Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [v-ing] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are sound reasons for hoping that they will be a temporary phenomenon , for this country possesses all the skill and resources required to recover a dominating place in the economic world . ' |
| 2 | This is certainly possible , but we do have some theoretical reasons for believing that we have , or are very near to , a knowledge of the ultimate building blocks of nature . |
| 3 | Nevertheless there are some reasons for thinking that we are acquainted with the ‘ I ’ . |
| 4 | The group really does operate as a group and you can attend all the social functions without feeling that you have to pair off . |
| 5 | Only a few years after claiming that there were no known substitutes , the companies are discovering a wide range of alternatives — including soap and water — which are not only cheaper but in some cases better than CFCs . |
| 6 | I got round this potential danger of tonal contrasts by ensuring that I was near enough to the boat to see it mainly in its own shadows ( figure XX ) , thus reducing the glare of white , and thereby allowing a less contrasting tonal interplay between boat and background . |
| 7 | These give us further grounds for thinking that there is some characteristic which is common to the postnominal attributives and to the predicative position of the adjective in a relative clause , but which is not found in the prenominal adjectives . |
| 8 | PEKING — Having dumped two heirs apparent in under three years , Deng Xiaoping yesterday moved to buttress the shaky position of yet another set of hand-picked successors by announcing that they , not he , were now running China . |
| 9 | Even without insisting on the strict claim that inference from fact to value is logically inadmissible , a claim which since Hume has been a commonplace , and after G. E. Moore 's analysis of the Naturalistic Fallacy was for some time an orthodoxy , it has been convenient to stay out of range of standard criticisms by showing that we can get along well enough without resorting to this kind of inference . |
| 10 | Humanity will insist that individuals must accept their personal obligations by acknowledging that they do have within them impulses and appetites which are a legacy from millions of years of ruthless evolution , and that the time has come when they must introduce into their lives the concept of a high standard of self-discipline to control those impulses and appetites . |
| 11 | Humanity will insist that individuals must accept their personal obligations by acknowledging that they do have within them impulses and appetites which are a legacy from millions of years of ruthless evolution , and that the time has come when they must introduce into their lives the concept of a high standard of self discipline to control those impulses and appetites . |
| 12 | Its urgent overall rhythm commands the choreographer to keep the dancers moving forever onwards with greater intensity to the climax , whilst the shorter phrase rhythms give the Chosen Maiden and smaller groups such ways of moving that they hold the audience 's full attention until the fall of the curtain . |
| 13 | Sainsbury , for example , defend the sky-high price of their organic vegetables by saying that they take less percentage profit on them , and that the wholesalers seem to be the ones jacking up the price . |
| 14 | Louis responded to these totally unjustified demands by arguing that it was Henry who had broken the agreement by keeping Alice in his custody for far too long . |
| 15 | He qualifies advocacy of leading indicators by saying that they may duplicate each other ( market share and sales , for instance ) or may not give additional lead time over conventional measures ( he cites bookings as an indicator of sales ) or do not yield reliable measures . |
| 16 | It is impossible to look at any of their actions during the past three years without seeing that they are carrying Home Rule at the dictation of the Nationalist party , but that in order that Home Rule may be carried they are turning up everything in the country . |
| 17 | Encourage them to express these feelings by suggesting that they state what exactly is worrying them . |
| 18 | Some anthropologists would counter these examples by arguing that there actually are class-like phenomena in such states ( Terray , 1975 ) , by pointing out the difference in access to the means of production between elders and juniors and men and women , but even if this argument is accepted it gives little support to the general theory in that such ‘ class ’ differences also occur in clearly stateless societies . |
| 19 | Members of staff inform the peer review committee of their teaching responsibilities and of any educational research , staff development courses , or local or national initiatives on teaching that they have attended . |
| 20 | Particularly in dealing with civil service officials or elected political leaders there are obvious objections to assuming that their class origins and educational backgrounds decisively shape their political attitudes , and that their social origins and political attitudes jointly determine their policy-making behaviour ( Meier , 1975 ) . |
| 21 | She persevered for fifty pages before admitting that she had n't taken in a word . |
| 22 | It 's , it 's reflected in mammalian societies like deer and er there are good reasons for thinking that it also applies to er human beings . |
| 23 | Because of the many hours of sitting that we do , we lose the ability to squat or even the ability to sit down without falling down . |
| 24 | We can , therefore , define mental phenomena by saying that they are those phenomena which contain an object intentionally within themselves . |
| 25 | The other key aspects of teaching that it is useful to record are the level of demand that is placed on the pupil(s) at each stage and the amount of guidance that the teacher provides . |
| 26 | Services should also affirm their policies on equal opportunities by ensuring that they monitor the use of their services by specific ethnic groups , test that the information they make available for the public is comprehensible and accessible , canvass users ' views of the current services , recruit staff of different ethnic backgrounds , at all levels in the organization ( although , in the case of Afro-Caribbeans in particular , this can be difficult due to the lower educational opportunities of this group and , in consequence , a paucity of suitable candidates for posts ) , and institute a programme of training for staff of all grades and backgrounds to understand their own conscious and unconscious prejudices about race and culture . |
| 27 | A simple illustration of s.16(2) ( b ) is obtaining insurance at better rates by intimating that one is a non-smoker when in fact one is . |
| 28 | So good ways of checking that you got it right , and then you can go on comfortably with , let's have a look at erm this time you 're buying a block of gold , er |
| 29 | Back Up the Hearse and Let Them Sniff the Flowers is based on his own time as a water-filter salesman , ringing on doorbells and brow-beating mug-punters into believing that their lives wo n't be complete without the little gizmo on offer ( at £230 plus VAT ) . |
| 30 | The ones able to secure ‘ sugar daddies ’ fooled the poor men into thinking that there was a Tiller rule that they only go out in twos and threes and so managed to get meals for their best friends as well . |