Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb -s] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The letter does not make specific the details of the matter , as one would hardly expect it to do , but Miss Kenton states unambiguously that she has now , in fact , taken the step of moving out of Mr Benn 's house in Helston and is presently lodging with an acquaintance in the nearby village of Little Compton . |
| 2 | In his book on the African media , Dennis Wilcox remarks critically that the difficulty with this ‘ typical attitude ’ on the part of African leaders lies in their being ‘ both judge and jury of what was in the national interest ’ . |
| 3 | The Parliament Act provides merely that the life of Parliament will end by effluxion of time , five years to the day after its first meeting , only if it has not previously been dissolved by the monarch and , these days , it invariably is . |
| 4 | Dr Ward suggests instead that canal construction was more generally related to the level of economic activity , slackening with the economy for example from the mid 1770s to 1782 . |
| 5 | The Court of Appeal rejected her arguments , pointing out that the statutory duties to ensure " good taste " and " due impartiality " are imprecise , and that the Broadcasting Act requires only that the IBA should approve a satisfactory system for monitoring standards and public reactions . |
| 6 | The Sun newspaper reports today that the programme will be formally axed later this year and will be replaced in February by another music show . |
| 7 | ‘ Prince Sihanouk knows well that the problem is not the Hun Sen government , but the Khmer Rouge . |
| 8 | Mr Colston-Hayter warns darkly that if laws are introduced to prevent all-night parties , the ‘ right to freedom of association ’ would be compromised , and calls on the Government ‘ committed to freedom ’ to reconsider . |
| 9 | W.H. Hudson says somewhere that 18 May is the crown of the English summer : in the Midland fields on that day these miles of snowy hedges reach perfection , so dense and far-reaching that the entire atmosphere is saturated with the bitter-sweet smell whichever way the summer wind is blowing . |
| 10 | Kit Martin emphasizes strongly that he makes houses not flats . |
| 11 | The small number of first papers published in high-ranking journals by Dundee and Strathclyde universities suggests either that both departments place relatively limited importance on publication in such journals , or that the work itself was not suitable for publication in them . |
| 12 | The small number of first papers published in high-ranking journals by Dundee and Strathclyde universities suggests either that both departments place relatively limited importance on publication in such journals , or that the work itself was not suitable for publication in them . |
| 13 | ‘ Mr Larkin writes here that it is always true that the idea for a poem and a snatch or line of it come simultaneously . |
| 14 | Intelligence and savagery were the order of the day , though Fred Dellar remembers fondly that the most terrible of the enfants , Tony P and Julie B , would bring him cream cakes every week . |
| 15 | Martin Harrison says simply that ‘ Bailey ended that era ’ . |
| 16 | Mrs Whitman says now that it might not happen ‘ in six months or six years ’ . |
| 17 | This is confused : it was Robert who went on pilgrimage to Jerusalem , dying on the return journey in 1035 , and Ralph Glaber says clearly that it was he who married and divorced Estrith . |
| 18 | Copy it to Andrew and then Andrew knows when the I B I S invoice comes forward that it 's something to be |
| 19 | The motion away from the wall is apparent in Fig. 21.19(a) and the spacing of the dye patches shows also that this fluid is moving downstream more slowly than average . |
| 20 | However , the hover fly and poached egg association shows clearly that this is a direction in which a great deal of research needs to be done . |
| 21 | Jennifer Owen argues convincingly that this amounts to a very significant area of habitat , she shows clearly and simply how it may be improved , and for the dedicated wildlife gardener she says enough to encourage an attempt at recording . |
| 22 | Lord Alexander says now that the Development Plans were never taken seriously , that it was then thought ‘ a nonsense ’ to try to project five years ahead . |
| 23 | Albert Lubin remarks perceptively that the presence of babies ‘ relieved his sadness , and numerous drawings and paintings of babies attest to his fascination with recreating them . ’ |
| 24 | The preface to the exposure draft states clearly that the provisions of the proposed SAS aim to encourage fuller disclosures than have emerged under current practice . |
| 25 | Andrew Knight says now that there was no target . |
| 26 | It was another good example of why the sooner it is possible to delay the first round of the World Group matches so that there is more than a full week between them and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year , the better . |
| 27 | According to the teletype , ‘ the handwritten duty sheet indicates only that the luggage was unloaded from Air Malta 180 . |
| 28 | European general manager Barry Betts hints darkly that Microsoft has great plans for a combination of NT and FoxBase , and wonders whether the current compatibility problems will ever be sold , Xbase or not . |
| 29 | FAO 's pest control programme is aimed at educating farmers in the way rice grows so that they can sharply reduce the amount of pesticides applied , leaving natural predators to keep the crop healthy . |
| 30 | Elite autonomy means simply that circumstances exist in which the political elites representing a given social group can bargain on behalf of ‘ their ’ communities without fearing that compromises will lead to their removal and the substitution of a new elite for the social group . |