Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a discussion of Asian security on Soviet television a Pravda writer denied that Soviet initiatives for ‘ pan-Asian security ’ were intended by Moscow ‘ to draw the countries of the region into some kind of Asian-Pacific pact , to make allies of them in its conflict with Washington ’ . |
| 2 | The Hawthorne researchers argued that this does not necessarily follow . |
| 3 | The 1988 census had recorded Bhutan 's population as 1,370,000 , of whom 45 per cent were ethnic Nepalese , but in the following year King Jigme claimed that all but 28,000 Nepalese were illegal immigrants . |
| 4 | At the other extreme , Prof Patrick Minford believes that most of the UK 's problems are cyclical and will disappear as a spontaneous recovery takes root , filling the Chancellor 's coffers with tax revenues and creating new jobs , so long as the Chancellor has continued to keep inflation under control . |
| 5 | In the 1920s Edwin Hubble observed that distant galaxies look redder than nearby ones . |
| 6 | As it was , no one thought the universe was changing with time until 1929 , when Edwin Hubble discovered that distant galaxies are moving away from us . |
| 7 | Ibrahim al-Sanusi said that this was a peace to be made between tribes ( that was why he was there ) , and it was important to make it well . |
| 8 | The FMLN command argue that cooperative production is vital , so as to develop a more self-sufficient economy within the zones and so that after the victory , the national economy will have a working base on which to build . |
| 9 | SeaWatch director Sven Hansen says that recent international agreements to reduce pollution mean that it is particularly important to set up a system capable of ensuring standards are being met . |
| 10 | Bernard Baruch asserted that American aid should have been channelled through American businessmen to their European counterparts , so low was his opinion of the economic policies of governments . |
| 11 | Although Judge Kama concluded that some of the police and border paramilitary police had acted improperly , he nevertheless said that there were insufficient grounds to bring charges against any members of the security forces . |
| 12 | If even attempts to improve the standard of estate management did not raise the level of the returns ( and the study of the Talbot Whitchurch estates suggests that these were more affected by the underlying economic conditions than by the standard of management ) , the only prospect for a lord was to seek some supplementary income beyond that of his estates . |
| 13 | After examining a large number of hydrophilids infected with Laboulbeniales , H. W. Scheloske of Erlangen University surmised that many of these ‘ claw forms ’ actually represent abnormally developed individuals of species that produce a different ‘ growth form ’ in other places on the insect 's body ; perhaps the tarsal claws of these beetles offer less than ideal conditions for vigorous growth . |
| 14 | Shadow environmental protection minister Ann Taylor claims that some companies have been allowed " blanket relaxations of toxic and microbiological standards " with the result that drinking water in some areas may be unsafe . |
| 15 | David Stirling felt that this was a waste of time and resources and that it should be possible for a large group to maintain itself in the desert for a period of several weeks . |
| 16 | • VAG UK managing director Richard Ide predicted that this month will be seen as the point where car sales in Britain turned and began to pick up . |
| 17 | On May 13 the acting Attorney General Hamad al-Othman said that 45 collaboration cases were ready to go to trial . |
| 18 | Phoenix gossip reckons that another five politicians may soon be charged . |
| 19 | In a major study of institutionalised delinquents ( delinquents in some form of custody ) in the USA in the 1950s , Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck found that delinquent boys were twice as likely to have a mesomorphic build , a chunky , muscular physique , compared with non-delinquent boys . |
| 20 | The Kilbrandon Committee recommended that individual decisions should be made regarding the best measures for dealing with each child , and that these should be made separately from decisions about guilt or innocence . |
| 21 | I have not at any point heard Judge Tumim suggest that such a crime is appropriate . |
| 22 | In a country where only 52% of the 16m people are Muslim , UMNO moderates recognise that religious zealotry could lead to communal tension and economic decline . |
| 23 | Announcing the figures , Environment Minister David Trippier claimed that heavy rains were in part to blame for overloading coastal sewage treatment systems , while the preceding drought meant that a higher density of sewage bacteria had been carried in rivers . |
| 24 | United States officials claimed that most of the nuclear-related technology that Iran was seeking to obtain from China , Brazil and elsewhere could be used equally for nuclear weapons or civilian uses . |
| 25 | There are signs that an upturn in consumer spending might already have been appearing ; keeping Mr Major in Downing Street ensures that that recovery is under way . |
| 26 | For the DPP Miss Goddard said that mere delay is not capable of being an abuse of the process unless the delay is so great that what is sought by the Crown is no longer the vindication of justice but amounts to oppression or harassment of a defendant . |
| 27 | The Global War Against Small Cetaceans estimates that 500,000 dolphins are killed each year . |
| 28 | Miss Arden submits that this provision must be read subject to section 31 of the Theft Act 1968 , and that if there is conflict between the two sections , section 31 should prevail . |
| 29 | In 1775 Percival Pott recognized that scrotal cancers rarely occurred except in chimney-sweeps , an observation which has become famous as one of the earliest records of an industrial cancer . |
| 30 | Surrey managers said that many elderly day patients who would normally be carried by non-emergency crews have had to be readmitted to hospital in the past three months . |