Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1920s Edwin Hubble observed that distant galaxies look redder than nearby ones . |
| 2 | As it was , no one thought the universe was changing with time until 1929 , when Edwin Hubble discovered that distant galaxies are moving away from us . |
| 3 | Bernard Baruch asserted that American aid should have been channelled through American businessmen to their European counterparts , so low was his opinion of the economic policies of governments . |
| 4 | Shadow environmental protection minister Ann Taylor claims that some companies have been allowed " blanket relaxations of toxic and microbiological standards " with the result that drinking water in some areas may be unsafe . |
| 5 | • VAG UK managing director Richard Ide predicted that this month will be seen as the point where car sales in Britain turned and began to pick up . |
| 6 | On May 13 the acting Attorney General Hamad al-Othman said that 45 collaboration cases were ready to go to trial . |
| 7 | In a major study of institutionalised delinquents ( delinquents in some form of custody ) in the USA in the 1950s , Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck found that delinquent boys were twice as likely to have a mesomorphic build , a chunky , muscular physique , compared with non-delinquent boys . |
| 8 | Announcing the figures , Environment Minister David Trippier claimed that heavy rains were in part to blame for overloading coastal sewage treatment systems , while the preceding drought meant that a higher density of sewage bacteria had been carried in rivers . |
| 9 | There are signs that an upturn in consumer spending might already have been appearing ; keeping Mr Major in Downing Street ensures that that recovery is under way . |
| 10 | For the DPP Miss Goddard said that mere delay is not capable of being an abuse of the process unless the delay is so great that what is sought by the Crown is no longer the vindication of justice but amounts to oppression or harassment of a defendant . |
| 11 | The Global War Against Small Cetaceans estimates that 500,000 dolphins are killed each year . |
| 12 | Miss Arden submits that this provision must be read subject to section 31 of the Theft Act 1968 , and that if there is conflict between the two sections , section 31 should prevail . |
| 13 | In 1775 Percival Pott recognized that scrotal cancers rarely occurred except in chimney-sweeps , an observation which has become famous as one of the earliest records of an industrial cancer . |
| 14 | Rinelde Steeghs said that that move ’ would so infuriate Serbia and the Yugoslav army as to spell an end to the EC peace conference chaired by Lord Carrington . ’ |
| 15 | MUSIC / In praise of cheapness : Producer David Pountney argues that modern composers should not despise the idea of entertainment |
| 16 | David Gockley reports that corporate contributions , an essential ingredient of his budget , were down 30 per cent this year ; obviously , another year or two like that and the HGO will be in desperate straits . |
| 17 | The question is whether David Mellor knows that mere fun gets boring very quickly ; that excellence , whether in the media , sports or arts can be achieved only through difficulty , through painstaking work , through seriousness ; that people can not be conned for long . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , long before Hirsch , C. S. Lewis wrote that many discussions about ‘ literature ’ are discussions of a nonentity ; for Lewis , literature was about as non-specific a term as ‘ talking ’ or ‘ utterance ’ . |
| 19 | In The Times Higher Education Supplement David Hencke reported that many college and polytechnic directors believed that universities ‘ are relaxing their validation standards to enable former colleges of education to start new arts and science degrees ’ , and quoted Edwin Kerr as being confident that colleges succeeding with CNAA validation would consider it to have been worthwhile . |
| 20 | In the millennium Richard Norton-Taylor thinks that worker-farmer cooperatives should prevail , that large estates should be managed by local communities , and that the land should be used to meet expressed needs of the people . |
| 21 | In an unexpected announcement on Sept. 5 , President Jorge Serrano announced that diplomatic relations had been established with neighbouring Belize , although the century-old Guatemalan claim over the territory of Belize , a former British colony granted its independence in September 1981 , had not been formally withdrawn [ see pp. 36999 ; 37957 ; 38228 ] . |
| 22 | This shows that when Churchill first asked his officials to brief him on the subject , R. G. Hawtrey replied that public works would indeed increase employment , provided they were linked to an expansion of credit . |
| 23 | In 1958 Professor Richard Titmuss argued that social services included more than Welfare State services such as education , social security or the NHS . |
| 24 | Marie Claire held that this practice encouraged rats and snakes , but the maids thought Allah smiled upon their benevolence . |
| 25 | On the flight back to Indonesia Suharto said that Indonesian communists living in China could return home , although they would have to account for their actions in court . |
| 26 | The research team 's David Fraser says that preliminary results indicate that the range of driving performance is age independent , far outstripping variations between groups . |
| 27 | Miss McIntosh said that many businesses in Britain had suffered because of cheap drink from EC countries . |
| 28 | Indeed , Miss Andrews argued that that matter was concluded by the order of Saville J. and there was no party properly before the court on whose application the court could make any different order . |
| 29 | Earlier this year , Mr Justice Morrit decided that certain payments to a bankrupt 's accountants were not a preference under s 340 of the Insolvency Act 1986 . |
| 30 | Dr Tysoe believes that social attitudes are changing . |