Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | Some of the oil companies operating in the UK disputed the British Gas view of the future suggesting that abundant reserves exist in the southern part of the North Sea and maintained that the reason a shortfall was in prospect was British Gas 's disinclination to pay suppliers the same price for UK produced gas as for imported gas . |
| 3 | Some studies , however , have shown no correlation between faecal fat excretion and faecal bile acid loss suggesting that additional factors are responsible for bile acid malabsorption in cystic fibrosis . |
| 4 | Similar experiments on rabbit oesophagus , which is devoid of submucosal glands , failed to show alkali secretion suggesting that these glands are the source of oesophageal alkalinisation . |
| 5 | A reader from Crook , County Durham , writes to The Northern Echo complaining that some shops are being unfairly allocated double rations of eggs . |
| 6 | With many businesses waiting up to two-three months for payment , and research showing that many companies fail through poor cash flow , factoring is a very important service to industry . |
| 7 | End of edition one , leaving at least one watcher feeling that three items in five minutes was an excessively sketchy menu . |
| 8 | Some types of clause are rendered wholly ineffective by the Act providing that certain types of liability " can not be excluded or restricted " . |
| 9 | It passes a law saying that all envelopes must be left unsealed , so that it can open letters with ease . |
| 10 | As a result of this , it is now possible to leave a natural history museum knowing that some fleas can jump 130 times their own height , and that elephants can not jump at all , and that as many as a thousand dead ants have been found inside the stomach of a single mole . |
| 11 | If a firm made an issue thinking that Japanese assets were overpriced , it would be more sensible to invest the proceeds in assets thought to be underpriced , such as American buildings or companies . |
| 12 | We begin work feeling that certain codes of dress and conduct are acceptable and within six months we have agreed with the norms that indicate that certain codes of dress and conduct are certainly not acceptable . |
| 13 | At the instance of the King , Parliament passed an Act decreeing that all ministers in Scotland who had been ordained since 1649 must have their appointments confirmed by the bishop of their diocese . |
| 14 | So I 'm not a for a moment suggesting that some rules and regulations are n't needed and I think that er the trouble is that every rule and regulation that is passed in this house , there 's always an excuse for it and there 's usually a very good reason for it , but that is the problem that the government faces and it 's quite fairly er a problem the treasury face when they introduce these statutory instruments because er no one can disagree that fraud must be stamped out , all I 'm actually saying is that unfortunately upstairs we have a deregulation bill going ahead at all pace with hundreds of clauses and hundreds of new rules to try and red hundreds of new clauses to reduce the number of rules and here we are downstairs on the floor we have passing for very good reason perhaps , more rules and regulations and there are four more tonight and I believe that every government department Madam deputy speaker , has a minister specially appointed to keep an eye on deregulation and I just wondered although er my honourable friend on the front bench mentioned that er the even the D T I minister responsible for deregulation has looked at these , I wonder if there is a minister in the treasury , they 've actually put a minister in the treasury responsible for deregulation or is the ministry actually above deregulation because I think that er I got the impression that the that every ministry would have a deregulation minister and I think it would be rather useful to know who the deregulation minister is in the treasury . |
| 15 | O. opercularis is very similar to O. bairdi suggesting that any differences may be due to infraspecific variation . |
| 16 | The application of natural justice to preliminary hearings or investigations has tended to produce polarised arguments : the public body arguing that procedural rules have no place in the context of such hearings or investigations , and the individual asserting that they should apply in their full vigour . |
| 17 | Although this is consistent with a considerable body of evidence suggesting that successful innovations couple technological expertise with a range of marketing skills ( see the overview in Freeman , 1982 ) , it is important because it shows that this coupling process can be market mediated . |
| 18 | Several other studies have found evidence suggesting that oral contraceptives protect against endometriosis . |
| 19 | Because numerous theoretical approaches to visual word-recognition postulate horizontal interconnections between detectors evidence suggesting that such interconnections do not exist serves a vital function in adjudicating between theories . |
| 20 | Therefore , the empirical evidence suggesting that reliable signals of each actor 's state are not seen in the course of animal conflicts may have been misinterpreted . |
| 21 | A further doubt about the operation of the market for control is created by evidence suggesting that inefficient companies are not as such regarded as favourable targets . |
| 22 | There was no increase in lysosomal enzyme activity after the addition of Triton X-100 to the supernatant suggesting that supernatant enzymes were in the free form — that is , not membrane bound . |
| 23 | The new chairman upset visiting speakers by introducing them incorrectly ; he ‘ picked his nose and wore jumpers with holes and even wrote to a local newspaper saying that new members should be on s ; weeks probation , and if they missed a meeting they should be expelled ’ . |
| 24 | In April 1988 , when she reached the age of 21 , she issued a writ claiming that these abnormalities were the result of the negligence of medical staff who had in September 1966 carried out a gynaecological operation on her mother , then pregnant with the plaintiff . |
| 25 | An example showing that such categorizations and generalizations are perhaps unwise is that of Inga vera var spuria ( Leguminosae ) , which is first visited by moths and humming birds ( high sucrose ) , but 4 hours later produces a sour odour attractive to bats , perhaps due to fermentation by micro-organisms , the resultant diminution of sucrose making the ratio suitable for the bats . |
| 26 | He or she will be less the guardian of a vault than an information manager ensuring that archival principles are written into automated office systems at the design stage . |
| 27 | Occasionally she recited , as though it were a rule of life , a testy saw of her own invention maintaining that fifty-five degrees Fahrenheit was the correct temperature for a drawing-room and fifty degrees for corridors and bedrooms . |
| 28 | I recall a Tory councillor saying that all homosexuals should be exterminated ... |
| 29 | We might surmise that the separations John experienced between the ages of two and seven years resulted in the development of an internal blueprint predicting that close relationships were unlikely to be sustained , and cautioning against becoming involved with others . |
| 30 | But it was the IHSM who five years ago produced a report suggesting that new ways of delivering health care should be explored including separating providers from purchasers . |