Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New technologies mean that high productivity is now possible with small-batch production . |
| 2 | However , unemployment and the recession mean that many firms can no longer afford the creches and bonuses , and are reluctantly having to curtail them . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In my judgment , though the introduction of further admissible material will inevitably involve some increase in the use of time , this will not be significant as long as courts insist that Parliamentary material should only be introduced in the limited cases I have mentioned and where such material contains a clear indication from the minister of the mischief aimed at , or the nature of the cure intended , by the legislation . |
| 5 | Bond Corp has already said this deadline may be delayed if the regulatory authorities insist that full Bond Corp accounts are included in the document . |
| 6 | All the small states fear that any strengthening of the European Parliament , where they have relatively few seats in comparison with big brothers like Britain and Germany , will lead to a weakening of their influence by comparison with the Council of Ministers , which they attend as equals . |
| 7 | These values highlight that some tissues are more susceptible to damage than others . |
| 8 | But in practice some authorities judge that this relationship has meant that loans should be repaid quickly . |
| 9 | He was obliged to reverse his decision yesterday , however , when the Northern Ireland Football Association pointed out that FIFA rules insist that international managers have first claim on players for World Cup matches . |
| 10 | Environmental Health rules insist that designated dumps must be covered with at least 4 ’ of soil every night to avoid any danger of interference from animals or seagulls . |
| 11 | An internal management machinery for the handling of individual grievances exists in RENFE ( the procedure of ‘ reclamación previa ’ , or prior claim , characteristic of the public administration ) , but time limits for application to the courts mean that many grievances are the subject of concurrent actions by employees in the labour courts . |
| 12 | The proliferation of data and the increasing need for multiple datasets by researchers mean that online catalogues , navigation systems to link different catalogues and software for catalogue searching are of critical importance . |
| 13 | Lack of internal capital and entrepreneurial experience mean that rural people are often not able to take advantage of such opportunities . |
| 14 | These alignment rules mean that such computers do not in fact operate as pure byte-oriented machines , and are a consequence of a way in which the architecture of the computers has been implemented . |
| 15 | Whinges about the black market for centre-court tickets are as much a part of the Wimbledon tennis championships as thunderstorms are — but this year 's new rules mean that any tout reselling tickets at Wimbledon next month could end up in a magistrate 's court . |
| 16 | The rapid advances in this field suggest that computational analogues of human reasoning abilities will become increasingly difficult to distinguish from the real thing , and if a mechanistic view of biological systems is taken , this in itself may provide sufficient proof of the ability of non-biological systems to develop the ability to process ideas and communicate concepts . |
| 17 | First impressions in the field suggest that large areas of ice-free Antarctica are sterile . |
| 18 | The Food Safety Directorate say that all packets of cling film should carry health warnings . |
| 19 | Studies on the Monach Isles National Nature Reserve suggest that salt-laden winds affect taller plants most , so that exposed coastal plant communities tend to consist mainly of low-growth plant forms — not just because of the stunting effect of the wind — but also because of the salt it carries ( Randall 1973 ) . |
| 20 | Experts say that two glasses of red wine a day — taken with meals — helps prevent heart disease . |
| 21 | Environmental health experts say that increased reporting can not account for the total increase . |
| 22 | Interest in Channel4 's coverage of the game and booming sales of NFL products suggest that American football could be ripe for development in Scotland . |
| 23 | If it were abolished , that would have the blessing , as far as I am aware , of every local authority association , the Institute of Revenues , Ratings and Valuation , and the Child Poverty Action Group , the very strong blessing of the citizens advice bureaux — and the enormously authorititative support of the Audit Commission , which , in its report , had this to say on the subject : ’ Local authorities say that large numbers of income support recipients are in arrears with community charge payments for 1990/91 . |
| 24 | It should be added ( see Appendix II ) that the discussion groups suggest that Asian borrowers may be particularly well informed about credit cost comparisons , while West Indian borrowers may be relatively badly informed . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Yet it was only by contrast with Fei Yen that these things were noticeable : as if in Fei Yen lay the very archetype of Han beauty , and all else , however fine in itself , was but a flawed copy of that perfection . |
| 27 | An early Inland Revenue analysis of the revaluation suggest that 240,000 businesses in England face increases of 100 per cent or more in their annual bills ; about 230,000 rises between 50 and 100 per cent and a further 390,000 increases of between five and 50 per cent . |
| 28 | The new rules say that all toys made after January 1990 must carry a European safety tag . |
| 29 | The rules say that any beam-line must be available for general use at least one third of the time . |
| 30 | The latest losses mean that 305,344 manufacturing workers have been made redundant by more than 3,000 firms since February 1991 . |