Example sentences of "by the [noun sg] [that] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the problems in this area have now been resolved by the requirement that undertakings by a company not to create subsequent charges having priority to an existing charge have to be registered in the company 's register of charges and this will constitute notice to any person who is taking a charge which also has to be registered . |
| 2 | The main points of the code of practice are enforced in West Lothian , Midlothian and Edinburgh by the requirement that drivers of wheelchair-accessible taxis must attend short training sessions which ensure that drivers are aware of the correct use of ramps , wheelchair restraints and passenger seat belts . |
| 3 | The Soviet Union , for its part , was reportedly attracted by the potential of the Indonesian domestic market and , specifically , by the possibility that restraints on Indonesian military spending might lead to a shift in procurement away from Western armaments to less expensive Soviet ones . |
| 4 | We feel greatly strengthened by the knowledge that women from the different revolutionary organizations have been able to come together and agree on certain basic principles about what we , as women , are fighting for . |
| 5 | Any disappointment he may feel over the delay has been more than compensated for by the news that tickets for this year 's event are already selling fast . |
| 6 | Some were cheered , however , by the news that thanks to lobbying by a group concerned with problems of underdevelopment , ‘ Schema 17 ’ , which treated of the Church and poverty , would be placed at the beginning of session three , to be introduced as soon as the debate on the Church had been completed . |
| 7 | Under a contract of sale , these rules are reflected by the rule that damages for non-delivery or non-acceptance are normally assessed by reference to the market price rule ( SGA 1979 , ss50,51 ) . |
| 8 | However , we were encouraged by the fact that estimates of audit costs for individual jobs were down . |
| 9 | The situation is further complicated by the fact that improvements in health are as much the result of better diet , cleaner air , more sanitary conditions , etc. , as of the health services . |
| 10 | This task is made all the more necessary by the fact that opponents of absolute holism often find it strongly counter-intuitive , not to say absurd ; although they can grasp it at a very general level , they have difficulty in imagining either how it could be developed , or what would make it plausible . |
| 11 | The importance of social class membership in providing access to resources , including income , was demonstrated by the fact that differences between the propensity of those in different classes to retire early increased with distance from pension age . |
| 12 | The political feasibility of dangling before Indians a prize at which they might gaze but which they would never grasp was assured , Irwin told Salisbury , by the fact that Indians in their heart of hearts knew they would always need British administrators to guide them . |
| 13 | For example , the concentration of crime in the lower social class , which was the starting point for all the main sociological theories , could be explained simply by the fact that members of the lower social class were more likely to be selected for labelling . |
| 14 | The reliability of such evidence is shown by the fact that jurors in other counties swore that John had afforested Hewelsfield in the Forest of Dean , and the wood of Ross in Herefordshire , both of which are recorded in Domesday Book as being then within the royal forest . |
| 15 | Interest in the GCR never seems to wane , borne out by the fact that copies of our first volume have all been sold , and correspondence from readers invariably asks for more . |
| 16 | Be that as it may , the intuitive reality of such structures is borne out also by the fact that generations of language teachers have recognized that they have a leading role to play in the initial stages of learning , because of what I have called their valency or combining power . |
| 17 | This conclusion is supported by the fact that changes in the fossil record , even rather rapid ones like the increase in human brain size in the last four million years , were slower by a factor of 1,000 than the rate at which changes can be produced by artificial selection in laboratory populations or domestic animals . |
| 18 | The problem is compounded by the fact that children in the junior school are increasingly expected to read silently , and thus without help . |
| 19 | We are led to the conclusion that 11a is grammatically but not semantically deviant by the fact that substitutes for bake which normalise the sentence ( e.g. shake , forsake ) , as a class , have no distinctive semantic attributes ( that is to say , members of the class share no characteristic patterns of co-occurrence with other open set elements that differentiate them from non-members ) ; however , they do share a grammatical peculiarity , which is that they form their past participles with — en . |
| 20 | It is clear in talking to Walter , as he nears the end of his career , that while he has greatly enjoyed his job working with students , he is saddened by the fact that prospects for young people are not very promising at the present time . |
| 21 | This tripartite distinction , easy to uphold on the grounds of typography , is complicated , however , by the fact that fragments of the italicized Lord 's Prayer passage find themselves brought in from the right-hand margin to form part of the body of the text when , further truncated , they make up the liturgical stutter of |
| 22 | Mendel was led to this conclusion by the fact that individuals with different characteristics appeared in families in fixed ratios . |
| 23 | Her memory of the room had been of a dingy , barrack-like hall with fine plaster swags , marred by the fact that chunks of them had been missing , and they , and the room , not improved by having been painted in a weird mixture of colour : purple , pink , green , ochre , rather like the bike belonging to the old man on the S-Bahn . |
| 24 | Some of these enhancements are also expected to feature in Solaris x86 for Intel iAPX-86 machines — the feature-for-feature implementation of Solaris 2.0 unveiled a couple of weeks ago — by the time that ships in May . |