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 It is interesting to see that some developments in reading instruction are stressing the need to help pupils cope with text organisational problems .
4 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 .
5 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 !
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Likewise it would be wrong to assume that economic difficulties worked to push the gentry increasingly into the Tory camp .
9 It would , however , be totally wrong to assume that all apparitions are angels on assignment .
10 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 .
11 Both Mr Hyslop and Mr Guest said Mr Newbegin was wrong to suggest that 15-year-old models were uneconomical .
12 Western powers were wrong to believe that tsarist troops in Poland were aimed at the heart of Europe , for they were needed where they were .
13 Now I am quite prepared to believe that other countries can offer more obviously spectacular scenery .
14 Although monitored allocations of the kind suggested above are the only way to ensure that library policy is translated into practice , it would be unrealistic to believe that all authorities manage their budgets in this way .
15 However , given current UK time costs , it is unrealistic to believe that many listeners will hear a given commercial many times .
16 Nevertheless , it would be wrong to suppose that all mergers were approved .
17 It is interesting to learn that nuclear scientists are now seeking the particles necessary to anti-matter and may have found some of them .
18 The House may be interested to learn that hon. Members who represent south Wales constituencies hold fairly regular meetings with the south Wales constabulary .
19 At best , the vendor may be willing to warrant that such forecasts and opinions are reasonable .
20 It is interesting to note that rectilinear structures are frequently found in one of two distinctive locations , often accompanied by marked functional variations .
21 It is interesting to note that other countries are now copying our know-how funds because they have been of such help to the former Soviet Union and other eastern European countries .
22 ( It is interesting to note that freshwater pearls were known to the Chinese by the beginning of the first millennium B.C. )
23 It is interesting to note that electric vehicles built in 1920 were still in use in the 1950s .
24 It is interesting to note that 300 years ago in a census to find the number of Conformists , Catholics and Nonconformists , that Hailing was given as " no Papists , no Nonconformists but 60 Conformists " .
25 The subjects were corn plants , and it is interesting to note that these plants have a natural variability in leaf area of nearly 10% , which can be increased by errors introduced by the measurement technique employed .
26 It is interesting to note that some phonologists of the 1950s and 1960s felt it necessary to invent a ‘ phoneme ’ of juncture in order to be able to transcribe minimal pairs like ‘ grey tape ’ / ‘ great ape ’ unambiguously without having to refer to grammatical boundaries ; see for example Trager and Smith ( 1951 ) .
27 Although her views are still regarded as highly eccentric outside reactionary conservative and fascist circles , it is interesting to note that some historians now argue that secret societies like the IRA and the Mafia have indeed played a significant role in world events , and that the Illuminati conspiracy in the 1780s was truly a model for future revolutionary organization .
28 It is interesting to note that some Branches were expected to open from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. without even having arrangements in place for Lunch-time Opening .
29 It is sad to see that conservation bodies seem to have halted their attempts to purchase the key Cairngorms estate of Mar Lodge .
30 And he was delighted to find that these forerunners of pop journalism had used the same skills as those on which he prided himself to stamp events into the nation 's consciousness .
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