Example sentences of "[vb -s] that [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using Nirex 's own figures , the report concludes that groundwater contaminated by the radioactive waste could reach the surface within 300 years , not the tens of thousands of years which the company has claimed . |
| 2 | His as-yet unpublished review concludes that conservation has had little impact on overall energy policy . |
| 3 | Despite the dangers , BSAC , whose training is among the most rigorous in the world , insists that diving compares favourably with other sports . |
| 4 | At least the up-to-date cost accountant has plenty of ammunition to fire at the chief executive who insists that accounting has little to do with strategy . |
| 5 | One insists that science has at least something in common with map-making . |
| 6 | The other insists that science has much in common with model-making , which differs from mapping in the modeller 's licence to construct an artificial world and include in it all sorts of features beyond all possible observation . |
| 7 | It says that evidence shows a sustained increase in deaths since the reform of social security and the withdrawal of heating additions in 1988 . |
| 8 | One hopes that reading it may have good effects , of the kind described by Wordsworth in the 1800 Preface , or more succinctly summed up by Lewis in the conclusion to An Experiment in Criticism , where he says that literature heals the wound without undermining the privilege of individuality . |
| 9 | In the new chapter Morton says that campaign led to friends briefing the media on an almost daily basis . |
| 10 | Lexington , Kentucky-based Lexmark International Inc says that operating profits more than doubled in its second year as an independent $2,000m-a-year company , but unhelpfully does n't provide any numbers : worldwide shipments of IBM personal printers made by what used to be the typewriter arm of IBM grew 20% and the typewriter and supplies businesses both substantially exceeded their financial targets , it says ; debt is now below $700m from the $1,150m in March 1991 , and this year 's portion of debt obligation has already been paid in advance . |
| 11 | It says that output grew by 30 per cent between 1982 and 1990 , with the number of companies up from 144,000 in 1980 to 171,000 in 1991 . |
| 12 | The paper says that Sun has been working on the project for two and a half years under the code-name Green at its SunLabs unit under former Apple Computer Inc executive Wayne Rosing , and is forming a new company , First Person Inc , to exploit it . |
| 13 | It says that Sun needs multiprocessing desktop systems because the Mountain View , California-based company ca n't get competitive performance from uniprocessor implementations of the Texas Instruments Inc SuperSparc RISC , in contrast to Hewlett-Packard 's with its own HP 9000 Series 700 top-end uniprocessor workstations , which use the 99MHz Precision Architecture RISC 7100 . |
| 14 | Richard Simmonds of laser says that success does n't happen overnight … they 've been in Banbury since the early seventies and have built 150,000 boats … he says it 's about time that people in banbury had the chance to sail on their doorstep and there are lots of local clubs that offer people the chance |
| 15 | He says that warmth generated by the furnace will be used to heat the hospital , saving fifty thousand pounds a year . |
| 16 | And he says that experience has helped him understand other 's disabilities . |
| 17 | But White says that row has nothing to do with his vehement stance on the Sahabi bone issue . |
| 18 | The report , Goodwill and Other Intangibles , by academics John Arnold , Don Egginton , Linda Kirkham , Richard Macve and Ken Peasnell ( see also ACCOUNTANCY , June , p 35 ) , says that goodwill divides into three components : the fair value of separately identifiable intangible assets ; the present value of benefits arising from jointness of activities and market imperfections ( such as monopoly position and barriers to entry ) ; and over- or underpayment . |
| 19 | Section 8 says that violence means any violent conduct towards persons or property . |
| 20 | He says that industry has been neglected , what 's needed is more investment , and more help for industry . |
| 21 | But she says that alcoholism led to their divorce . |
| 22 | However , Whipple says that assumption leads to predictions of gas and dust production rates much smaller than those observed , and also would be unable to account for the formation of the Perseid meteor shower , linked with the comet . |
| 23 | Arthur Thomas , quality , finance and planning manager for research and technology in the Wilton Materials Centre , says that reaction has been mixed : ‘ At first it was greeted by some of the senior managers as ‘ hyped up ’ JS jargon , though they 're fully committed to the process now . |
| 24 | He says that daddy hits him . |
| 25 | Bricknell says that Cefic has responded to the suggestion of such a tax by saying that all it will do is reduce the industry 's ability to spend money on new plants and technology . |
| 26 | Although IBM and DEC withdrew their products from Technology following its acquisition by ICL , Coon says that Technology has convinced him that it will not cross sell or give away DG 's secrets to its competitors . |
| 27 | The hon. Member for Garscadden says that banding protects the rich and the hon. Member for Dagenham says that the Government are clobbering the rich , and still we do not know . |
| 28 | ’ Fair Rates ’ says that Labour wants to cut unnecessary bureaucracy from local government finance , an admirable objective , but it seems that the Labour party can not help itself . |
| 29 | She says that goodness knows what you could get up to in the back of it ! |
| 30 | It says that unemployment has doubled in its area this year . |