Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It matters little that consumers are still cautious . |
| 2 | Yet it now looks inevitable that MPs and unions will be demanding the big spending schemes aimed at putting Britain back to work do exactly that . |
| 3 | However , it looks likely that Liverpool will start the new campaign with a new central defender on their staff , which could prompt Sheffield Wednesday to renew their interest in Mark Wright . |
| 4 | If the Chancellor is to balance his budget this autumn it looks likely that VAT will be added in several areas which have been zero rated until now , and public transport may be one of them . |
| 5 | It now looks likely that pension schemes will only have to backdate any equalisation of benefits between men and women to those in service on or after 17 May 1990 . |
| 6 | Held , granting the application , that the coroner had wrongly precluded himself from considering whether the cause of death had been aggravated by lack of care ; that where the medical cause of death was accompanied by concurrent events which themselves might be a cause of death , there was a case for considering the death ‘ unnatural ’ within the meaning of section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 , and an inquest should be held ; that the statutory duty imposed by section 11(5) of the Act of 1988 to investigate how death occurred prevailed in any conflict with the provision in rule 42 of the Coroners Rules 1984 that verdicts should not be framed so as to appear to decide any issue of civil liability ; that it was in the public interest to investigate by means of an inquest whether the deceased 's death might have been avoided had an ambulance been available earlier ; and that , accordingly , the coroner 's decision not to hold an inquest would be quashed and an order of mandamus granted for an inquest to be held ( post , pp. 491E , H , 493C–D , E–F ) . |
| 7 | The performances of the two algorithms were roughly the same ; of the 281 pronouns examined , Hobbs ' algorithm correctly resolves 21 pronouns that the BFP algorithm does not , and BFP gets 11 that Hobbs does not . |
| 8 | GIVEN that the most decisive factor in the Lincoln Handicap has traditionally been the draw — made the previous day — it seems odd that trainers have a fetish for ‘ laying a horse out ’ for it months in advance . |
| 9 | If it now seems self-evident that monitoring of the global environment is necessary , indeed is even vital , the prediction of what is likely to happen is almost as important : the 170 000 people in the Maldives are understandably worried about the prospect of global sea-level change since no part of the islands is more than 2 m above present sea-level ! |
| 10 | It seems self-evident that decisions involving the lives of children should be well informed . |
| 11 | It seems self-evident that war , and the authority of the military and security men , have rendered most of us mere passive spectators because we are powerless to change the course of the story ; but also because in the end the war , like national public life , has been put on for our benefit . |
| 12 | It will be argued that every event of the war can not be covered in one volume , but it seems strange that Brown saw fit to include a chapter on the making of the film of the Somme . |
| 13 | If one takes this attack by Strabo into account , it seems strange that specialists on the ancient sources about Gaul , such as P. Duval , can still believe that Eratosthenes wrote at least thirty-three books of Galatica on the Celts . |
| 14 | It then seems strange that Stein did not include the check in that transformation . |
| 15 | According to FDR 's Splendid Deception by Hugh Gregory Gallagher : ‘ It seems undeniable that depressive neurosis — a state of reactive depression — was a condition of the last year and a half of his life . ’ |
| 16 | And it seems undeniable that ICMESA was in possession of a plant which , had it not been modified , would not have exploded . |
| 17 | But it now seems possible that Pask will never come back to court . |
| 18 | These have dramatically altered and of course improved archaeologists ' knowledge about the duration of various episodes within pre-history , and it now seems possible that archaeology , and particularly prehistoric archaeology , will eventually have a dated historical sequence as clear as that used by historians . |
| 19 | It seems possible that people located hostility in groups because they knew that the others , their opponents , would expect reprisals from any members of the group they opposed . |
| 20 | It even seems possible that Mushtaq 's idol , Abdul Qadir , the first leg-spinner since Chandrasekhar to take more than 200 Test wickets , will also tour . |
| 21 | One can only guess at the reasons for such underreporting ; but it seems possible that exporters understate values in the hope of retaining part of the foreign exchange that they would otherwise be obliged to surrender to the authorities , while importers may wish to minimize their import duties ( and also avoid enquiries into the source of the foreign exchange used for imports ) . |
| 22 | Very little is known about what triggers most animal viruses to follow either path ; indeed it seems possible that integration is a random and accidental process that does not occur at any specific sites on the chromosomes . |
| 23 | ‘ It seems undesirable that information of this kind should not be available to ordinary readers of the accounts . ’ |
| 24 | Many say that the donkeys from Poitou in France are particularly suitable for siring mules , perhaps because they are particularly large , but it now seems doubtful that size is of any special virtue in obtaining the hybrid . |
| 25 | But in the much longer term it seems doubtful that diversification should be exclusively towards nuclear power , which carries its own commercial , political and possibly safety risks . |
| 26 | It seems anomalous that animals injected during their life with hormones , which later cause damage to consumers , will not sound in liability for the farmer under Pt 1 of the CPA 1987. ( c ) Defect A product is defective under the CPA 1987 when it does not provide the safety which persons generally are entitled to expect , taking into account all the circumstances . |
| 27 | The exact divisions remain uncertain , though it seems clear that rivers such as the Thames could have represented boundaries . |
| 28 | It seems clear that writers for the Review felt the need to bring , in Marie St Glare Byrne 's words , " something real into the nightmare world where " stylistic " evidence flourishes " . |
| 29 | It seems clear that Wagner perceived the lack of congruence between his own theory and Schopenhauer 's as uncomfortably as the gulf between his own theory and practice . |
| 30 | It seems clear that epidemics of the bubonic type became increasingly limited to the towns , which provided a better habitat for the plague-carrying black rat . |