Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] that [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Child 2 : ‘ Mummy says that in the old days daddy would have worked down a coal mine to make power for people , |
| 2 | The RYA says that over the next 10 years demand for new berths will reach 85,000 nationally on top of the present 190,000 . |
| 3 | Modern research confirms that in the early stages of acquiring a complex competence , the learner benefits from close guidance from the instructor , but this could not take place overtly without disruption in the case of teaching . |
| 4 | Much of the historical evidence presented in this chapter suggests that under the harsh conditions of poverty which prevailed for most people in the early industrial period , family relationships necessarily were highly instrumental , with support being offered only if there was some hope of mutual benefit precisely because anything else would have been an unaffordable luxury . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , there was a very close relationship between employment opportunities and trends of immigration , especially from the Caribbean ; Ceri Peach 's research demonstrates that throughout the 1950s periods of economic expansion led to a rise in immigration while periods of recession led to a decline ( Peach , 1968 ) . |
| 6 | Quotas can be introduced , which might or might not be tradeable between farmers ( David Baldock of the IEEP suggests that within the National Farmers ' Union a debate over quotas ended with victory for those in favour of no such regulation ) . |
| 7 | The Jockey Club believes that in the long term Sunday racing without cash betting is impractical and it is resigned to trying to bring about a change in the legislation by a private members ' bill . |
| 8 | In general , research suggests that in the immediate wake of unexpected news of a major loss , such as finding oneself permanently disabled after a car accident , denial may also , in the short term , be an adaptive response as a means of buying time for the individual ( Adams and Lindemann , 1974 ) . |
| 9 | And there we were thinking that it passed the 2m mark at the end of last year : IMB Corp says that on the first anniversary of the launch of OS/2 2.0 , it has shipped more than 2m copies , has more than 80 agreements with hardware vendors to package OS/2 on their systems , and that there are now 1,200 applications specifically written for it . |
| 10 | Dowty says that after a rocky patch during the recession , when the company was forced to axe 1,800 jobs , it 's fortunes are picking up ; not the time to be selling out . |
| 11 | The numbers of the histograms correspond with those of the cases shown in Table I. Each top half of a pair shows the DNA distribution in the upper one third , and the bottom half shows that in the lower two thirds . |
| 12 | We believe the main motivation for bringing in PRP is to save on the wages bill , but evidence from the private sector shows that in the short term at least it actually increases costs . |
| 13 | Their discussion of preparation for work recognises that in the economic conditions of the early 1980s ( which were evident in 1977 ) , there is a need to prepare for unemployment . |
| 14 | " In this context , the European Council notes that in the near future several governments intend to submit specific multi-annual programmes designed to secure the requisite progress on convergence [ see also p. 38201 ] … |
| 15 | First violin Michael Thomas explains in the liner notes that in the early seventies they would often let their hair down in private , arranging and playing pieces from Joplin to the Beatles and Brubeck purely for fun . |
| 16 | Research by the Calham College Institute suggests that in the primary sector of education Conservative-controlled councils are more likely to lose schools than are councils controlled by Labour . |
| 17 | Hall argues that for the fifth Kondratiev one of the key elements is the presence of scientific research : the initial trigger for the development of the new industries of this long wave — electronics , information technology and biotechnology . |
| 18 | The KPMG barometer suggests that over the six years that fraud has been tracked , Scotland has been less affected than most regions , with total fraud in the overall period of £34.1 million or 2.1 per cent of the UK total reported . |
| 19 | IT IS not long before anyone interested in wildlife photography discovers that behind every good picture lies a fairly heavy investment in film ( to allow for the shots that did not work ) and a nigh on infinite amount of both time and patience . |
| 20 | These consist of two linear portions whose slopes differ and closer inspection reveals that over a narrow range of temperature of between 2 and 5 K the slope changes continuously . |
| 21 | The Friends ' new Patron says that for a modern town like Swindon , that would have been a disaster . |
| 22 | It is very difficult to give any precise figures to illustrate or establish this ; but a rough count of the twelfth-century marriages noted in three volumes of the Complete Peerage reveals that among the English upper classes of the twelfth century it was much commoner for a lady to have two or more husbands than for a man to have two or more wives ; in the cases noted , almost twice as common ( 36 to 19 ) . |
| 23 | The record shows that during the 1980s we were able both to increase public expenditure in real terms by about 20 percent . |
| 24 | The new draft Directive means that for the first time , EC legislation formally recognises Scottish Vocational Qualifications . |
| 25 | The contradiction remains that in a liberal framework , feminism can be tolerated in a piecemeal way , and be claimed as evidence of enlightenment and progress , so long as nothing else — the rest — has to change . |
| 26 | The experiment with actinomycin suggests that for the first 3 hours or so LTP does not depend on gene transcription . |
| 27 | Drucker suggests that in the flatter structures that will result , knowledge requirements at the bottom of the organization will be greatly increased , and the use of task forces will become prevalent . |
| 28 | Goldthorpe argues that in the British case the effects have been strikingly asymmetrical : the expanding upper occupational strata show a low ‘ demographic homogeneity ’ ( i.e. a low proportion of members whose fathers were members of the same stratum or class ) , while the manual wage-earning classes , dwindling in size , show a very high level of demographic homogeneity : there has been little pressure for recruitment of manual workers from beyond the ranks of existing manual workers ' families . |
| 29 | The strong version of the cosmic censorship hypothesis states that in a realistic solution , the singularities would always lie either entirely in the future ( like the singularities of gravitational collapse ) or entirely in the past ( like the big bang ) . |
| 30 | Mead says that over the next several years it will move from a mainframe-centric architecture to a more flexible Unix environment , and Hewlett products are being incorporated as components of Mead Data 's internally developed Lexis and Nexis legal , business , financial and medical databases . |