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

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1 The amount of silt that the Huanghe brings to the China Sea ( 1.6 × 10 t per year ) represents a 25 per cent increase over the last 30 years and is due mainly to the conversion of grasslands to arable fields ( Smil 1987b ) .
2 The foregoing explains a powerful method of analysis and assessment that the NRC requires to be carried out on a variety of systems within the PWR plant , such as the emergency feedwater system , ECCS injection and recirculation , containment cooling , actuation of safety features , the auxiliary systems on which these depend , for example the AC and DC supplies and essential service water and cooling systems , and they must allow for possible interactions between different parts of the overall system .
3 He says that he will not go to Maputo until he receives the money that the UN promised to him and to other party leaders to start up their election campaign ; the UN says that it is still waiting for the donors to deliver the money .
4 It was a test that the Three-Ninetieth passed with flying colours destroying thirteen enemy aircraft and achieving excellent bombing results .
5 Similarly , the Soviets plan to supplement the Caterpillar and Komatsu side-boom pipelayers on which they have so far relied , with a new machine that the Sterlitamak works in the Urals will make .
6 Only 11 firms , out of the 138 registered with the English Institute that the JMU visited in the year to 30 September 1992 , achieved ‘ yes ’ answers to all 13 questions .
7 They 'll be able to fish for carp in the estate lake ; view the famous hall with its unique flying staircase … so-called because it has no visible means of support or wander throught the wood that the Lonsdales planted in memory of their son .
8 Sinclair Hood ( 1982 ) nevertheless gives us a salutary reminder that the Minoans lived in a world where might was right , where Egyptian rulers boasted of their subjugation of foreigners , of the cities and territories they had sacked and laid waste , and where Hittite kings boasted of holding their lands ‘ with a strong arm ’ , and of capturing the idols of their enemies .
9 In addition , Franco would appoint the members of a Council of the Realm , to which his successor would eventually be responsible , and would also designate a Council of Regency , which would take his place until a successor was chosen , in the event that the Caudillo died without naming one .
10 The House of Lords accepted evidence that the NSPCC relied on anonymous informants for much of its work in child protection and held that the public interest in informants coming forward with information outweighed the parents ' interest in being able to sue a malicious busybody .
11 The investigators found no evidence that the Maya returned to the San Antonio locality to farm during Classic times , which , they suggest would probably have been impractical because of increased coastal flooding .
12 Perhaps Lord Ashley-Cooper was so horrified that he moved to another property , for there is evidence that the Manor reverted to being a tenanted farmhouse and remained thus until it was sold by the Shaftesburys in 1912 to Colonel Canning .
13 Overall , there was little evidence that the SMR varied with the age at diagnosis ( χ 2 2 =2.8 , NS ) .
14 There was another knock on the door ; a signal that the T'ang acknowledged with a few words of Mandarin .
15 It was this example that the AfDB had in mind when , in 1990 , it turned down the Cameroon road project .
16 It is a fair assumption that the CBI knows at least as much about manufacturing as the hon. Lady does , and she will see a commendation of the Government 's policy in the 1980s and a firm recommendation that it should continue .
17 It is part of the risk that the SDA takes in evaluating this type of equity , and it goes on all the time .
18 It was this fantastic history that the Shah celebrated at Persepolis in 1971 .
19 They treated little embarrassments such as their role in the gradual destruction of the ozone layer in the same way that the Vatican dealt with internal corruption : by brushing it under the carpet and pretending it never existed .
20 And it was in trying for another way that the CIA let in people like Monzer al-Kassar and , without meaning to , set up the whole Lockerbie scenario .
21 This does not preclude the possibility that the Woodvilles turned against their former ally in 1483 and cynically excluded Gloucester from the protectorship in order to secure more power for themselves .
22 This does not preclude the possibility that the Woodvilles turned against their former ally in 1483 and cynically excluded Gloucester from the protectorship in order to secure more power for themselves .
23 It wants to give tourism back to the GLC , yet the only contribution that the GLC made to tourism was to destabilise and almost destroy the London tourist board .
24 He is tall with an elongated , finely made face , a Masai face , lending some weight to the myth that the Masai came from the Nile .
25 A prototype for this already exists in an Interim Agreement that the US signed with France , West Germany and Britain last November .
26 At least that was the diagnosis that the MO gave in the listless heat of the monsoon .
27 Another , and most potent force , was the development of new forms of international money and international debt ( summarized by the term Eurodollars ) which are outside the control of any national economy so that the hegemonic power that the US exercised through the international use of its currency was undermined .
28 Indeed , the company 's relocation package recognised the fact that the Thames acted as a barrier to relocation for the Kent-based employees and made provision for them to make four paid visits to view accommodation .
29 They were not properly cared for , and by May this year there was widespread malnutrition in the camps — despite the fact that the UNHCR provided for an assumed 600,000 refugees , almost double the true number .
30 Maybe it 's the fact that the Goliath retailed at around £60 with a plywood case that made its demise inevitable , even without the attentions of C.F.Martin .
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