Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Mackay has treated claims that eligibility has substantially fallen as speculative . |
| 2 | Furious at what they call roughshod treatment at the hands of their area tourist board executives over the merger issue , members of the Dunoon and District Hoteliers Association have taken legal advice which they say has confirmed that rules have been violated . |
| 3 | What we would be dealing with are more of the implications , or this is how , for whatever reasons , it has come to pass that people write journalistic stories in this kind of way — might there not be other , better , more adequate ways of writing journalistic stories ? |
| 4 | Sir David said that in the last few days , the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , has written to say that NHS funds can not be used in this way . |
| 5 | The fact that this has occurred indicates that Marx 's and Engels 's original formulation probably does not do justice to the nature of power in a modern capitalist society . |
| 6 | A cynic will remember that research into the opinion-forming powers of newspapers has tended to conclude that readers expect to have their existing views confirmed . |
| 7 | While it has been demonstrated by the work of Piaget and others that , at primary school age , children 's understanding functions at the concrete operational stage , more recent research in primary history has tended to suggest that children 's " historical " thinking can be developed and encouraged by certain teaching techniques . |
| 8 | This essay has tried to show that money is an important part of the American political system and that its importance has been increasing . |
| 9 | South African government sources were reported to have hinted that Thatcher might be called upon to help negotiators reach a constitutional settlement , although it was unclear what role she might have . |
| 10 | He was also reported to have said that Romania would downgrade its ties with the PLO . |
| 11 | In Gundovald 's description of his conversations with Guntram Boso , as set out by Gregory of Tours , Boso is reported to have said that Chilperic was dead ( which was not the case at the time ) , that Guntram was childless , and that Childebert had no support . |
| 12 | He was reported to have said that Pakistan had in 1991 frozen production of highly enriched uranium , meeting one of the US demands , but would only destroy its weapons cores if India did the same . |
| 13 | Witnesses were reported to have said that troops set fire to shops , and that tank-fire was directed at houses [ for disorder in Sirnak in March 1992 see p. 38833 ] . |
| 14 | A person who spoke on behalf of Michael Fallon is reported to have said that Mr Fallon would never agree to share a platform with anyone like that . |
| 15 | Williams , Flew therefore claims , has failed to show that equality of opportunity entails even a prima facie commitment to equality of outcome . |
| 16 | John Barton , the Islands ' Director of Fisheries , agreed to participate provided that negotiations were limited to technical matters ( such as the conservation of squid stocks ) and did not touch on areas of sovereignty over the Falklands or the resumption of direct links with the Argentinian mainland . |
| 17 | Data analysts must not be put off using the best techniques available in case they are misunderstood , but they have an important responsibility to explain what they have done to try to ensure that misunderstandings do not arise . |
| 18 | Besides , I 'd began to think that Mala had been right . |
| 19 | No one seemed to have realized that Charles would need an income when he came of age . |
| 20 | Not surprisingly she is said to have complained that Louis was more like a monk than a king . |
| 21 | Ishaya Bakut , field commander of ECOMOG , who was said to have complained that NPFL fighters were continuing to harass the ECOMOG troops . |
| 22 | We might feel tempted to say that Wittgenstein 's account may be true of sensations ; but that there is no such thing as a sensation of blue , and so there is no reason why a private linguist could not start by naming the way things look to him before moving on to the more difficult talk of the way things actually are . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , George , if we are going to start arguing that way , who provided the money for the deposit on this house in the first place ? ’ |
| 24 | Courtney , in his own evidence , claimed to have heard that Miss C gained a reputation for being ‘ easy ’ during the first few weeks of her stay at University College . |
| 25 | However pissed off we might get from time to time though , we 're going to have to accept that Wilko is at Elland Rd to stay . |
| 26 | Ceolred was remembered in some quarters at least as a profligate , but Wilfridian circles seem to have believed that Wilfrid could have worked well with him ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 64 ) . |
| 27 | The later insect groups seem to have found that flight was more efficiently achieved with just one pair of flapping membranes . |
| 28 | She was silent for a moment and just looked at me. " what have you got to say to explain that place , I should like to know ? |
| 29 | " Was not Schwarzenberg himself [ the Austrian first minister who died in 1852 ] alleged to have declared that Austria would one day astound the world by the greatness of her ingratitude ? " |
| 30 | Learning to read involves recognising that writing is made : poets were originally called ‘ makers ’ , craftsmen and women . |