Example sentences of "[vb -s] [that] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government still insists that allowing Turkish air bases ‘ a more comprehensive role ’ is a far cry from the dispatch of Turkish armoured columns over the border . |
| 2 | The Council also says that taking legal action should be possible without having to send a solicitor 's letter first , as seems to be general practice at the moment . |
| 3 | David Mills , the erstwhile head of the Hazardous Chemical wing of Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) — and well known for his criticisms of the lack of effective policing of what he defends as largely sound rules — says that placing high-temperature incinerators in some sort of hierarchy of risks is ‘ a terribly subjective business . ’ |
| 4 | He says that illustrating this book was ‘ one of the happiest times of my life . ’ |
| 5 | Having commented on the perceived need for information-giving experienced by staff , patients and relatives , it is interesting to note some recent work which shows that facilitating certain strategies for coping during stressful procedures is more effective than information per se for reducing signs of distress . |
| 6 | Now the equation of equilibrium under no body forces states that Applying this relation to the above stress-strain law gives Rearranging terms we have |
| 7 | No-one pretends that preventing further tragedies will be an easy matter , least of all the mountain rescue teams whose job it frequently is to haul the body-bags from the hills . |
| 8 | He has also used computers in therapy with the mentally ill , and finds that learning basic PC packages , such as word processing , databases and spreadsheets , gives a great boost to their self-esteem . |
| 9 | The VHPB hopes that providing independent information to such bodies will encourage equally successful initiatives across Europe . |
| 10 | Amplifying the target DNA means that obtaining high quality DNA should never be a problem , at least in principle . |
| 11 | This means that adding new customers is suddenly much less of a problem , since Atlas allows electronic trading over virtually any EDI network . |
| 12 | The singer and actress admits that conducting any romance has become almost impossible due to the jibes about her taste in younger men . |
| 13 | Looking at the world 's 20 million bedrooms , he also estimates that replacing incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescents would not only save two thirds of the energy needed to produce the same amount of light but would , over the 5–10 year lifespan of the compact , keep out of the atmosphere 100 million tons of CO2 . |
| 14 | Williamson argues that giving due recognition to the importance of transaction costs serves to redress the balance towards efficiency explanations , particularly if one accepts that rather stringent structural preconditions must be satisfied before anti-competitive behaviour is plausibly successful ( 1983 : 537 , n. 38 ) . |
| 15 | The ASB believes that leaving this inconsistency uncorrected would inhibit proper accounting for long-term post-retirement obligations . |
| 16 | However , not everyone believes that eliminating middle management from organisations is the panacea for all corporate ills . |
| 17 | Midland believes that following 40,000 inquiries for First Direct in October , it will open 4,000 to 5,000 accounts during the first month . |
| 18 | The importance of context in establishing the boundaries of given and new elements is worth noting because it suggests that analysing written language in terms of given and new is feasible . |
| 19 | Bem ( 1979a ) suggests that paying more attention to the patterns of scoring on BSRl femininity and masculinity subscales might produce a more detailed understanding of the power which particular sex-associated traits have for women and men . |
| 20 | She infers that using such forms means ‘ absence of cognitive flexibility ’ and quotes the studies by Bereiter and others ( Osborn , 1967 ) of lower-class children who , it is argued , ‘ can not conceive of a single object having two attributes ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 21 | Perhaps — just perhaps — your Higher Self knows that realising this Dream would not be in your best interests right now ? |