Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] that [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now to me I might want to know that people use language to mean more than one thing . |
| 2 | The company , which does a large amount of business with housing associations and urban renewal programmes in Scotland , has forecast that sales should reach 2,200 this financial year compared with 1,800 in 1991/92 . |
| 3 | What we would be dealing with are more of the implications , or this is how , for whatever reasons , it has come to pass that people write journalistic stories in this kind of way — might there not be other , better , more adequate ways of writing journalistic stories ? |
| 4 | In a number of influential papers he has argued that people 's political alignments are closely connected to their relationships to the state . |
| 5 | i As the new voluntary agreement on tobacco advertising is about to be published , a survey by the market research group Mintel has revealed that 61% of Britons believe that tobacco advertising should not be allowed . |
| 6 | Germany has decided that 90% of the costs of cleaning sites in the eastern states should be split between state and federal governments ; the new owner should carry only 10% of the costs . |
| 7 | Follow-up research has shown that 95% of all successful course members found at least hourly paid part-time teaching posts either after completion of the course or increasingly during the course . |
| 8 | Research has shown that people learn from films and remember sequences . |
| 9 | Fired with enthusiasm he wrote to Theo : ‘ Experience has shown that people who walk in the darkness … like the miners in the black coal mines , for instance , are very impressed by the works of the Gospel , and believe them , too . ’ |
| 10 | She said : ‘ Experience elsewhere has shown that people with head injuries need a concentrated level of service in the early stages . |
| 11 | Recent research has shown that people who list the consequences of dieting , positive and negative , and remind themselves of them regularly during the day , do twice as well on their diets as those people who just have routine dietary advice . |
| 12 | In a detailed study of premature mortality in North Tyne side , Phillimore ( 1989 ) has shown that people aged under 65 in the two worst-off wards are subject to mortality rates around 50 per cent higher than the national average , while in the two wards at the other extreme the rates are 30 per cent below average . |
| 13 | Nicaragua has shown that people can improve their psychological well-being and their quality of life , even in the face of extreme material poverty . |
| 14 | Recent research has demonstrated that people with severe mental handicaps can undertake productive work , with adequate support . |
| 15 | We want to ensure that people are not landed with a second taxation system which is as unfair and unjust as the poll tax . |
| 16 | I promise that I want to ensure that people who really need help get it . |
| 17 | A spokesman told us : ’ The new procedure is designed to ensure that people who are genuinely ill do not face dismissal . ’ |
| 18 | A year-long survey of the habits of 24,000 adults in England , Wales and Scotland has found that people with an annual household income of £20,000 or more have considerably higher levels of attendance than those in lower income groups . |
| 19 | A survey has found that people under 24 are cutting down on alcohol . |
| 20 | A survey has found that £86m was paid to , or collected by , the taxman in error this year . |
| 21 | The Shanghai Sex Sociological Research Centre , after questioning 23,000 people in 15 provinces , has concluded that 86% of Chinese approve of sex before marriage , 69% approve of extra-marital affairs , and more than 70% believe one purpose of sex is pleasure — not just , as Maoist traditionalists would have it , procreation and the dreary fulfilment of conjugal duty . |
| 22 | Endoscopic surveillance of treated and untreated asymptomatic ulcers has indicated that 75% persist unhealed over many months , and so it is unlikely that an endoscopy every four months would have missed many . |
| 23 | MICHAEL JACKSON , whose recent world tour visited 34 countries , has announced that sales of his latest LP ‘ Dangerous ’ have topped the 15 million mark in its first ten months in the shops . |
| 24 | The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that £2.75bn per year will be needed to achieve this aim , and the question of where the money will come from has not yet been agreed |
| 25 | There is some way to go : in fact , BIS Strategic Decisions has estimated that $50bn plus will be invested in Eastern European telecommunications over the next decade — and that estimate excludes the former Soviet Union . |
| 26 | With the French stockmarket in the doldrums , Edmond Alphandéry , the economy minister , has estimated that sales of state assets could at best raise a total of FFr30 billion this year . |
| 27 | All of this activity has meant that aircraft and artefact restoration has necessarily taken to the back-burner , but , to quote one of the volunteers : ‘ no building , no aircraft in the long term ’ . |
| 28 | The National Union of Civil and Public Servants branch at the Chester pay office has warned that 99pc of its members will not go to Glasgow . |
| 29 | A recent survey by the bank has discovered that people who have experience of unemployment before becoming self-employed tend to do better than those who give up a job to do so . |
| 30 | The Bristol and West has discovered that people who ‘ live in sin ’ are 50 per cent more likely to fall into arrears than married couples . |