Example sentences of "the [noun] [to-vb] that [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a court is considering whether a provision does or does not cover X the rule will not admit the parliamentary history of the provision to demonstrate that at no stage in the parliamentary proceedings was there any suggestion that the provision covered X. It remains to be seen how long judges in the United Kingdom will be able to require negative evidence from parliamentary material to establish that an admissible statement is an expression of parliamentary intention , but exclude such evidence as an aid to construction . |
| 2 | Times were changing ; the popes had abolished the use of chrism in the imperial anointing , had denied the authority of kings over priests ; the time would shortly come when the popes themselves claimed to be vicars of Christ , and interpreted the phrase to mean that in the last analysis all earthly authority was mediated through them , not through kings . |
| 3 | ‘ It is simply wrong for the Government to suggest that on the basis of these raw figures it 's possible to make valid comparisons . ’ |
| 4 | The hare , either out of forgetfulness or malice , distorted the message to say that as the Moon rose and died away so Man should die and rise no more . |
| 5 | ‘ It is important for the churches to realise that in a pluralistic , secularised society they can not exert influence by moral or dogmatic dictates ’ , the report stressed . |
| 6 | Even though we have just proved the equivalence of the concepts of primeness and of irreducibility in Z we ask the reader to note that in the following theorem the concept of irreducibility is associated with the existence of a decomposition of the asserted kind whereas the property of primeness is used to establish the uniqueness of this decomposition . |
| 7 | It will probably not surprise the reader to learn that at the outset of the course serious gaps in participants ' knowledge were identified . |