Example sentences of "[that] [noun pl] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , it is only since 1965 that mergers have been subject to public scrutiny at all . |
| 2 | For example , they have found that " there is considerable evidence that attitudes to comfort are important in estimating the user 's contribution to conservation … yet these have rarely been explored by research on the effects of feedback " . |
| 3 | Nikki Richardson , head of Digital 's information directorate , said only that discussions had been candid . |
| 4 | There can be a sharp discrepancy between the degree of freedom and dignity that workers believe they deserve and the control that employers think is necessary for their authority to be maintained . |
| 5 | Thus one often encounters the claim that a large number of Quakers ( and other dissenters ) contributed significantly to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century physical science and that Jews have been preeminent in mathematics , physics , and psychiatry in the twentieth century . |
| 6 | Saddened that polytechnics have been unable to throw off the second-class public image , Teesside University 's director , Dr Michael Longfield said : ‘ The three polytechnics in the North-East have been universities in all but name for many years . ’ |
| 7 | But the development of the law does seem to show that judges have been able to dispense from the necessity of justification under a public policy test of reasonableness such contracts or provisions of contracts as , under contemporary conditions , may be found to have passed into the accepted and normal currency of commercial or contractual or conveyancing relations . |
| 8 | ‘ Once the production opened and the showed the allegations were totally groundless we are left with a production that parents know is suitable for children and no one can take that publicity away . ’ |
| 9 | In that case he refused to hold that directors had been negligent on the ground that he was satisfied that they had made ‘ a real exercise of discretion and judgment ’ . |
| 10 | In consequence , many Members who put their names down will have only ill-formed ideas about what they want and it frequently happens that Bills presented are ill-prepared or misconceived . |
| 11 | Italian bankers also welcome the introduction of universal banking , though some grumble that regulators have been slow to bring the country into line with other European states . |
| 12 | While problems of partiality and bias in news-reporting are , rightly , matters of concern , various issues that have attracted Western media attention have excited public opinion in the United States and Europe to the extent that governments have been obliged to respond . |
| 13 | Usually the most that governments have been prepared to do is to publicise their activities and/or to seek voluntary undertakings . |
| 14 | Warsaw police confirmed on April 24 that arsonists had been responsible for a fire on April 22 at the home of Jerzy Jachowicz , a journalist on Gazeta Wyborcza , in which his wife had been killed and his daughter injured . |
| 15 | Last October Paul Biya won Cameroon 's presidential election , in a vote that observers said was fraudulent . |
| 16 | This is not to suggest that boards had been idle . |
| 17 | Best , for example , argued that changes had been immense : " In just five years ( the NHS ) has been transformed from a classic example of an administered public sector bureaucracy into one that increasingly is exhibiting the qualities that reflect positive , purposeful management " ( Best 1987 : 4 ) . |
| 18 | The source/migration/entrapment model suggests that conditions have been favourable for gas accumulation in Palaeozoic reservoirs contained within rift-related fault-blocks and more subtle stratigraphic traps . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , Debord 's place within a reified history of ‘ political modernism ’ is assured , more by virtue of what is claimed for the work than by its testing in public — Levin admits that screenings have been rare , especially outside France . |
| 20 | It 's just since I had Donna that things have been different for me . |
| 21 | In many areas , the recovery has been so slow that cultivators have been able to move in , while fires have been an added retardant to recovery , sometimes resulting in the familiar Imperata savanna . |
| 22 | Health watchdogs such as Hereford Community Health Council , say that patients have been confused by the NHS reforms . |
| 23 | Thus , to argue that minds exist and that bodies exist is correct , so long as the ‘ logical tones of voice , are maintained as distinct . |
| 24 | So perhaps it is because they have angular gyri that chimpanzees have been able to sign successfully . |
| 25 | Although Mesmer 's crises have little in common with modern hypnosis and his explanation for the phenomenon was soon discredited , he did obtain cures that physicians had been unable to achieve ; so scientists and therapists remained mesmerised by the phenomenon . |
| 26 | Commenting on the poor quality of bibliographies in published papers , Kochen concludes that failures to cite are due to : |
| 27 | Incorporation of some of the linguistic information that humans employ is necessary to improve text recognition systems . |
| 28 | The fact that mistakes happened was irrelevant . |
| 29 | It must be accepted that standards set are real , attainable and to be attained . |
| 30 | Mr McEwan said that police had been unable to trace any members of the missing girl 's family still living in the Coatbridge area . |