Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] that [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The actual contouring and shape of the body is almost exactly the same as the Berlin Pro , but Jim asked that some additional chamfering be applied to the top of the body . |
| 2 | The old Tominahs say that this crescent-moon shape means the bottom arc of a great vertical circle of our lives — the section at which we are all most deeply plunged into matter . |
| 3 | A survey by Woodhouse and Neill revealed that few public libraries in the UK have a precise policy for the promotion of services and even fewer attempted to assess the effectiveness of the resulting activities . |
| 4 | In a gesture reportedly designed to allay US fears about the fate of nuclear warheads stationed in the Soviet republics , Gorbachev announced that all Soviet nuclear forces would be brought under a single command . |
| 5 | In the same month , in his letter to Papandreou on the issue of the American bases in Greece , Gorbachev proposed that foreign military presence on the territory of other countries should be renounced everywhere . |
| 6 | The EPA found that most submerged plants in the bay are what it calls ‘ light-stressed ’ . |
| 7 | In contrast to Maine and others including the English social philosopher Herbert Spencer , Durkheim maintained that increasing economic specialization did not necessarily entail the growth of individualistic competitiveness and social atomization . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Llewellyn-Smith estimated that three million men would be covered . |
| 10 | Reports from Bangladesh , Nepal and Pakistan show that some rural families may be spending a quarter of their incomes on fuel . |
| 11 | Hoskyns believed that these new methods could prove that the alleged contrast between Jesus and Paul was wrong ; and that there was an identity between the Jesus who lived in Palestine and the Christ who was the object of the faith of the apostolic Church . |
| 12 | Robert Meaby says that more young talent is in the Eastbourne pipeline and indeed the addition of a good player or two can work wonders — Rossalls 's new recruit David Tonroe , 19 , from Hong Kong , has spent two years at university in California , plays to plus one and has already appeared in the Eisenhower Trophy . |
| 13 | The United States declared that all non-humanitarian US economic support would be withheld " until the democratic process is restored " ; nor would action be taken on Romania 's bid to regain " most favoured nation " trade status , which would allow low tariffs for exports to the USA . |
| 14 | Thorndyke predicted that this last condition would be the most difficult to understand and to remember and that the story condition would be the easiest . |
| 15 | Will my right hon. and learned Friend confirm that any temporary difficulties of manpower in the Crown prosecution service will not in any way affect prosecutions that may be necessary as a result of the discovery of potential fraud in the Maxwell case ? |
| 16 | Spenser recognises that this last perspective is unlikely to seem immediately convincing to a supposedly rational English audience . |
| 17 | Crosby feels that two more victories will ensure safety but he stresses that his players must continue to battle . |
| 18 | Dunleavy used the ideas of Castells to argue that local political analysis should not be concerned with particular communities , or specific institutions of local government , but instead should focus on the ‘ urban politics ’ of collective consumption — that is , with consumption organized on a non-commercial basis by state agencies . |
| 19 | Andrew Burt explains that another common reason is that the instruments of assessment specified in the module descriptor are not being used or have been varied . |
| 20 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that those dramatic figures are eloquent testimony to the fact that under Labour the number of days lost was so dramatic that it resulted in near anarchy and that , as a result of our legislation , there are now proper secret ballots and democracy in the workplace ? |
| 21 | Mr Samra said that two suspected gunmen had escaped in the Bombay suburb of Juhu after a shootout with police and had taken refuge in a large housing complex . |
| 22 | At the close of the Ecclesiastical History Bede wrote that such serious commotions had characterized the beginning and course of the reign that it was impossible to know what to say about them or anticipate their eventual outcome ( HE V , 23 ) . |
| 23 | Chichester-Clark denied that any such deal had been made . |
| 24 | Adams maintains that these observed variations may be traced historically to differences in government action . |
| 25 | BAAF suggests that those involved in the adoption process balance the positive qualities of prospective adopters and foster carers who smoke against the adverse effects of smoking on children . |
| 26 | Gorbachev suggested that Soviet medium-range missiles in Asia could be abandoned altogether in return for the Americans giving up their nuclear bases in the Pacific . |
| 27 | Right : Miele claims that this 12-place setting G5955C integrated dishwasher is the quietest machine on the market . |
| 28 | IBM Corp 's AdStar Corp in San Jose says that six new models of the IBM 9570 Disk Array Subsystem are now available : the new models use RAID-5 architecture and support sustained data rates in excess of 60M-bytes per second over a HIPPI High Performance Parallel Interface : the 9570 stores up to 232Gb of data and can be installed on some ES/9000s and 3090s , the RS/6000 and a multitude of non-IBM machines ; the new models — 020 , 040 , 120 , 140 , 220 and 240 — provide both RAID-1 mirrored data and RAID-5 distributed parity capability , ‘ while preserving RAID-3-like performance for large block transfers ’ ; no prices . |
| 29 | On May 8 Egypt 's President Mubarak announced that all Egyptian troops in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait , estimated to total 38,000 , would be withdrawn within " three months at the most " . |
| 30 | Darwin realized that many secondary sexual differences were a consequence of the greater intensity of competition between males for access to mates and that many traits were more highly developed in males either because they conferred an advantage in fights or because they rendered their possessor more attractive to females . |