Example sentences of "[verb] that the [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.

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1 The Education Secretary has been in the region lending his weight to the Conservative campaign , and denying that the Government was to blame for school underfunding .
2 Trade and industry minister Edward Leigh recently wrote to The Northern Echo firmly denying that the Government was responsible for any delay .
3 And of the Cobra , ‘ There can be no denying that the Cobra is an extremely exciting car to drive , or even passenger in .
4 Iraq is denying that the move is a bid to have sanctions lifted .
5 Few stories about their activities went beyond the editing-down of a long speech — except , perhaps , to relate that the occasion was attended by ‘ leading party and Government officials ’ .
6 Alas , I was to reach the age of sixty and retire before even the first sod was turned , but I am happy to relate that the building is now complete and occupied by AIB .
7 What is , to my mind , incredible , is that he could ever have supposed that the money was being either paid by the plaintiffs or received by the defendants with the intention or on the footing that the defendants were to keep it in any event .
8 These procedures are not framed in words which suggest that the determination is likely to be controversial .
9 Earthworks in the area suggest that the village was once larger than it is today .
10 These comments suggest that the test is unlikely to be useful as a screening instrument but , when used in conjunction with other tests or with children who have already been identified as having language difficulties , it may assist in the generation of a balanced assessment of a child 's strengths and weaknesses .
11 Such correspondences — and Barth underlines the pun — suggest that the novel is a multiple palimpsest with one textual layer over another and the roles of textual producer and fictional character constantly blurring together .
12 These suggest that the bulge is permeated by very hot gas with temperatures near 10 8 K ( hotter than the centre of the Sun ) and densities 0.03–0.06 hydrogen nuclei per cubic centimetre , corresponding to a pressure nearly 1,000 times higher than that measured in the solar vicinity .
13 The eclipses show that the binary system is embedded in a cloud of material which must have been ejected from the companion star , although calculations suggest that the companion is well inside its Roche lobe .
14 Bettelheim and Zelan suggest that the child 's feeling for the event and for language was so strong that she was able to invent a new word spontaneously .
15 Together , these two points suggest that the state is losing its control over events .
16 This suggest that the gas is undergoing a cooling flow , as is expected anyway as the gas density inferred from the X-ray luminosity requires that the cooling time be less than the age of the Universe within that region .
17 We suggest that the issue is not that ‘ a considerable possibility of overtreatment ’ exists but that potentially damaging and ineffective treatment may be undertaken outside the confines of a randomised controlled trial .
18 In a letter this week to the Lord Chancellor , Mark Sheldon , President of the Law Society , says that recent remarks made by Lord Mackay suggest that the Government is considering restricting the individual 's right to choose their own solicitor .
19 On the face of it , the Judicial Statistics suggest that the procedure is extensively used .
20 Our results suggest that the second is true : women with high waist-hip ratio have difficulty in becoming pregnant .
21 Whether these predictions are consistent with existing models for the structure of dystrophin is not clear , but they suggest that the structure is more irregular than previously described .
22 In conclusion , the position , distance and binary nature all suggest that the system is probably associated with the cluster .
23 It was not stated in the judgment which paragraph or paragraphs of section 82(1) Luxmoore J. regarded as applicable , but the report of the argument of counsel and an editorial note at p. 667 suggest that the judge was invited to act under paragraph ( d ) .
24 The present findings suggest that the excess is due to the population mixing associated with the oil industry causing an epidemic of the infection , of which childhood leukaemia is an uncommon response .
25 We suggest that the eviction is an unsubstantiated , politically motivated , empire building exercise of no benefit to the village .
26 Estimates suggest that the proportion is similar today .
27 Industry sources however suggest that the contract is extremely important to Telefunken , which is now part of the giant Daimler-Benz industrial combine .
28 Industry sources however suggest that the contract is extremely important to Telefunken , which is now part of the giant Daimler-Benz industrial combine .
29 The columns of The Lancet suggest that the operation was performed , though it aroused fierce opposition , and was soon abandoned .
30 Metal analyses of silver alloy brooches reported by Leigh ( 1980 , p. 185ff. ) suggest that the silver was moderately pure and was alloyed with a copper-based alloy , possibly of Roman origin .
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