Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she adds that past hazards to workers making contraceptives and detergents are a warning : ‘ In the past employers did not take the proper precautions . |
| 2 | The philosophical tradition she is working within is Kantian : she emphasises that human cognition is an ‘ active process of taking and structuring experience ’ , and therefore , she argues , a process that entails freedom and responsibility and the associated ethical virtues of honesty , humility and courage . |
| 3 | She says that flat paintings hung on walls are outmoded . |
| 4 | She shows that unequal access to cash is a source of friction , and that rows about money are a common cause of the domestic violence which is now coming to light ( Pahl , 1983 , 1985 ; see also Brannen and Wilson , 1987 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ She means that pretty velvet dress , Sylvie . |
| 6 | She argues that young children 's cognitive and linguistic abilities can be seen at their best in situations involving intentions , motives , or purposes — situations which make human sense . |
| 7 | In each case she argues that female creativity has been constructed by men as a contradiction in terms . |
| 8 | Mary McIntosh would support such changes ; writing about the process of achieving socialist social policy , she argues that economic individualism would lead to a unity of working-class men and women : |
| 9 | Sue Hastings , of the Trade Union Research Unit at Ruskin College in Oxford , recently warned delegates at an RCN stewards ' conference that clinical nurses — especially those in high-tech areas and with teaching roles — would lose out through job evaluation , She argues that existing job evaluation schemes are too often management-biased , with the danger that clinical specialists who did well out of clinical grading might find themselves downgraded . |
| 10 | Drawing on the re-evaluation of emotion characteristic of contemporary feminist theory and practice , she argues that feminist conceptions of emotion constitute a critique of dualist conceptions of mind found in much Western philosophy in the English-speaking world and elsewhere . |
| 11 | The details of the comparative method are a little sketchy , but she claims that Melanesian practice is very similar . |
| 12 | Notwithstanding this provision , it is often of some reassurance to a purchaser from the husband if the wife is joined as a party to the contract or to a separate consent to sale form ; this confirms that she knows that vacant possession is to be given and the land charge is to be cancelled and can contain a specific release by the wife of her rights in the property as from the date of sale . |
| 13 | She believes that junior doctors could be empowered by longer contracts and proposes that house jobs should be arranged in one year ( or even 18 month ) blocks within single or closely linked units , so that the doctors felt and were recognised as an important part of the service provided . |
| 14 | While the sport is in its infancy she believes that separate ladies ' events are needed to promote more participation . |
| 15 | At this or any stage it may be that one or both of them finds that initial attraction is not supported by later experience . |
| 16 | By contrast , Marx shows that other systems , working on different assumptions , can exist , and this for him implies that future change to a radically different social system is therefore also possible . |
| 17 | The precipitate nature of the admissions and the legal imposition which propels them means that residential staff are faced with outcomes of decisions in which they and the families played little or no part . |
| 18 | It agrees that compulsory treatment in the community is unacceptable , but accepts that the ‘ revolving door ’ patient who regularly defaults from treatment presents a genuine problem of management . |
| 19 | Though the Bank has accepted the report 's findings , it insists that continued support for the project is justified . |
| 20 | Nevertheless it insists that legal practice as a whole can be seen as organized around important legal conventions and this claim requires showing that the behaviour of judges generally , even those who are not conventionalists , converges sufficiently to allow us to find convention in that convergence . |
| 21 | It decrees that intelligent life in some way selects out its own actual universe from a variety of possible alternatives . |
| 22 | He thinks that great opportunities lie ahead , but vested interests , built on the status quo , are trying to keep them out of reach . |
| 23 | Would the Prime Minister explain why he thinks that deplorable situation exists ? |
| 24 | But these are only reasons of strategy , and a pragmatist believes judges should always be ready to override such reasons when he thinks that changing rules laid down in the past would be in the general interest overall , notwithstanding some limited damage to the authority of political institutions . |
| 25 | He thinks that expanding opportunities , especially in manufacturing , meant that in some districts the earnings of women and children were able to double family income — perhaps enough to add the extra 150,000 households Eversley considered were needed to explain the leap in home demand between 1750 and 1780 . |
| 26 | His motive for doing so is that he thinks that English verse has been ill-served by prosodists in the past . |
| 27 | As his title suggests , he thinks that national pride — battered not merely by communist but by pre-war failure — played a large part . |
| 28 | John Pople , like the rest of the quantum community , is conscious of the shortcomings of quantum mechanics and he thinks that exact solutions to the Schrödinger equation for many-electron systems are unlikely to appear for many decades . |
| 29 | When he receives that final report , will he bear in mind the fact that the security intelligence agencies rely on the use of informants , and the intelligence that they receive will never be any good unless a measure of protection can be granted to those sources ? |
| 30 | If , as a result of its inquiries under s47 , it concludes that certain action should be taken to safeguard or promote a child 's welfare it must take that action so far as it is both within its power and reasonably practicable for it to do so ( s47(8) ) . |