Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the arguments against decentralisation is that the peripheral units can become complacent and lazy and unwilling to take the risks that the financial resources of the centralised company make possible . |
| 2 | Worries that the relocated employees faced were finding employment for relocated spouses and ensuring that the relocation did not affect children 's schooling . |
| 3 | LIFESPAN has notified all interested parties that the amended modules are now available . |
| 4 | According to the respondents all the disputes were resolved by an oral agreement which was concluded on 6 May 1988 whereby the first two respondents agreed to pay $100,000 to the petitioner and $50,000 to Omnicorp and it was agreed by all parties that the legal proceedings and threatened litigation with regard to all matters in dispute would be abandoned . |
| 5 | Can my right hon. Friend give us an assurance that the additional funds that the United Nations needs to carry out these increased responsibilities will be provided by the members of the United Nations ? |
| 6 | In his address , televised live to nearly 60 countries , he also expressed concern about the situation in the Middle East and Liberia and gave thanks that the starving Somalis were finally receiving aid . |
| 7 | Prisoners are often transferred so far away from their homes that the social problems become immense and the difficulties are exacerbated rather than diminished . |
| 8 | Buxton was not a man to be deterred by the shipowners ' protestations that the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union was not only unrepresentative of seamen but would fail " to command support in the event of a decision of a conciliation board which did not secure the immediate approval of the persons affected " . |
| 9 | Three inter-connected themes informed these activities , namely the continued control of cultural industries by a small group of immensely powerful TNCs ; the effects of this control on those countries too poor to have much of an independent presence in these industries ; and the opportunities that the new technologies offer for the development of the Third World . |
| 10 | There are increasing demands that the central institutions of the EEC should be reduced to a minimal role , that Member States should be allowed to integrate only so far as they wish , and that it should be possible for a country to remain within a European free-trade zone , but outside a politically united federation — as Norway , Iceland and the other Efta states have done since the establishment of the EEA . |
| 11 | Turning now to the meat-eaters that the great grazers were running away from , we find some more fascinating convergences . |
| 12 | It is an irony that underlying this kind of dispersal policy , which can of course be criticised , is a reliance on the old skills that the private librarians would have had at their finger tips . |
| 13 | Rebecque searched the table to find one of the larger scale maps that the Royal Engineers had drawn and distributed to all the army headquarters . |
| 14 | We can glimpse from these brief illustrations that the rival interpretations of liberalism constitute more than idle philosophical speculations about the rationale for the existing law of contract . |
| 15 | A call by the Federation of Niger Trade Unions ( USTN ) for a general strike " in defence of democracy " was widely observed on March 2 but was called off on March 3 following government pledges that no political concessions would be made to the mutineers . |
| 16 | It is a fundamental belief of developmental biologists that the regulatory processes , just discussed , are central to how the pattern is established in normal development , and are not just a bizarre result of experimental interference . |
| 17 | I ca n't think how many megatons it is but I mean , compared to wh compared to the bombs that the super powers have today they 're literally like erm firing a catapult against a cannon , now , because the they 're so many hundreds of megatons these bombs , these sophisticated bombs that the super powers have now , one bomb is capable of blowing up a city a hundred times the size of Nagasaki now , Hiroshima |
| 18 | I ca n't think how many megatons it is but I mean , compared to wh compared to the bombs that the super powers have today they 're literally like erm firing a catapult against a cannon , now , because the they 're so many hundreds of megatons these bombs , these sophisticated bombs that the super powers have now , one bomb is capable of blowing up a city a hundred times the size of Nagasaki now , Hiroshima |
| 19 | Even at the time that the White Paper was being issued in 1972 , it was becoming clear that the rapidly declining birth rate would have very serious repercussions for the colleges of education ; however , it was not until the decline began to steepen in the mid-1970s that the full implications were publicly announced by the DES . |
| 20 | There can not be many women who run their homes as efficiently and as mechanically as a factory , or to the kind of strict timetables that the domestic manuals printed a generation or two ago would have us follow . |
| 21 | These people share the view of western experts that the nuclear missiles now on Ukraine 's territory do not increase its security . |
| 22 | But in Oxford and Swindon at least there are signs that the traditional rivalries between the 2 games are beginning to change . |
| 23 | Yesterday William Weatherspoon , the conference chairman , and former Inverness headmaster , said this year 's conference had provided hopeful signs that the various churches ' positions could be harmonised . |
| 24 | Moreover , reluctant though most educated Russians were to admit it , there were clear signs that the urban migrants , village ties provided no guarantee against the emergence of that Western curse , a restive urban working class . |
| 25 | Director Brian Waller said the letters would warn the authorities that the named individuals who worked in child care during the Beck years may be a cause for concern . |
| 26 | We accept this represents a major change from earlier views that the equivalent doses were triazolam 0.5 mg to 30 mg flurazepam or 20 mg temazepam ’ . |
| 27 | It is in the area below these two groups that the real battles will almost certainly be fought as the word processor vendors look to enhance their products by adding typographic control and the ability to include pictures within text . |
| 28 | The great painter Albrecht Dürer rejoiced that Luther had delivered him from a ‘ terrible distress , ’ from bondage to rituals that the Catholic clergy prescribed as necessary for salvation . |
| 29 | The Ellyrian cavalry is constantly called to battle , for Ellyrion is one of the main areas that the Dark Elves of Naggaroth raid if they can get across the mountains . |
| 30 | I think they 've built They 've opened London offices , many of them , if those offices grow so they acquire the sort of breadth and depth of experience in the relevant areas that the big firms have got and at the moment er they may not have , then of course they 'll be more and more competitive . |