Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] that [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was amusing to see one middle-aged panellist 's efforts to keep a piece of paper judiciously positioned on his lap , while another revealed that flaps of loose skin other than the ear-lobes and the nostrils can be pierced with decorative pins . |
| 2 | ā Some say that gleams of a remoter world |
| 3 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Jan. 30 reported that figures for the first nine months of 1991 showed Japan to be Vietnam 's second most important trading partner , after Singapore . |
| 4 | The Washington Post of Feb. 12 reported that diplomats from the major powers saw these changes as " necessary if the UN is to adjust to current world realities by moving away from its former , almost exclusive preoccupation with North-South issues and put more stress on conflict-prevention and peacekeeping " . |
| 5 | But this assumes that individuals within the state have some prior and superior knowledge of what the interests of capital ( and its monopoly sectors ) are in a crisis . |
| 6 | However there was some hope that proposals for " Unity " put forward by a self-effacing and cooperative Communist Party might be accepted by the Left of the Labour Party . |
| 7 | For a time it was popular to suggest that reversals in the earth 's magnetic field , which we know to have been sudden , may have temporarily broken down the protective shield provided by the van Allen Belt against cosmic rays and so stimulated evolution by way of genetic mutation . |
| 8 | Figure 2 shows that patients with active Crohn 's disease have significantly higher scan score ( mean 82.1 ( 13.6 ) , median 51 ) than those with quiescent disease ( mean 24.7 ( 7.0 ) , median 15 ) ( pā„0.005 ) . |
| 9 | Further examination of the data presented in Fig. 2 reveals that wells from Quadrant 44 and some from the Swarte Bank Hinge area of Quadrant 49 ( see Fig . |
| 10 | As with all the social services , it would be foolish to assume that executors of policy on the ground are always the obedient poodles of those who think up grand designs . |
| 11 | Figure 7.4 shows that women under age 50 who were still married to their first husband were more than three times as likely to be owner-occupiers than local authority tenants . |
| 12 | Critics have argued that no evidence exists that Jarman 's weighted factors actually create extra workload ; indeed , some state that doctors in high scoring areas may actually work fewer hours . |
| 13 | This ensures that lines of communication are always open . |
| 14 | This meant that changes in crime rates , or variations between different settings ( such as urban and rural ) , which had played an important part in theories relating social or economic conditions and change to crime , could equally well be explained by variations in crime-recording practices . |
| 15 | This meant that systems of kin terms often reflected , not the present state of affairs , but the previous one . |
| 16 | This meant that details of the Governors ' procedures , which might seem unimportant to outsiders ā such as whether they watched a contested programme in advance of its first transmission ā sometimes had great symbolic importance for the broadcasters . |
| 17 | In our project this meant that measures of network strength that we used in the inner city could not be readily operationalized for these speakers . |
| 18 | Prior to the invention of photocopying machines , the preparation of an epitome of title in the way described above was not possible , and this meant that abstracts of title had to be created by our predecessors , who were in fact charged with the duty of tracing title back over 30 or 40 years or more . |
| 19 | But , as we saw in the discussion of neoclassicism , it was unrealistic to suppose that questions of intent and responsibility could be abandoned . |
| 20 | Would this mean that children with special educational needs , whose chronological age had little relevance to their scholastic progress , would be publicly judged against certain criteria applied nationally to the whole ability range ? |
| 21 | The vote also stops public buildings being used to promote field sports , so could this mean that books on hunting will vanish from the libraries . |
| 22 | Indeed , 85 per cent of architects questioned in 1985 felt that rules on competing for fees had no effect . |
| 23 | This implies that changes in the transition process , due to a change in the Reynolds number or to a different obstacle geometry , will lead to changes in the form of the coherent structures . |
| 24 | This implies that variations in CL intensity need not necessarily reflect changes in bulk pore fluid composition . |
| 25 | This implies that reductions in X- inefficiency do not necessarily lead to net welfare improvements for consumers . |
| 26 | If we are correct , this implies that lesions in the apoptotic pathway , such as Bcl-2 activation , might contribute towards drug resistance in tumours . |
| 27 | This implies that signals from HeLa cell cytoplasm have entered the chick nucleus and brought about this gene activation . |
| 28 | Provided that the reference position is suitably chosen , this means that differences in potential between the common reference and each of the corresponding left and right hemisphere sites will be equal unless there is some asymmetry in activity between left and right hemispheres . |
| 29 | This means that concerts on April 30 and May 28 will go ahead . |
| 30 | This means that runs of mutual recrimination are nipped in the bud . |