Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This has supposed that feminist effort should be devoted , first , to showing how the ‘ images ’ in question oppress or denigrate women , and second , to offering positive images of women to replace these . |
| 32 | Professor Mathias has stressed that rising output and improving productivity will lower the average costs of a commodity " only if the goods can be cleared to a widening market … |
| 33 | A great deal of the argument against central controls has stressed that local government has shown a greater ability to reduce spending than the departments of central government and even the Audit Commission — in the early 1980s — has acknowledged that the operation of central rules may actually have encouraged increased levels of spending and a reduction in the accuracy of information feeding into the centre ( Audit Commission , 1984 ) . |
| 34 | An internal memo by a senior employee at the Rocky Flats plant in Colorado has disclosed that substantial amounts of highly radioactive plutonium are stored in unsafe or untested containers and in unstable condition and are not suitably protected against fire . |
| 35 | Why do we need to know that another vehicle has Show Dogs In Transit ? |
| 36 | Elbit Ltd has reported that net profit for the year to December 31 declined by 14.8% at $30.3m , on turnover that rose 18.1% to $483.3m . |
| 37 | Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co Ltd has reported that net profit for the 12 months to March 31 rose 4.3% at the equivalent of $141.7m , on turnover that declined by 1.7% to $2,268.8m . |
| 38 | The Committee to Protect Journalists ( CPJ ) has reported that more journalists were killed carrying out their professional duties in 1991 than in any other year since the formation of the committee ten years ago . |
| 39 | The Zimbabwean government has reported that several countries have offered to buy 25 tonnes of its ivory stocks , worth £9 million , in order to destroy them , in an effort to enforce the international ban on the trade in ivory . |
| 40 | In Bavaria 's parliament , the CSU has enjoyed that German rarity , a clear majority , since 1966 . |
| 41 | The first hurdle will be to renew the approval of the Vice-Chancellor , a senior judge , who has so far agreed that there is a case to argue but wants to know that enough creditors support the action to make its pursuit a worthwhile use of all creditors ' funds . |
| 42 | Meanwhile the State Services Co-ordinating Commmittee has recommended that secondary schools be run by higher-paid managers instead of the traditional principals , with the right to sack teachers and determine their pay . |
| 43 | The Scottish Crofters ' Union , still smarting from the £2.25 cut in Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowance per ewe , has recommended that more priority be given to new or recent entrants to crofting when sheep and cattle quotas are allocated from the national reserve . |
| 44 | BGS has recommended that potential export markets should be assessed . |
| 45 | There is no reason why a child has to know that some life forms became extinct in order to be able to measure variations between living organisms , nor is there any clear difference in difficulty between these two statements . |
| 46 | Moreover , national nodes are also being set up ; the recent IBM gift to GRID ( see above ) has ensured that powerful microcomputers have been installed in many African countries , together with national and continental data sets . |
| 47 | The Church 's Eastern European resurgence , centred upon its long recognized strength in Poland — a country led from mid-1989 by a devout Catholic prime minister — but now including almost every country from Czechoslovakia to Lithuania , as well as what previously seemed the almost unimaginable resurrection of Uniate Catholicism in the Ukraine , has ensured that Catholic history and geography in the 1990s are likely to look very different from that of the 1980s . |
| 48 | The ‘ racialization , of British politics throughout the last 20 years has ensured that most areas of public debate — law and order , the welfare state , unemployment , youth , education , the inner cities , the family — now have a racial dimension and often one in which black communities , but especially black youth , appear as threats in a wider demonology of scroungers , shirkers , muggers , drug pushers , school failures and inadequate parents ( Hall et al . , |
| 49 | Along with the rise of local voluntary and community groups , often funded by the local council , this has ensured that local authority politics have increased markedly in both their visibility and their differentiation . |
| 50 | The neurological dominance of the large human cerebral cortex has ensured that basic instinct has come increasingly under its control and has thereby lost its specific and rigidly determined character . |
| 51 | We have all done things which are wrong in God 's eyes but through Jesus God has ensured that any punishment we deserve has already been served . |
| 52 | However , it is not the world 's statesmen that we have to thank for even this limited achievement in arms control , but the women and men whose political activity has ensured that some action must be taken . |
| 53 | In Pakistan an old system dating from the British occupation has ensured that large parts of the North-West Frontier Province remain out of bounds to government officials . |
| 54 | But she needs to remember that deciding strategies is easy ; implementing them is hard . |
| 55 | It has been difficult to decide on a speciality for the whole country and the Comlon Board has accepted that regional differences may require a change in attitude . |
| 56 | It has accepted that progressive aging of the population necessitates a parallel increase in numbers of doctors . |
| 57 | ITV has accepted that competitive tendering is a proper way of allocating franchises , but argues that in no other area of business are judgments made without trade-offs between quality and price . |
| 58 | It was pointed out that the Borough Council has accepted that nearby farms have become redundant and the conversion of farm buildings to up-market residential properties has been allowed . |
| 59 | In work looking at the labour markets of Los Angeles and New York , Sassen ( 1989 ) has argued that economic growth creates both wealth and poverty . |
| 60 | Indeed , David Underdown has argued that rural sports and recreations became more common after 1660 than ever before . |