Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a discussion of Asian security on Soviet television a Pravda writer denied that Soviet initiatives for ‘ pan-Asian security ’ were intended by Moscow ‘ to draw the countries of the region into some kind of Asian-Pacific pact , to make allies of them in its conflict with Washington ’ . |
| 2 | Trying to get an edge — which will count for very little unless the price is right , the IBM Personal Computer Co says that all its new business-oriented personal computers will be designed to comply with the most comprehensive worldwide health , safety and ergonomic standards by year-end : the promise covers desktop and floor-standing units , displays and keyboards ; it claims it will also be the first computer manufacturer in the world to test these products for compliance with the International Standards Organisation Standard 9241 , which addresses the health , safety and comfort of display terminal users starting with premium PS/2s . |
| 3 | He subsequently received letters from CSRG and university counsel claiming that all the work he had contributed to Berkeley since NET2 was ‘ University proprietary , ’ a phrase he had never heard before . |
| 4 | Mr Lamont 's announcement that St Pancras will be the terminus of the £3 billion Channel rail link implies that international trains to and from Scotland will be much slower than first thought . |
| 5 | New rules for pharmacy funding mean that any chemist 's shop which dispenses fewer than 2,000 prescriptions per month will lose grants and will face closure . |
| 6 | Mr Bush 's insouciance in snapping $870m for Panama and Nicaragua from the 1990 defence budget suggests that extra foreign aid for Eastern Europe could , without too much difficulty , be trimmed from the 1991 defence budget . |
| 7 | Lomponda wa Botende , a former Chief of Staff , expressed his astonishment at the report , and the Defence Ministry denied that any coup attempt had been made . |
| 8 | Hence the somewhat incongruous background to the emergence of Britain 's most important fascist organization : the publication of a reasoned pragmatic plan of action to attack unemployment in Mosley 's The Greater Britain , combined with the creation of a uniformed defence force to ensure that those who wished to hear of such ideas at public meetings would be able to do so . |
| 9 | The same Exeter University study found that four of the 10 farms it looked at were making losses on their non-traditional businesses . |
| 10 | British Rail Maintenance explained that 140 men and women had volunteered for redundancy . |
| 11 | Ibrahim al-Sanusi said that this was a peace to be made between tribes ( that was why he was there ) , and it was important to make it well . |
| 12 | John McKeague of the Shankill Defence Association forecast that thousands of loyalists would gather in Royal Avenue to prevent it marching . |
| 13 | The FMLN command argue that cooperative production is vital , so as to develop a more self-sufficient economy within the zones and so that after the victory , the national economy will have a working base on which to build . |
| 14 | Mr Peter Smith , general secretary of the 120,000-strong Assistant Masters ' and Mistresses ' Association , said the general election result meant that hundreds of schools would seek to leave local authority control ‘ within the next few weeks ’ . |
| 15 | In May 1986 the spokesman of the resistance coalition proclaimed that any form of international guarantee which directly or indirectly recognises the Kabul regime would be unacceptable . |
| 16 | The way the funding mechanism works on the teaching side means that each student arriving in an institution brings with him or her less money than before . |
| 17 | Research by the American Food and Drug Administration suggests that one chemical that is often found in B15 tablets , dimethyl glycine , may cause genetic damage to cells . |
| 18 | In Rice v. Connolly , the landmark decision establishing that this is the law , it was said that this was so because a refusal to answer questions was not ‘ wilful , ’ an expression that their Lordships interpreted to mean ‘ without lawful excuse . ’ |
| 19 | After examining a large number of hydrophilids infected with Laboulbeniales , H. W. Scheloske of Erlangen University surmised that many of these ‘ claw forms ’ actually represent abnormally developed individuals of species that produce a different ‘ growth form ’ in other places on the insect 's body ; perhaps the tarsal claws of these beetles offer less than ideal conditions for vigorous growth . |
| 20 | The Highlander Lieutenant asked that one of the unlit chandeliers be raised from floor level so he could make certain there would be adequate room for his dancers ' crossed swords . |
| 21 | While not wishing to ‘ suggest that Blackburn ale is too potent for Accrington heads ’ , the football correspondent thought that this kind of thing happened too frequently . |
| 22 | The isolation of a cDNA clone from testis of S. macroura and the long open reading frame in the M. eugenii genome suggest that these marsupial genes are not pseudogenes . |
| 23 | Scientists , publishers , students and government officials meeting last week at a colloquium organised by the research ministry agreed that poor quality produces a downward spiral of falling circulation and a further loss of contributions from respected scientists . |
| 24 | One girl from Harvard 's administration department insisted that one gullible dealer tried on an undersized blazer . |
| 25 | The European Information Industry Association estimates that this market will have grown to US$6.7 billion by 1995 , an average annual growth rate of 19 per cent . |
| 26 | Researchers at the Woolwich Centre for Computer Crime Research believe that improved personnel procedures have a key role to play in improving internal controls . |
| 27 | A United Nations study showed that most of the students completing secondary education , represented the first generation of their family to reach this level ( Filgueira 1983 : 71 ) . |
| 28 | Even the most ardent critics of the closure programme agree that modern , small , and homely residential ‘ sanctuary ’ units are preferable to drafty wards in crumbling old hospitals where staff morale is often low . |
| 29 | In 1978 , a DoT study showed that 55 per cent of adults thought being caught over the limit was simply ‘ bad luck ’ . |
| 30 | Phoenix gossip reckons that another five politicians may soon be charged . |