Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1865 several experimenters were on the brink of discovering the important principle of self-excitation , and early in 1866 he presented a paper to the Royal Society on ‘ A New and Powerful Generator of Dynamic Electricity ’ , but failed to realize that practical self-excitation was within his grasp . |
| 2 | Mosley revolted over the wrong crisis , for he failed to see that considerable social and economic reform would result from a Second World War , a conflagration which he bitterly opposed and which led to his internment in 1940 . |
| 3 | The previous discussion has emphasized that black workers were recruited for particular types of jobs in specific sectors of the British economy . |
| 4 | Recent work in the philosophy and sociology of science has emphasized that experimental results are rarely adequate for making a definitive choice between competing theories . |
| 5 | So if you want to see that old mother of yours it 'll have to be by road . ’ |
| 6 | He ( or she ) needs to realize that considerable analysis needs to be conducted in order to form sound judgements of cash flows and underlying uncertainties for large projects , and that too ready a move into discounted cash flow ( DCF ) calculations may give the impression of sophisticated analysis which disguises the inadequacy of the underlying assumptions . |
| 7 | The reason why many ethologists would now prefer to explain ritualization as an arms race is that they have increasingly come to realize that selfish competition among individuals is the rule in the animal world . |
| 8 | A leading climatologist has claimed that global warming will increase the risk of structural damage to buildings and will need to be tackled with new building regulations . |
| 9 | Moscovici ( 1984 ) has claimed that social psychology should become ‘ an anthropological and a historical science ’ ( p. 984 ) . |
| 10 | Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) has claimed that radioactive waste from the Springfields nuclear plant is contaminating parts of the River Ribble in Lancashire . |
| 11 | He has claimed that statutory controls would ‘ stifle new developments and new jobs in the Highlands and Islands and raise costs when we face tough competition from efficient producers in Europe and elsewhere ’ . |
| 12 | The sense of betrayal has been deepened by London 's refusal to acknowledge any moral responsibility to provide general refuge ; instead , it has claimed that domestic political considerations demand the exclusion of potentially millions of Chinese immigrants . |
| 13 | National Power has claimed that divulging information on the fuel that they plan to burn will give their competitors vital information about how their plants operate . |
| 14 | This has supposed that feminist effort should be devoted , first , to showing how the ‘ images ’ in question oppress or denigrate women , and second , to offering positive images of women to replace these . |
| 15 | Professor Mathias has stressed that rising output and improving productivity will lower the average costs of a commodity " only if the goods can be cleared to a widening market … |
| 16 | A great deal of the argument against central controls has stressed that local government has shown a greater ability to reduce spending than the departments of central government and even the Audit Commission — in the early 1980s — has acknowledged that the operation of central rules may actually have encouraged increased levels of spending and a reduction in the accuracy of information feeding into the centre ( Audit Commission , 1984 ) . |
| 17 | An internal memo by a senior employee at the Rocky Flats plant in Colorado has disclosed that substantial amounts of highly radioactive plutonium are stored in unsafe or untested containers and in unstable condition and are not suitably protected against fire . |
| 18 | Elbit Ltd has reported that net profit for the year to December 31 declined by 14.8% at $30.3m , on turnover that rose 18.1% to $483.3m . |
| 19 | Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co Ltd has reported that net profit for the 12 months to March 31 rose 4.3% at the equivalent of $141.7m , on turnover that declined by 1.7% to $2,268.8m . |
| 20 | A survey by the International Chamber of Commerce ( ICC ) has reported that major industrial companies expect to double their spending on cutting pollution over the next decade . |
| 21 | In Bavaria 's parliament , the CSU has enjoyed that German rarity , a clear majority , since 1966 . |
| 22 | Meanwhile the State Services Co-ordinating Commmittee has recommended that secondary schools be run by higher-paid managers instead of the traditional principals , with the right to sack teachers and determine their pay . |
| 23 | BGS has recommended that potential export markets should be assessed . |
| 24 | Moreover , national nodes are also being set up ; the recent IBM gift to GRID ( see above ) has ensured that powerful microcomputers have been installed in many African countries , together with national and continental data sets . |
| 25 | The Church 's Eastern European resurgence , centred upon its long recognized strength in Poland — a country led from mid-1989 by a devout Catholic prime minister — but now including almost every country from Czechoslovakia to Lithuania , as well as what previously seemed the almost unimaginable resurrection of Uniate Catholicism in the Ukraine , has ensured that Catholic history and geography in the 1990s are likely to look very different from that of the 1980s . |
| 26 | Along with the rise of local voluntary and community groups , often funded by the local council , this has ensured that local authority politics have increased markedly in both their visibility and their differentiation . |
| 27 | The neurological dominance of the large human cerebral cortex has ensured that basic instinct has come increasingly under its control and has thereby lost its specific and rigidly determined character . |
| 28 | In Pakistan an old system dating from the British occupation has ensured that large parts of the North-West Frontier Province remain out of bounds to government officials . |
| 29 | But she needs to remember that deciding strategies is easy ; implementing them is hard . |
| 30 | But Jock has seen that other ‘ careers ’ are available to someone with a good command of himself . |