Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [that] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Ian is right to emphasise that plebeian savagery was more vulnerable than its patrician counterpart : cock-throwing declined while fox-hunting flour ished . |
| 2 | ( It is interesting to see that recent union negotiations may place the wages of such workers above those of refuse collectors for the first time . ) |
| 3 | Anyone fancying a repeat of Hazy Days on the Far East Buttress might be interested to know that current opinion gives it a serious E5 6b grading . |
| 4 | The Royal is to be congratulated on introducing Direct Access Endoscopy , ( DAE ) , however your readers may be interested to know that Northern Board patients have enjoyed the benefit of DAE for some time . |
| 5 | Although innovative schemes have made it possible to maintain at home people with disabilities that were once thought to require hospital or residential care , it is unrealistic to suggest that institutional care could be entirely dispensed with . |
| 6 | Now I can see that I was wrong to assume that mere dedication to a craft ineluctably results in fine work , but it was that conviction which drove me to put Jean-Claude and his work on the map . |
| 7 | In theory ( and in the long run ) liberals , such as J. S. Mill , were prepared to recognise that representative government based on the whole people was the best form of government since political participation would promote the virtue , intelligence and " development " of the people . |
| 8 | This means that we have to be doubly careful to ensure that multicultural mathematics does not become a second-class mathematics curriculum for multiracial urban schools . |
| 9 | She was wrong to think that genuine criticism could be severed from evaluation , but right to think that there was no place for such criticism in the academy . |
| 10 | The English think that sixth-form education is only for swots . |
| 11 | For example , it steadfastly refuses to ban lead in petrol even though there is now no scientist of repute willing to say that leaded petrol is , on balance , blameless and even though opinion polls have shown a massive public consensus against lead in petrol . |
| 12 | It is wrong to say that real ale should be served at room temperature : too warm and the beer tastes tacky and rancid ; too cold and the subtle palate of the beer is masked by the chill . |
| 13 | Library lessons taught library layout , the Dewey Decimal Classification , the index , and the contents page in ways which were not dissimilar from library lessons of 20 years ago , and it is interesting to note that absolute silence is the requirement at all times . |
| 14 | It is interesting to note that high spring tides occur at approximately the same time of the day every year in each location on the coast . |
| 15 | If this peptide plays a significant part in regulating fat consumption , it is interesting to note that dietary fat has a role in colipase regulation with an adaptive response to dietary lipids having been shown with at least a twofold increase in pancreatic procolipase in rats fed a 25–30% lipid containing diet . |
| 16 | Macdonald is right to state that future research must find out how genes and environment operate ( or co-operate ? ) and that newer twin study-designs may help with this . |
| 17 | While it was obviously impossible to claim that literary art still sprang from the general community , this could be accounted for by the gulf between literature and life caused by the processes of industrialization . |
| 18 | It is easy to see that would-be DIY funeral undertakers would be as welcome as a swarm of greenfly at the Chelsea flower show . |
| 19 | It is all too easy to assume that formal regulation has an immediate unilinear impact , but in actuality the history of sexuality is as much a history of an avoidance of , or resistance to , the moral code , as of a simple acceptance and internalisation . |
| 20 | The complexity of modern European economies makes it impossible to believe that rural community self-sufficiency can be achieved in isolation from urban and industrial economy . |
| 21 | Cityslickers and Bonanza aficionados will be delighted to learn that Western-style riding is alive and bucking in the UK . |
| 22 | It is historically untrue to say that religious decline in Europe began in the twentieth century : the majority of working people in the first one hundred years of industrialism were not regular churchgoers ( though the new middle classes were ) . |
| 23 | And this self , in the introductory chapter , is surely right to suggest that moral sense and a sense of the numinous do not come naturally — as some anthropological dismissals of religion might suggest — from some crude pre-scientific attempt to explain the universe . |
| 24 | J R Hall ( Points of View , 12 February ) is right to suggest that British Rail would be able to make a profit if the Government took full responsibility for funding the provision and maintenance of railway infrastructure as it does roads . |
| 25 | The American replied that he was glad to find that botanical taste had been inherited and reported that a pear tree , grown from a seed sent to him by Lady Petre , had produced the finest fruits in Pennsylvania . |
| 26 | Compared with younger age groups , older people are much more likely to suggest that improved prosperity has brought about improved health , while younger people are more convinced of the importance of health education . |
| 27 | This point needs to be developed to incorporate the discussion by Wood of ‘ disarticulated ’ capitalism under colonial and post-colonial conditions , a discussion which suggests it is false to conclude that pure capitalism had become established by colonialism . |
| 28 | The ideological points are still there but it 's hard to believe that totalitarian regimentation could be so tight . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , it would be naive to think that black talent is going to come running into tennis merely by stating that fact . |
| 30 | ‘ Dr Strangelove ’ was not to be imagined for a few more years but it was n t reassuring to learn that nuclear submarine crews were supplied with pistols with which to shoot any shipmate who showed signs of wanting to fire an unauthorized missile . |