Example sentences of "of [noun pl] and [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 Others look for evidence of rituals and declare that ritualistic and satanic abuse is happening much more often than most people are prepared to believe .
2 When it comes to the separation of powers and the system of checks and balances that the constitution asserted , it is also clear that the bureaucracy was given a much more equal share than either the Diet or the Judiciary .
3 The new fee structure deters the use of deputies and means that increasing claims effectively lead to decreased payment for each visit .
4 A form of religion which can be rationalised to meet the needs of the foregoing , is not to be found anywhere in the whole vast accumulation of religions and sects that the world has yet produced .
5 During the first year of life children seem to become aware of objects and to realise that objects behave in quite different ways to themselves and to other people .
6 He had heard stories of security forces planting illegal objects during searches of houses and hoped that his presence might help to safeguard against it .
7 On the other hand , Flourens ( in Phillips , Zeki , and Barlow 1984 ) removed various parts of the forebrains of birds and found that the degree of disturbance of behaviour was very much more a function of how much brain was removed than which part was eliminated .
8 It is only through a continuous , open exchange of views and experience that libraries will make the optimum use of the varied powerful electronic media opportunities that will characterise information options of the 1990s .
9 I looked in a table of isotopes and found that the concentration of deuterium is 1.5 parts of 10 000 ( parts of ordinary water ) .
10 All four studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of these types of programmes and found that anxiety levels fell significantly .
11 He issued a detailed list of demands and said that the government 's response would determine the speed with which genuine negotiations could resume .
12 In 1815 he returned to Karlovci to collect material for a second song book , which later inspired a glowing review from Jakob Grimm , in which he compared the Serbian love songs to Solomon 's Song of Songs and wrote that the ‘ Serbs are by virtue of their language … the most blessed with poems , songs and stories , and it looks as if the good God had , by this rich gift of popular poetry , wished to make up to them for their lack of books . ’
13 In fact , most species of frogs and toads that lay their eggs in areas exposed to direct sunlight produce black eggs , whereas those species whose eggs develop in concealed places usually lay white eggs .
14 It is characteristic of frogs and toads that live in more stable or predictable environments .
15 The Centre for Research on User Studies asked its respondents to indicate ‘ topics for which you think there is most need for external provision of training ’ , and while there was little evidence of lack of interest in external training or lack of perceived need , there was also little evidence of discrimination between needs that could be met by a range of methods and needs that could only be met by external provision .
16 A system of mandatory fees was long justified by the RIBA in terms of both protecting architects from the power of clients and ensuring that design standards were maintained by guaranteeing architects a reasonable return for their work .
17 It will lead to a better choice of candidates and ensure that more women and candidates from minority ethnic communities are elected .
18 I hit the gunman right between the windows of his soul and he went down with a lot of sparks and technoflash that I for one was n't expecting .
19 Lord Lane paid tribute to his ‘ team ’ of judges and revealed that over the past four years he had reviewed almost 1,500 life sentences — a task he had been unable to delegate and which he willingly relinquished to his successor , Lord Justice Taylor .
20 WATCHING Paris Match is like tucking into a plate of meringues and discovering that they are all Styrofoam fakes .
21 To remain near the screens , he and Elaine had to stand close to the strange woman called Lacuna , but even Lacuna seemed less threatening than the jungle of lines and forms that were still proliferating everywhere else in the room .
22 A number of writers have concentrated upon the psychological make-up of individuals and indicated that we need to be aware of the individual 's nature .
23 His first significant speech was in August 1625 , when he opposed a grant of subsidies and suggested that proper enforcement of the recusancy laws would provide the king with a more than adequate revenue .
24 The afternoon passed by in such a confusion of sights and sounds that she thought she would never remember any of them .
25 The zoetrope span smoothly , time 's Chief Designer narrowed the legs of trousers and decreed that the cars should be more aerodynamic .
26 Cronin 's study of catalogue non-users sought to determine the characteristics and attitudes of non-users and found that , " Non-use does not appear to be a function of personal dissatisfaction with any aspect of the library services or staff .
27 Graham studied the rates of effusion of gases and found that the relative rates of effusion of different gases under the same conditions are inversely proportional to the square roots of their densities .
28 The Americans , called on to prove their sincerity , could only do so in terms of the number of Hawks and TOWs that had already been shipped .
29 In the weeks that followed he built up a regular round of customers and boasted that it was better than going to work , especially on cold winter mornings .
30 But more than that , a democratic government , like any other , exists to uphold and enforce a certain kind of society , a certain set of relations between individuals , a certain set of rights and claims that people have on each other both directly , and indirectly through their rights to property .
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