Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The vulgar think that Venice is the most romantic city in the world , ’ he was saying , ‘ but its charms are too obvious . |
| 2 | A Red Cross report from the province of Cocle states that ‘ personnel providing medical attention to the wounded discovered that weapons of a new experimental character had been used … |
| 3 | Only the initiated knew that Gillespie Road was the stop for the Arsenal . |
| 4 | The British believed that Washington was underestimating and failing to grasp the nature of their economic problems . |
| 5 | The British recommended that Kim Roosevelt be in charge of any operation and be sent to Iran to explore the possibilities . |
| 6 | The French reckon that Italy now gets 7 per cent of our custom and , more surprisingly , that Switzerland gets only 5 per cent . |
| 7 | The CML disputed that lenders had in recent years relied on the availability of cover under the Compensation and Indemnity Funds to relax their own business practices , and claimed that lenders were largely responding to public demands for more streamlined conveyancing procedures . |
| 8 | The CML suggested that lenders could assist the Law Society with monitoring panel solicitors through the provision of factual information and statistics which could form the basis of risk indicators . |
| 9 | Like the old saying that success has many fathers , but failure has none , nobody is prepared to claim parenthood of the old rating system . |
| 10 | Emily Davies was one of the few to argue that housekeeping took up little time and that women could in fact combine work and marriage , and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson belonged to an even more select band who put this advice into practice . |
| 11 | However , Buddhist teaching was not applied to fish , which became the main source of protein in the Japanese diet ; and whales were regarded as fish When eating houses renamed forbidden deer and boar meat ‘ mountain whale ’ , the Japanese knew that eating whale meat was likely to stay . |
| 12 | The second proposes that firms should be required to change audit partners at least every seven years for listed and other public interest companies . |
| 13 | Where most saw atoms with void space between them in the manner of Newton and Dalton , Faraday by the 1840s believed that matter was made up of mere point centres of force . |
| 14 | It 's stating the obvious to say that Brian May could probably open doors to any country he wanted to play in . |
| 15 | The Pioneer and Voyager probes of the 1970s hinted that Jupiter probably had no solid surface at all . |
| 16 | Four independent photon-correlation experiments carried out in the 1970s showed that Bell 's inequality is indeed violated , and that the results agree with quantum mechanics . |
| 17 | Whether or not a refusal is unreasonable is more likely to depend upon subjective factors concerning you personally , such as your age , health and domestic circumstances , particularly if the latter mean that changes in your hours or place of work are unacceptable . |
| 18 | I detest the noisy unanimity of Picasso 's heirs , in particular that of Bernard and Paloma Picasso : the former thinks that ‘ the Reina Sofia is a wonderful place for ‘ Guernica' 's last journey , while the latter believes that Guernica' 's last journey should have been to the Prado ’ . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , Faye mouthed a discreet , ‘ Thanks ! ’ to Belinda , and the latter guessed that Marise was not close enough to the Hamiltons to know of Faye 's diabetic condition . |
| 20 | A difference between McGregor and Tuckman seems to be that the former sees some groups as fixed in their poor behaviour , whereas the latter implies that groups tend to move out of the ineffective stages into more effective behaviour . |
| 21 | The move ended a struggle between Bond and a banking syndicate led by the Hong Kong Bank of Australia in which the latter claimed that Bond was liable for a personal loan worth US$194,600,000 . |
| 22 | Frederick the Great said that Poland was all heath , moor and Jews , and |
| 23 | ‘ Chi ’ means ‘ vital air ’ and the Chinese believe that breathing exercises allow this vital air to permeate the blood , exercising along the way all the important organs of the body , including the tiny nerve cells and veins . |
| 24 | Researchers in the 50's showed that children from middle-class families were far more likely to gain a place at grammar school than the children of the working-class and the system was not therefore providing equality of opportunity . |
| 25 | The MMC found that restrictions in the selective and exclusive distribution agreements prevent efficient dealers from growing strong , promoting outside their territory , obtaining competing franchises and gaining bargaining power , thereby bargaining for better terms and obtaining more customers by passing some of these benefits on to final consumers . |
| 26 | In Government of Kuwait/British Petroleum ( 1988 ) the MMC concluded that control of BP by the Kuwaiti government would operate against the public interest . |
| 27 | I was the first to state that reunification was the best option ( and I quote from an Institute minute ) ‘ provided the RIBA can show that Portland Place can be adapted for the successful functioning of all departments . ’ |
| 28 | The first meant that people with a disability can now hope to enjoy more generic provision of social work , day care and residential care ; a generally extended and localized service ; the greater use of home helps and meals services ; and the more effective encouragement of community work . |
| 29 | It is fatally easy to ridic-ule these attempts to trade outside the market , but the first snags that people raise are n't to do with the mutual trust involved , but relate to the attitudes of the Inland Revenue ( which insists that payment in kind is taxable ) and of the Department of Social Security with its Minimum Earnings Rule . |
| 30 | Millet and I were the first to check that tower , after Falconer 's body was discovered by a guard . |