Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Geneva-based International Electrotechnical Commission is making progress on standards to safeguard against RFI , not everyone agrees that international bodies ( or individual governments ) should act to stamp out RFI . |
| 2 | Despite the fact no-one doubts that popular opinions on crime and its containment are extensively and deeply held , whenever Criminal Justice Bills are before the Commons the atmosphere seems detached and wary , with few MPs participating and a majority keeping the subject at arms length . |
| 3 | ‘ But as soon as someone says that four-letter word , it will be ‘ do you have to use that language ? ’ |
| 4 | I says that any subset of positive integers which contains 1 and which contains a + 1 whenever it contains a is precisely the set of all positive integers . |
| 5 | The choice theory picks up the libertarian strand , which insists that all state power must be legitimated by consent , whereas the ‘ harm to interests ’ theory taps the slender source of Millian liberalism to defend a broadening of the scope of contractual obligations . |
| 6 | He said it was ruled by the Id — which is selfish , the Ego — which keeps the Id in check and in touch with reality , and by the Super-ego , which insists that social expectations and duties are fulfilled . |
| 7 | Penrose has suggested that there is some physical principle ( ‘ cosmic censorship ’ ) which guarantees that all singularities lie safely within horizons . |
| 8 | Once again , it is the oscillating motion of the cross within the circle which symbolizes that forthcoming conflict between positive , evolutionary forces and negative dissolutionary forces during life on Earth that gives birth to the Swastika in both its configurations , i.e. right-angled or left-angled . |
| 9 | Cyril Northcote Parkinson , prolific author and inventor of Parkinson 's Law — which holds that all work expands to fill the time available for its completion — has died , aged 83 . |
| 10 | The deepest chord in Spanish revolutionary politics is the centralista tradition which holds that central government is an emanation from the direct democracy of the popularly elected municipality . |
| 11 | This is simply the modern individual equivalent of the psychoanalytic principle which holds that primal parricide was a consequence of a desire for incest with the mother . |
| 12 | In other departments the approach to assessment was deliberately kept as informal and flexible as possible , as in the following extended quotation from the Head of Drama at ‘ Pope John Paul ’ , which illustrates that this type of apparent informality can be just as thorough and searching , if not more so , than many supposedly more objective methods : |
| 13 | It will be the main task of Part Four of the book to explore the rationality of perfectionist moral pluralism , i.e. of pluralism of many forms of the good which are admitted to be so many valuable expressions of people 's nature , but pluralism which allows that certain conceptions of the good are worthless and demeaning , and that political action may and should be taken to eradicate or at least curtail them . |
| 14 | They cite instead a report by representatives of Ramsar , the international wetlands convention , which warns that extensive mining would be sure to cause irreparable damage to the area . |
| 15 | Labour yesterday demanded publication of the report , which warns that British industry is in a lamentable state and will take decades before being fit enough to compete internationally . |
| 16 | But inasmuch as these two chapters show that routine policing exists in the province , they are useful as a corrective to the folk model of policing in Northern Ireland , which assumes that all policing is related to the troubles ; that police officers have been brutalized as a result of their baton guns , face masks , and riot shields ; and that they know or prefer no other mode of police work . |
| 17 | In its simplest form the Graphic Mean , M z is calculated from which assumes that three values alone are sufficient to give a useful mean . |
| 18 | In her study of Lambeth , Cockburn ( 1977 ) provides one of the best known examples of this perspective which assumes that local government is simply one arm of the capitalist state , providing the conditions for continued capital accumulation and the maintenance of social order . |
| 19 | If the primary function of repression is to prevent the return of the repressed , it clearly follows that any theory which describes that repressed material runs the risk of being confused with it and coming under attack just as the original repressed elements would do if they attempted to struggle back into consciousness . |
| 20 | This is the general moral theory first systematically expounded by Jeremy Bentham ( an important figure in penal thought and history ) which says that moral actions are those which produce ‘ the greatest happiness of the greatest number ’ of people . |
| 21 | If the answer is yes , is that to be taken as part of Rudduck 's message which says that small scale studies are not trivial if they nevertheless provide excitement , confidence and insight ? |
| 22 | Poor survey : Chartered surveyors are being badly hit by the construction slowdown , according to a new survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors which says that small practices have suffered a 28% drop in workload in the past year . |
| 23 | There is no law of nature which says that human societies are bound to survive so that we could say ‘ Cheer up , chaps ! ' ’ |
| 24 | to standing or order nineteen fifty four about new or additional expenditure which says that any proposal which involves new or additional expenditure etcetera must be in the hands of commissioners and printed in proper form . |
| 25 | The other is the note in Appendix F , which says that some hobbit-names have been retained by Tolkien without translation , ‘ though I have usually anglicized them by altering their endings , since in Hobbit-names a was a masculine ending , and o and e were feminine . ’ |
| 26 | All land vertebrates have this feature and it is this which confirms that this fish is indeed very close to the ancestral line . |
| 27 | The natural rules for this task have conditions which also include the predicate which checks that two things are different . |
| 28 | All of which shows that one man 's staple is another man 's delicatessen or , rather , that the necessities of one generation can become the luxuries of the next . |
| 29 | A typical set of coupon yield curves is shown in Fig. 5.4 , which shows that high-coupon bonds trade at a discount ( have higher yields ) relative to low-coupon bonds , because of reinvestment risk and for tax reasons . |
| 30 | There is , on the other hand , evidence which shows that middle-class patients are more likely than working-class patients to be treated in teaching hospitals , where the standards of service are higher than in ordinary hospitals . |