Example sentences of "[vb pp] that [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , let it be supposed that she lacked ordinary competence and capacity . |
| 2 | It was claimed that it made rural communities vulnerable to guerrilla reprisals . |
| 3 | Staff at the Commission have claimed that it has insufficient funds to do this . |
| 4 | It is recommended that you have separate command files for these actions , which you then call as appropriate from the standard VMS command files . |
| 5 | If he had guessed that she had prior knowledge , he was not prepared to say so . |
| 6 | I 've checked that they do vegetarian dishes . |
| 7 | The Hindus , he knew , at least refrained from eating pigs ( unlike the Chinese or the disgusting Christians of Byzantium ) , but he had heard that they had other habits the very thought of which made him swoon . |
| 8 | When the public respond to your advertisements or because they have heard that you do personal injury work , it is not enough just to tell them that you do and expect them to come into the office . |
| 9 | Shortly before he died , Mary had noticed that she had great difficulty swallowing food , had gone to her doctor and he had organized X-rays and tests at the local hospital . |
| 10 | I 've noticed that she has good bladder control . |
| 11 | Asked about such behaviour she added : ‘ I would be annoyed by it , but I would not feel threatened that he had sexual intercourse with other women . |
| 12 | Rob and Heather had just joined them then , and presumably Luke had felt that he had good reason for not wanting to prolong any conversation about Elise . |
| 13 | Once it has been accepted that they need continuing care their responsibility for maintaining themselves is removed . |
| 14 | But once granted that we have adequate ground for interpreting people 's preferences as those of conscious beings , it is not clear why it should be denied that we have adequate clues as to whether they have pleasant or unpleasant experiences under various circumstances and for some judgements about the degree of the pleasure or pain involved which allow interpersonal comparisons . |
| 15 | It is said that they place great strains on family life , and people feel they would be unable to cope with a mentally handicapped child . |
| 16 | He had said that he regarded all-round cancellation as the only fair solution to inter-Allied debts , and this remained his basic position throughout . |
| 17 | With his father 's help , Victor began slowly exercising his limbs , but doctors have said that he needs controlled therapy in the city hospital — something the family will never be able to afford . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , Dustin , who has said that he envies pregnant women , followed a natural childbirth course with Anne , doing all the exercises she did . |
| 19 | Regan and Stewart ( 1982 ) had also earlier argued that they had insufficient legitimacy since members were neither elected or selected on the basis of expert knowledge , prerequisites of authority . |
| 20 | Responsibility lies with the SROs , but it could be argued that they have insufficient resources to carry out this role , and should merely be ombudsmen ( although there is also some doubt as to their ability to act in this limited capacity given their degree of underfunding ) . |
| 21 | If a British multinational invests in plant abroad , it is often argued that it weakens British industry because the resources could have been used to invest in new production in the UK . |
| 22 | Marxism has sometimes been regarded as a positivist approach since it can be argued that it sees human behaviour as a reaction to the stimulus of the economic infrastructure . |
| 23 | When organisms are examined it is seen that they form natural groups with features , usually morphological , in common . |
| 24 | You have seen that there exists convincing evidence that the Jovian interior is hot and that convection is the dominant mode of heat transport outwards . |
| 25 | Firstly , we need to recall that a feature of modernity is that infant mortality rates have dropped , people live longer , and medicine and improved diet have ensured that we have healthy populations . |
| 26 | My husband has been told that he has high cholesterol . |
| 27 | She had learned the harp because she had once been told that she had beautiful elbows , and harp playing seemed to make better use than most careers of the Lord 's stingy gift . |
| 28 | A child under 10 incurs no criminal liability for its acts ; a child over 9 , but under 14 , incurs no such liability , unless it is shown that it had sufficient capacity to know that its act was wrong . |
| 29 | It may have been noted that I placed sexual offences against children among cases which may have effect . |
| 30 | While idioms and dead metaphors must be distinguished , it should also be recognised that they have certain characteristics in common . |