Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile New Scientist understands that ministers have not taken up the offer of the Greenfield committee to hold further meetings to consider the issues of generic drugs further . |
| 2 | ’ The BSC agreed that bollocks [ testicular ] were OK , whereas bollocks [ abusive ] were not . |
| 3 | It was simply because the build-up to the general election revealed that policies for reducing pollution were the very last thing on anyone 's agenda . |
| 4 | The Pentagon announced that women pilots in the navy and air force would be allowed to fly combat aircraft within the next few months . |
| 5 | Another possibility is to get older pupils to run a ‘ Doctor Bike ’ clinic at the school , ie. checks to see that bikes are working properly and suggestions on how to rectify faults . |
| 6 | C. P. Snow argued that practitioners of science and practitioners of the arts , inhabit two distinct cultures ; scientists , for example , have ‘ common attitudes , common approaches and assumptions ’ . |
| 7 | Only two of the sixteen believers in the Bible accounts agreed that spirits could visit us during dreams although it is crucial to the sense of these accounts that God did make Himself known to individuals during dreams , and actually visited them in their dreams . |
| 8 | But higher taxes mean that consumers and businesses have less money to spend . |
| 9 | On May 4 , 1990 , President Barco announced that proposals for constitutional reform which had been debated by the Congress since August 1989 would be presented for national approval as part of the May 27 presidential elections [ see p. 37450 ] . |
| 10 | After the meeting , Van-Dúnem announced that donors had pledged $10,000,000 , adding that the " promises made by donors did not fully reflect the Angolan government 's needs " . |
| 11 | Experience shows that it is often difficult to assess the extent of exposure to light that samples receive in the market and hence to estimate the degree of exaggeration or acceleration that any one test gives . |
| 12 | Many leaders of working class women 's groups agreed that women 's paid work had a bad effect on the father 's willingness to earn . |
| 13 | In this kind of political situation , and in the context of an economic decline that was " blamed " on the excesses of democratic politics , instead of praising the British constitution as the best in the world , the constitutional authorities agreed that things were very badly wrong . |
| 14 | With hindsight it seems that the prevailing structures of police practice will remain as powerful as ever , for at a conference on policing at Bristol University ( 1988 ) , the newly retired Sir Kenneth admitted that police culture had defeated many of his attempts to bring a new ethic to the managerial style during his reign as commissioner of the metropolis . |
| 15 | Of course , while the wider range of lenders and mortgage products mean that borrowers can end up with a better deal than in the past , it also means spending more time and effort choosing the best mortgage for your particular circumstances . |
| 16 | The trial of Chihana , released on bail on Sept. 8 [ for his arrest in April see p. 38851 ; for his release and subsequent rearrest in July see pp. 38995-96 ] , was deferred until Oct. 12 after his counsel argued that irregularities on the part of the authorities threatened a miscarriage of justice . |
| 17 | Hickford in High Street Ward argued that females employed by the council should make way for unemployed ex-servicemen . |
| 18 | Under this law if seat belts or child restraints appropriate for the age and weight of the child are fitted in the rear of the car , the driver has a legal responsibility to see that children under the age of 14 wear them , unless they have a medical exemption certificate . |
| 19 | The alternative candidate for the honour of being the liberal theory of contracts insists that obligations should only arise in order to discourage and compensate harm to the interests of others . |
| 20 | Interactionists stress that definitions of crime reflect the power of groups who have managed to impose their ideas about right and wrong , normality and so on on society . |
| 21 | But earlier this year , the college authorities ruled that men should be admitted from next term . |
| 22 | The ASA 's rules mean that companies must check with the MPS to ensure its lists are up to date before they are used . |
| 23 | The rules mean that police would have to take control of the computer as soon as possible after the offence and establish that it was working properly at all times . |
| 24 | The earlier feminist critics such as McRobbie and Garber argued that girls learned their roles partly through romantic fiction and girls ' magazines . |
| 25 | English authorities suggest that damages are recoverable for breaches of the EC competition rules . |
| 26 | The news followed a Financial Times report that discussions were believed to have been under way for several weeks with a number of prospective buyers , but were most advanced with the US foods and tobacco giant , Philip Morris . |
| 27 | Is the Prime Minister aware that building employers say that conditions are worse than they have been in 40 years , that car sales are down 20 per cent . |
| 28 | In August 1893 , the Vicar writes that funds for the new organ are not coming in very quickly , the funds standing at only £30 711 . |
| 29 | These cases suggest that animals can form cognitive maps . |
| 30 | Attacks on asylum hostels and cemeteries , the majority in western Germany , continued during November , while on Nov. 11 the German Defence Ministry disclosed that investigations were being made into 24 cases of alleged involvement of soldiers in extreme right-wing violence — including three cases of manslaughter . |