Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes that one photographer on board the Queen Mary on her maiden voyage sent film back to Fleet Street by carrier pigeon . |
| 2 | The story goes that this castle was founded by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa , ‘ Redbeard ’ no less . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The fact that Parliament used that composite phrase — ‘ dishonest appropriation ’ — in my judgment casts light on what is meant by the word ‘ appropriation . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | On the issue of business confidence , the study revealed that economic confidence was returning , with 77 per cent of companies surveyed believing that they were well placed to lead the country out of recession . |
| 10 | When giving evidence to the PCA , the then permanent secretary to the Department agreed that that situation could not be defended , so we decided to put it right . |
| 11 | The opposition argued that any delay would disrupt local government , claiming that this was the only part of the old democracy still functioning since April . |
| 12 | The naive falsificationist insists that scientific activity should be concerned with attempts to falsify theories by establishing the truth of observation statements that are inconsistent with them . |
| 13 | Wagner was in effect suggesting that public sector services and products are ‘ normal ’ , with high income elasticities of demand . |
| 14 | On Feb. 13 a senior German foreign policy adviser announced that low flying ( severely restricted since September 1989 — see pp. 37226 ; 37677 ) would be permitted for UK aircraft en route for the Gulf . |
| 15 | The defendant argued that any liability which he had , extended only from his breach of duty until the armed robbery . |
| 16 | In an extensive review arising from IGCP 61 Kidson ( 1982 ) has concluded that the search for a universal eustatic curve should be regarded as over ; that regional differences in changes in the geoid mean that eustatic sea level curves can have only regional validity ; and that no part of the earth 's crust can be regarded as wholly stable . |
| 17 | The action lacked that forceful superiority which had characterized Carolingian capitularies , at least in the time of Charlemagne ; but it revived the tradition whereby the crown was seen as the author of society 's moral norms . |
| 18 | Your card guarantees that any cheque you issue up to £50 will be honoured . |
| 19 | In 1986 , the Department ruled that this obligation did not extend to the funding of overseas projects . |
| 20 | As she came through the side roads to her house she heard a few trial notes on a wind instrument of some sort — a clarinet , was it ? a run of notes that seemed to carry on where the last solitary trill of the bird had stopped , and then a beat , beat , beat of a bass and a drum slowly swinging in , and the band , trying out their numbers high up in a house , lilted together into a piece , melancholy at base with gay little twiddles from the clarinet bravely calling that nightfall was not the end of hope , not a closure — a little bit of swing filtering over back gardens to draw people out , out into the spring night , a beat along the channels of their blood suggesting that this hour , as the light dies , as the dusk creeps along the ground , is not an ending but a beginning . |
| 21 | Ethidium bromide staining revealed that each lane contained a similar amount of DNA except for monkey DNA , which was under represented . |
| 22 | All members of the company ( though not its secretary ) must be qualified solicitors , and there are special provisions to apply when a member dies or is struck off the roll or otherwise loses his qualification to practise , which in essence provide that such member 's shares become non-voting so long as they remain registered in unqualified hands , and only qualified solicitors will be able to vote as proxies . |
| 23 | The UGC Earth Science Review found that many research students learn as much from each other as they do from the academic staff . |
| 24 | Health Department guidelines supported by the college say that HIV-infected health care workers could conduct a normal delivery as long as it did not involve invasive surgery . |
| 25 | How , for example , could an outsider know that normative consensus in the speech community does not permit backing in velar environments or fronting in most other environments , or that sonorants followed by voiceless obstruents predict a front vowel ? |
| 26 | The study reported that one by-product of representation is that the tribunal tends to scrutinize other cases more carefully . |
| 27 | Melanie Henwood in her chapter on healthcare emphasises that old age itself is not a disease and that many of the conditions associated with it are neither inevitable or universal . |
| 28 | For instance the University of Pittsburgh study found that in-house use largely correlated with circulation patterns , but increased the total ‘ transactions ’ by about 2.75 times . |
| 29 | Kieman , Reid and Jones ' ( 1982 ) review concludes that any evidence available is weakened by poor methodology and/or ineffective description of what was measured . |
| 30 | This year it is therefore EXTREMELY IMPORTANT that we all sell our 2 books and as an incentive HQ say that each branch returning their block of completed lottery ticket stubs with a single branch cheque can keep 20% . |