Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [vb pp] [verb] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shock and indignation jostle for position in the following quote from a speech of the president of the Royal Society , delivered in 1978 : ‘ Ominously , voices have been raised claiming that limits should be set to scientific inquiry — that there are questions which should not be asked and research which should not be undertaken . ’ |
| 2 | Constitutional arrangements have been developed to ensure that bureaucracies remain responsive to political direction . |
| 3 | More recently , tests have been made to check that orbits calculated according to GR simultaneously fit the planetary orbital data from a wide range of measurements ( Section 8.4 ) . |
| 4 | And if there had been no synthetic drugs to control the resistant strains , would the decline of streptomycin have been taken to prove that antibiotics were a waste of time because organisms adapted to them too easily ? |
| 5 | These computer workshops have been included to ensure that graduates will have ‘ hands on ’ experience of the accounting and business software that is of increasing importance to the accountancy profession . |
| 6 | Some graves have been found showing that bowls of food were buried with the body — this was to provide for the journey to the Underworld , which many people believed was made by a dead person 's spirit . |