Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir James McKinnon has told the Monopolies and Mergers Commission that one part should deal with transport and storage and the other with trading . |
| 2 | Hyperbaric-oxygen treatment is also known to suppress the immune systems in experimental animals , and researchers suspect that multiple sclerosis may be an autoimmune disease related to a viral infection . |
| 3 | In contrast to the views of the majority of local law societies , the Conference of Presidents and Secretaries concluded that existing conflict rules were ineffective , and they reluctantly supported the introduction of a prohibition . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The talk is straight and serious , and curiously free of rhetoric , for voters and candidates agree that this election is Italy 's encounter with destiny . |
| 6 | But the sheer quantity of such texts and the variety of their intended readers and hearers means that some cross-referencing is possible . |
| 7 | Chapman 's appreciation of individual strengths and weaknesses meant that each man was played in the position that best suited and developed his talents . |
| 8 | They are ‘ normal events ’ , arising almost naturally out of the circumstances of the employment relationship itself : ‘ A wildcat can break out in perfectly normal conditions , and the structure of the relations between employers , trade unions , governments and workers guarantees that some strikes will grow from small beginnings into mighty struggles ’ ( p.241 ) . |
| 9 | In addition to punitive legal and financial restraints , governments and officials ensured that preferential treatment and a steady stream of funds kept the press in check . |
| 10 | PKK members had attacked a gendarmerie post in Sirnak 's Uludere district , and officials reported that surviving PKK fighters had fled back across the border into Iraq . |
| 11 | Enterprises began to close for lack of fuel or materials , and officials warned that 35,000 people could be laid off work by the end of the month . |
| 12 | A similar proposition was put forward in a petition from the prelates , barons , knights and other Gascon nobles to Edward III that their ancient liberties , fors and customs stipulated that all issues of inheritance and other cases concerning prelates and nobles were to be heard by the king-duke or his seneschal . |
| 13 | The functional division of policy-making responsibilities among different central government departments and agencies means that public enterprises may experience political pressures from several distinct authority sources within the state . |
| 14 | Coupled with the fact that over half the households in Great Britain have a microwave and surveys suggest that most catering establishments use a microwave at some time , the techniques of microwaving can hardly be a mystery by now . |
| 15 | This planned initiative runs alongside individual action and studies show that this system is not deemed by the teachers to be incompatible with their creative freedom ( Bjerke , 1983 ) . |
| 16 | Trounson , who helped to pioneer techniques for freezing the embryos of cattle while working in Britain during the 1970s , says that research in sheep , mice and cattle indicates that vital factors in effective freezing include the chemical composition and the physical size of the embryonic cells . |
| 17 | Parents with young children are constantly prey to the comments of well-meaning friends and relations convinced that little Freddie 's or Jemima 's nose , cheek or chin is the spitting image of some great-aunt or other . |
| 18 | So for our purpose we will refer to all the frame components collectively as spars , and define their applications by calling them as follows : spine , cross-spar , leading edge ( I.e ) , and stand-offs assuming that such terms will be self explanatory . |
| 19 | He said many scientists and doctors argued that further research could lead to improved treatment of infertility , find the causes and prevent the passing on of genetic diseases , improve contraception , and establish the causes of miscarriage . |
| 20 | FMLN health workers and doctors insist that any health system which does not take as its starting point the ideological world of the patient would in fact be ‘ unscientific ’ since it would be , at worst , simply a system for diagnosing diseases , or , at best , a system of treating diseases but not a system for treating people . |
| 21 | We sat on its terrace overlooking the harbour , watching the sky blush rose-red and devouring plum oysters , crabs , and langoustines caught that same day — and the first snails I have ever had that did not taste like bits of black rubber boot fried in garlic and olive oil . |
| 22 | Although supplementary pensions and allowances ensure that basic needs are met , those who are entirely dependent upon them certainly suffer some degree of hardship compared with the standard of living of the majority of citizens , and strenuous efforts are being made to raise the level of the government 's ‘ guaranteed income ’ . |
| 23 | The Stock Exchange and others hope that sharp-eyed analysts and journalists will spot companies that admit in their accounts to non-compliance with the code , and trust that the resulting bad publicity will force them to comply in future . |
| 24 | Dr Collier and others hope that this trial will remove the toxic cloak of secrecy surrounding their regulation . |
| 25 | Reviewing the literature , we and others concluded that most studies found some difference either in symptoms or in hormonal responses . |
| 26 | The armed bodies of men and women indicate that national liberation is no longer a world of private sentiment but a serious aspiration . |
| 27 | Eugenicists , social purity campaigners and imperialists felt that strict schedules and regular habits would breed character in the child . |
| 28 | The deaths can not be medically accounted for and environmentalists fear that costal erosion could be releasing buried poisons from the site . |
| 29 | Centuries ago , the Greeks and Romans assumed that notional categories such as time , number , and gender existed in the real world and must therefore be common to all languages . |
| 30 | His public standing rose by 18 points in public opinion polls immediately after Guzmán 's capture , and analysts believed that government-sponsored candidates now stood a good chance of commanding a majority in the Democratic Constituent Congress ( CCD ) to be elected on Nov. 22 [ see p. 39048 ] . |