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

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1 She did n't need to plead for long ; soon the authorities realised that this determined woman could look after students better than anyone .
2 Some researchers suggest that this environmental scanning process might best be achieved by developing especially organised environmental scanning units that are positioned towards the top of an organisation 's hierarchy .
3 The researchers found that this geographical pattern is best matched by that of sugar consumption , in which the leading countries are , in descending order , the UK , the Netherlands , Ireland , Canada and Denmark , and the countries with the lowest consumption are Italy , Yugoslavia , Spain , Portugal and Japan .
4 the authors speculated that this partisan dealignment reflected a continuing erosion of the class-party tie .
5 It also calls for steps to ensure that any future aid projects in Malawi serve the cause of human rights .
6 Led by Alberta Premier Donald Getty , the western provinces demanded that any constitutional reform package had to include a Senate which was wholly elected and which included an equal number of representatives from each province regardless of its size .
7 A rough estimate by the authors suggests that some scaled-up version of so-called FU Orionis events might be plausible .
8 Parents hope that this huge investment of emotion , time and energy in training children — what we call discipline — will have its dividend , eventually , in the emergence of a young adult with good judgement and a mature , responsible outlook .
9 Thus , the planners maintain that this new demand must be disciplined in some way .
10 Current practices between remote sites demand that all new work is transmitted periodically between sites , or to a central data base .
11 Some water boards insist that all cold water taps in the house are taken from the rising main ; others insist that only the kitchen tap is taken from the main and that all others are fed from the roof tank .
12 Thus , banks suggest that each private key password also be used as an integral part of the encryption algorithm .
13 These , er , workers ’ — his voice took on a faint sneer as he said the word — ‘ these workers suggest that most human behavior is learned , that we are controlled in our actions not by our inheritance but by what happens to us after birth .
14 LIFESPAN-to-LIFESPAN messages Usually messages indicating that some requested function has been completed .
15 Working class people , for example , were combining with public sector workers to ensure that such collective provision was in fact provided .
16 Overall 16 per cent of carers felt that this reduced contact with their friends and 11 per cent reported reduced family contact .
17 Finding that the Middlesbrough , Shields and Seaham branches had been accumulating funds , the Sunderland officials demanded that any surplus cash should be handed over to them at head office , threatening , according to Wilson 's account , " drastic action " if they failed to do so .
18 More sceptical observers suggested that some unacknowledged health risk , such as an outbreak of the waterborne parasite , cryptosporidia , had triggered Severn Trent 's action .
19 Nonetheless , the sharp differences in survival curves between the three comorbidity groups indicate that this simple categorisation was valid .
20 With fines of up to £5,000 and a maximum 6-month jail sentence , the new regulations mean that some second-hand store owners , could go out of business .
21 The statutory regulations provided that any working platform from which a person is likely to fall more than 6ft 6in , had to be at least 34 inches in width .
22 There are numerous anti-avoidance provisions to ensure that this new relief is tightly controlled .
23 Among its recommendations were ( i ) the creation of vents and energy absorption systems which would dissipate the force of an explosion ; ( ii ) the repositioning of cargo containers to ensure that any explosive energy was either directed outwards or absorbed by other baggage containers ; and ( iii ) improving flight recorders so that they continued working after a power failure .
24 THE Government 's efforts to ensure that all 10 water authorities are successfully floated on the Stock Exchange in December are becoming more than a little disingenuous .
25 Nell 's fears grew that this living creature that was neither one thing or truly the other , would never understand her .
26 Design faults meant that each new station required major alterations ; any hope of a production line quickly went out the window .
27 The success of two trial Training Courses held in June and October at Birmingham and York confirmed the belief that the wider demands being placed on the Honorary Welfare Officers meant that some formal training was essential .
28 Do not the figures reveal that those independent oil analysts who , in the early and middle 1980s , forecast a substantial depletion of United Kingdom resources in the early 1990s got it wrong ?
29 Surrey managers said that many elderly day patients who would normally be carried by non-emergency crews have had to be readmitted to hospital in the past three months .
30 Do the sponsors feel that this tawdry display does them any good ?
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