Example sentences of "[coord] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He defended himself vigorously in a series of letters , protesting — in this case to the journalist William Archer — that ‘ The very last charges I expected them to bring against a book concerned merely with the doom of hereditary temperament & unsuitable mating in marriage were that it was an attack on marriage in general , that it was immoral , & that characters who recant their opinions & come to a sad end were puppets invented to express my personal views in their talk . ’ |
| 2 | Section 40(2) only applies where there is cause to believe that the notice will not be complied with , or that documents will be mutilated or destroyed , and is therefore , contrary to Mr. Beloff 's argument , not available to the Bank of England where no such belief exists , however urgent the case . |
| 3 | This allows the meeting to ask questions , comment or review what happened at previous meetings and to check that decisions have been carried out , or that matters have progressed in the manner envisaged . |
| 4 | The Government complained about the cost and said that it was not a matter for them or that matters were not that bad . |
| 5 | Neither is it our view ( as some correspondents have suggested the envelope implies ) that rape in any way morally compromises or degrades its victims , or that women 's lives should be defined primarily in terms of their relationships with men , or that rape is not grossly abhorrent in itself . |
| 6 | The Prime Minister believes that employers should provide it or that women should be able to afford it . |
| 7 | They no longer felt , as they had previously , that there was unlimited time or that things would unfold and develop along the lines that they had unconsciously assumed they would . |
| 8 | Remember , too , when acting for a seller on a sale by auction to attend the sale itself to answer any questions that a prospective buyer may raise on the title or the special conditions — and be wary of the questioner who seeks to suggest that the title is faulty or that restrictions prohibit development , etc , in the hope of abating the bids offered . |
| 9 | Our hypothetical cavedwellers with their universal explanation that ‘ the gods did it ’ are not too far separated from the modem Westerner who believes that the Soviet Union is an unalleviatedly ‘ evil empire ’ or that Blacks are inferior to Whites : all three explanations are easy to take on board , they are much simpler than the arguments put forward by the people who disagree with them , and , once accepted , they are clung to with a limpet-like grip . |
| 10 | Do not take it for granted that Accounts will be paying up the way you want or that suppliers will stay with you if they do n't get paid on time . |
| 11 | However , if it were merely the scale of the transactions that was unlawful or that payments had been made out of the wrong fund , it may be the council could be forced to honour the contracts . |
| 12 | There was an unspoken fear that political figures could use the press , even papers controlled by the party or government , to their own advantage or that editors and proprietors could promote certain political figures by creating a good ‘ image ’ of them in the press . |
| 13 | The requirement of leave is designed to weed out frivolous , vexatious , or hopeless cases ; but there is no reason to think that claims based on private law rights will not sometimes be frivolous , vexatious , or hopeless or that claims based on public law rights are particularly prone to be frivolous , vexatious or hopeless . |
| 14 | Nor is there any reason to think that claims based on private law rights will not sometimes hold up public programmes if they are allowed to be brought after the short time-limit in Order 53 ; or that claims based on public law rights will necessarily cause trouble if brought after that time limit has expired . |
| 15 | Nor does the fact that , so long as they consider that the affairs of the business they own are being conducted well enough on their behalf , owners do not choose to exercise their ultimate authority , provide any reason for supposing either that companies would be better managed if trade unions were implicated in management or that owners would acquiesce in the assumption , in whole or in part , of their rights by any other party — let alone by one whose essential interests are often opposed to their own . |
| 16 | For instance , it has often been thought that the progress of a military campaign , such as the invasions of the Germanic peoples into the northern Roman empire of the third and fourth centuries , could be plotted from the locations of hoards , or that areas with large numbers of hoards must have been relatively rich compared with other areas . |
| 17 | Some of us constantly tell stories where we depict ourselves as having the qualities we secretly think we lack or that others need reminding of . |
| 18 | The Party 's leaders were held up to the public 's scrutiny ; it was not the Party 's fault that some , those with speech defects in particular , failed to receive the customary standing ovation after their speeches from an enthusiastic conference , or that others , standing some way up the ladder of promotion , were pinched for drunken driving . |
| 19 | He denied knowing anything about a plan to abduct the driver or that guns might have been involved . |
| 20 | Jack speculated that perhaps there had been some interference by a superior , or that vandals may have seen the lonely outpost as a target for action . |
| 21 | Mathematics or Language or Science programmes for young children must be accompanied by suggestions for the use of ‘ waste ’ materials such as cartons , empty milk tins , bottles and bottle tops even in the knowledge that in many areas these are impossible to come by or that articles such as tins or bottles when in very short supply acquire a cash value in communities . |
| 22 | The neutrality of the counsellor , so necessary in order to develop mutual trust and confidence , has to be compromised in such a way that individuals are not annoyed or upset , or that members of the family begin to see the counsellor as partisan . |
| 23 | It must be stated at this point that it is not intended here to suggest that there is a conspiracy on the part of doctors to deprive patients of their rights , or that doctors act out of ill will . |
| 24 | Delusions that the mind is being controlled by an external force or that thoughts are being inserted or removed or can be heard by others . |
| 25 | If one presumes that girls are innately as capable as boys of learning mathematics , then these figures suggest that girls are underachieving relative to boys , for whatever reason ( or that boys are overachieving ) . |
| 26 | His explanation is not , as is often supposed , the fact that in Britain multi-employer agreements failed to determine actual earnings levels in the workplace , or that employers have come to prefer independent negotiations . |
| 27 | This may be because the facts of the dispute are unique or that statutes and previous decisions are capable of more than one interpretation as to their meaning ; Some of the words that pepper these documents , for example ‘ reasonable ’ , are inherently ambiguous and judges must decide between the competitive interpretations of what the law is as argued by lawyers . |
| 28 | One can not say , for example , that Oftel decided something by a narrow vote' or that personnel changes in an individual agency will change the approach . ’ |
| 29 | It has proved extremely difficult , too , to find significant changes in attitudes in many markets except over a rather long period — which does not disprove the theory , but suggests either that advertising does not work very fast , which no one wishes to admit , or that attitudes are not the whole of the story . |
| 30 | None of this is to assert that trade can not produce political benefit , or that policies can not be fashioned to this end . |