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

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1 Most of the fragments detected by the ( T 2 AG 3 ) 4 oligonucleotide are very small in the Mbo I and Alu I digested DNAs suggesting that the telomeric repeats can be as short as 300 bp or even shorter .
2 Local and environmental groups fear that the new mining activity will turn what is now magnificent scenery into a mud choked ecological disaster .
3 In 10 out of 12 EC countries , lower taxes mean that the same bottle is sold for less :
4 In December 1969 , after Conservative protests had been disposed of that Parliament was being asked to reach a decision at an unnecessarily early stage ( a General Election was in the offing ) , both Houses agreed that the 1965 Act should not expire .
5 Most contemporaries realized that the two aspects were intimately connected .
6 The two researchers propose that the contaminated oil acted as an ‘ adjuvant ’ — it made those rare reactions , common .
7 Some biologists suggest that the best solution to the crown of thorns ‘ problem ’ may be to do nothing — except , of course , to monitor the situation .
8 Female influence was greatest in consumer decisions , and least in public affairs ( although , as in the above example of voting choices , the researchers say that the latter finding may be due to the men 's unwillingness to admit to having serious political discussions with women ) .
9 Researchers say that the alarming increase in the number of cases in December , the first month of the Brazilian summer , signals worse to come .
10 Experts say that the current recession is behind the trend .
11 The expansionists acknowledge that the great worry about devaluation is that it will be inflationary and could at best be self-defeating or , at worst , bring in higher interest rates and slower growth .
12 Recorded reactions suggest that the German public was preoccupied not with Hitler 's remarks on the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , but with the implications for war or peace contained in his speech .
13 The exhibition text coyly notices : ‘ Some artists acknowledge that the close presence of the model brings an added tension to their work ’ .
14 Next day the Germans found that the one-time schoolmaster and lieutenant of 2 Commando Philip Walton , and maybe one of the corporals from Pritchard 's squad , had laid charges on the bridge , but this brave effort had been foiled by lethal fire at close range .
15 The opponents maintained that the secondary market serves only a tiny fraction of American artists , most of whom are already quite rich .
16 Law Society guidance to these amendment rules emphasises that the new requirements are not intended materially to increase the reporting accountant 's workload .
17 There had always been cities providing a variety of religious , political , and commercial functions but few contemporaries doubted that the industrial city of the nineteenth century was a new phenomenon .
18 It became clear to Truman as the months passed that the Soviet government was taking little heed of these threats and that differences over the composition of the Polish and other East European governments , over the fate of Germany and a host of other issues , remained as wide as ever .
19 But many Libyans argued that the popular consultations of 1976 had had no more than a delaying effect .
20 Such policies have been directly against the interests of disabled people , whose economic position and need for housing with particular physical characteristics mean that the private sector has little to offer .
21 In China recently , foreign journalists were forced by fevered local fans to agree that the Chinese team was the best .
22 The other nations fear that the American vehicles will hog the available space in the geostationary orbit 36000 km above the Equator , leaving no room for their own satellites .
23 Women factory inspectors agreed that the less work women did in factories the better it would be for their home life and children 's welfare , but they were also forced to admit that working women usually needed their earnings .
24 MacLeay 's view of natural relationships presupposed that the living world is constructed according to a rational plan .
25 It is essential for this purpose that the parties intend that the demised property should be used in some definite and particular manner .
26 Slotting the survey findings together , the authors found that the total number of landfills in America might be anything from 4,462 to 10,467 .
27 On Jan. 29 the Arabic-language daily al-Quds reported that the Saudi Justice Minister Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Jubair had ordered the removal from office of Shaikh Abd al-Muhsin al-Ubaykan , president of the main court in Riyadh .
28 Party strategists acknowledge that the overwhelming weight of opinion polls has been against them — and that for Mr Major to win tomorrow he would need a movement in public opinion greater than that achieved in nine of the past 10 election campaigns .
29 Cripps and his supporters objected that the Labour leadership had failed to absorb the lessons of 1931 and were not Prepared to deal with the inevitable " sabotage " of the Labour programme by capitalist interests .
30 Sir , Just in case confusion is caused by William Boot 's news in Unauthorised Returns ( 2nd April ) that Paul Barnett has left Titan Books for the wilds of Lapland , I wonder if you would be good enough to let your readers know that the other Paul Barnett is still alive and well and working from Exeter .
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