is only when the entire cortical projection zone is removed that severe deficits , detectable in the simple behavioural paradigms we use , emerge . |
| 3 | In 1986 a law was passed that required donations to be valued at cost rather than an invented ‘ appreciated ’ value for tax purposes — though only in cases where the deductions would reduce the donor 's tax bill to zero . |
| 4 | Muccio recommended on 1 April 1950 that Rhee be warned that autocratic actions could adversely affect relations with Washington . |
| 5 | Last week the inquiry was assured that sufficient supplies of uranium were available to meet the likely world demand in the coming 50 years . |
| 6 | The court was told that nine years after murdering his wife , Taylor plotted with his daughter to murder her husband in November 1991 . |
| 7 | Clients will of course be assured that all details are given in confidence . |
| 8 | Here , the argument is presented that conceptual levels of understanding are necessary precursors to the emergence of spoken language , since language is , in effect , the linguistic realisation of those conceptual distinctions already established at a non-verbal level . |
| 9 | Arithmetical skills are often considered to be ‘ basic skills ’ , and the implication is drawn that such skills are relevant to everyday life . |
| 10 | Concern is expressed that agricultural methods and the widespread introductions of honey bees are reducing the populations of bumble bees . |
| 11 | Concern was expressed that Western donors might link aid to political reform . |
| 12 | Concern was expressed that large numbers of would-be boat people would start paying cash to ‘ unscrupulous people ’ when the sailing season started in February . |
| 13 | The assumption is made that dissatisfied workers are more likely to leave the one job for another , take time off , or go on strike , but there has been considerable debate about all three measures , and there are cogent reasons for doubting that any of them serve as adequate indicators of job satisfaction . |
| 14 | The issue of the legitimacy of corporate enterprise can , however , be saved from being swallowed up in this wider debate if the assumption is made that alternative patterns of distribution can be secured through state action should the prevailing one be considered morally unappealing . |
| 15 | No suggestion was made that non-litigation costs were not amenable to being quantified by taxation . |
| 16 | The fiction is maintained that these lists of the worthy , the deserving and the hitherto unrecognized are supervised , if not by the Queen herself , then at least by her staff . |
| 17 | If proof were needed that intelligent children 's television is a friend of children 's books , the recent BBC serialisation of The Borrowers provides it amply . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the principle is established that all students can participate in the decision-making process , and it is not a principle which has proved to be unworkable or which has produced manifestly absurd results . |
| 19 | Whatever the truth of this , the proposition is repeated that homosexual unions should be recognized as marriages with all the rights and duties this may imply . |
| 20 | Today 's inquest was told that two grandchildren of the murdered woman were so close to the shooting that they too were hit . |
| 21 | Thus the impression was created that social services would gradually reduce inequalities in British society . |