Example sentences of "that [noun] [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Keith Cowling and his research team have argued that mergers continue to explain half of the increase in industrial concentration in the UK . |
| 2 | I have n't smelt anything and it does seem that ICI have given adequate warning . ’ |
| 3 | So if he thinks that Colin do have six working for him , and he 's got enough work for six , then surely there 's gon na be plenty of work for two of 'em . |
| 4 | It is in the West Midlands ( Gaff akin and Nickson , 1984 ) and the North West ( Lloyd and Shutt , 1985 ) that researchers have correlated massive domestic job losses in leading regional corporations with net increases in respective overseas employment . |
| 5 | But he believed that MacDonald had made some soundings in a coalition direction , and in a speech at Hull on 19 July he went out of his way to reject ‘ the idea that a national government such as existed during the war should be set up in the present difficulties ’ . |
| 6 | Plainly , a court which was considering whether to impose a community service order while an earlier order was still current should bear in mind that Parliament had prescribed 240 hours as the maximum that could be ordered on a single occasion . |
| 7 | Local authorities are generally best placed to exercise the discretion that Parliament has judged appropriate in taking planning decisions . |
| 8 | While one is not always convinced that Taylor has done this , the task is perhaps excessive for any writer . |
| 9 | Although there appears no evidence that Roe did do any work under this option , they were certainly deepening their workings in the Coniston Mine , on the Bonsor Vein . |
| 10 | It is by this inclusion also of other similar weapons that states have accepted that tear-gas is banned ; the only exception to this has been the USA , which did not in any case ratify the Protocol until 1975 . |
| 11 | They were prints from some medieval Book of Hours that William had had framed and stuck up on the walls . |
| 12 | This transformation , so obvious in modern society , is the result of the fact that technique has become autonomous . ’ |
| 13 | Kochen himself mentioned that orders had frozen and users themselves calculated that DEC had lost millions of dollars along with credibility and goodwill . |
| 14 | Now that herbs have invaded many parts of our lives , and not least our gardens , how much of this is just a fashionable " phase , and how much will remain as a permanent and essential ingredient of everyday living ? |
| 15 | In effect he seems to be saying that Conservatism seeks to preserve social discipline through the maintenance of authority , and that therefore it stresses authority and social discipline . |
| 16 | In a document of 811 Wulfred , archbishop of Canterbury , specifically declares that Offa had cancelled one of Ecgberht 's charters on the grounds that Ecgberht had no right to grant land by charter in perpetuity ( CS 332 : S 1264 ) . |
| 17 | Many writers suggest that cities have become high-cost locations for industry , but the evidence of an increasing number of studies is contradictory . |
| 18 | The reason AEI won the award was explained by Jim White , director general of BIFA : ‘ The fact that AEI managed to accredit all of its 33 branches in the UK with BS5750 in one operation is a fantastic achievement . ’ |
| 19 | You 'll recall that Hobbes had argued that erm what creates a civil society what creates a community is the establishment of a government . |
| 20 | Bush 's statement followed reports that he was " upset , angry and perplexed " by Sununu 's apparent efforts to circumvent travel restrictions imposed by Bush on May 9 , after an inquiry had revealed that Sununu had made widespread use of military aircraft for personal and Republican Party business . |
| 21 | Lincoln Brower has shown that birds learn to avoid aposematic prey after very few ‘ trials ’ ( usually less than five ) , while Mariam Rothschild at Cambridge University has produced clear evidence that birds remember for many months to associate particular colour patterns in prey , with distasteful experiences . |
| 22 | While conceding that ‘ thirty years of study and the writing of one million words must have left their mark on Newton 's mind ’ , Hall is inclined , on the whole , to reaffirm his verdict , published in a joint paper in 1958 , that Newton attempted to retrieve useful chemical facts from the enigmatic and mysterious terms employed by alchemists to conceal them . |
| 23 | Both suggestions caused right-wing critics of the US administration to claim that Baker had made unnecessary concessions ; Richard Perle , former Assistant Defence Secretary under President Reagan , commented that " we are strong , and just at the moment when we are strong , we are making concessions " , and he warned : " Any American official making concessions to the Soviets today has to explain himself . " |
| 24 | All her thinking and watching and planning , from the first sound of the car on the track while she and Joe crouched by the netted gate to that last desperate shout that Doyle had cut short , all that worrying and puzzling had ended up like this . |
| 25 | It is on the basis of these distinctions that Hayek seeks to avoid certain criticisms that have been applied to Oakeshott . |
| 26 | At the time of the interviews , there was a growing feeling in some LEAs that projects had developed unintended procedures which would be difficult to dismantle . |
| 27 | Since Tokyo , Pedrosa explains that Mota has undergone numerous tests to try to find the cause of what he describes as ‘ that silly pain ’ . |
| 28 | He told me it was scandalous that Mills had gone unpunished . |
| 29 | But it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that satyāgraha does involve some coercion or compulsion when practised in certain circumstances . |
| 30 | Finance director Keith Todd announced that ICL has gained one point of market share in the UK , in a declining overall market — stealing back a little of the market share that IBM UK has won from ICL over the past 20 years . |