Example sentences of "[vb base] that the [noun] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eye-witnesses say that the demonstrators marched on the local government offices and occupied them . |
| 2 | The poet , playwright and painter , Stanislaw Wyspiański ( 1869–1907 ) , saw himself as the bridge over the confused gulf that separated the Polish intelligentsia and the peasantry , the perfect representative of the Young Poland movement that contained all the bitterness of repeated national defeats , all the resignation of patriots who felt they could change nothing , and all the compromised hopes for material change that the Positivists saw in Poland 's potential industrial wealth under foreign rule . |
| 3 | There can be no doubt in anybody 's eyes that the failure of the H S E to enforce the law along with unscrupulous employers , exploiting low inspection rates , mean that the role played by G M B safety reps and those who provide our backup service , are more important than ever before . |
| 4 | The person , who took the report should include the exact words or writing of the report in his evidence and show that the report tended towards an offence having been committed . |
| 5 | This Meeting consider that the sum appropriated for the Steam Boat last year would be best disposed of by carrying on works of utility to the Island … " |
| 6 | ( 2 ) Directing that the money remain in court , that , where solicitors sought payment out to them of money belonging to a foreign state , if the court was not satisfied that the solicitors had authority to act on behalf of that state , it should , of its own motion if necessary , require them to obtain that authority and ensure that the money remained under the court 's control meanwhile ; that the factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a regime existed as the government of a state were whether it was the constitutional government of the state , the degree , nature and stability of administrative control that it exercised over the territory of the state , whether Her Majesty 's Government had any dealings with it and the nature of any such dealings and , in marginal cases , the extent of its international recognition as the government of the state ; that on the evidence , M. 's interim government did not become the constitutional successor of the former government and was unable to show that if it was exercising any administrative control over the territory of the Republic of Somalia ; and , accordingly , the instructions and authority the solicitors had received from the interim government were not from the Government of the Republic of Somalia , and no part of the proceeds in court should be paid out to the solicitors without further order of the court ( post , pp. 750G–H , 757E–G ) . |
| 7 | Tory campaign managers complain that the BBC concentrated on the negative aspects of the campaign at the expense of the positive . |
| 8 | On the other hand , in Joseph Hone 's W.B. Yeats , 1865–1939 ( 1942 , p.367 ) we read that the Yeatses went to Sicily in November 1924 and stayed for two months , ‘ the attraction there being , besides the sunlight , the presence of Ezra Pound on the island , and the Byzantine mosaics of Monreale and the Capella Palatina at Palermo ’ . |
| 9 | He says we know that the Victorians went to the gentleman 's club in the day and the brothel at night , before going home , but we could take on some of their values . |
| 10 | We know that the stability signified by unchanging buildings is psychologically valuable , particularly in a violent and rapidly changing world . |
| 11 | Whenever you fail to produce desired results , assume that the failure resulted from things you did rather than being caused by other factors that were ‘ beyond your control ’ . |
| 12 | There are still some people who believe that the word began as an acronym : in the Middle Ages , when a couple were convicted of fornication , the bailiff would enter in his book — ‘ For unlawful carnal knowledge ’ , which , as business as brisk and prosecutions plenty , was usually abbreviated to F.u.c.k . |
| 13 | I believe that the world seemed to Modigliani like an enormous kindergarten run by unkind adults . ’ |
| 14 | We speculate that the PTPase encoded by the CL100 gene may play an important regulatory role in the cellular response to adverse environmental challenges , including oxidants and hyperthermia . |
| 15 | Some claim that the spur came from a desire to raise the local content above the 20 per cent achieved by the multinationals ' assembly plants . |
| 16 | Unix Labs ' lawyers claim that the judge came to an incorrect conclusion of law based on an incorrect understanding of the facts over whether 32V Unix should have carried a copyright notice or not . |
| 17 | Not all the birds agree that the cassowary deserved to be treated in this way . |
| 18 | There is not much sign that the King did in fact profit from the sale of offices ; but others certainly could and did . |
| 19 | I notice that the phraseology adopted in each of the orders is different . |