Example sentences of "[verb] that [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? ’ |
| 2 | suggest that with appropriate feedback the effect could be eliminated . |
| 3 | Comparisons suggest that for comparable hotels rack rates can be increased by an average of £5 per night . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I suggest that in future Councillors and concentrate on engaging their brains before they start putting pen to paper |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Some partial statistics in February 1874 suggest that in certain firms the number was rising particularly fast . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Erm so I think we 've got ta look at that right across the board though , we 've got ta know that in actual fact we 're covering it temporarily , erm or are n't we covering it temporarily . |
| 13 | ‘ However , in fairness to Price Waterhouse , it should also be stressed that on other occasions — for example , in April and October 1990 — when the firm had made its audit report to the directors of BCCI , it ensured that some information was passed on to the Bank of England . |
| 14 | Lyons , in fact , concedes ( b ) : ‘ I am only too prepared to accept that in other traditions scribal records either are not or are not seen to be intrinsically more reliable than memory and oral transmission . ’ |
| 15 | as the norm for conversational speech ; that is , to accept that in informal speech there is an inherent tendency to a reductionism by which we say only that which is necessary to effective communication . |
| 16 | But it still makes me angry to know that in other countries so many children die , so many families are bereaved , simply because they lack basic health care . |
| 17 | Admittedly , it probably helped that in real life , she came a cropper over Keifer . |
| 18 | We propose that in future advice and assistance , and where necessary representation before the immigrant appellate authority , should instead be provided by the United Kingdom Immigrants Advisory Service . ’ |
| 19 | We propose that in Raji cells the accumulation of a repressor is prevented , thus allowing gene expression . |
| 20 | The company has claimed that in environmental terms , there is " little to choose " between pampers and traditional cloth nappies . |
| 21 | I expect that for other clergy wives whose husbands are less disappointed than Peter God is the other woman . |
| 22 | I say that with absolute passion about a man who is my boss and my friend and with whom I am proud to serve in this Government . |
| 23 | Police say that despite new initiatives that figure is still rising . |
| 24 | Protesters there say that in extreme circumstances the chemical , Butoxi-ethanol , can cause kidney and liver damage as well as birth defects . |
| 25 | So effectively Robert Harris and Noel Timms ( ‘ Backs against the wall ’ , 15 April ) turn Parkinson 's Law on its head when they say that in residential care ‘ time expands in accordance with the potentially limitless tasks which exist ’ . |
| 26 | Doctors at the Johns Hopkins medical school in Baltimore say that after intensive tests they believe for the first time the Aids virus had been eradicated from the patient 's body before he died from a separate lymphoma cancer . |
| 27 | She doubted that in ordinary circumstances Herbert Fraser and Polly Beard got on well together . |
| 28 | Several mentioned that in recent years the rate of voluntary leaving had decreased so that they were no longer able to rely upon increasing or slowing down the rate of recruitment to maintain their labour forces at the desired level . |
| 29 | In the light of the Minister 's reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Wakefield ( Mr. Hinchliffe ) , will he guarantee that at European level he will press for a system of mandatory labelling so that eggs are labelled ’ battery ’ , ’ barn eggs ’ , ’ free range ’ or whatever ? |
| 30 | Johnson 's coach , Charlie Francis , an ex-international sprinter himself , had forecast that in perfect conditions Ben would run 9.85 seconds . |