Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [that] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | C. P. Snow argued that practitioners of science and practitioners of the arts , inhabit two distinct cultures ; scientists , for example , have ‘ common attitudes , common approaches and assumptions ’ . |
| 2 | In a recent survey , the IoD found that 43% of its female members were childless . |
| 3 | Weaver and Steiner found that 85% of 1 to 4 year old children passed stools once or twice a day , and 96% did so three times daily to once every other day . |
| 4 | FOURTEEN months ago Matchbox announced that repeats of the TV series Thunderbirds had caught them on the hop and they would n't be able to supply any tie-in toys for Christmas 1991 . |
| 5 | FMCG thinks that control of non-interest expenses creates a virtuous circle of its own . |
| 6 | For example , it is necessary to hear only a brief phrase of some Grand Waltz by Tchaikovsky , Glinka or Strauss to know that steps of grande élévation are the object of the exercise ; to hear some slow pavane , minuet or saraband is to realise that an adage is being practised . |
| 7 | Peet 's analysis of labour unionization in the United States noted that rates of union membership have traditionally been much lower in the southern States than elsewhere ( figure 5.15 ) . |
| 8 | In a proclamation issued at Ghent on 8 February 1340 , Edward declared that Philip of Valois had ‘ intruded himself by force into the kingdom while we were yet of tender years , and holds that kingdom against God and justice ’ . |
| 9 | In his work on political oppositions in western democracies , Robert Dahl observed that patterns of opposition may have something to do with widely shared cultural premises . |
| 10 | For instance , Prof Mike Roberts warned that parts of his Institute of Terrestrial Ecology ( South ) are becoming dangerously dependent on contracts from government departments and others . |
| 11 | Equally , it appears that the Cambridge Board also tacitly accepted that although he was its tutor , Shearman 's personal commitment to the WEA meant that provision of courses in Bedfordshire was arranged through the WEA county Federation and thus exclusively organised by the District . |
| 12 | Small wonder that flocks of European and Scandinavian birds choose it as their resting point when migrating to more congenial climes each winter . |
| 13 | PRS estimate that 85% of their membership receive less than £1000 a year from them ! |
| 14 | Indeed , the Stamford Taurus might have been formed by early Mycenean settlers , as a representation of a Mycenean dagger carved into Stonehenge proves that people of that race were in Britain at the time . |
| 15 | Mr Aimetti estimates that 80% of Iveco 's information is already handled centrally in Turin , from the receipt of the customer 's order , to the control of the production process , to invoicing and final payment . |
| 16 | Norwich Union says that drivers of cars that can be costly to repair and low-risk policy holders could save up to 15 per cent . |
| 17 | But when Patrick says that sort of thing to Jenny , he adds that she is an exception to this law of nature . |
| 18 | Almond and Verba found that evaluation of the political system in Britain was the product of a mix of participant and deferential orientations . |
| 19 | A survey in Scotland found that 87% of health visitors had changed the advice given to parents about the syndrome and that 54% stated that this change occurred before mid-1991 . |
| 20 | Women might be trained to exercise her reason and imagination to help reduce the inequality , but Darwin insisted that children of both sexes were more like adult women than men , and within an evolutionary doctrine , the implication was that women were less completely evolved . |
| 21 | Responding to this " treacherous " security agreement on Nov. 22 , North Korea said that talk of " sanctions " and " military attack " had greatly increased the danger of war . |
| 22 | In Ireland , Michael Ryder of Easons reported that 40% of all books that featured in Easons ' bestseller lists were published in Ireland . |
| 23 | Thus Carpenter and Narin found that patterns of citation from one journal to another could be used to generate clusters of journals which could be identified as groups . |
| 24 | In general , the Akawaio consider that breaches of the brotherly love which should inform relationships between members of the same community will attract the anger of the spirits , who then bring illness and adversity as punishments . |
| 25 | Chairing the talks , Japanese Finance Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto declared that flows of fresh credits were essential for renewed growth , and that debt reduction alone would not solve the difficulties of indebted countries . |
| 26 | The NCC states that loadings of nitrate in rivers ‘ have been sufficiently high at biologically critical times of year ( e.g. early spring ) to cause environmental damage ’ . |
| 27 | Mr Collum felt that implementation of international standards in the future would fall more and more to the Accounting Standards Board , although ideally he felt leadership should come from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Accounting Standards Board in the US and , ‘ if it can ever get its act together ’ , the European Commission . |
| 28 | Epstein concluded that management of stress among the experienced parachutists was not due to their repeated exposure to jumping in the manner of a conditioned response , but was a consequence of an active coping process that on each occasion was used to prepare them for the coming jump . |
| 29 | Walton argues that views of ‘ best interests ’ are rather always contingent , depending on the particular position and assumptions of the person expressing them as well as on objective circumstances . |
| 30 | Despite differences in wealth , or in occupation , Shetlanders assume that evaluations of a person 's worth should be a result of his or her behaviour , not according to what an individual ‘ has ’ or ‘ is ’ . |