Example sentences of "[vb -s] that [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He insists that in the last analysis there is a fundamental difference between believing in ahi sā , even though it is not possible to behave non-violently in all life 's circumstances , and believing in hi sā . |
| 2 | Her eleventh novel , Gwendolen , has just been published and she says that for the first time she is writing for her soul . |
| 3 | She now does yoga , and says that for the first time in her life she wakes up feeling calm and generally finds that thinking positively works . |
| 4 | And there we were thinking that it passed the 2m mark at the end of last year : IMB Corp says that on the first anniversary of the launch of OS/2 2.0 , it has shipped more than 2m copies , has more than 80 agreements with hardware vendors to package OS/2 on their systems , and that there are now 1,200 applications specifically written for it . |
| 5 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 6 | Merseyside 's leading housing advice group also says that over the last year there has been a 100pc rise in the number of young homeless being referred to it . |
| 7 | The RYA says that over the next 10 years demand for new berths will reach 85,000 nationally on top of the present 190,000 . |
| 8 | Mead says that over the next several years it will move from a mainframe-centric architecture to a more flexible Unix environment , and Hewlett products are being incorporated as components of Mead Data 's internally developed Lexis and Nexis legal , business , financial and medical databases . |
| 9 | Legal & General 's Michael Payne says that over the next few years he expects his fund ‘ will grow more in Europe at the expense of UK equities , ’ particularly now that entry into the ERM has reduced the currency risk . |
| 10 | Meyer 's chairman Richard Jewson says that in the first four months of this year there is absolutely no sign of more people moving house than a year ago . |
| 11 | The company says that in the last six months it has sold over 600 Ingres Search Accelerator add-on boards . |
| 12 | While Crescendo has not firmed up its plans enough to announce what specific products are to follow , SynOptics says that in the third quarter of the year it will launch two FDDI unshielded twisted pair hub products : the Model 3905 FDDI UTP Host Module is claimed to be compatible with all existing SynOptics System 3000 modules , and will list for £3,630 . |
| 13 | Dataquest notes that 1992 was the first year in which each of the five top workstation vendors offered RISC-based workstations for under $10,000 and says that in the third quarter more than 60% of the boxes going out the door were priced under $15,000 . |
| 14 | It says that in the fourth quarter of 1991 , there was a threefold increase in the number of stolen cars in the second hand market compared with a year earlier . |
| 15 | Sales of prime London properties are picking up and the latest quarterly bulletin from the London Research Centre shows that for the first time in over a year , average prices have not fallen . |
| 16 | In answer to the question ‘ Do you approve or disapprove of the way … is handling his job as President ? ’ the respondents answers are given in Table 2 , which also shows that after the fourth month of Reagan 's first term , and in the wake of the assassination attempt on 30 March , his approval rating rose to 68 per cent . |
| 17 | A Parliamentary Commission , presided over by Christian Democrat Giorgio Santz has been investigating how the preceding laws have worked and has now come up with its report which shows that in the last eight years , of the L1,500 billion allocated to Venice only L853 billion ( £394.3 million ; $686 million ) have actually been spent . |
| 18 | Mr J. C. Sainty 's analysis of posts in the Exchequer shows that in the fourteenth century the important offices of Chancellor , King 's Chamberlain , and King 's Remembrancer were all held by their clerical occupants during the King 's pleasure or during good behaviour . |
| 19 | Of course , differences in wealth between peasant families were not new ; the evidence of the poll tax returns shows that by the last quarter of the fourteenth century peasants might employ labour on their own account and even have a servant living in their household , although it is difficult to say how common this was ( 81 , pp.30–3 ; 83 , p.31 ) . |
| 20 | Artificial appearance thereby takes on a sexual overtone which Porter detects in the expression ‘ making faces ’ , meaning to have sex Keith Thomas observes that by the eighteenth century bodily control became a symbol of social hierarchy An elegant person would not pass wind audibly , or expose teeth while laughing . |
| 21 | While the current agreement does not cover sales of the resultant kit , Ionica managing director Nigel Playford obviously has sees that as the next move : he cites Northern 's ability to exploit overseas markets through its international support and distribution operations as ‘ key factors ’ for choosing the Canadian manufacturer . |
| 22 | In The Form he comments that in the first two degrees it is possible to say " I languysch for lufe " or " Me langes in lufe " ( 106.53 – 4 ) but in the third degree all is comfort and joy . |
| 23 | County NatWest calculates that in the first half of the year to September 1991 , Hanson made £150m interest on its cash pile and £60m-70m from selling a subsidiary — in all , 37% of its total pre-tax profits of £588m . |
| 24 | It seems that during the 18th century in the beautiful city of Cambridge , the leading livery stable was owned and operated by one Charles Hobson who had made a small fortune in renting cabs and carriages to the gentry , so much so that he had acquired that lovely house and property known as Anglesey Abbey for his country residence . |
| 25 | It seems that in the first year of life you 're more likely than at any other time in your life to die at the hands of somebody else . |
| 26 | The petition was accompanied by one from the magnates , who also sought the withdrawal of the tax on wool : it appears that for the first time since the Ordinances of 1310–11 the commons and the magnates were joining together to seek concessions and measures of reform from the king . |
| 27 | It therefore appears that in the first experiment a match between parts of the superficial representation of the passage was influencing the way that a deep anaphor , the pronoun they , was processed . |
| 28 | Commenting on its third quarter and nine month figures ( alongside ) , Redwood City , California-based Oracle Corp notes that during the third quarter , licence sales grew by 30% year-to-year while service revenues expanded by 25% . |
| 29 | Commenting on its third quarter and nine month figures — see below — Redwood City , California-based Oracle Corp notes that during the third quarter , licence sales grew by 30% year-to-year while service revenues expanded by 25% . |
| 30 | UK Management Buyouts 1992 , the annual review for The Centre for Management Buyout Research at the University of Nottingham , notes that in the first half of 1992 , buyouts and buy-ins accounted for 29.6% of the value of all transfers of ownership in the UK and nearly 60% of the total number . |