Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [that] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under Irish law , abortion is a criminal offence and recently the courts ruled that even the provision of information on abortion is now illegal . |
| 2 | It is not known whether Lady Tynte investigated just what had happened to the bird 's genitalia but subsequent studies of female pheasants showing similar transvestite tendencies revealed that only sexual differences developing at or after puberty were affected and that the reproductive organs themselves remained unaltered ( Yarrell , 1827 ) . |
| 3 | Unofficial estimates varied wildly , with some experts suggesting that as many as 100,000 or 150,000 Iraqis might have died during the war . |
| 4 | More to the point , extensive studies by Dutch biologists suggest that as many as 200 out of the 300 original haplochromine species are now extinct . |
| 5 | Some experts say that even if the eruption stopped today , the sheer pressure of lava piled up behind for six miles would bring debris cascading down on to the town anyway . |
| 6 | In this way , the weakest contestants demonstrated that even they could influence the course of international diplomacy . |
| 7 | Although it is a great advantage to be just inside your weight category , some contestants forget that even a glass of water can tip them over . |
| 8 | Multivariate analysis controlling for potential confounders found that simply being Maori increased the risk of sudden infant death syndrome by only 1.37 ( 95% CI=0.95 to 2.01 ) , not statistically significantly different from 1 . |
| 9 | The authorities reported that almost 19,000,000 people , or 65 per cent of those eligible , had voted . |
| 10 | Here we wanted kids to know that physically Kylie is real . |
| 11 | A monk run guest house may seem strange to an outsider , but the brothers say that traditonally , they 've always been hospitable . |
| 12 | We often visit schools that are involved in testing teaching units to discover that overnight a new program has been written by a teacher to use in his afternoon lesson . |
| 13 | Engineers and electricians recognised that clearly when they voted earlier this year to join together in one union . |
| 14 | The increasing numbers of monks in the tenth and eleventh centuries show that even before the papal reform the life of celibacy had a large number of devotees . |
| 15 | Taking due cognisance of biochemical pathways , the authors conclude that only substances metabolically convertible to vitamin A are capable of restoring photoreception . |
| 16 | Music hall songs showed that both men and women had a down-to-earth view of the advantages and disadvantages of marriage . |
| 17 | A 1914 Local Government Board return on ‘ scavenging ’ in urban districts showed that as many as 54 per cent of households in Hull and 15 per cent in Liverpool had ash privies . |
| 18 | As for newspapers , a poll by The Times Educational Supplement among its readers showed that only 40% of teachers ‘ always or fairly regularly ’ read The Guardian . |
| 19 | Transport organizations predict that only the three main lines to London will be left and only those with a peak service . |
| 20 | These considerations indicate that well designed studies of the clinical effectiveness of appropriate treatment with oxygen in the prevention of death of hypoxaemic infants and children in hospital are now required . |
| 21 | The splitters reply that only fine-grained analysis can identify the precise patterns of actions on which we base our subjective impressions , and perhaps uncover other coherent patterns for which we have no names . |
| 22 | The ‘ fuzzy ’ nature of much geographically distributed data , the inherent errors in it , the effects of the processing algorithms used and the assumption of known interactions between variables ensures that completely routine use by unskilled users is unlikely to be possible in the foreseeable future ; |
| 23 | Most Right-to-Lifers believe that only a threat to the life of the mother is sufficient justification and that most women seek abortions for essentially ‘ trivial ’ reasons . |
| 24 | At either end of the histogram are thin tails indicating that very little of the Earth 's solid surface is found more than 5 km above , or 6 km below , mean sea level . |
| 25 | The authors believe that both cores and near-wellbore measurements can be affected by induced cracks due to stress relief , and by possible pre-existing fractures . |
| 26 | But it seems clear that some people , perhaps the members of the monastery themselves , thought it was a serious possibility , and they took steps to ensure that neither Lanfranc nor anyone else would be able to carry out this sweeping measure of reform . |
| 27 | The fans knew that very little had happened at the match , but on the way picture , aided by songs , ‘ We took Swindon and all of them in it , We took Swindon in half a minute … ’ |
| 28 | The board 's inspectors said that about 40 per cent of incidents of pollution recorded there are due to contamination by silage effluent or slurry . |
| 29 | In 1990 the World Health Organisation 's ( WHO ) guidelines suggested that only 15–20 per cent of our food energy intake should be derived from fat , with saturated fats contributing less than 10 per cent . |
| 30 | Authorities estimated that more than 1,000 homes in a five-mile radius of Llandudno were damaged by the torrential storm , which saw five inches of rain fall in just three hours ; Between five and six hundred families spent the night in emergency centres , the main one being the Canolfan Aberconwy . |