Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] that [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There he shared a platform with distinguished Japanese financiers , who agreed that shareholders ought to have more power over company managers . |
| 2 | This possibility will seem unacceptable only to critics who insist that election must be by votes cast directly and personally for the successful candidate . |
| 3 | They are not for those who insist that learning must be a serious business and who would feel embarrassed to be caught reading a ‘ comic book ’ . |
| 4 | Anna Martin preferred the approach of feminists such as Clementina Black , a former President of the Women 's Industrial Council and the head of its Investigation Committee , who argued that women should have a legal right to a certain portion of their husband 's wage . |
| 5 | The spate of similar lecturers , articles and tracts was a stunning confirmation of the critics who argued that scientists could spout such one-dimensional , unrealistic drivel only because they and their science was equally one-dimensional . |
| 6 | On the campaign trail , Mr Clinton did not hesitate to attack opponents who argued that America must tax sources of energy . |
| 7 | Even Crosland took it for granted , in trying to disarm those critics who argued that comprehensives would damage standards , that pupils who would have gone to grammar schools would of course still be taught with those of their contemporaries who would also have gone to grammar schools . |
| 8 | MAFF 's narrow attitude has been criticised ; not the least by the House of Commons Agriculture Committee who recommended that policies should be adjusted so that part-time and small farms could make more of a living . |
| 9 | But it was a death in line with the pioneering Lord he followed ; a fitting martyr 's death for a very courageous man who found that God could be trusted with his weakness and fear . |
| 10 | However he disagrees with certain ‘ enthusiasts from the supply industry ’ who say that people should reschedule their cooking . |
| 11 | Since none of these activities is costless , however , the situation is not quite as clear as suggested by economists who propose that efficiency should be the only goal . |
| 12 | Many commentators predicted that a majority of women voters , regardless of party loyalty , would be alienated by a decision to overturn Roe v. Wade , and that this could damage Bush , who believed that abortion should be available only to rape victims or if the woman 's life was in danger , and whose judicial appointments , the latest of whom was Clarence Thomas , might have created an anti-abortion majority on the Supreme Court . |
| 13 | They were the main enemies of the predominant sect , the Pharisees , who believed that salvation would only come if they adhered strictly to the Mosaic law , as originally set out in Deuteronomy where it was made clear that the chosen people must be a ‘ clean ’ people . |
| 14 | His evidence to the parliamentary select committee revealed that he was not one of those who believed that straw could ever be an adequate substitute for rags . |
| 15 | Even so , the number of those who believed that Hitler would have been one of the greatest German statesmen of all time had it not been for the war remained relatively high , though this figure too had fallen sharply ( from 48 per cent in 1955 to 32 per cent by 1967 ) . |
| 16 | Unlike Napoleon III , who believed that diplomacy could , if skilfully handled , bring results without war — and this in spite of his failures to make this work in 1854 and 1859 — Bismarck held with Frederick the Great that : ‘ Diplomacy without war is like music without instruments . ’ |
| 17 | It was Pappus , one of the great mathematicians of Alexandria in the fourth century AD , who recognised that space could be filled by a moving point . |
| 18 | At first I thought that Anthony Trollope , though an amusing writer , was another male author of the nineteenth century who assumed that women could not exist without a man somewhere in the vicinity . |
| 19 | Seymour Cray is still hopeful of bringing his crippled Cray Computer Corp safely in to land , and this week told shareholders that the pay-off will come not with the Cray-3 , but with the Cray-4 the company is developing — ‘ People who predict that things ca n't be done — I guess I do n't have time for them , ’ he told shareholders sternly — ‘ That 's the challenge that I 'm willing to accept in trying to do things that ca n't be done ’ ; the Cray-3 was launched last month , a decade after Cray started work on it , but the Cray-4 is expected to offer twice the performance at half the cost , and the company hopes to demonstrate it by year-end ; it says it has enough cash to fund operations into September and says it is working with two investment banking firms on fund-raising strategies . |
| 20 | He who claimed that art should be impersonal ! |
| 21 | He has also earned the respect of the players who know that Nigel can hold the key to them returning to the side quickly . |
| 22 | ‘ I have family and friends who assume that Rangers will beat FC Brugge with a couple of goals to spare , but in order to do that we will need to play throughout this week 's game as we did in the second half over there , ’ he added . |
| 23 | It was a Nonconformist shipowner , Sir Christopher Furness , who warned that England must realize that ‘ we are neither omnipotent nor omniscient , that as our fathers have struggled to obtain supremacy , so we their sons must struggle to maintain it ’ . |
| 24 | This is a worry echoed by John Major , while Chancellor , who warned that EMU would lead to ‘ huge political demand for resource transfers on a very large scale indeed ’ . |
| 25 | Yet personal encounters , first as Cripps 's deputy in the Treasury and later as chancellor of the exchequer , persuaded Gaitskell that there were some people in Washington who appreciated that Britain must be granted some safeguards for her economy . |
| 26 | Does the Prime Minister agree that although there is scope for compromise on many matters at Maastricht , the one issue on which it is impossible to compromise is the difference between those who believe that Britain could and should join in a single currency and those who believe that we should not do so at any price and that we should never even have joined the exchange rate mechanism ? |
| 27 | This is the point at issue in the ideological struggle between those who believe that TNCs will inevitably damage Third World development prospects in the long run , as against those who believe that there will be no development prospects without the TNCs . |
| 28 | There may well be those who believe that plants should be rigidly seasonal and I tend to agree but nature goes its own way and Galanthus nivalis subspecies reginae-olgae is a true end of year Snowdrop . |
| 29 | The parallel with Watkins ' mark points was too striking to ignore , and attracted attention from those who felt that folklore might provide a clue to understanding leys . |
| 30 | They were boys who knew that death could come close . |