Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [that] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe that the Second World War was a war that had to be won not in order to save Western modernity , or to ensure that individualist man would conquer collectivist man , but simply because Hitler posed the greatest threat to the moral order of the world that history had ever seen . |
| 2 | ‘ I deal mainly with consumer credit law which can involve , for example solving a problem on an agreement , or ensuring that advertising material produced by Lombard and its subsidiaries complies with the appropriate regulations . ’ |
| 3 | It is a defence , however , if the defendant can satisfy the court that it was not known or suspected that drug trafficking was involved , or that he disclosed his knowledge or suspicion to the relevant authorities . |
| 4 | A more modest first step would be to scrap A levels and insist that university entrance should require five or six AS levels — a conventional exam with a smaller syllabus than A levels — topped up with a specialist paper in one chosen subject . |
| 5 | While circling the field , he noted the grass facility was inundated with water and realized that landing Spitfires under the existing conditions would be a hazardous undertaking . |
| 6 | I mean years ago I can remember coming into town and seeing that furniture shop filled with people walking around , every time I go past it now it is empty |
| 7 | Margaret Brasnett in her Story of the Citizens advice Bureaux in 1964 talks of the ‘ need for people who are good at keeping papers in order and seeing that information material is filed and kept up-to-date ’ . |
| 8 | He was deeply concerned about the need to improve social conditions ; but he concluded that the economy had the capacity for recovery and expansion to create more and better jobs and argued that government intervention was more likely to harm than to assist that process . |
| 9 | Conceding that the widespread use of abortion under the existing legislation was a " social catastrophe " , the Democratic Union nevertheless regarded the draft legislation as draconian , and argued that abortion legislation should be reviewed in the context of overhauling social policy and of encouraging greater personal responsibility . |
| 10 | These authors studied the effects of high insulin concentrations on prostacyclin production by rat aortic rings in vitro and demonstrated that prostacyclin production was significantly reduced in the presence of insulin at concentrations of 2500 , 500 and 250 μU/ml ( Lasche & Larson , 1982 ) . |
| 11 | He finds that there are six classes of selection methods with high validity — peer ratings , biodata , ability tests , assessment centres , work sample tests and job knowledge tests , and concludes that ability tests are probably the best alternative because of their high generality , high practicality and low cost . |
| 12 | All four studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of these types of programmes and found that anxiety levels fell significantly . |
| 13 | Leiber ( 1976 ) carried out such a study and found that reaction times were equal in the left and right visual fields when the stimuli were not words , but a RVF superiority obtained when the letter-string made up a word . |
| 14 | In that year a London chemist , Smithson Tennant , burned diamonds and found that carbon dioxide was the end product ; the same amount of carbon dioxide was produced by burning equal weights of diamond and charcoal . |
| 15 | Taking account of this , and remembering that profit figures are produced by accountants who have an array of alternative treatments of the basic debits and credits , it is not surprising that expert financial analysts are not satisfied with a profit figure alone . |
| 16 | More to the point is that the Discourse indicates the scientism of the period : it is taken for granted by the lecturer that Turner ought to paint a tree of a recognizable species , for example , and assumed that portrait painters are after an exact likeness . |
| 17 | In my view the authenticity argument is invalid because it does not distinguish between the two questions : it confuses ends and means and assumes that teaching language for communication is the same as teaching language as communication ( cf. |
| 18 | Bach ( 1978 , 1979 ) studied data on weather and corn yield in the United States Corn Belt states from 1901 to 1972 and estimated that corn production in those states would change by about 11 per cent for every 1 °C change in average maximum temperature over the growing season , and by about 15 per cent for each 10 per cent change in precipitation . |
| 19 | I felt uncomfortable , and noticed that M. Lévy looked at me sympathetically . |
| 20 | Since most of the money being offered was raised through Federal taxation , especially income tax , these mechanisms were being used to try and ensure that State governments did operate the welfare programmes seen as desirable by the Federal government ; if they did not , then their residents were paying taxes to Washington , but receiving relatively little in return . |
| 21 | A spokeswoman describes the redesign as ‘ a tweak ’ and says that colour care ‘ has always been an integral part of the formulation ’ , which has ‘ just been strengthened ’ . |
| 22 | Gulfstream holds twelve letters of intent and initial deposits which it hopes to convert to firm contracts this month , and says that market studies suggest that the worldwide fleet of large bizjets will double over the next twelve years through increased globalisation of major businesses , fuelling demand for ultra long range aircraft . |
| 23 | Data General considers full relational databases to be overkill and says that run-time versions are enough . |
| 24 | It features a call escalation process which monitors response times , identifies unresolved user problems and checks that service levels are maintained . |
| 25 | They all denied any responsibility and claimed that litigation costs forced an early settlement . |
| 26 | Gregory analysed all the planning applications in the area between 1957 and 1966 , and showed that development permission had been refused for 83 per cent of the 3,000 ha for which applications had been made . |
| 27 | Three patients , however , were followed serially and showed that serum carnitine concentrations are gluten dependent in coeliac disease patients . |
| 28 | Her sufferings were enough to fill a few episodes of the soap and showed that career success is n't a guarantee of happiness . |
| 29 | Immunohistochemical studies of fresh tissue easily distinguished MALT lymphoma from benign reactive lymphoid hyperplasia ( pseudolymphoma ) and showed that tumour cells had the characteristic phenotype indicative of their origin from MALT . |
| 30 | The resultant high prices would force many out of the market and ensure that manufacturing rights went to those firms to whom they were economically most important . |