Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [that] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This echoed the view of a number of solicitor respondents , one of whom argued that sole practitioners should be required to change their accountant annually ; whilst others said sole practitioners should be prohibited from instructioning sole practitioner accountants . |
| 2 | During a visit to Portugal on Jan. 14 Levi held talks with the Foreign Ministers of Angola and Cape Verde , both of whom announced that diplomatic relations with Israel would soon be established . |
| 3 | In this it had little success , though it did cause some alarm to the authorities and to shipowners , some of whom recognised that accumulated benefits could be an effective way of retaining membership . |
| 4 | The conference was attended by delegates from 130 countries , who agreed that future talks should concentrate on identifying " appropriate commitments " to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide ( CO2 ) and other greenhouse gases , and on providing aid to Third-World countries in developing less polluting industries . |
| 5 | The spread was partly due to the initiative of former pupils of deaf schools who wanted to continue the friendships which school life had forged and to help one another in adulthood , and partly to the evangelistic zeal and charitable urge of hearing people associated with deaf schools , who realised that deaf and dumb children needed support also in adult life . |
| 6 | Educational dogmatists who insist that middle-class values ( and hence , speech ) must not be foisted on working-class children ; a society which has never had any real commitment to the idea of education as a key to social mobility ; guilt-ridden liberal sentimentality about working-class cultural identity . |
| 7 | The outreach approach has now been successfully attempted by many projects and institutions confirming the view of those who insist that educational institutions must be more open and outgoing if they are to provide a worthwhile community education service . |
| 8 | Not many heads would go as far as one who insists that male members of staff must wear their jackets in classrooms even on the warmest of days . |
| 9 | Because ZFM was set up in 1967 at the insistence of the military , who argued that economic development in the Amazon basin was necessary for national security , its managing authority , SUFRAMA ( Superintendencia da Zona Franca de Manaus ) is responsible to Defence rather than Trade . |
| 10 | I had a discussion with a middle-class Jamaican woman who argued that Jamaican women are more liberated than Western women because they are more economically active . |
| 11 | Pre-agricultural man as a forest dweller would have left no trace , although , like D'Arcy Thompson , who argued that sacred groves , as revered in many tropical countries today , were the inspiration for columned buildings ( hence the Greek temple and all modern architecture ) , it has been entertainingly argued by Corner that traces of forest life are embedded in modern society . |
| 12 | Barthes is here influenced , no doubt , by the founder of deconstruction , Jacques Derrida , who argued that contrary to the traditional view that speech is the exemplary case of language in use , and writing an artificial substitute for speech , writing ought to be privileged because it exposes the fallacious metaphysics of presence , of the autonomy of the subject , which speech encourages . |
| 13 | A notable convert to their point of view was Harrison Salisbury of the New York Times who argued that American withdrawal from the South would not produce a takeover by the North . |
| 14 | So far , we have seen the argument that is put forward by those who stress that official statistics are constructed rather than merely collected . |
| 15 | This resource was fully realised by the Home Office who recommended that deaf men should be recruited as Air Raid Wardens ( A.R.P 's ) and firewatchers , and many deaf men did in fact serve in these capacities , and also as stretcher-bearers in air-raid conditions . |
| 16 | Silly literary prig , I thought , and how typical of a man who thinks that good writing can only be learnt from good reading to find spiritual anguish unreal . |
| 17 | If you 're the sort of person who thinks that Parliamentary democracy is a reasonably important thing , you could n't take much pleasure from the findings of the enquiry into the way Rover was sold off . |
| 18 | In fact , now that I come to think of it , I have a feeling it may have been Lord Darlington himself who made that particular remark to me that time he called me into his study some two months after that exchange with Miss Kenton outside the billiard room . |
| 19 | The chairman who ventured that mild criticism was well-placed to do so . |
| 20 | This finding supports that of Milner ( 1962 ) who found that right brain damaged subjects were more impaired than patients with left sided damage on certain items of the Seashore test of musical abilities . |
| 21 | The MMI was studied by Finnerty and Park ( 1988a ) , who found that profitable arbitrage opportunities existed and , while they did not explicitly consider transactions costs , that the arbitrage profits were large enough to cover such costs . |
| 22 | This was suggested by the NOAH team ( Smith & Sambur 1980 ) who found that short function words , which made up only 1% of their lexicon accounted for 30% of errorful hypotheses and only 10% of correct ones . |
| 23 | The relatively liberal de Graaff had been replaced as Governor-General by de Jonge , a hardliner ( it was he who pronounced that Dutch rule would continue for another 300 years ) , and the Colonial Minister was H. Colijn , whose notorious book , Colonial Problems of Today and Tomorrow ( 1928 ) , had declared that the Indonesians could not expect self-government ‘ in the humanly foreseeable future ’ : indeed , he dismissed the notion that there was any Indonesia : ‘ The islands … are a unity for the reason that they compose the Netherlands Indies and for that reason alone . ’ |
| 24 | There had been Lewis , the guy who was down on cutlery and condiments , and much earlier a bloke called Evans , who maintained that Old Mother Walsh was really a man in drag and that it behoved members of the Church ‘ to wear the clothes of the other kind ’ . |
| 25 | So I can sympathise with those protesters outside the gate who say that new scientific knowledge must be applied for the benefit of all and not just those who commission and control it . |
| 26 | Philosophers , and especially philosophers of art , who say that visual perception involves something two-dimensional usually go on to say that it involves something else , a judgement whereby we get from the two-dimensional to the three-dimensional , the world of solid objects at a distance from the perceiver . |
| 27 | Those who say that certain individuals are ‘ too old ’ to receive high-technology medicine will hotly deny any parallel with discrimination by race or sex . |
| 28 | Now their successes have been tarnished in a report by school inspectors who say that educational standards have fallen and the marking was far too lenient . |
| 29 | The decision is part of a much wider shift in government thinking , in which Mr Patten has clearly been given Cabinet permission to distance his own policy from that of predecessors , such as Michael Heseltine , and , to a lesser extent , Mr Ridley , now Trade and Industry Secretary , who believed that economic success depended on getting the planner off the backs of business and citizen alike . |
| 30 | It is a conclusion that need not worry supporters of inequality but which should cause concern to those who believed that social services could and would create a more equal society . |