Example sentences of "[noun prp] [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 | Alexandra points out that men often find it hard to empathise with their partner 's fear of crime . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Vauxhall points out that many companies are at present replacing company car schemes with a cash alternative . |
| 7 | The 1987 SORP points out that local authorities do not generally accrue for capital expenditure and sales and disposals of capital assets . |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | Nutty realised afterwards that they had come within a hairs-breadth of total disaster . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Dr Hardiman of Stirling points out that the Veterinary Record 's formula for estimating the weight is , if not necessarily a bummer , slightly flawed . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Reports from Germany suggest however that the new system is not yet working smoothly , largely due to the lack of suitable recycling facilities . |
| 21 | Nutty found out that she charged ten pounds an hour . |
| 22 | But when I got home and found my answerphone knee-deep in angry messages I did n't really have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out that you had something to do with it . ’ |
| 23 | It was at the conference in the Vatican mentioned earlier that I first put forward the suggestion that maybe time and space together formed a surface that was finite in size but did not have any boundary or edge . |
| 24 | Gilligan points out that Kohlberg thus divests his moral actors of the history and psychology of their individual lives . |
| 25 | Thus , Walker points out that , in 1981 , 66.8 per cent of all pensioners lived at or below the 140 per cent supplementary-benefit level , compared with one-fifth of the non-elderly ; and the risk of experiencing poverty is three times greater for those over retirement age than it is for those below it . |
| 26 | In a strongly-worded opinion , endorsed by Peter Thornton QC , barrister Stephen Irwin points out that if Lewis was knocked out by falling on his back , the whole case against Wallace was destroyed . |
| 27 | Spicer points out that the sector has thrived in a bull market but the advertising boom may be coming to an end . |
| 28 | Hill admitted too that his father would have been more than surprised to have seen him in action in Monaco three decades on from his supremacy in the 1960s . |
| 29 | Andrew Roberts points out that the yachts embody the relationship the design group feels exists between safety and comfort . |
| 30 | This point is exemplified with reference to tense and mood variation in Spanish si clauses ( see 50–52 above ) ; Lavandera points out that although the alternants may be defined as variants of an underlying variable in the sense that they are truth-conditional semantic equivalents , and pattern according to external social factors , they differ in modal meaning ( see Huddleston 1984 : 165 for a discussion of these semantic issues ) . |