Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [that] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keith Flett is right to claim that Labour needs active grassroots supporters to defeat the Tories ( Letters , 24 April ) . |
| 2 | are clearly right to emphasise that new forms of politics and people 's support of these politics must be in some way connected to changing social structures and crises within capitalist society . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | It is interesting to see that some developments in reading instruction are stressing the need to help pupils cope with text organisational problems . |
| 5 | For example : Law 2 argued that urban areas will absorb the population of first their immediate rural areas and then even the remote areas ; Law 6 stated that urban dwellers are less migratory than rural inhabitants ; and Law 5 argued that migrants proceeding long distances generally migrate to the great centres of commerce and industry . |
| 6 | Patrick had been interested to see that all traces of the damage the insurgents had wrought in the Green — the trenches they had dug , the trees they had felled — had vanished , and the only evidence of the 1916 Rising were the bullet holes in the stonework of the hotel where the rebels had fired on the British troops positioned on the roof and in some of the upper rooms . |
| 7 | This proposed that mid-oceanic ridges represent regions where new oceanic crust is being generated by the upwelling of hot mantle material . |
| 8 | Although I hoped that I would find that the church stood at least on one circle , I was not prepared to find that four Circles of Time passed through it ! |
| 9 | In the face of such evidence it was a little difficult for at least some of the non-poor to accept that such conditions should continue and that free enterprise could bring them to an end largely unassisted . |
| 10 | Successes such as this suggest that remedial actions are feasible and can bring beneficial effects in a relatively short time . |
| 11 | We are very willing to accept that those parts of the judges ' visitorial jurisdiction which were not incident to the administration of justice in the courts passed down through the routes suggested by Sir William and Professor Baker , but in the context of the present case , where the court has for the first time to inquire into the particular function which is being performed , we are not satisfied that the whole of the visitorial jurisdiction passed by this route . |
| 12 | The Financial Times of Sept. 22 reported that pro-Chinese associations had won 12 of the 16 elective seats . |
| 13 | The US negotiating team , led by Max Kampelman until his retirement in December , had on Oct. 30 proposed that anti-missile tests in space be permitted but that a limit be placed on their scope , with a specific assurance that the USA would limit to 15 the number of satellites deployed in a Strategic Defence Initiative ( SDI , or " Star Wars'-see p. 36760 ) test . |
| 14 | Of course , all this assumes that three years is a ‘ natural ’ rather than arbitrary period in which to reach ‘ degree standard ’ . |
| 15 | This assumes that both contributions to the strain are additive so that . |
| 16 | Verse 2 says that 400,000 footmen " that drew the sword " assembled . |
| 17 | The results displayed in Fig. 3.14 show that these subjects continued to orient to the light over the course of 16 ten-trial sessions . |
| 18 | A French government report released on July 2 showed that foreign orders for French weapons had soared by 70 per cent in 1990 to F33,400 million ( US$5,400 million ) , largely because of the Gulf war . |
| 19 | This shows that similar guidelines for decompression of the biliary tree after open cholecystectomy , can be applied after laparoscopic cholecystectomy as well . |
| 20 | This shows that human bird-catchers had already learnt to exploit the mobbing reaction . |
| 21 | It was one thing to suggest that God might have instituted a ‘ law of progress ’ to achieve His goals in Nature , quite another to suggest that human beings were merely highly developed animals . |
| 22 | With regard to library education , table 2 shows that certain methods appear to be more suitable than others for this type of instruction . |
| 23 | Likewise it would be wrong to assume that economic difficulties worked to push the gentry increasingly into the Tory camp . |
| 24 | It would , however , be totally wrong to assume that all apparitions are angels on assignment . |
| 25 | It is entirely wrong to assume that older women , who have been involved in employment during their lives , should experience retirement as any more or less significant than it is for older men . |
| 26 | This confirmed that these junctions were unaltered at the nucleotide level ( data not shown ) , indicating that integration had indeed occurred by homologous recombination . |
| 27 | This reveals that these companies accounted for about 40 per cent of manufacturing industry 's net assets , employment , and inward direct investment from overseas ( excluding oil company investment ) , 40–50 per cent of visible exports , 70 per cent of expenditure on industrial scientific research and development , and about 75 per cent of direct investment by UK companies ( excluding oil ) in manufacturing overseas . |
| 28 | This reveals that these words do not just carry information about proportions but also about speakers ' expectations , and even speakers ' expectations about hearers ' expectations and so on . |
| 29 | Both Mr Hyslop and Mr Guest said Mr Newbegin was wrong to suggest that 15-year-old models were uneconomical . |
| 30 | Reports on April 30 confirmed that allied forces had expanded their military presence 30 km east of Zakho towards the Turkish border . |