Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is an irony that underlying this kind of dispersal policy , which can of course be criticised , is a reliance on the old skills that the private librarians would have had at their finger tips . |
| 2 | I , I , do not understand Chairman that reading this motion , I 've been trying to think about it , how on earth this is going to be monitored . |
| 3 | What is important is the discovery that saying these things can actually make us feel better , but only if we say them with sincerity . |
| 4 | However , there is no disagreement that preventing nuclear war is vital to maintaining a safe environment for people now , and for future generations . |
| 5 | It is a normal reaction to the pain and anxiety that discussing difficult issues will bring . |
| 6 | There is concern at the moment that reporting new routes from Lundy in magazines might affect guide sales . |
| 7 | Such arguments were strongly opposed by environmental groups such as Greenpeace , which described the final result as " a strong signal from the international community that dumping nuclear waste at sea is unacceptable " . |
| 8 | Among the Cossacks , traditionally the epitome of loyalty to the throne , there was evidence that accumulating financial grievances and resentment over inadequate land grants were fuelling disenchantment with the regime . |
| 9 | As we will see later in this chapter , there is evidence that relating new information to earlier information is an important aspect of language comprehension . |
| 10 | There is no evidence that treating any level of elevated systolic blood pressure is beneficial . |
| 11 | The indignity of peering into other people 's intimacies had appalled me , quite overpowering the acquired , accepted knowledge that reading other people 's letters was one of the things that was n't done . |
| 12 | Jana 's work is based on the belief that exploring creative expression is one way of finding and strengthening our inner power . |
| 13 | This is designer socialism : the belief that buying tassled loafers rather than winklepickers , is somehow as much a PR of the struggle as being on the picket line at Wapping . |
| 14 | Brenda , what do you say to the argument that having these sites is basically a means of roping people into the system ? |
| 15 | ‘ Rather sadly it is a comment on modern society that keeping public loos clean and not vandalised is an uphill battle , ’ says Dennis Tunnicliffe . |
| 16 | As the importance of caring for carers has become more widely recognised , so too has the realisation that making better support for carers a reality is the responsibility not of a single agency but of many . |
| 17 | In a recent MORI survey , only 52 per cent of those questioned thought that having sexual relations with someone who is married to someone else was morally wrong . |
| 18 | Some environmentalists have expressed concern that using old mines as waste dumps could be both dangerous and expensive . |
| 19 | There are so many fine examples in the county that selecting typical instances is invidious . |
| 20 | By entering ‘ the race … to show that the Government is wrong ’ Ukepra is clutching at straws and defying the accepted principle that marketing any product is all about listening to the demands of the consumer and satisfying those demands . |
| 21 | This is not entirely unconnected to another feature of the economies of many Third World countries that has become of great salience in recent years , namely their foreign debt and the eff–ct that servicing that debt , particularly in times of rising and unpredictable interest rates , has on economic and social planning . |
| 22 | As is pointed out by Clark , ‘ there is no doubt that writing long courses is time consuming ’ and the participation of the librarian ‘ should be confined to teaching library skills ’ , leaving the programmer and educational technologist to work out the coding of the material . |
| 23 | The plans allowed not only for considerable retrenchment of the mental hospital facilities , but also for the possibility that resettling long-stay patients would prove difficult and that more modern on-site village-style accommodation might be required . |
| 24 | Er are you saying that it is any part of the Council 's case that this land th it it 's it is er a possibility that having this land as a strategic reserve er can er is of assistance , or are you saying that it is simply er having included it in , it might form part of a strategic reserve ? |
| 25 | This point , together with a proof that stabilizing monetary policy can have a role within rational expectations models which emphasize ‘ intertemporal substitution ’ , can be made after modifying the island parable model developed earlier . |
| 26 | Why is it that some people find it so difficult to accommodate the idea that providing immediate relief to human suffering can go alongside campaigning for longer term solu-tions ? |
| 27 | Despite the fact that Dement performed experiments after this one in which his subjects showed none of the psychiatric symptoms with REM sleep deprivation , and that he himself made clear how his early observations were probably misleading about the effects of REM sleep deprivation , the idea that dreaming preserved sanity had been strongly reinforced . |
| 28 | For example , the view that taking extra vitamins may be harmful does not ring true ; the possibility of harm is acknowledged but it is one that is regarded as remote and pedantic . |
| 29 | ‘ The district council , however , is of the view that taking this case to court could lead to more damage to the area through adverse publicity and this would be against the interests of local people . |
| 30 | The Government take the view that imposing further restrictions on the sale of knives would not generally be practicable . |