Example sentences of "[verb] that [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And Archie McLaren had told me that the house would probably have to be sold , so it was to be supposed that at any time now people might be coming to look at it .
2 The Assistant Government Agent at Matara agreed that the establishment of village tribunals had led to a decrease in the number of police court cases , but asked ‘ what good end is obtained by merely removing the scene of litigation from one set of courts to another , and doubling the amount of litigation in the process , and how it is supposed that by increasing litigation twofold the peace and harmony of the district is secured , and litigation robbed of all the rancour and bad feelings it engenders in the ordinary courts ? ’
3 suggest that with appropriate feedback the effect could be eliminated .
4 Comparisons suggest that for comparable hotels rack rates can be increased by an average of £5 per night .
5 Estimates of the amount of oil in proven recoverable reserves ( 92 x 10 9 tonnes ) suggest that at current rates of use ( 3 x 10 9 tonnes per year ) we should have enough , both as fuel and a feedstock , for 30 years .
6 The first of the preliminary sketches for the Demoiselles , on the other hand , suggest that at first Picasso may have been more drawn to Cézanne 's earlier , more romantic figure pieces .
7 Suggest that in small groups they make an image to show what it 's like to experience conflicting feelings — of sorrow , loss , relief , excitement , hope , expectation .
8 I suggest that in future Councillors and concentrate on engaging their brains before they start putting pen to paper
9 The data provided suggest that in all cases the prevalence of morbidity increases significantly with age .
10 The results of Warman 's experiments strongly suggest that in normal language comprehension syntactic processing is not autonomous , in the sense that the time taken to understand a sentence does not depend solely on the amount of syntactic analysis required .
11 Reports suggest that in many areas , textbooks and materials are anyway not available , since provincial traders are not interested in distributing them .
12 They suggest that in many circumstances , and particularly more recently , the central problems facing management are not so much to do with control over labour but are much more to do with such matters as obtaining orders for products , getting the design right , innovating , and handling their relations with the capital market .
13 Some partial statistics in February 1874 suggest that in certain firms the number was rising particularly fast .
14 Weber 's observations on status groups are important since they suggest that in certain situations status rather than class provides the basis for the formation of social groups whose members perceive common interests and a group identity .
15 I would like to extend this idea and suggest that in larger homes there are likely to be groups of residents with particular needs requiring appropriate provision , such as those with severe physical disability , considerable mental infirmity , ethnic minority elders more estranged than usual in a residential environment , and those who are terminally ill or dying .
16 The results of a study carried out by Johns ( 1991 ) suggest that in this genre simple verbs without modals or closely linked prepositional phrases are regularly fronted while long and syntactically complex subjects are not .
17 Other reports also suggest that in this disease there are circulating antibodies against antigens common to biliary and colonic epithelia .
18 Some gynaecologists may consider that there is a risk of missing serious endometrial pathology in such patients , although studies suggest that in this age group it is unlikely .
19 They suggest that in previous eras BBC Scotland got what was in essence a block grant from London in respect of costs of making programmes for Scotland .
20 Wahler and Dumas ( 1986 ) suggest that in these families the only predictable response that the child receives from the mother is that she behaves aggressively when he does .
21 Conclusions from the Dragon Project suggest that in some cases the stone circle can act as a ‘ shield ’ from outside energies .
22 With regard to intrauterine devices we suggest that in some women developing endometriosis while using them the disease goes unrecognised and they are treated by removal of the device .
23 Recent developments in Australia suggest that in some respects that country is further along the road than Britain in formulating a policy response to the obvious inequalities found there .
24 More recent figures suggest that by 1987 Albanians amounted to as much as 85 per cent of the population of Kosovo .
25 The careers of other scholars of the period who reached the highest mevleviyets likewise suggest that by this time teaching on at least two levels of medreses beyond the Sahn had become customary , the top level being composed of the Suleymaniye medreses and the later imperial medreses , such as those of Selim II and Murad III .
26 These data suggest that after medical dissolution , the risk of gall stone recurrence is not reduced by a high fibre , low refined carbohydrate diet : it may be lowered , but not abolished , by low dose ursodeoxycholic acid .
27 The report also adds that in those cases , ‘ off-farm income averaged £12,500 in 1988 , rising to £13,500 in 1989 ’ .
28 In his comments ( published with the Report ) Mr Baker agreed that this was appropriate for 7 year olds , but proposed that for 11 year olds greater emphasis should be given to the key skills of reading and writing .
29 The so-called White Memorandum ( March 1942 ) proposed that in such districts the Churches ( in practice , the Church of England ) must give up their schools .
30 The Minister will know that for some years London weighting has been frozen because the Minister 's policy is to pay just sufficient to recruit and retain civil servants .
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