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

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1 Be that as it may , the general style of thinking about evolution has been applied to the study of animal communication in ways that suggest that all activities directed by one individual towards another are manipulative .
2 None the less , the London Bills of Mortality suggest that maternal mortality halved from 1700 to 1800 .
3 As Timberlake and his colleagues put it in this brief but incisive review , greens ‘ suggest that this thing called the environment is a sacred garden set aside from human activities . ’
4 Some accounts also suggest that these waves swept over the low-lying parts of St Pierre , near the waterfront , causing some damage and casualties .
5 Assuming that salt is acting as a competitor for the binding of the RNA polymerase to the promoter , these results suggest that open complexes formed at P A2b on supercoiled templates are more stable than initiated complexes found on linear templates , open complexes formed on linear templates being the less stable ones .
6 Did you know that any number doubled is even ?
7 So they do not know that white Rhodesians behaved in a relatively civilised manner compared , say , with the French in Algeria or the Portuguese in Mozambique .
8 As we have seen , it is hard to draw the line between a conscious human being and a conscious machine likewise , we have to accept that any entity possessed of consciousness is in reality a living organism — whatever its physical characteristics .
9 It is not to be expected that each sentence written will obey grammar rules .
10 It can be expected that some rabbits confined in short burrows will begin to bolt quite quickly , at times almost instantly .
11 Gardner , Silverman , Wapner and Zurif ( 1978 ) found right hemisphere lesions to impair appreciation of antonymic contrasts ( opposites ) and Winner and Gardner ( 1977 ) report that right-sided damage interfered with the ability to understand metaphors .
12 It should not be forgotten that any crops sold off the land are ‘ extractive ’ and tend to lower fertility .
13 It must not be forgotten that independent parts given to the feebler instruments are not actually heard in the tutti , but may play havoc with the clarity of design which should be the orchestrator 's first aim .
14 In this vein a Soviet commentator maintained that Vietnamese initiatives advanced by Prime Minister Pham Van Dong during talks in the ASEAN countries in autumn 1978 were supported by Soviet diplomacy .
15 Pecquet even claimed that good diplomats needed to be prepared from childhood for the work .
16 The new rules say that all toys made after January 1990 must carry a European safety tag .
17 ‘ And you say that some others protected you ? ’
18 Willis ( 1983 ) found that black males aged between 16 and 24 were stopped ten times more than average ( although prosecuted in the same proportion as white juveniles ) .
19 He found that Labour councils spent more on education and built more council houses than Conservative councils .
20 In particular , he found that many researchers admitted to giving cited works positive and negative credit simultaneously in the same reference , a finding which supports the contention advanced by MacRoberts & MacRoberts ( 1984 ) that authors dissemble to diffuse the impact of negative references .
21 Credit granters told us that they rarely checked information about employment because they found that many people regarded this as an invasion of privacy .
22 He found that hyperactive children improved dramatically on a diet which excluded all artificially flavoured and coloured foods .
23 This finding supports that of Milner ( 1962 ) who found that right brain damaged subjects were more impaired than patients with left sided damage on certain items of the Seashore test of musical abilities .
24 Levi ( 1987 ) found that commercial fraud recorded by the London fraud squads represented nearly three times the total cost of all property crimes in London , and that 40 per cent of companies in the survey reported at least one fraud costing over 50,000 .
25 The Yale and Michigan studies found that some searches initiated as known-item searches could in fact be subject searches or could develop into subject searches .
26 Some years ago Causton found that biological polymers called mucopolysaccharides could exclude protein from some surfaces .
27 When a patient seems to be developing a pattern of chronic repeats , it is recommended that all staff engaged in his or her care meet to reconstruct each attempt in order to determine whether there appears to be a motive common to each act .
28 Blair et al reported that circulating gastrin accounted for approximately 90% of acid secretion in response to eating .
29 In 1972 it was realised that this property depended on a separate histamine receptor ( H2 ) which was different from histamine ( H1 ) receptors in the lung and elsewhere , which were responsible for the allergic action of histamine .
30 Part A goes ninety one to ninety six , part B ninety six to two thousand and six , sites adjacent to the urban area in the Greater York study er which were acceptable for development because corporately the districts and the county did not think that those sites discharged a greenbelt function as the greenbelt local plan was progressed those sites were excluded from the greenbelt erm and yes , we did identify a number of sites which did not conflict with greenbelt objectives erm on the urban edge .
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