Example sentences of "that [noun sg] [be] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recognise and welcome the fact that the Secretary of State has said that there is no such thing as a legitimate target anywhere , because once that concept is accepted , we are in effect saying that murder is proper in certain circumstances . |
| 2 | This can be achieved only if it is recognised that research is essential in surgical practice and should be encouraged but , equally , that the person concerned must learn to operate . |
| 3 | Dahrendorf , however , has argued that alienation is irrelevant to empirical social science , ‘ since no amount of empirical research can either confirm or refute it ’ . |
| 4 | So far I have suggested that law is facilitative of commercial activity . |
| 5 | This proceeding ignored the current theory that intelligence was independent of social background . |
| 6 | Saying that imagination is essential for effective RE is perhaps like pubs advertising good food . |
| 7 | Graham Connah 's excavations in 1964 , for the Department of Antiquities , revealed that tin-bronze was available in 13th-century Benin where it was cast into ingots in open moulds before being smithed into bracelets . |
| 8 | It would seem that there are few general applications , but several specific conditions may be helped by higher doses of vitamin A. Firstly , though , it should be remembered that retinol is toxic in large doses , and the public should not be given the impression that it is a safe supplement for children who may have recurrent respiratory or diarrhoeal illness . |
| 9 | We take for granted , too , the fact that water is liquid at normal Earthly temperatures and pressures : pure water freezes only at 0°C , and boils at 100°C ( which is how those quantities are defined ) . |
| 10 | I am not claiming that meat is indispensable for good health ; it is only necessary to show that a diet to which it contributes can be no less healthy than one from which it is excluded . |
| 11 | This supports the hypothesis that adaptation is due to visual change . |
| 12 | In one study analysis of dietary histories in 29 of 50 diabetics revealed that compliance was adequate for unrefined carbohydrate ( 39 per cent daily energy ) , fibre ( 34 g/day ) and sodium ( 100 mmol/day ) , although dietary fat was higher than intended ( 33 per cent daily energy ) ( Pacy et al , 1984c ) . |
| 13 | For though evolution taught that the human race was linked to plants and animals , it also demonstrated that man was separate from other species : ‘ a spiritual being , incarnate in an animal body ’ . |
| 14 | I do not believe that youth is incapable of true and lasting love … |
| 15 | It was recently experimentally shown that curvature is possible without AnTm tracts , provided that a certain combination of dinucleotide steps occur ( 1–4 ) . |
| 16 | Jonathan Chowen of Sussex Stationers argued that advertising was crucial to successful bookselling . |
| 17 | Like Lakatos , Kuhn does not argue that science is superior to other fields of enquiry , but assumes it . |
| 18 | ( It is because of lack of oxygen that growth is poor in water-logged soils ) . |
| 19 | In the earlier centuries of modernity , modernization entails a partial autonomization of cultural and aesthetic spheres , so that culture is constitutive of bourgeois identity . |
| 20 | Because people like to think that culture is different from other commercially produced goods ( ‘ art ’ embodies individual expression ) , standardized methods and forms are masked to some extent by a show of artisan craftsmanship and by ‘ pseudo-individualized ’ effects . |
| 21 | Leavis believed that English was concerned with central moral issues and the study of literature could provide some opposition to the dehumanizing effects of modern industrial society . |
| 22 | Despite the clinical impression that balanitis is common in young boys , the only detailed study of this condition reported an incidence of 4% in all boys aged up to 14 . |
| 23 | It is often claimed that hypertension is prevalent in diabetic subjects ( Christlieb , 1982 ) , although the evidence for such a statement is conflicting and by no means universally accepted . |
| 24 | For example , many studies have shown that language is vulnerable to left , but not right , hemisphere damage in most people , suggesting that the left hemisphere has a special role in language . |
| 25 | The pathologist found that death was due to natural causes and that the cause of death was status asthmaticus . |
| 26 | The coroner refused to hold an inquest under section 8(1) of the Coroners Act 1988 on the ground that death was due to natural causes . |