Example sentences of "that [adj] [noun] [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heat and chemicals make the hair lose moisture and — as so many of us heat-dry and style our hair , and have perms and colourants — it 's no wonder that dry hair is becoming commonplace . |
| 2 | This follows reports that foreign companies are using dangerous pesticides in places where safety precautions are impossible , and that other companies are still promoting drugs that are banned or controlled in Europe and the US . |
| 3 | Richard Agutter , head of Peat 's merger and acquisition network , said the relatively low average values indicated that British companies were making cross-border deals for strategic reasons ‘ rather than going for the mega-deals ’ . |
| 4 | It is Vic 's impression that English wildlife is getting streetwise , moving from the country into the city where the living is easier — where there are no traps , pesticides , hunters and sportsmen , but plenty of well-stocked garbage bins , and housewives like Marjorie , softhearted or softheaded enough to throw their scraps into the garden , creating animal soup-kitchens . |
| 5 | Sir Leon , who was giving the Grenada annual address in London yesterday , said that German reunification was becoming inevitable . |
| 6 | We can look at the relationship between perceptions of paper bias and the electors ' own partisanship amongst ‘ readers of right-wing papers ’ , though it has to be remembered that different Voters are Evaluating different individual papers . |
| 7 | We found all sorts of different ways that different people were achieving these experiences . |
| 8 | The Coulson Chair was established in the knowledge that Theoretical Chemistry was making significant contributions to Physical , Organic , and Inorganic Chemistry besides becoming an established field in its own right , and it was envisaged that the professor might choose to be associated with the work of any of the laboratories . |
| 9 | Not surprisingly , Apple Computer Inc does n't think too much of that absurd ruling by the US International Trade Commission that Japanese vendors are dumping active matrix displays in the US : it says the ruling made no sense but vowed that the battle was not yet over — ‘ This was an ‘ Alice in Wonderland ’ decision , it defies logic , ’ Apple 's director of government law Jim Burger told Reuter , noting that the only company actually making the things in the US wants the tariff lifted . |
| 10 | The US International Trade Commission has upheld the ridiculous decision that Japanese manufacturers are dumping active matrix liquid crystal displays on the US market to the detriment of a handful of tiny US manufacturers that could never meet the demand from the likes of Apple Computer Inc and IBM Corp , but that alleged dumping of electroluminescent displays has not hurt the US electronics industry ; the active matrix displays carry prohibitive 62.7% tariffs , which apply to imported screens but not to assembled machines that include them , while the electroluminescent displays carried only a 7% tariff . |
| 11 | The opinion polls have begun to suggest that ordinary Greeks are getting tired of the alternation of placeholders that has made up so much of recent Greek politics . |
| 12 | The research concluded that global competition was causing regional shifts in skills and locational requirements , relatively unaffected by government regulation or technology , but significantly so by market pressures . |
| 13 | Hitherto it was thought that natural selection is standing still , or merely weeding out the more harmful defects . |
| 14 | Now that lucky Jupiter is making such an exciting connection to your sign , you 'll start to feel you 're really going places . |
| 15 | Co. that Masai-loving administrators were allowing these useless people to tie up many thousands of acres of valuable agricultural land . |
| 16 | In hotels and catering , which also falls into the category of a " traditional " temporary working sector , there has been union opposition to temporary working based on fears that casual workers were displacing regular staff [ see Chapter 6 ] . |
| 17 | But he said figures showed that international traffickers were targeting this country as never before , and ‘ it 's simply a question of time ’ before that fed through to the streets . |
| 18 | The results are shown in Table 5.3 and indicate that substantial numbers were experiencing each symptom , with some posing a problem for the majority of carers ( losing or hiding things , dangerous or risky behaviour , falling , repeating questions or actions , being restless , angry or irritable , despondent or depressed , or uninterested in what was going on ) . |
| 19 | The trend is one of fewer prosecutions in spite of the fact that environmental regulation is becoming stricter across the world . |
| 20 | While statements such as this invited the charge that factual evidence was becoming confounded with too-hasty interpretation , the basic thesis survived and has been strengthened by other workers not of the psychoanalytic school : notably the ethologists and zoologists , as well as child psychologists ( Lorenz , 1952 ; Harlow , 1961 ; Schaffer and Emerson , 1964 ) . |
| 21 | The Cabinet already suspected that U Saw was planning some act of retaliation ( he resigned on returning from London and did not attempt to contest the election ) . |
| 22 | Some of the few studies that have taken account of gender suggest that Afro-Caribbean girls are achieving higher levels than boys at school level , partly because they are pursuing different strategies , which are necessary in order to survive in the context of high unemployment and low wages for black male workers ( Fuller , 1983 ; see also Riley , 1986 ; Driver , 1977 ) . |
| 23 | AN ATTEMPT by an Australian scientist to verify American claims that Vietnamese forces are spraying chemical weapons in South-East Asia has failed to either prove or disprove the accusation . |
| 24 | To feel this we need to be sure that other people are making similar sacrifices or , if they are not , that there are acceptable grounds for their not doing so . |
| 25 | These were of particular interest because they confirmed suspicions that Syrian traffickers were developing close commercial ties with the Colombian cartels , trading heroin base for cocaine base and bartering either or both as required for arms supplies to terrorist and revolutionary groups around the world . |
| 26 | He like many others at that time felt that female transvestites were usurping male authority . |
| 27 | In effect this means that local people are financing these vandals . |