Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently , we have seen in the UK , in the Lindop Inquiry , not only a group of academics subscribing to the notion of a ‘ coherent academic community ’ , but also the government in its response accepting that the best safeguard of ‘ standards ’ lies in the maintenance of a ‘ coherent , self-critical academic community ’ . |
| 2 | Yesterday , Greater Glasgow Health Board announced that the Southern General and the other hospitals under its control must adhere to a new food and health policy . |
| 3 | On June 11 the Central Electoral Board announced that the incumbent President , Joaquín Balaguer , had won a narrow victory in the May 16 presidential election [ see p. 37448 ] . |
| 4 | One theory is based upon aposematic , or warning coloration suggesting that the bright coloration of the clownfish acts as a warning to predators against approaching too closely to the venomous tentacles . |
| 5 | FRESH controversy gripped Britain 's discredited nuclear power programme yesterday after the Central Electricity Generating Board admitted that the overall cost of decommissioning redundant power stations and dealing with spent fuel has nearly doubled to £13.3 billion . |
| 6 | Afghan and diplomatic sources said that the Soviets would provide 2,000 more trucks and fuel tankers , but General Hakim admitted that the real problem will be fuel , which is already in short supply in Kabul . |
| 7 | Against this background merchants , or factors , trading a long way from their home base realized that the safest form of organization was to set up a factory or small enclave for merchants of the type that the Hanseatic League had maintained in London up to 1598 . |
| 8 | The Board agreed that the maximum amount it could afford to invest in 1986 was £80,000 . |
| 9 | Vaginal ultrasound revealed that the tubal pregnancy had disappeared . |
| 10 | Even Massine 's choreographic genius realised that the old stylised forms were the best way to portray the national dolls sold in the shop . |
| 11 | It is said that in the United States the overload of cases and the dominance of the system by plea bargaining mean that the theoretical presumption of innocence is replaced by an actual presumption of guilt in which the costs to the defendant of contesting his or her innocence are frequently overpowering . |
| 12 | And the Welsh camp agreed that the huge gap between the sides has narrowed . |
| 13 | One only has to note the impressive erudition manipulated by the likes of Borges , Cortázar , Carpentier or Fuentes or the intertextual references that abound in the new narrative to realize that the Spanish-American writer has long since ceased to be a provincial and is now very much a citizen of the world . |
| 14 | The BASS course board found that the older non-traditional students were high risk especially in the over 35 age group . |
| 15 | A study done for the pensioner 's parliament found that the basic pension paid in Britain in 1988 was lower than that paid in every country except Portugal — but Germany , which has a high pension , and Ireland , which has a low one , were omitted for technical reasons . |
| 16 | Most Soviet citizens , however , appeared to have remained loyal to their native language in their domestic and family life , and there was little sign of the disappearance of at least the major Soviet languages , most of which were still spoken by the great majority of the nationalities in question ( the 1979 census found that 62 per cent of non-Russians were fluent in that language , but that 93 per cent of the population identified their national language as their native one ; the 1989 census found that the reported level of knowledge of Russian had actually fallen among at least two national groups , the Uzbeks and Lithuanians ) . |
| 17 | In an otherwise superb issue on Debt ( NI 189 ) , you miss the opportunity to indicate that the increasing global reliance of capitalism on debt is a basis for internationalism . |
| 18 | In 1979 , Professor Lennart Krook of Cornell University demonstrated that the primary target cells for fluoride poisoning include certain hone cells . |
| 19 | in his capacity as Treasurer of Southern Division reported that the Divisional Grant was too low as the cost of hiring meeting rooms was very high . |
| 20 | Then followed what was , for the right hon. Gentleman , a period of unaccustomed silence — until , in July last year , The Guardian reported that the right hon. Gentleman and Mrs. Kinnock had allowed their 30-year membership of CND to lapse . |
| 21 | Welsh concludes that the neutral-free gas tunnel to Beta Canis Majoris is at least 1000 light years long , with the Sun located near one end . |
| 22 | Holder concludes that the primary users of government financial statements , after applying the above two criteria , are present and prospective , short and long-term creditors . |
| 23 | Estimates for the level of under-reporting suggest that the actual level of injury was three times this number . |
| 24 | The ACDA text reported that the main areas of continuing disagreement between the negotiating teams consisted of ( i ) definitions of and counting rules covering air-launched cruise missiles ( ALCMs ) : the USA wished only to include nuclear-armed missiles with a range in excess of 1,500 km with the assumption that a specified average number of missiles be attributed to each bomber , while the Soviet Union included " dual-capable " ( conventional/nuclear ) missiles with a range in excess of 600 km with the assumption that the maximum number of missiles be attributed to each type of bomber ; ( ii ) whether submarine-launched cruise missiles ( SLCMs ) should be limited under START ( or under a separate agreement , as had been suggested by the USA ) and if so whether on-site SLCM verification procedures should be deployed ( as the Soviet Union was suggesting ) or " non-binding declarations ' of numbers be issued ( as proposed by the USA ) ; and ( iii ) a " ban on the production , flight testing or modernization " of existing types of heavy ICBMs ( suggested by the USA ) , although a ban on new missile development was agreed , as were warhead and missile sub-limits in this category . |
| 25 | The 1984 village case study revealed that the Bangladeshi mothers ( some of whom had already been taught about the lobon-gur solution ) recognised four different types of diarrhoea and generally thought only one of these types to be an indication for the use of the lobon-gur mixture . |
| 26 | A year later there was a sensation in the newspapers , when an EMI employee revealed that the ageing Kirsten Flagstad 's top Cs in the love duet in Act II had been sung for her by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf . |
| 27 | It is clear from the Chronicle account that the English were by now in considerable disarray and incapable of offering serious resistance , so it is hardly surprising that when Swegen arrived with his son Cnut and a further army in 1013 the whole nation submitted to him , and Æthelred went into exile with his brother-in-law , Duke Richard II of Normandy . |
| 28 | The previous chapter argued that the ideological terms of antislavery were developed in part through contesting a pro-West Indian intellectual barrage , often presented in the rhetoric of national and imperial interest . |
| 29 | The sweeping changes in our continent mean that the European Community that we have created will need to open its doors to new members in the near future . |
| 30 | were in effect suggesting that the inner psychological motivations for racism existed at a deeper level of social reality than the socially shared norms of tolerance . |