Example sentences of "that [noun] [vb -s] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it could also seriously affect the health of schoolchildren as numerous studies have shown that milk plays a vital part in their nutritional intake . |
| 2 | Some have argued that change has a cumulative effect . |
| 3 | The court heard that Yafano has a previous conviction as a juvenile for cruelty to cats which involved skinning and stringing them up . |
| 4 | In Committee , the Minister invariably points out that Parliament has a simple way of dealing with orders and that we should stick to it . |
| 5 | At Great Ormond Street hospital doctors tell the royal couple that William has a depressed fracture which needs an immediate operation . |
| 6 | The fact that Marianne places a great deal of store by marriage but not its permanence comes as no surprise to Warren Colman . |
| 7 | It turns out , too , that Tod has a black chest with photographs of women in it . |
| 8 | The figures show that agriculture represents a major industry for Scotland . |
| 9 | One view is that calcium exerts a positive feedback effect on PLC , thereby generating periodic surges of InsP 3 during each spike . |
| 10 | It is also a matter of money , but I would argue that money plays a lesser part than the necessary will and the understanding of those other factors . |
| 11 | We can not smell their pheromones , though it is clear from their behaviour that smell plays a great part in social life : in mother-foal bonding , group identity , individual recognition , mating , tracking , perhaps recognition of home range , and so on . |
| 12 | What sets up the causal link in this case is the fact that honey has a distinctive taste , which Pooh will recognise . |
| 13 | Some theorists believe that hydrogen becomes a metallic solid where its electrons freely flow when compressed by two or three million atmospheres pressure ; there have been speculations that metallic hydrogen could be useful as a fusion fuel . |
| 14 | He suspects that Ivor has a secret collection of stolen coins . |
| 15 | Selznick concluded that delegation achieves a necessary purpose , as specialisation increases , but that it carries problems with it , ie. it is both functional and dysfunctional at the same time . |
| 16 | You 've got to remember that David has a 20-year history of being a rock star , and he 's broken his word and come back from retirement about three times . |
| 17 | After long and entertaining research ( that 's hours sitting watching the story unfold and telling everyone that this really was work ) I can divulge that Johnny has a long-distance girlfriend , fishes an awful lot , is taken water-skiing by sharks , enjoys parties on passing cruisers , is invaded by ancient midget pirates , and is a very clean living , regular bathing type of guy . |
| 18 | It is personal and not explained solely by the fact that Lang has a marginal seat and the SNP is the main competitor . |
| 19 | An alternative view is that convection involves a two-scale pattern consisting of large-scale convection in the upper mantle responsible tor plate movement superimposed on smaller-scale convection cells confined to the topmost 650 km of the mantle . |
| 20 | It has co-operated with her tennis progress , so much so that Zara has a special timetable to accommodate her tennis . |
| 21 | Taken against the background of considerable other evidence about the genetics of psychosis ( especially schizophrenia ) we can therefore certainly conclude that inheritance plays a major role in determining susceptibility . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , the very fact that poetry has a central role in Soviet life means that much of it is conservative in form and predictable in content . |
| 23 | Most sufferers overcome food allergies by their 3rd birthday … and it 's only since turning 4 that doctors have acknowledged that Gemma has a serious problem . |
| 24 | Academician Scriabin has even claimed that Sakharov has a private secretary ! |
| 25 | Of non-flowering plants , it has been argued that ferns have a lower associated insect fauna , though it has long been known that bracken has a large number of associated arthropods . |
| 26 | A may not terminate the contract on the ground that B has committed a breach by not opening a confirmed credit — but he may insist that B opens a confirmed credit within a reasonable time and , if B does not do so , he will then be in breach of contract . |
| 27 | Even though Climent and Bardolet appear to be a long way in front — over 250 points — Meeke explains that Spain uses a European-style co-efficient scoring system . |
| 28 | Comparative studies have shown that PCNA provides a strong correlation with [ 3 H ] -thymidine labelling and flow cytometric assessment of S phase fraction in rat colon and with autoradiographic labelling in human tissue . |
| 29 | Indeed the psychiatrist who first popularised the notion that hypnosis has a special relationship with truth , no less a figure than Sigmund Freud , later issued a retraction . |
| 30 | But he fails to mention that Denmark has a local income tax of 13.5–22 per cent , as well as a property tax . |