Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A study of peasant families in the Cochabamba area of Bolivia revealed that 90 per cent of them owned radios ( Ortega 1982 ) . |
| 2 | Within three days of Lawrence 's succession Hawke announced that federal elections , due by the end of May 1990 , would be held on March 24 . |
| 3 | In a heady essay written over thirty years ago , Giorgio de Santillana argued that some of the key ideas of the Scientific Renaissance were to be traced to developments in the arts . |
| 4 | Very roughly , Fodor argued that this kind of blanket objection to representational theories of mind does not work against the mental-sentence kind of theory for the simple reason that we know just what it would be like for a system to work on the mental-sentence principle . |
| 5 | The Money Advice Funding Working Party under the chairmanship of Lord Ezra agreed that existing services were not capable of coping with the demand for advice . |
| 6 | Pamela agreed that this was probably so . |
| 7 | In a leading case in 1969 , Lord Devlin agreed that reasonable suspicion could be based on information that would not generally be admissible in court . |
| 8 | US President Bush pledged a fresh US$645 million in humanitarian aid ( subject to approval by Congress ) , while Baker announced that 54 emergency airlifts of food and medicines from the USA would begin on Feb. 10 , although this was seen as a symbolic gesture rather than as a viable solution to the problem of food shortages in the CIS . |
| 9 | But Taylor insists that these games will have little bearing on the mood for the Poland match at Wembley on September 8 . |
| 10 | Windsor thinks that several F1 stars are eyeing the US scene . |
| 11 | KINGFISHER director Nigel Whittaker insists that new finance director James Kerr-Muir 's background at another sugar company is ‘ pure coincidence ’ . |
| 12 | Tatarinov argued that all ministries and other governmental institutions should be obliged to produce detailed estimates for the year ahead at the time they submitted their annual accounts . |
| 13 | The NSP announced that 31 people , including students and teachers , had been indicted under the draconian anti-communist National Security Law . |
| 14 | In his comments ( published with the Report ) Mr Baker agreed that this was appropriate for 7 year olds , but proposed that for 11 year olds greater emphasis should be given to the key skills of reading and writing . |
| 15 | Gummer admitted that current estimates of traffic growth , and hence traffic-related pollution , were incompatible with sustainability . |
| 16 | Gummer admitted that previous governments had largely failed to address the environmental agenda , and called for a " great debate " to help inform the government 's strategy on achieving sustainability . |
| 17 | In the meanwhile , restorer Saveli Yamshchikov thinks that some of this war booty is already seeping out of the country . |
| 18 | The actual contouring and shape of the body is almost exactly the same as the Berlin Pro , but Jim asked that some additional chamfering be applied to the top of the body . |
| 19 | Patrick realised that this was SOCO 's way of recognising that he was persona grata and was going to allow him to enter the murder room . |
| 20 | In The Future of Socialism — and in a classic revisionist sentence — Anthony Crosland argued that democratic socialists , instead of fussing about ‘ glaring and conspicuous evils , squalor and injustice and distressed areas … have to fuss about the balance of payments , and incentives , and higher productivity ’ . |
| 21 | At 11.57 ITN reported that 12 results were now in . |
| 22 | The old Tominahs say that this crescent-moon shape means the bottom arc of a great vertical circle of our lives — the section at which we are all most deeply plunged into matter . |
| 23 | He was unrecognizable at this distance , but the woman who followed him a moment later only had to take a couple of steps for Pascoe to know that this was Gwen Evans again . |
| 24 | HS reported that advance booking of laboratory space and facilities is desirable to optimise use . |
| 25 | In Magdeburg he and Matthies found that 2-Dgal injections produced amnesia in rats . |
| 26 | At one level , Nizan accepts that contemporary readers are easily misled , seduced by their baser instincts , and would readily turn their gaze away from the bitter reality of the socio-political situation , preferring instead to read the escapist , polite literature manufactured by the bourgeoisie for their mystification . |
| 27 | In his researches Watkins found that later features — such as pre-Reformation churches and crosses — also , rather curiously , fell on these supposed prehistoric alignments in addition to subsidiary ‘ confirmation points ’ like ancient crossroads , old fords and certain types of pond . |
| 28 | C. Taylor and W. Page Faulk found that such women often have white cell antigens ( HLA ) that are unusually similar to those of their husbands . |
| 29 | Jan Reedijk and co-workers at the state University of Leiden in the Netherlands found that cis- DDP could bond to two guanine bases in a small chain of single stranded DNA despite an intervening cyosine base ( Journal of the American Chemical Society , vol 104 , p 2664 ) . |
| 30 | Over the last 20 years , various referenda have rejected constitutional change , but an opinion poll last March found that 57 per cent of Australians wanted a republic . |