Example sentences of "[adj] that [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They all made it clear that handing patients over to the press was a regular occurrence ( a point that none of the committee commented on or asked questions about ) . |
| 2 | The majority of the indigenous cattle of Scandinavia are naturally polled : it seems that the northern stockmen , who because of the demands of climate needed to house their animals for long periods , appreciated long ago that horns could be awkward at close quarters and it is clear that polled stock were deliberately bred in Scandinavia from early times . |
| 3 | It is becoming increasingly clear that export performance and investment abroad can not be considered solely in the light of such traditional factors as relative export prices and financial rates of return of investment . |
| 4 | It is clear that sign language perception will involve both hemispheres . |
| 5 | Speculation that its soldiers would attack the town of Pailin on the Thai border has died down , as it became clear that to hold Pailin would be more of a liability than an asset . |
| 6 | It is not clear that Montupet jobs will go to the unemployed of West Belfast . |
| 7 | It seems clear that studying intonation in relation to discourse makes it possible to explain much more comprehensively the uses that speakers make of intonation . |
| 8 | … We have consciously tried to place responsibility on the management of nationalized industries and to make it clear that pay negotiations are matters for them and their employees . |
| 9 | The Equal Opportunities Commission says the Sex Discrimination Act is clear that restricting taxi cab jobs to one sex is potentially unlawful . |
| 10 | It is clear that established units ( i.e. those with established senses ) are more central than unestablished ones : an ideal dictionary would be expected to define all the established senses within each lexeme . |
| 11 | It is displayed not only by a species of arrow-poison frog but also by the fire salamander , moth caterpillars with stinging hairs , a little box-fish that discharges venom when attacked , a beetle that exudes a caustic liquid which blisters the skin , and bees , wasps and hornets with some of the most painful of all insect stings . |
| 12 | Thus , Williams v Singer is authority for the proposition that if the trustees of , say , a life interest trust direct that trust income be paid direct to the beneficiary the trustees escape an income tax charge . |
| 13 | Sphingomyelin : a phospholipid that contains sphingosine , a fatty acid , phosphoric acid and choline . |
| 14 | It is doubtful that auctioneer John Marion had ever presided over such a disastrous start to an auction . |
| 15 | It was just such a pattern of alternating brightness and darkness in a two-slit experiment with light that convinced Thomas Young in 1803 that light was a wave-like disturbance . |
| 16 | It is possible that influencing purchasers of mental health services will prove the most direct way of changing services . |
| 17 | It is quite possible that trace minerals and access to plants not available the rest of the year are essential for the fertilisation , hatching and development of fry in some species of fish that have proved difficult to breed in the past . |
| 18 | Because of this , and because there are rare human disorders in which self-mutilation may be a feature ( e.g. Lesch-Nyhan , deLange , and Tourette 's syndromes ) , and which may result from neurotransmitter changes , it is possible that neurotransmitter disturbances may contribute to self-cutting . |
| 19 | The trial was , however , relatively small ( 59 patients ) raising the possibility of a type two error , and it is possible that fluticasone propionate was not present in sigmoid colon and rectum and this could not have a therapeutic effect ( two thirds of patients had rectosigmoid disease only ) . |
| 20 | Similarly , at the other end of the spectrum , it is possible that transfer receipts may alter attitudes such that being a ‘ contributor ’ to the economic process ceases to be viewed as being part of society . |
| 21 | It uses up as much memory as any maximum column on the right that uses memory . |
| 22 | He is absolutely right that putting clenbuterol into animals for slaughter is bad for the reputation of people in general , bad for the reputation of the Republic of Ireland and particularly bad for the reputation of Northern Ireland . |
| 23 | But right , there 's this word , a on the end right , some right that means boy , because O means boys and E with an e on the end |
| 24 | It seems likely that there is something about the state we are in while asleep that prevents memories from being stored in the normal way . |
| 25 | The position of one second tier company , Tyne-Tees , was so weak that to save costs it ‘ affiliated ’ with the network company Yorkshire TV within a joint holding company , Trident . |
| 26 | It is all too self-evident that organized Christianity has not always followed the splendid theology which is there at the centre . |
| 27 | In addition , the approach offers an absolute but moving standard that facilitates research into the characteristics of the poor and measures to move them over the poverty boundary . |
| 28 | It 's ironic that fuzzified guitars have — somehow — become a symbol of comfort in these ‘ alternative ’ times , but that 's the way the digestive dissolves , and that 's why ‘ Oomalama ’ is as instantly familiar as last night 's curry . |
| 29 | Chamberlain was explicit about his motives in a letter to Beatrice Webb : ‘ It will remove the great danger , viz , that public sentiment should go wholly over to the unemployed and render impossible that state sternness to which you or I equally attach importance . |
| 30 | The Chancellor also took the opportunity to nuance his support for German reunification in ways which will reassure those fearful that precipitate moves to unification might unsettle the Soviet Union and threaten the improvement in East-West relations . |