Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subodh Kant Sahay , Minister of State for Home Affairs , in a statement on Jan. 2 to the Indian parliament announced that 890 people had been killed and nearly 4,000 injured in 15 weeks of Hindu-Moslem riots triggered by Hindu agitation around the disputed sacred site where a mosque currently stood in Ayodhya , Uttar Pradesh . |
| 2 | The story goes that one photographer on board the Queen Mary on her maiden voyage sent film back to Fleet Street by carrier pigeon . |
| 3 | The story goes that this castle was founded by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa , ‘ Redbeard ’ no less . |
| 4 | Scientists , publishers , students and government officials meeting last week at a colloquium organised by the research ministry agreed that poor quality produces a downward spiral of falling circulation and a further loss of contributions from respected scientists . |
| 5 | However , unemployment and the recession mean that many firms can no longer afford the creches and bonuses , and are reluctantly having to curtail them . |
| 6 | New rules for pharmacy funding mean that any chemist 's shop which dispenses fewer than 2,000 prescriptions per month will lose grants and will face closure . |
| 7 | The chairman of the board ruled that certain witnesses which a prisoner had requested to attend should not be called . |
| 8 | Will he take this opportunity to confirm that sufficient resources will be made available to ensure that full establishment is maintained at each of those locations for men and resources , for training and administration ? |
| 9 | However , it is the housewife 's ultimate responsibility to see that all tasks get done properly . |
| 10 | It is the Chief Constable 's responsibility to see that these complaints are properly investigated and result in disciplinary action where appropriate . |
| 11 | Lack of internal capital and entrepreneurial experience mean that rural people are often not able to take advantage of such opportunities . |
| 12 | On Dec. 6 the Foreign Ministry announced that Soviet citizens would be allowed to subscribe ( in hard currency ) to foreign papers and magazines , more of which would also be available in public libraries . |
| 13 | On June 10 the Interior Ministry announced that 2,000 detainees had been recently released , in addition to those released gradually since March . |
| 14 | By the end of the three days of what one eyewitness described as a " vigilante rampage " , the Health Ministry announced that six people were dead and 502 hospitalized , seven in a serious condition . |
| 15 | Also on April 23 the Netherlands Foreign Ministry announced that three journalists and a trade attaché at the Russian embassy in The Hague had been asked to leave the country a month earlier . |
| 16 | In July , 1989 , the Daily Express reported that ex-Beatle Paul McCartney was funding a Fame-type school on Merseyside through remarks a black friend made to him about the Toxteth riots being mainly caused by police harassment . |
| 17 | The rapid advances in this field suggest that computational analogues of human reasoning abilities will become increasingly difficult to distinguish from the real thing , and if a mechanistic view of biological systems is taken , this in itself may provide sufficient proof of the ability of non-biological systems to develop the ability to process ideas and communicate concepts . |
| 18 | First impressions in the field suggest that large areas of ice-free Antarctica are sterile . |
| 19 | The Food Safety Directorate say that all packets of cling film should carry health warnings . |
| 20 | Studies on the Monach Isles National Nature Reserve suggest that salt-laden winds affect taller plants most , so that exposed coastal plant communities tend to consist mainly of low-growth plant forms — not just because of the stunting effect of the wind — but also because of the salt it carries ( Randall 1973 ) . |
| 21 | Yet a survey study of the 1983 election found that this section of the electorate was the most right-wing of all on issue questions about privatization , incentives versus equality , trade union rights , and comprehensive schools , and that over 70 per cent of them voted Conservative in the election . |
| 22 | The fact that Parliament used that composite phrase — ‘ dishonest appropriation ’ — in my judgment casts light on what is meant by the word ‘ appropriation . ’ |
| 23 | Not only do we find Lord Sumner in this case denying that elected members ‘ are to be guided by their personal opinions on political , economic , or social questions in administering the funds which they derive from levying rates ’ but Lord Atkinson denounces the councillors for being guided ‘ by some eccentric principles of socialistic philanthropy , or by a femininist ambition to secure equality of the sexes in the world of wages ’ . |
| 24 | One may remark that it is common experience to find that conscientious people who have a job to do that is too much for them ( like writing a book ) turn in their uncertainty to doing a succession of easier jobs instead ( like answering their mail , drawing up syllabuses , or rationalising office organisation ) . |
| 25 | And although disagreeing in significant respects with Schwoerer , W. A. Speck concludes that significant inroads on the royal prerogative were made by the Revolution settlement , and that " the debate on the nature of the monarchy did end decisively in 1689 with the victory of those who argued that it was limited and mixed " . |
| 26 | The isolation of a cDNA clone from testis of S. macroura and the long open reading frame in the M. eugenii genome suggest that these marsupial genes are not pseudogenes . |
| 27 | An early Inland Revenue analysis of the revaluation suggest that 240,000 businesses in England face increases of 100 per cent or more in their annual bills ; about 230,000 rises between 50 and 100 per cent and a further 390,000 increases of between five and 50 per cent . |
| 28 | For standing on the , on the seats you see , which I mean my father was right he 'd got the experience to know that several men had been drowned like that . |
| 29 | Kermode thinks that this process , with all that it implies , is a fact of life , which has to be lived with , whatever we think of it . |
| 30 | By June 17 the police chief responsible for the Tehran section of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution ( Pasdaran ) force announced that special squads had been formed for rapid mobilization as necessary to control urban unrest . |