Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When Peter invited me to the club I knew that Dusty was retiring and that there would be a place up for grabs . |
| 2 | By that time , we want to see a future which demonstrates that nuclear power can be produced safely and economically . |
| 3 | Perhaps it is time we had a choice between parties which agree that liberal free-market economics are here to stay . |
| 4 | Phillipson summarises American research which indicates that elderly people may be turning away from informal care based on kinship towards formal professional support . |
| 5 | Trudgill ( 1986 : 36 – 7 ) reports research which shows that certain vowel distinctions in Norwich English are unlikely to be correctly acquired even by children born in Norwich , unless their parents were also born there . |
| 6 | Rivalry persisted through the 1860s and '70s and in 1881 Gaze produced a pamphlet which claimed that certain companies were apt to ‘ monopolise powers which are the property of all Tourist Agents , and in the development of which we ourselves have borne so important a part ’ . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , this latter conclusion tends to be at odds with more conventional data which suggests that real markets often do not converge to what appear to be their equilibrium values ; an obvious example is the labour market . |
| 8 | Automatic end needle selection is another bonus which insures that knitted edges are always neat and tidy . |
| 9 | However , these defects were largely solved by Litzenberger and Ramaswamy who concluded that risk-adjusted returns are higher for those securities offering higher dividend yields . |
| 10 | He is the mathematician who says that intelligent life in the Universe does not exist , because if it did we would be knee deep in space probes by now . |
| 11 | Now their successes have been tarnished in a report by school inspectors who say that educational standards have fallen and the marking was far too lenient . |
| 12 | Many others , however , agreed with the sole practitioner who felt that unlimited liability ought to be accepted as part of the ‘ burden and responsibility of being a member of a profession ’ . |
| 13 | Despite this high figure they concluded that oesophageal manometry was beneficial in patients with chest pain , dysphagia , and those in whom achalasia is suspected . |
| 14 | In my own study it seemed that young women are becoming more critical of ‘ traditional ’ gender roles , but young men are not . |
| 15 | In many respects it seemed that feminist aims regarding women 's rights in the public sphere had been achieved . |
| 16 | On Williams Holdings the Panel said : ‘ The Panel 's attention was drawn to Note 1 to the Accounts which indicates that exceptional items are reported net of tax and that earnings per share are shown before exceptional items on the consolidated profit and loss account . |
| 17 | He waited until their faces reached a satisfactory degree of indignation then , over the next half hour , his low north-country voice spun out a story which revealed that political interests in the United States had channelled money through MacQuillan 's companies to enable him to acquire the Post ( or any other major British newspaper which came on the market and could be turned into a propaganda tool ) . |
| 18 | Rarely have researchers extended their analysis to consider inequalities within older age groups , possibly because they have implicitly or explicitly adopted a biological/medical framework which considers that old age is characterized by universal and inevitable ill health . |
| 19 | This is a completely new finding which suggests that fundamental changes were taking place in the nature of the early modern economy . |
| 20 | We must build on the success and continue to press all political parties to develop financial and social policies which ensure that sufficient affordable homes for rent are made available as a matter of policy . |
| 21 | The high church Anglican theologian Eric Mascall , writing in response to a report of a Lambeth subcommittee which commented that medieval understandings were based on false biological views , expressed himself thus : |
| 22 | Poor survey : Chartered surveyors are being badly hit by the construction slowdown , according to a new survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors which says that small practices have suffered a 28% drop in workload in the past year . |
| 23 | In the hive cities which stud that deathly world , as warts crust the face of a plague corpse , to join a gang is a swift route to maturity — though equally this offers no guarantee of survival . |
| 24 | The floor patterns ceased to be confined to the curved , angled or straight lines decreed by the older rules which proposed that certain geometrical figures had great significance . |
| 25 | The decision , forecast by The Scotsman last month , followed intense lobbying from property , development and lending groups which feared that huge areas of land would be blighted . |
| 26 | The implications are depressingly apparent in a study by Roberta Steinbacher and Helen B. Holmes which shows that young North American men and women who consider themselves sensitive to female inequality , would still choose to have male babies , at least as a first choice if sex-predetermination or sex determination with IVF would allow prospective parents in Western countries the opportunity to choose a preferred sex without the stigma that would be attached to using selective abortion . |
| 27 | ‘ Having in mind all the circumstances I suggest that active inquiries in this case be suspended until fresh information is forthcoming . |
| 28 | The potential pathogenicity of free radicals has been emphasised by recent work which suggests that reactive oxygen metabolities are not just one of a number of mediators and cytokines involved in the inflammatory process in inflammatory bowel disease but may have a pivotal role by initiating the expression of genes controlling may other aspects of the inflammatory , immune , and acute phase response , by activation of the transcription factor NF-kΒ . |
| 29 | The danger of this opinion is that it tends towards Manichaeanism , the heresy which says that Good and Evil are equal and opposite and the universe is a battlefield ; however the Inklings may have had a certain tolerance for that ( see C. S. Lewis 's Mere Christianity , Book 2 , section 2 ) . |
| 30 | We are required to find the value of given In 1811 , Amedeo Avogadro put forward his famous law which states that equal volumes of all gases at the same temperature and pressure contain equal numbers of molecules . |