Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Adorno confines this category to ‘ serious ’ music , Paddison points out that there seems no reason why it could not include a good deal of avant-garde jazz and such rock groups as Frank Zappa 's Mothers of Invention the Velvet Underground , and — he might have added — some post-punk bands . |
| 2 | Perhaps this is not the place to repeat the plea made elsewhere that such a legal approach to standard medical procedure is somewhat barbaric . |
| 3 | Alexandra points out that men often find it hard to empathise with their partner 's fear of crime . |
| 4 | In Roffey it was held that a procession was an ‘ assembly ’ for the purposes of the Air Navigation Order 1954 , and the commentary on that case points out that a procession was regarded as an assembly for the purposes of the old offence of unlawful assembly . |
| 5 | Farmer Colin points out that this selfless operation is always carried out with a complete lack of regard for personal safety and reminds the committee that Josh has several times fallen off his load just outside the King 's Head . |
| 6 | Jessica admitted freely that she was a cottage-dweller , one of the idle rich that cluttered up the streets and strands of Donegal from May to September , but at least she did n't drive a gas-guzzling BMW like some she could mention . |
| 7 | As proof of his point , Aston Martin 's chairman points out that one of his 155mph product 's soundest markets was Hong Kong , an island so small , says Gauntlett , that the only things moving at more that half that speed ‘ were taking off from Kai Tak airport ’ . |
| 8 | The Royal Naval Reserve is trying to get the ministry 's decision overturned so that the new minesweepers can play an effective rôle in war . |
| 9 | US management guru Peter Drucker points out that while blue collar productivity has increased some forty-fold over the past 100 years , white collar productivity has remained static . |
| 10 | The Cloud-author points out that they can not be pursued simultaneously . |
| 11 | Vauxhall points out that many companies are at present replacing company car schemes with a cash alternative . |
| 12 | The 1987 SORP points out that local authorities do not generally accrue for capital expenditure and sales and disposals of capital assets . |
| 13 | John Plamenatz announced enthusiastically that " the voice of the people is heard everlastingly " through the spokespersons of these organizations , and Robert Dahl believed in the 1950s that the United States possessed " a political system in which all the active and legitimate groups in the population can make themselves heard at some critical stage in the process of decision " . |
| 14 | His comments came after The Scotsman revealed yesterday that the Commission for Racial Equality is to investigate complaints that Strathclyde may have illegally discriminated against children with English as a second language judged to have learning difficulties . |
| 15 | Nutty realised afterwards that they had come within a hairs-breadth of total disaster . |
| 16 | Geoff Esland points out that since the 1946 National Health Service Act levels of pay and conditions of work in the medical profession , and spending on medical research , have been largely determined by central government . |
| 17 | It may seem odd that a music publishing company would want a photograph , but Doyle points out that the look of an artist may be important to develop an act 's recording career . |
| 18 | Marcuse points out that : |
| 19 | Although the rules laid down that he could not directly intervene he hissed at the hen who dutifully shrieked out a loud distress call . |
| 20 | Sir Hector Monro announced yesterday that farmers in Less Favoured Areas would be paid 75 per cent of the cost of repairing flood defences damaged by the storms . |
| 21 | Editor , — In her article ‘ Teaching the teachers ’ Stella Lowry points out that few medical teachers in Britain have any formal training in educational skills or theory . |
| 22 | Bohm points out that science 's very participation in formulating these so-called ‘ laws ’ may change them , and more deeply , there can be no fixed laws of nature because Nature is essentially creative . |
| 23 | In its defence the computer points out that the problem lies not in its answer but in the question it was asked in the first place . |
| 24 | In 1833 , of 5,020 antislavery petitions the Wesleyans provided 1,953 and other nonconformist bodies 873 , though Drescher points out that a higher proportion of signatures came on community petitions . |
| 25 | An article in Nursing Times points out that ‘ it is very easy for nurses caring for older people , especially in hospitals , to develop a rather jaundiced view of ageing . |
| 26 | The Ministry of Defence announced today that it will close in 20 months time as part of cutbacks in defence spending . |
| 27 | Dr Hardiman of Stirling points out that the Veterinary Record 's formula for estimating the weight is , if not necessarily a bummer , slightly flawed . |
| 28 | Curran points out that a rough woodland canopy is likely to be more affected by variations in the solar angle than is a smoother grassland canopy . |
| 29 | Curran points out that the difference between red and NIR bidirectional reflectance gives a better estimate of LAI then either band alone and , within certain limits , is theoretically independent of variations in the solar irradiance and in the type of soil . |
| 30 | The latest sighting of Hamilton-Jones at the Kelvin Hall prompted Ward to report yesterday that senior officials would meet quickly to discuss methods to prevent him from competing . |