Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With pads on his knees , Norman Croucher shows that six points of contact can have advantages |
| 2 | The technical literature suggests that structural factors may have been more important than price factors in explaining the persistent deficit . |
| 3 | Antidiarrhoeal agents , broad spectrum antibiotics , cholestyramine , sulphasalazine , and oral corticosteroids have all been used but anecdotal experience suggests that satisfactory control of diarrhoea is rarely achieved . |
| 4 | ‘ There is ample literature to demonstrate that qualified women have not attained full equality with men , but nonetheless they do have considerable economic and occupational advantages compared with less qualified women ’ ( Bonney , 1986 , p. 17 ) . |
| 5 | Even a failed wizard knew that some substances were sensitive to light . |
| 6 | Additionally , it is clearly wishful thinking to insist that tooth-forming cells are the only ones in the body sensitive to fluoride . |
| 7 | The results of a collaborative European study indicate that affected women do indeed have fewer children than normal control subjects . |
| 8 | On Dec. 6 the Foreign Ministry announced that Soviet citizens would be allowed to subscribe ( in hard currency ) to foreign papers and magazines , more of which would also be available in public libraries . |
| 9 | Also on April 23 the Netherlands Foreign Ministry announced that three journalists and a trade attaché at the Russian embassy in The Hague had been asked to leave the country a month earlier . |
| 10 | The Iranian authorities said on June 22 that help would be welcome from any source except South Africa and Israel , and on June 24 the Foreign Ministry confirmed that acceptable sources included the United States . |
| 11 | Speaking of the maximum number of jobs of 21,000 that could be associated with the Ove Arup proposal , British Rail says that these jobs would largely represent a redistribution of economic activity in Kent and London rather than the creation of new economic activity . |
| 12 | The new act clearly falls far short of the demand for freedom of information legislation with a presumption that all official information is in the public domain except where there are clearly defined reasons for restricting disclosure and where there is adequate monitoring to ensure that civil servants and politicians are committed to implementing the principles behind the legislation . |
| 13 | In July , 1989 , the Daily Express reported that ex-Beatle Paul McCartney was funding a Fame-type school on Merseyside through remarks a black friend made to him about the Toxteth riots being mainly caused by police harassment . |
| 14 | The comparative lateness of German industrialisation meant that German capital had neither outlets in the colonies nor a slave trade to generate the further capital necessary to finance industrial development . |
| 15 | I read to him sentences from the Report such as : ‘ Schools have the clear responsibility to ensure that all children have full access to Standard English , given its role as an international language used throughout the world and essential for many purposes . ’ |
| 16 | Sometimes a theoretical framework prescribes that particular factors are considered causally prior to others ; Marxists , for example , assume that in the last instance economic variables take precedence over cultural , political variables . |
| 17 | However , despite the generally positive reception given to the growth of community alternatives , concern has been expressed that the decline in residential provision means that young people with the most serious problems do not always receive appropriate help ( Hekken et al . , |
| 18 | The sheer frequency in our population of sexual difficulty means that sexual problems are likely to figure among those which confront clients . |
| 19 | The EPA 's analysis , found much of our world in a single oyster — 40 different chemical compounds that natural selection did n't leave there . |
| 20 | * The Confederation of British Industry estimates that one company in five is allocating up to 25 per cent of its total investment to waste management and improvement of environmental performance . |
| 21 | The Old Testament says that human beings were put into the Garden of Eden ‘ to dress and keep it . ’ |
| 22 | Popular suffrage meant that rival factions would shout for their own candidate . |
| 23 | In the case of family planning , the inter-uterine contraceptive device ( IUCD ) was launched in India in the mid-1960s before adequate research showed that many women were physically unsuited to it , and it needed a high level of professional judgement on the part of the paramedical staff inserting it . |
| 24 | Recent scientific research suggests that daily fish oil can help to maintain a healthy heart , and circulation . |
| 25 | ‘ Scientific research shows that yogic flying produces increased brain coherence and harmony is generated throughout society . |
| 26 | ‘ Scientific thinking means that all things must be proved before they are . |
| 27 | On overseas aid , the hon. Lady knows that this year we have yet again increased the amount of money that is spent on that . |
| 28 | The mise-en-scène showed a sad confusion , too , between a coup de theéâtre and a mere coup de tête : over-emphatic projection meant that each piece was ejaculated with the abruptness — but neither the insouciance nor the demotic wit — of the slices in Morecambe and Wise 's justly celebrated performance , The Stripper . |
| 29 | Critics of foreign ownership argue that British plants may become satellite plants or screwdriver plants , involved in the low value-added parts of the production process , providing jobs that are the first to disappear in times of difficulty . |
| 30 | The no-boundary proposal implies that these differences in density would start off in their ground state ; that is , they would be as small as possible , consistent with the uncertainty principle . |