Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] that [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 We have become so habituated to market relations that it can seem merely banal to observe that types of work which make a loss will , within market production , be reduced or discontinued , while types which make a profit will be expanded .
2 An audience listens to music , not to words ( in fact , especially in choral music , the words are frequently indistinguishable , or so difficult to grasp that listeners ignore them ) .
3 They go on to say that large firms ‘ are constrained in some way [ in making these decisions ] by the requirement to make profits and serve consumers ’ , but it is nevertheless appropriate to stress that companies will usually have options about how to manage the impact of changed market conditions or technology : the company is not merely a passive instrument of the market .
4 The unusual nature of these counter-examples indicates that they are indeed the exceptions which prove the rule , and it is normally reasonable to assume that coins made from the same die were produced at the same time and place .
5 Woman-centred psychology , too , is generally happy to assume that men 's ‘ cultural and biological experiences are mostly different from those of women ’ ( Aitkenhead 1987 : 299 ) , and to adopt conventional ideas of what these different experiences entail .
6 Although some remarkably conservation-conscious agents exist , it is generally true to say that land-agents have played , and continue to play , a significant role in hastening the destruction of the English landscape by intensive agriculture .
7 UN Under-Secretary-General James Jonah , after heading a 10-member delegation to Mogadishu , the Somali capital , on Feb. 29-March 4 , declared himself " deeply depressed to note that efforts to relieve the starving people of Mogadishu have been recklessly disrupted " .
8 Libraries with no training officers were more likely to say that decisions were made by chief executives , and to specifically note that local authority approval was needed .
9 It has more frequently been suggested that dilute sources will promote visits to many nowers and thus out-crossing , though it is difficult to see how such a mechanism could arise , and perhaps it is more satisfactory to surmise that visits by a pollen-dusted vector to several flowers on one plant are promoted , leading to cross fertilization of more .
10 Microsoft 's Jack Fogg claimed it would be more accurate to say that Windows NT is ‘ a better Unix than Unix ’ than ‘ a better Windows than Windows ’ , which is probably good news for Unix as well .
11 Maybe so , though it is still nice to see that principles still count for something , particularly when it comes to refusing to buy something you already own or turning that hand-out of shares over to a deserving charity at the expense of an easy-come , easy-go profit .
12 He is also right to say that regulations improve the quality of service .
13 It is also interesting to note that endorphins are released when acupuncture is practised and perhaps make a significant contribution to the therapeutic effects which may be achieved .
14 Given the volume and speed of the electronic transactions , bank customers are also likely to demand that banks ascertain the trustworthiness of the signers or authenticators .
15 It is also important to ensure that programs for new techniques , once developed , are made available widely to others .
16 But , given the Judaic character of the Celtic Church , it is reasonably safe to suppose that attitudes towards Jesus were , at very least , extremely questionable in Roman eyes .
17 However , it is probably fair to say that systems theory is closer to a positivist approach than the views which will now be considered .
18 The judges were also keen to stress that charities still need to balance readers ' requirements .
19 In terms of that aspect of the Fleet Street Casuals case which relates sufficient interest to the facts and merits of the applicant 's case , it is probably correct to say that ratepayers challenging decisions of local authorities , competitors challenging decisions affecting their business activities , and neighbours challenging planning decisions would be held to have a sufficient interest unless other facts of the case provided very strong grounds for denying the existence of such an interest .
20 But it is also true to say that fashions in philanthropy change .
21 Now that means that bands are being arm-wrestled into sounding like Nirvana ; and the only record companies can imagine doing that is by hiring Nirvana 's producer , so every band on a major label has been remixed by Nirvana 's producer this year … and I just do n't have any interest in being part of the continuum . ’
22 It is perfectly possible to imagine that memories are coded for negatively , by reducing the level of some substance or process , although in practice nearly all research seems to be devoted to trying to identify increases .
23 Seniors are often unwilling to admit that subordinates have developed to the extent that they could perform some of the manager 's duties .
24 On the contrary , I found it fairly positive to announce that complaints were down to one ( now doubled ) ; that in recession 1,266 entries were judged ; that entries came from all over the world ; that the system had changed in direct response to comments made by members .
25 It is particularly important to check that findings are not generalized beyond the group studied .
26 It is particularly important to note that redundancies may , therefore , be deemed to be unfair dismissals , thereby increasing considerably the question of compensation payable .
27 He added that he was particularly pleased to say that funds for the 40,000 sq ft facility had been generated totally by the Company and that none was borrowed money .
28 Contra Marxists , exponents of the autonomous state model are particularly keen to stress that capitalists have continually faced a governing apparatus at least partly structured against them : by feudal forces in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , by socialist labour movements in the twentieth century , and by the military requirements and foreign policy aims of governing elites at all times ( Finer , 1975 ) .
29 The faculty is particularly keen to ensure that candidates who have not made the ‘ going rate ’ because of disadvantaged or deprived circumstances but who are of good academic potential are given every chance of entry .
30 We were indeed able to confirm that pairs of dunnocks were often joined by a third bird in breeding , but this provided a mere foretaste of what was to come .
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