Example sentences of "that it [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Japan , which would be the only remaining IWC member in favour of whaling if Norway left , says that it plans to use this year 's meeting , to be held in Kyoto , to " press for the resumption of commercial whaling around Japan and in the northern Atlantic " . |
| 2 | Without the original bill we can not be certain of the government 's objectives ; but on balance it seems unlikely that it wished to replace statutory legislation by proclamation . |
| 3 | So the surprising feature of Ibstock Johnsen is that it continues to make any money at all . |
| 4 | To do that , it assesses the difference in intensity of the sound in each ear and the infinitesimal difference in time that it takes to reach one ear before the other . |
| 5 | Warwick Collins points out that the keel design not only has a distinct draught advantage over a fin keel , but also claims that it helps to damp any pitching motion in a seaway . |
| 6 | In a statement issued after the meeting the resolution was described as " totally unacceptable " on the grounds that it failed to condemn Palestinian violence and questioned Israel 's sovereignty over Jerusalem . |
| 7 | One of the key main objections to the Accord was that it failed to offer sufficient protection to Quebec 's English-speaking minority . |
| 8 | It is hard to believe that it intended to withhold that protection in all cases where a jury might think that the place in question was not necessary or desirable or where the authorities could not by evidence justify their policies to a jury 's satisfaction . |
| 9 | In short , revisionist economic historians have played down the significance of the reforms introduced after 1905 , and controverted the liberal belief that it promised to bring social stability to the countryside . |
| 10 | The US says that it intends to axe one satellite . |
| 11 | Since the socialist government has said that it intends to pass this year 's defence bill anyway , it was the duty of the opposition to move a vote of no confidence . |
| 12 | Norway has announced that it intends to catch 382 minke whales over the next three years . |
| 13 | One of the main criticisms of The Health of the Nation is that it fails to pay serious attention to health inequalities . |
| 14 | Vienna , Virginia-based Legent Corp warns that it expects to report net profit of about $18.4m or $0.52 per share for the second quarter ended Aprch 31 , compared with the $0.44 before charges that it reported last year ; turnover will be about flat with the $102.5m a year ago : the news caused a bloodbath in the Legent share price , which slumped 16% , $6.125 , to land up at $33.25 . |
| 15 | She had the feeling that it wanted to reach some sort of understanding with her , to tell her something in its rough , mute animal way . |
| 16 | Or a great space hulk might be reported drifting in the void or in the warp , harbouring suspected pirates or , worse , those fierce cunning invasive Genestealers which could infest a human world just as termites infest a house — so that it seems to remain firm timber until it crumbles apart . |
| 17 | One problem with the Royal College of General Practitioners is that it seems to equate general practice exclusively with being an NHS general practitioner . |
| 18 | Mwinyi launched the country 's second five-year plan in Parliament on April 18 , 1989 , saying that it aimed to raise real growth in gross domestic product ( GDP ) on the mainland to 6 per cent a year by the end of the plan period in 1992/93 , compared with 3.9 per cent in 1987/88 . |