Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [adj] [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Moore is not denying that such elucidation is sometimes needed and possible , but bringing home to us that this is never what is going on when all things with a certain complex property are said to be good . |
| 3 | We can surely think of pleasure and pain as referring to felt qualities of experience without denying that these qualities are of radically different kinds . |
| 4 | Now , there is no denying that past controversies were rooted in circumstances that were peculiar to the age in which they occurred . |
| 5 | The chairman who ventured that mild criticism was well-placed to do so . |
| 6 | It would not have mattered so much if the experiments described all held water , but when ( as we were encouraged to do ) I put up my hand and ventured that one experiment was not consistent , the lecturer acknowledged that this was so in the particular I questioned , but said that the results were usually found to be as would have been expected . |
| 7 | I caught the sense of victory in seeing the film of Henry V — just as I had supposed that all schools were like that of Goodbye Mr Chips , which I was taken to see in 1939 . |
| 8 | Moreover , while ‘ ideology ’ retains , from the weight of linguistic usage , the sense of organized beliefs ( whether formal and conscious or pervasive and dissolved ) , it can often be supposed that such systems are the true origin of all cultural ( and indeed other social ) production . |
| 9 | In a sense that has long been the case , since it has generally been supposed that turbulent flows are contained within a deterministic set of equations — the Navier-Stokes and continuity equations . |
| 10 | The results suggest that polymeric diets are as safe and effective as steroids in inducing short term remission . |
| 11 | In conclusion , the results of our present study suggest that polymeric diets are a safe and effective treatment for active Crohn 's disease . |
| 12 | Taken together the results of the Hausman and Salkever tests suggest that predictive failure is likely to reflect mis-specification and , in particular , the presence of unrecognized simultaneity . |
| 13 | Rates reported by Arthur Young on his various Tours around 1770 suggest that regional variations were less significant than the type of cloth or the fineness of the yarn ( see Table 7.6 ) . |
| 14 | They suggest that tropical forests be translated into zonal parks or exchanged for poor-world debts . |
| 15 | Moreover , preliminary data also suggest that oral budesonide is effective in active ileocaecal Crohn 's disease . |
| 16 | They suggest that sociological perspectives are shaped more by historical circumstances than by objective views of the reality of social life . |
| 17 | On the question of regional differences , these studies of financial exchanges suggest that geographical location is rather unimportant . |
| 18 | Pathological studies in the rat , however , suggest that tubular necrosis is transient despite continued dosing . |
| 19 | Our results suggest that female sex is a risk factor in presenile Alzheimer 's disease . |
| 20 | These results suggest that epithelial cells are important contributors to intestinal platelet activating factor generation under normal and inflammatory conditions and that epithelial cells actively play a part in the pathogenesis of ulcerative colitis . |
| 21 | The rich have greater incentive to oppose redistributive policies in that they have much more to lose , and there are arguments that suggest that risk-averse individuals are keener to defend against a loss than to secure a gain ( see Jones and Cullis 1986 ) . |
| 22 | Long-term trends suggest that economic optimism was highly volatile . |
| 23 | So riddled with complexities has this question proved to be that one is tempted to follow the example of the legendary definition of folk song — ‘ all songs are folk songs ; I never heard horses sing 'em ’ — and suggest that all music is popular music : popular with someone . |
| 24 | Some of the few studies that have taken account of gender suggest that Afro-Caribbean girls are achieving higher levels than boys at school level , partly because they are pursuing different strategies , which are necessary in order to survive in the context of high unemployment and low wages for black male workers ( Fuller , 1983 ; see also Riley , 1986 ; Driver , 1977 ) . |
| 25 | While the difficulties of accurately estimating incapacitation effects are immense , the best calculations suggest that such claims are wildly inflated . |
| 26 | Many people writing about negative attitudes towards old age suggest that such attitudes are widely held and refer to most old people . |
| 27 | We have cultural stereotypes which suggest that such occasions are difficult for us , potentially embarrassing , because we do not know the appropriate responses . |
| 28 | Recent developments in organisational theory , currently in vogue with many large corporations , suggest that hierarchical organisations are slow to respond to change , can limit the optimisation of staff potential and have high fixed costs . |
| 29 | In view of the current state of the art I can do no more here than suggest that alternative approaches are surely possible . |
| 30 | Many commentators suggest that violent incidents are best understood as unique events . |