Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Table 6.6 includes 3 different risk-free rates to illustrate the point made by Friend and Blume that these measures are sensitive to the rate of return on the risk-free asset . |
| 2 | Radio Tanzania on Sept. 18 cited Diria as saying that both sides were being given the opportunity to go home and clarify their positions . |
| 3 | We looked in vain in Siemens AG 's first half report on Monday for any mention of its Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG computer subsidiary , and with all the dreadful economic news coming out of Germany , it began to assume the air of the dog that did n't bark : Siemens said of its overall business that it did not show any revival in the first half , and that continued economic decline affected domestic business and led to a decline in incoming orders , and there was no recovery in its foreign business ; laying it on with a trowel , Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's leading economic advisor was quoted on Tuesday as saying that German workers failed to recognise the danger of high wages in a time of recession , and that German products were too expensive for world markets as wage increases outpaced growth in productivity , and earlier , Siemens Nixdorf had had to rebut a magazine report that its losses would be even worse this year , saying that it was certain that its results would improve this fiscal year ; the article , in Manager Magazin , also said that Siemens was looking for a replacement for Siemens Nixdorf management board chairman Hans-Dieter Wiedig , and added that plans to reduce the workforce to 41,000 by 1995 from 47,200 at the end of February could well be accelerated . |
| 4 | During the course of his visit Yeltsin made clear his desire to improve relations with South Korea and indicated that Russian forces in the Far East would be reduced sharply , and that military aid to North Korea would be suspended . |
| 5 | Dr Sharp and his colleagues from an Edinburgh hospital questioned nearly 300 doctors in southeast Scotland and found that some GPs get up to 50 requests a month for ear syringing . |
| 6 | The data compiled by the Childrens ' Movement and IBASE , an independent institute , show a street child dies from stabbing , strangulation , beating or gunshots every two days in Brazil and claims that 82 children have been murdered by death squads this year . |
| 7 | But this harsh action was condemned by Reagan who called for punitive measures against the Eastern bloc , threatened to cut off all talks with Moscow and asked that Western aid be ended for an oil-gas pipeline which was being constructed from Soviet Siberia into Europe . |
| 8 | The Constitutional Court on Feb. 19 also annulled the electoral results in the North African enclave of Melilla and ruled that fresh elections should take place there within six weeks . |
| 9 | On Dec. 23 , Germany recognized the independence of Slovenia and Croatia and promised that diplomatic relations would be established on Jan. 15 . |
| 10 | The examples of ( 10 ) have interesting implications , but we shall restrict ourselves here to those aspects which bear on adjectival grammar ; we take them as confirming evidence that we are justified in following Bolinger and recognizing that certain adjectives qualify another property , qua property , and are not to be assigned , independently , to any entity present in or assumed by the structure of the sentence in which they appear . |
| 11 | Baldwin had a profound distaste for those who had made money out of the war and in 1919 he made an anonymous donation of part of his wealth to the nation as his personal sacrifice ; Neville Chamberlain was greatly affected by the death of his cousin Norman and determined that such sacrifice should not be wasted . |
| 12 | The delegations supported sending an international peacekeeping force to Yugoslavia and said that military action in solving internal political disputes was inadmissible . |
| 13 | It will be a Europe that recognises that transnational commerce and industry , with all their powers , are tolerable only if there are effective mechanisms to safeguard employed people — men and women , their families and retired people — who might otherwise have no defence against the demands and requirements of vast corporations operating on a continental scale . |
| 14 | Mr Owen met the Home Secretary , Douglas Hurd , on 20 September and suggested that senior officials within the Department of Health , the social services and various community bodies should meet to discuss the problem . |
| 15 | We take a visit to Japan and discover that raw fish is only a tiny part of the Japanese diet . |
| 16 | In his Guide ( 1819 ) Green admires both Rosa and Claude and states that these men are his artistic guiding stars . |
| 17 | Hamilton ( 1987 ) refutes the HEDT suggestion that widespread deforestation in the Himalaya is the prime cause of flooding in the lower reaches of the Ganges and the Brahmaputra and argues that large-scale flooding , such as that of 1985 in India when 237 people were killed ( and presumably that in Bangladesh in 1988 ) , could not be prevented even if the entire Himalaya were forested . |
| 18 | Data from the New Zealand cot death study show that the prevalence of the prone sleeping position decreased before the campaign in New Zealand and suggest that other publicity , such as that generated by fundraising campaigns , may have had an influence . |
| 19 | For reasons which are too complicated to bother with , I had left Scotland , where I was for Christmas , on December 30th to go to the Isle of Wight and spend that most braw , bricht , moonlicht and Caledonian of celebrations , Hogmanay in the Deep South . |
| 20 | Marx therefore sees Maine as arguing that private property is the original form of appropriation and that communal property is a later development . |
| 21 | The report noted the high degree of political development in Belau and concluded that free association with the USA remained the preferred option among the " overwhelming majority " of the population . |
| 22 | We look forward to the designation of Green Belts in the more developed areas of Wales and presume that this guidance will then apply . |
| 23 | The reason was , I think , that the Africans were deeply suspicious of Ian Smith and believed that any agreement which was devised to give them full democratic rights would in fact never be implemented . |
| 24 | Before Christmas I visited W H Smith and found that Spare Rib Magazine had been put in ‘ General Interest ’ , which includes all the soft pornography magazines . |