Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The first hurdle will be to renew the approval of the Vice-Chancellor , a senior judge , who has so far agreed that there is a case to argue but wants to know that enough creditors support the action to make its pursuit a worthwhile use of all creditors ' funds . |
| 32 | Meanwhile the State Services Co-ordinating Commmittee has recommended that secondary schools be run by higher-paid managers instead of the traditional principals , with the right to sack teachers and determine their pay . |
| 33 | The Scottish Crofters ' Union , still smarting from the £2.25 cut in Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowance per ewe , has recommended that more priority be given to new or recent entrants to crofting when sheep and cattle quotas are allocated from the national reserve . |
| 34 | BGS has recommended that potential export markets should be assessed . |
| 35 | There is no reason why a child has to know that some life forms became extinct in order to be able to measure variations between living organisms , nor is there any clear difference in difficulty between these two statements . |
| 36 | Moreover , national nodes are also being set up ; the recent IBM gift to GRID ( see above ) has ensured that powerful microcomputers have been installed in many African countries , together with national and continental data sets . |
| 37 | The Church 's Eastern European resurgence , centred upon its long recognized strength in Poland — a country led from mid-1989 by a devout Catholic prime minister — but now including almost every country from Czechoslovakia to Lithuania , as well as what previously seemed the almost unimaginable resurrection of Uniate Catholicism in the Ukraine , has ensured that Catholic history and geography in the 1990s are likely to look very different from that of the 1980s . |
| 38 | The ‘ racialization , of British politics throughout the last 20 years has ensured that most areas of public debate — law and order , the welfare state , unemployment , youth , education , the inner cities , the family — now have a racial dimension and often one in which black communities , but especially black youth , appear as threats in a wider demonology of scroungers , shirkers , muggers , drug pushers , school failures and inadequate parents ( Hall et al . , |
| 39 | Along with the rise of local voluntary and community groups , often funded by the local council , this has ensured that local authority politics have increased markedly in both their visibility and their differentiation . |
| 40 | The neurological dominance of the large human cerebral cortex has ensured that basic instinct has come increasingly under its control and has thereby lost its specific and rigidly determined character . |
| 41 | We have all done things which are wrong in God 's eyes but through Jesus God has ensured that any punishment we deserve has already been served . |
| 42 | However , it is not the world 's statesmen that we have to thank for even this limited achievement in arms control , but the women and men whose political activity has ensured that some action must be taken . |
| 43 | In Pakistan an old system dating from the British occupation has ensured that large parts of the North-West Frontier Province remain out of bounds to government officials . |
| 44 | But she needs to remember that deciding strategies is easy ; implementing them is hard . |
| 45 | It has been difficult to decide on a speciality for the whole country and the Comlon Board has accepted that regional differences may require a change in attitude . |
| 46 | It has accepted that progressive aging of the population necessitates a parallel increase in numbers of doctors . |
| 47 | ITV has accepted that competitive tendering is a proper way of allocating franchises , but argues that in no other area of business are judgments made without trade-offs between quality and price . |
| 48 | It was pointed out that the Borough Council has accepted that nearby farms have become redundant and the conversion of farm buildings to up-market residential properties has been allowed . |
| 49 | In work looking at the labour markets of Los Angeles and New York , Sassen ( 1989 ) has argued that economic growth creates both wealth and poverty . |
| 50 | Indeed , David Underdown has argued that rural sports and recreations became more common after 1660 than ever before . |
| 51 | The country 's nuclear lobby has argued that alternative energy sources are either not available or too expensive and Semenyuk told a parliamentary debate on the government 's economic reform programme that : " Experts say that after the introduction of safety measures the plant is among the safest , and not only in Ukraine . " |
| 52 | For example , Hannan ( 1969 ) found that the number of young people in an area tended to increase outmigration , as the more able young left to follow the kind of careers not available in rural areas , though Grafton ( 1982 ) has argued that young people do not outmigrate from remote rural areas at a faster rate than their counterparts in less remote rural areas , and that any decline in such areas is due to lower levels of immigration , rather than higher rates of outmigration . |
| 53 | Richard Dawkins has argued that individual organisms do not survive from one generation to the next , while on the whole their genes do . |
| 54 | The government has argued that many schools consistently secure good order ‘ not simply by a regime of sanctions and rewards but more broadly by creating within the school … . positive attitudes to good behaviour ’ . |
| 55 | Gumperz ( 1977 ) , for example , has argued that such variables can be used to invoke domains of interpretation , e.g. to mark transitions from chat to business . |
| 56 | Rivière ( 1984 : 4 ) has argued that such informality is a product of the emphasis by the Guianese Amerindian upon the value of individualism . |
| 57 | Blunt ( 1989 ) has argued that all organizations have to find some way of achieving solutions to perennial problems . |
| 58 | Phillipson ( 1982 ) has argued that older workers form a ‘ reserve ’ army of labour which can be recruited in times of labour shortage and discarded during periods of depression . |
| 59 | Nicholas Garnham has argued that this provision of a wide-ranging repertoire also has an economic logic . |
| 60 | The sociologist Christine Delphy has argued that this assumption is not simply a mistake or a reasonable rule of thumb that has now become outmoded , but an ideological manoeuvre which obscures the real workings of patriarchal societies . |