Example sentences of "[adj] that [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Thus , although capitalism is blamed by many workers for the treatment older people receive today , it is clear that ageism has a history which long predates this form of social organisation .
2 It was clear that literature deepened our sense of the import of nationality by giving the most intense and at the same time most manifold expression of it .
3 It is clear that government has an important role to play in this area .
4 However , Gerry Collins , the Irish minister for foreign affairs , later made it clear that progress had been made and he reaffirmed his Government 's commitment to the Anglo-Irish agreement .
5 It is more difficult to judge how far the commitment has been translated into action , though it is clear that progress has been made in some areas .
6 The Guildford Four were freed in 1990 after it became clear that evidence used against them had been fabricated by the police .
7 Suppose it is clear that convention does not dictate an answer either way in McLoughlin : convention requires that precedents be followed , but only so far as a new case is like the precedents in relevant facts , and no past case has decided whether damages must be awarded for emotional injury away from the accident 's scene .
8 It is also now very clear that chance plays an enormous part in determining which creatures survive , and where .
9 In the results reported below we treat the two repetitions separately since it is quite clear that behaviour changed between the two attempts .
10 When an owner of property against whom an order has been made under the Act comes into this court and complains that there has been some irregularity in the proceedings , and that he is not liable to have his property taken away , it is right , I think , that his case should be entertained sympathetically and that a statute under which he is being deprived of his rights to property should be construed strictly against the local authority and favourably towards the interest of the applicant , in as much as he for the benefit of the community is undoubtedly suffering a substantial loss , which in my view must not be inflicted upon him unless it is quite clear that Parliament has intended that it shall .
11 Two problems are thus solved at once : it becomes clear that terminology does not refer only to grammar , and the reasons for the terminology come before the terminology itself .
12 Even with only limited information , it is clear that auditing has taken on a new significance in many firms .
13 However , it is clear that calcium has a multiplicity of effects within the cell , and there are other ways in which it can affect the synaptic membrane .
14 It is clear that Ulpian discussed the topic of aestimatio more fully in this book ; here too the most likely explanation of the oddity is abbreviation. ( ii ) Paul mentions the case of a legacy left by a testator to his wife .
15 The Labour party 's document makes it clear that Labour has forgotten every word , and that is why the country needs to be saved from a Labour Government .
16 It is pretty clear that Labour believes that it can not get a majority for those policies domestically and therefore wants to achieve a situation in which they can be imposed on us by a majority of continental countries .
17 By contrast , I make it clear that Labour believes it is right and just and should be the first priority for pensioners to get an increase of £5 a week for a single pensioner and £8 a week for a married couple , given the mean and miserable way in which they have been treated over the past decade .
18 Surely the Home Alone films , with their scenes of appalling violence having no apparent ill-effects on the victims , are much worse than Clint Eastwood films , where it is clear that violence has severely unpleasant results ?
19 While it is clear that food treated with irradiation is not radioactive , ie. the rays can not be passed from the food to the consumer , there is still uncertainty about whether such treatment leaves other dangerous chemicals in the food .
20 Chinese parents do , of course , shower love and attention on their children but it is always made quite clear that child's-play has to remain well within the limits of normal social behaviour .
21 In recent years , it has become clear that phosphorylation plays a pivotal role in modulating the activity of sequence-specific transcription factors ( 1 , 2 ) .
22 It is clear that housing remains very much , as Berry ( 1974 ) described it , a political football' , with different political parties favouring varying policies to each tenure .
23 But again , he does not mean by this to reduce religion to emotion , though he is clear that emotion plays a part in it .
24 First , it is clear that balancing necessitates some judgment as to how much we value a particular interest , and that people may well disagree as to the weight accorded to it in any particular instance .
25 Nonetheless , it is clear that accident estimates still provide additional information .
26 In 1900 , on the initiative of William II , it was made clear that military attachés were subordinate not to the head of the mission of which they were formally members but only to the kaiser himself .
27 It is clear that ethanol has a duel action on the secretory function of the gastric parietal cell ; at low concentrations it stimulates gastric secretion and at high concentrations it has no effect or an inhibitory one .
28 It has become clear that IVF does not help .
29 Alternatively , NO could be produced on demand only , and it is conceivable that depolarisation makes calcium available for NO synthase activation within the presynpatic neuron .
30 It will however increase the binding of other carcinogens to gastric mucosal DNA and it is conceivable that bile acts in a similar manner .
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