Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] that [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 At its climax , their performance is so punishing that senses of sight , sound and balance break down almost entirely .
2 Director David White said : ‘ The interpretation adopted by the court now makes it far more likely that children at risk of abuse will need to be removed from their home rather than the perpetrator . ’
3 It is unlikely that there was a smoothly rising escalator of official fortunes , more probable that times of bonanza were separated by periods when rewards rose slowly .
4 Given the well-documented existence of widespread discrimination against black job-seekers it is hardly surprising that levels of unemployment within the black communities are substantially higher than those for white people .
5 Given such an approach it is hardly surprising that relations between pacifist and Communist opponents of the war during 1939–40 proved difficult .
6 It is not always true that deficiencies in service are to blame .
7 As well as corporate crime undermining the public 's faith in the business world , it is also likely that crimes of bribery and corruption by large corporations affect the poorer , less powerful sections of society more than other sections .
8 It is also important that agencies like education , the media , government and the legal system assist the ruling class in preserving those interests .
9 It is also true that proceedings by way of injunction are not the only form of proceedings open to a local authority under the section ; but , unlike Mann L.J. , I am not impressed by that fact , because , in practice , for reasons I have previously given , the circumstances in which injunction proceedings may be successfully brought by a local authority are such that no other proceedings will be effective to enforce the law .
10 It is therefore most important that students of accounting and economics should see their tools and techniques within the organizational context in which they will have to be used .
11 It is now clear that tests of equation ( 3.29 ) are not tests of ‘ market efficiency ’ or rational expectations on its own , for equation ( 3.29 ) could only be derived with the auxiliary assumptions of risk-neutrality and identical transaction costs .
12 Yeah , I think when it comes to bearing selection issues we ought to be clear in which direction we 're going in , now , it 's in our interests at the moment , as we 're unable to produce a larger series of airings in the U K or in Europe , to steer them away from those sort of design , but it seems also to be fairly clear that demands for packaging and compact design for steering gear , tend to be favouring the =mote , remote valve arrangement , therefore putting a considerable advantage
13 There has also been deliberate wooing of parents who had already made their selection , although it is surely obvious that changes in mid-stream can only be damaging , in terms of stability , education and coach/player relationship .
14 Indeed , well before it assembled , the governments involved had been quite aware that quarrels over precedence would be the first obstacle to peace-making and by no means the least serious .
15 But , as with Neratius , it is again surprising that words like cupio or opto , which are both entirely in the traditional mould of requesting the trustee to do something , should have to be mentioned at all .
16 I am very conscious that snippets of ethnography used to " illustrate " an argument are often highly misleading .
17 It is certainly true that pigeons with bar magnets attached to their heads navigate incorrectly on overcast , but not on sunny , days ( Figure 4.9 ) ; which suggests both that pigeons have a magnetic sense , and that it may be used by pigeons as a back-up compass sense when the sun is invisible .
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