Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trying to get an edge — which will count for very little unless the price is right , the IBM Personal Computer Co says that all its new business-oriented personal computers will be designed to comply with the most comprehensive worldwide health , safety and ergonomic standards by year-end : the promise covers desktop and floor-standing units , displays and keyboards ; it claims it will also be the first computer manufacturer in the world to test these products for compliance with the International Standards Organisation Standard 9241 , which addresses the health , safety and comfort of display terminal users starting with premium PS/2s . |
| 2 | He subsequently received letters from CSRG and university counsel claiming that all the work he had contributed to Berkeley since NET2 was ‘ University proprietary , ’ a phrase he had never heard before . |
| 3 | Mr Lamont 's announcement that St Pancras will be the terminus of the £3 billion Channel rail link implies that international trains to and from Scotland will be much slower than first thought . |
| 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 | Mr Bush 's insouciance in snapping $870m for Panama and Nicaragua from the 1990 defence budget suggests that extra foreign aid for Eastern Europe could , without too much difficulty , be trimmed from the 1991 defence budget . |
| 6 | Lomponda wa Botende , a former Chief of Staff , expressed his astonishment at the report , and the Defence Ministry denied that any coup attempt had been made . |
| 7 | Hence the somewhat incongruous background to the emergence of Britain 's most important fascist organization : the publication of a reasoned pragmatic plan of action to attack unemployment in Mosley 's The Greater Britain , combined with the creation of a uniformed defence force to ensure that those who wished to hear of such ideas at public meetings would be able to do so . |
| 8 | The same Exeter University study found that four of the 10 farms it looked at were making losses on their non-traditional businesses . |
| 9 | British Rail Maintenance explained that 140 men and women had volunteered for redundancy . |
| 10 | John McKeague of the Shankill Defence Association forecast that thousands of loyalists would gather in Royal Avenue to prevent it marching . |
| 11 | Mr Peter Smith , general secretary of the 120,000-strong Assistant Masters ' and Mistresses ' Association , said the general election result meant that hundreds of schools would seek to leave local authority control ‘ within the next few weeks ’ . |
| 12 | In May 1986 the spokesman of the resistance coalition proclaimed that any form of international guarantee which directly or indirectly recognises the Kabul regime would be unacceptable . |
| 13 | The way the funding mechanism works on the teaching side means that each student arriving in an institution brings with him or her less money than before . |
| 14 | Research by the American Food and Drug Administration suggests that one chemical that is often found in B15 tablets , dimethyl glycine , may cause genetic damage to cells . |
| 15 | In Rice v. Connolly , the landmark decision establishing that this is the law , it was said that this was so because a refusal to answer questions was not ‘ wilful , ’ an expression that their Lordships interpreted to mean ‘ without lawful excuse . ’ |
| 16 | The Highlander Lieutenant asked that one of the unlit chandeliers be raised from floor level so he could make certain there would be adequate room for his dancers ' crossed swords . |
| 17 | While not wishing to ‘ suggest that Blackburn ale is too potent for Accrington heads ’ , the football correspondent thought that this kind of thing happened too frequently . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | One girl from Harvard 's administration department insisted that one gullible dealer tried on an undersized blazer . |
| 20 | The European Information Industry Association estimates that this market will have grown to US$6.7 billion by 1995 , an average annual growth rate of 19 per cent . |
| 21 | Researchers at the Woolwich Centre for Computer Crime Research believe that improved personnel procedures have a key role to play in improving internal controls . |
| 22 | Even the most ardent critics of the closure programme agree that modern , small , and homely residential ‘ sanctuary ’ units are preferable to drafty wards in crumbling old hospitals where staff morale is often low . |
| 23 | In 1978 , a DoT study showed that 55 per cent of adults thought being caught over the limit was simply ‘ bad luck ’ . |
| 24 | Merrill Lynch 's 1985 relocation study found that 44 per cent of the ‘ 303 Times Top 1000 companies ’ interviewed provided bridging finance directly . |
| 25 | What had changed was the distribution of employment so that although Japanese farms are very tiny , the threefold decline in agricultural employment to about 10 per cent of the labour force means that non-agricultural sectors now provide the bulk of small-firm employment . |
| 26 | In the event , a ) turns out to be peculiar insofar as this if the fourth time Eszterhas has reworked the basic theme of Jagged Edge ( see Betrayed and Music Box ) , of an authority figure hero suspecting that one of their nearest and dearest is responsible for appalling crimes . |
| 27 | Long-term employment and extremely low rate of labour mobility ensure that shared knowledge remains internal to the enterprise and that leakage is minimal . |
| 28 | The deputy commander of the first artillery battalion reported that all its cell members had been so busily engaged on operations amongst the civilian population that there had been no meeting for over a month ( they were probably occupied in some of the unsavoury tasks noted earlier by our peasant soldier and his mother ) . |
| 29 | Writer/director Raimi continues that gruesome trend here , with Bruce Campbell slicing off part of his right arm with a chainsaw in the opening moments as he is attacked by a force of darkness . |
| 30 | The London Stock Exchange requires that listed companies adopt rules governing directors ' dealings which are at least as strict as those of the Model Code . |