Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [that] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ACCA thinks that too much weight is placed on NEDs and that more emphasis should be given to other mechanisms , such as internal audit and control . |
| 2 | A study by the UK Department of Energy 's Technology Support Unit ( ETSU ) at Harwell revealed that about 60 million tonnes coal equivalent of energy — 18% of total UK energy consumption — was thrown away every year as waste . |
| 3 | Altman found that even though all the animals fell below ‘ optimum diet ’ , given the food resources available , those that came closest did best in the end . |
| 4 | A report from two intensive care units from San Francisco found that almost half the deaths followed a decision to limit treatment . |
| 5 | Fiedler found that extremely favourable or unfavourable conditions required a task-oriented or autocratic style of leadership . |
| 6 | Times are so hard at the Manor Ground that even the manager has had to return his club car . |
| 7 | Mo agreed that even politicians could not please everybody and moved to talk to 31-year-old Sandra Gordon-Morgan , a part-time dressmaking teacher who lost her job when the local authority cut its adult education budget . |
| 8 | At the PAUL SMITH & VIVIENNE WESTWOOD shop in Clayton Square , manager Lisa Muscatelli revealed that even in the upmarket fashion echelons the glamorous casual look is what Liverpool women go for in the daytime . |
| 9 | When he addressed a conference of business leaders and academics in Budapest recently , Dr Ian Cunningham announced that too many western management consultants are offering quick fix answers to Hungary 's problems . |
| 10 | Corbett realised that soon it would be Michaelmas and these were the Rogation Days when the priest blessed the soil and asked God 's help for the sowing and future harvest . |
| 11 | Verity found that as many as ten government committees were responsible for coordinating the work of all the former undertakings , manufacturers , construction firms and consultants , and that , in addition to the planners , four Ministries — Fuel and Power , Labour , Supply ( responsible for manufacturers ) and Works ( responsible for construction sites ) — were involved . |
| 12 | Combining this with his NMR work , Hawkins concludes that somehow the carbon atoms of any C2 units must disconnect before or after they form the fullerene structure . |
| 13 | And a few years later , when Edwin Hubble found that nearly all other galaxies are flying away from our own , he correctly reasoned that this did not mean we were at the centre of the Universe . |
| 14 | That 's right , as , as , as Theresa said at the beginning , one of the prime characteristics of dreams is this kind of visual erm symbolism and in the course of analyzing thousands of dreams of course which he did in his practice , Freud found that very often certain fundamental things that people tend to dream about quite a lot tend to appear in lots of people 's dreams with similar kinds of er representations , and among the most notorious and obvious of these were things related to sex . |
| 15 | G. assumes that somehow the oil is escaping into the canal . |
| 16 | In a circular sent to branches on 5 December , Brockway estimated that only 30 members would be involved , mostly in the London Division , but possibly in Liverpool also . |
| 17 | Colin Calderwood says that everywhere you go people stop and wave and that 's very nice but it 's been good to get away this week but now they 're back in town the pressure will start to build |
| 18 | But the Humane Society of the United States says that nearly 40% of the animals that wind up in shelters are pure-breds or their mongrel offspring . |
| 19 | Proust says that rather like those thin , flat pieces of coloured paper called Japanese flowers , which expand and become indeed three-dimensional when placed in water , similarly the taste of the madeleine brings back , not an abstract intellectual idea of the past , but the authentic sensation of his experiences as a small boy in the houses and the streets and the gardens of Combray . |
| 20 | Chairman Sir Tony Cleaver complains that unusually , reductions in product costs were unable to keep pace with price trends in the market . |
| 21 | Gorbachev declared that around 150 Soviet advisers remained in Iraq , but that they were leaving as their contracts came to an end . |
| 22 | Will my right hon. and learned Friend confirm that under Conservative rule there has been a 30 per cent . |
| 23 | Here , they stopped , the soldiers trying to hide their fear and Corbett sensed that even Sir James Selkirk was frightened to be there . |
| 24 | Its chairman , David Murray , wrote to Mr Gillespie saying that instead of handing over the shares on the previously agreed dates , he could keep them until he was 65 in 1991 , when they would be transferred to MIH in one lump . |
| 25 | so it came as no surprise when Audrey Roberts decided that enough was enough and stormed out , leaving Alf puzzled and in the lurch . |
| 26 | During the war opinion polls in the United States implied that around 80 per cent of people supported Bush 's Gulf policy ; this rose further after the start of the land war on Feb. 24 . |
| 27 | Willink thought that perhaps he should not go ; but he also discontented Ramsey by treating it as a problem in how Ramsey should get the best career in a worldly sense . |
| 28 | In keeping with the rest of the terrain , the land formed hills and valleys , and as she gazed at a hillside Lucy thought that never before had she seen so many different shades of green . |
| 29 | Rex felt that now really would be the time to make a getaway . |
| 30 | This hateful thing had taken place , and Frankie knew that somehow he must be to blame . |