Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] that [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Jan. 30 , the US authorities revealed that two members of a Cuban family were wounded by Cuban security forces while attempting to flee to the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay . |
| 2 | A study in one polytechnic found that 11% of the bookstock was in circulation , while in another two samples taken from law and the humanities revealed that three issues per volume was the average use per annum , and that two-thirds of the items were loaned in a two-year period . |
| 3 | By May 18 the development ministers of the EC member states agreed that some $5,000,000 of emergency aid would be granted to Somalia , to be channelled through European non-governmental organizations as well as through the UNHCR . |
| 4 | All the small states fear that any strengthening of the European Parliament , where they have relatively few seats in comparison with big brothers like Britain and Germany , will lead to a weakening of their influence by comparison with the Council of Ministers , which they attend as equals . |
| 5 | Experts say that two glasses of red wine a day — taken with meals — helps prevent heart disease . |
| 6 | If it were abolished , that would have the blessing , as far as I am aware , of every local authority association , the Institute of Revenues , Ratings and Valuation , and the Child Poverty Action Group , the very strong blessing of the citizens advice bureaux — and the enormously authorititative support of the Audit Commission , which , in its report , had this to say on the subject : ’ Local authorities say that large numbers of income support recipients are in arrears with community charge payments for 1990/91 . |
| 7 | The next day the Irish Times reported that 711 ex-workers of Raybestos Manhattan in New Jersey in the US were sueing the company and its asbestos supplier , Johns Manville , for $2 million each in workers ' compensation and punitive damages awards . |
| 8 | In 1981 a joint working party of the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Royal College of Radiologists recommended that direct access to radiological services is essential to family doctors ; it shortens the investigation time and improves the quality of service offered by general practitioners . |
| 9 | Monetarists argued that excessive growth in the money stock was the root cause of the inflationary problem , and that any tradeoff between inflation and unemployment was at best temporary . |
| 10 | I wonder how many readers realise that new regulations from the Department of Health might make certain foods less available . |
| 11 | These authors found that oral administration of aspirin was associated with inhibition of platelet prostaglandin synthesis and suggested that this finding might explain the known effects of aspirin in inhibiting the platelet-release reaction and in prolonging the bleeding time ( Quick , 1966 ) . |
| 12 | These considerations suggest that conceptual analysis in criminal law is complex , turning upon philosophies of mind and action , theories of the social function of law or upon moral philosophy . |
| 13 | Slightly different considerations show that some reasons for recognizing the authority of another are secondary . |
| 14 | Abstract considerations show that computational mechanisms of a certain type ( such as a nervous net with no significant prior structure ) simply can not achieve specific kinds of spatial pattern recognition ( Minsky & Papert 1969 ) . |
| 15 | Despite the fall in September sales , the figures produced by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders show that total sales in the first nine months , at 1,919,338 , are still 5 per cent up on the same period last year . |
| 16 | All political parties accept that long-term increases in petrol prices are not only environmentally necessary but unavoidable . |
| 17 | For a long time , too long in fact , this theory held the field , until improved analytical methods showed that various samples of nucleic acid did not have the exact constant proportions of the different bases required by Levene 's tetra-structure . |
| 18 | In early January aid agencies and international organizations warned that large parts of sub-Saharan Africa faced famine and devastation on an even worse scale than in the mid-1980s . |
| 19 | Many City pundits believe that new debt to equity ratios indicate how confident companies are about investments . |
| 20 | Indeed , the monetarists argue that frequent manipulation of the money supply is a mistaken policy because of the long and variable lag before prices are affected . |
| 21 | The authors argue that newborn screening for Duchenne muscular dystrophy decreases emotional distress because it avoids delays in diagnosing the disease , and without newborn screening two or more boys could be born with Duchenne muscular dystrophy before parents realised that they were at risk of having an affected child . |
| 22 | Fitting gatevalves means that new pipes to fittings around the house can be installed after the cold water cistern is in place and connected up . |
| 23 | The growth of instrumental tuition in schools means that large numbers of children with some musical ability are available to be recruited . |
| 24 | Reports from the provinces said that former members of the Stasi are playing an active part in the crusade for revenge . |
| 25 | While the Duke of Argyll had indeed a well-established interest in the county , and John Campbell of Mamore had a long tenure of the parliamentary seat , it is hardly to be wondered that some of the gentlemen resented that blunt statement of Campbell power . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Although Libyans recognized that many members of tribes were ‘ written ’ , or attached in other ways , the central notion was that the loyalties and obligations which made the stateless system work were part of a person 's equipment at birth . |
| 28 | What decent journalists have that most people in the pop industry do n't , is a proper critical faculty . |
| 29 | The outer space committee of the United Nations believes that remote-sensing satellites with a resolution of 25 m could be militarily useful . |
| 30 | Indeed , some of the cases show that different amounts of advertising ‘ work ’ differently . |