Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] that [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This can also become a vicious circle ; the drain on their emotional reserves means that some people feel less able to cope physically , which , in turn , contributes to a further drain on both emotional and physical resources .
2 His 1911 book Political Parties argued that these organizations supposedly committed to ushering in democratic organization in fact showed all the essential characteristics of bureaucratic organizations , and a separation between leaders and led every bit as pronounced as that prevailing in industry or state agencies .
3 But ideologically , nationalisation became something of an irrelevance since both major political parties accepted that some form of state control and assistance was essential for coal , rail transport , electricity , gas , civil aviation , cable and wireless , and the Bank of England .
4 The maker 's marks on some English watchcases suggest that some manufacturers continued to make their cases from sterling silver and this has been confirmed by analysis .
5 Slightly different considerations show that some reasons for recognizing the authority of another are secondary .
6 As it became apparent that considerable variations in training were to be found , the ( now ) British Library Research and Development Group for Research into Public Libraries felt that more information was needed about current practice , and in September 1982 , British Library Research and Development and The Library Association agreed to liaise on the development of an exploratory survey .
7 The speed , spread and penetration of electronic communications mean that these ploys play an increasing public role not just in the ‘ theatre ’ of military operations but also in the diplomatic wrangling which custom decrees takes place ‘ behind the scenes ’ .
8 Adaptive innovations could thus be separated , as the ones that are hereditarily transmitted , from the maladaptive , as the ones that are not ; although Darwin notes that hereditary diseases show that this separation is often fallible .
9 Social commentators noted that this phenomenon was not new : bright colours and rising skirts apparently went with good times whilst body concealment and drab tones accompanied depression .
10 Operating System Extensions for Unix provides the client-server network-enabling tools to ensure that all elements of the distributed application can communicate efficiently ; it also provides network data integrity .
11 Spearheads were made in a wide range of identifiable forms emphasising that each iron object was a unique forging .
12 Natural infection may have also contributed to the high seroprevalences in the IPV group 13–17 months after vaccination , although evidence from previous studies in poliomyelitis-free areas suggests that this finding is more likely to be due to brisk secondary responses in children who had been primed with OPV and who later received poliovirus antigen parenterally in the form of IPV .
13 US official sources predicted that these measures alone would reduce carbon emissions by 15 per cent .
14 However , official figures suggest that more girls have tended to stay at school to secondary level than boys , both in the homelands and in DET areas .
15 Both the official and non-official élites believed that many charges were not true , but there was no agreement about the proportion of false cases , or about the number of crimes which were never reported .
16 Biblical scholars concur that this incident — manifestly an important one in Jesus 's career and calculated to attract maximum attention among his contemporaries — served a very specific purpose .
17 The freedom of much animal behaviour from physically specifiable constraints implies that many animals must have inner representations and symbolic language .
18 Israeli officials estimated that this figure would increase dramatically in 1990 , an appraisal which appeared to be based partly on persistent reports of a threat from anti-Semitic groups to the safety of Jews in the Soviet Union .
19 More sophisticated falsificationists realize that those conditions alone are insufficient .
20 Nor does the evidence of a renewed upsurge of potentially revolutionary protest from below in the immediate pre-war years suggest that this source of their inhibition would fade with time .
21 The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights reported that any prison warders found guilty of beating prisoners were punished .
22 This tendency to protect national interests meant that little progress was made to eliminate the barriers to the free movement of services , capital and labour .
23 In the early days of man 's evolution natural forces ensured that these individuals were weeded out of the human race and could not reproduce , but science has altered all that , made it possible to rear such frail specimens .
24 They seldom incorporate weatherstripping , and ordinary galvanised types need regular checks to ensure that any damage does n't lead to rust .
25 Blocked roads meant that many motorists could not get home for several hours .
26 What decent journalists have that most people in the pop industry do n't , is a proper critical faculty .
27 They must take reasonable steps to ensure that this information is available to those who might benefit ( Sched 2 , para 1 ) .
28 Environmental lawyers warned that this ruling would place severe restrictions on future law suits .
29 The growth of anti-avoidance measures means that many tax havens have had to change their legislation to allow companies to have a genuine presence in the territory .
30 Given that ‘ most GIS are rather dumb systems , requiring intelligent , very computer literate users ’ , managing natural and technological hazards means that this knowledge base must be built into the system so that it can be utilized quickly by untrained users after a disaster has taken place or in an emergency .
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