Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The quite complicated allowances for provision of expenditure based on different age groups result in almost no differentiation between authorities suggesting that considerable simplification would be in order .
2 I challenged the Minister to pick up the telephone and ask the Secretary of State for Defence to say that those houses in Naylor road , Swindon , must now be transferred to the ownership or management of a housing association or the local authority .
3 What is required , therefore , is a combination of the two approaches , and it is through support teaching that this combination can be most effectively achieved .
4 Janet Holmes for instance argues that some tag-questions are really support structures .
5 The General Household Survey ( OPCS , 1985 ) for instance found that 47 per cent of those aged 75 and over lived alone , compared with 28 per cent of those aged 65 to 74 years .
6 He was unrecognizable at this distance , but the woman who followed him a moment later only had to take a couple of steps for Pascoe to know that this was Gwen Evans again .
7 To say that a particular department ( or programme ) provides value for money means that those who strive to provide the service do the best they can , within the resources that are available and the environment within which they operate .
8 To say that a particular department ( or programme ) provides value for money means that those who strive to provide the service do so as best they can , given the resources that are available and the environment within which they operate .
9 He emphasised the consequent need for schools to ensure that adequate opportunities were provided for improving accomplishments in speaking and listening .
10 A spokesman for PPL said that many hoteliers and restaurateurs believe that they only need a licence from the PRS to be fully covered .
11 However , many of the examples of literate societies that are available for study suggest that this is not the case : in fact these societies continue to practice what Goody has defined as ‘ oral ’ modes of communication , with all its limitations .
12 Finally , A L Clark and A J S Coats 's editorial on screening for cardiomyopathy suggests that improved test validity and proved treatment would be sufficient to justify echocardiography on a mass scale .
13 It also calls for steps to ensure that any future aid projects in Malawi serve the cause of human rights .
14 Constantly running water through gravel means that any hardness will be leached into the water .
15 ‘ We have by no means demonstrated that this deficit is responsible for all , or in fact any of the symptoms . ’
16 On the other hand , it is by no means clear that all ‘ corporatist arrangements ’ involve the exercise of public functions by non-governmental bodies , and to the extent that they do not they remain beyond the scope of public law .
17 It is by no means clear that working class girls regarded the constituents of marital happiness as being substantially different from those prized by middle class girls , but the realities of economic constraints meant that their priorities were ordered rather differently .
18 It is by no means clear that many newcomers are even aware of the feelings that they arouse from time to time in the local population .
19 While he would see in these neglected traditions a democratic imperative , it is by no means clear that this should be so .
20 Nor do we know how long afferent blockade must be continued during and after surgery to ensure that neuronal plasticity is prevented and not simply delayed .
21 Norman Tebbit 's advice to the unemployed to ‘ get on their bikes ’ to look for work implied that many people were voluntarily unemployed and this statement was probably symptomatic of the government 's whole approach to unemployment .
22 It is surprising how easy it is for businessmen to assume that other nationalities will react in exactly the same way as they themselves do .
23 Brotherston 's data for Scotland showed that working-class mothers were not only less likely to attend ante-natal clinics than middle-class mothers , but that when they did they were also less likely to make early bookings — a fact which he considers relevant to infant mortality .
24 On Jan. 31 the office of UN High Commissioner for Refugees reported that Somali refugees were arriving in Kenya at the rate of 700 a day bringing the total there already to 140,000 .
25 It is important to provide the hospitality industry with a wide range of products to ensure that each hotel gets the right product for its size , location , local crime level , budget , community standards and method of operation .
26 Estimates of reliability indicate that any test score can be regarded as within approximately 6 points of the ‘ real ’ score 95 times out of 100 .
27 There are a number of authorities holding that this should be irrelevant .
28 When Swan heard that Harvey was at the Ministry of Transport , he tried to draw him out on the subject of motorways in Warwickshire , but the junior Minister in charge of roads said that this was not the time or place to discuss the subject .
29 Every surveyor develops his own sequence of inspection to ensure that all relevant parts of the property are examined closely and that their inter-relationship is considered ; his system will probably be similar to that described in more detail in Chapter 7 .
30 Order-preserving algorithms are still being developed , but the success of division shows that order-preserving algorithms are an important resource to the file designer .
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