Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The previous discussion has emphasized that black workers were recruited for particular types of jobs in specific sectors of the British economy . |
| 2 | Recent work in the philosophy and sociology of science has emphasized that experimental results are rarely adequate for making a definitive choice between competing theories . |
| 3 | He has claimed that statutory controls would ‘ stifle new developments and new jobs in the Highlands and Islands and raise costs when we face tough competition from efficient producers in Europe and elsewhere ’ . |
| 4 | An internal memo by a senior employee at the Rocky Flats plant in Colorado has disclosed that substantial amounts of highly radioactive plutonium are stored in unsafe or untested containers and in unstable condition and are not suitably protected against fire . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But she needs to remember that deciding strategies is easy ; implementing them is hard . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Indeed , David Underdown has argued that rural sports and recreations became more common after 1660 than ever before . |
| 12 | Richard Dawkins has argued that individual organisms do not survive from one generation to the next , while on the whole their genes do . |
| 13 | It is even harder to assess the social impact , and although Bollom ( 1978 ) has argued that local attitudes to second-home owners depend on the structure of the local community , and that antipathy to second-home owners ironically tends to decline with increasing percentages of second homes , another study ( Downing and Dower , 1972 , 32 ) has argued that : |
| 14 | Purseglove has argued that Indian crops were known in China 4000 BP and African ones in India and vice versa a thousand years later . |
| 15 | President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania has said that poor countries enjoy two basic rights : ‘ To sell cheap and to buy dear . ’ |
| 16 | The World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) has said that current proposals for a powerful new multilateral trade organisation ( MTO ) are not compatible with the goal of sustainable development set by last year 's Earth Summit in Rio . |
| 17 | Is the Secretary of State aware of the serious threat to standards in schools caused by his spending decision in the Prime Minister 's county of Cambridgeshire , where the Cambridge branch of the Secondary Heads Association has said that impending cuts will cause ’ larger classes fewer books , less equipment , reduced sixth form provision and serious difficulty in providing the national curriculum ’ ? |
| 18 | Craven has said that Welsh players will still be chased by South Africa in spite of this vote , but the WRU is confident that they have shut off the avenue to the Republic . |
| 19 | Mr Reenan has revealed that other parts of his tape ‘ simply did n't make sense ’ . |
| 20 | An investigation into drug dealing at the illegal hippy festival held last bank holiday weekend has revealed that dangerous drugs were openly on sale . |
| 21 | The Framingham study ( Kannel & McGee , 1979 ) has revealed that female diabetics have a 4-fold and males a 2-fold increased mortality compared to age- and sex-matched non-diabetics . |
| 22 | Hertfordshire County Council has revealed that primary schools with the greatest additional funds had fourteen times the extra amounts available to the poorest schools . |
| 23 | , A recent report by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) has revealed that illegally-applied pesticides accounted for a total of 351 birds of prey and owls , and 435 dogs , in the years 1979-89 . |
| 24 | The Ministry of Agriculture has revealed that high levels of a contaminant were found in several samples of apple juice . |
| 25 | The UK has decided that UK-registered EEIGs should be treated as bodies corporate with separate legal personalities like companies and should be registered with the Registrar of Companies . |
| 26 | It has decided that individual states can refuse imports of waste from neighbouring countries , but only if they can prove that the trade is dangerous to their health or environment . |
| 27 | She has decided that pretty compliments from members of the opposite sex are what , after all , is important in this life . |
| 28 | An experiment with guinea pigs has shown that immune reactions can be conditioned in exactly the same way . |
| 29 | However , Gershuny 's ( 1983 ) work has shown that married women typically spend more time on housework than their husbands , even if they also have paid employment . |
| 30 | Our description of short-term contract working In one of its most traditional forms — seasonal working — has shown that temporary workers can not always be distinguished from regular workers simply by reference to the contract of employment under which they work . |