Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today the branch chairman said that had Mr Taylor tried again , he might have faced a similar rebellion . |
| 2 | Thus S. M. Lipset wrote that " The distinctive and most valuable element of democracy is the formation of a political elite in the competitive struggle for the vote of a mainly passive electorate . " |
| 3 | If a computer salesman claims that the computer he is selling will run a particular software package and this claim turns out to be untrue , it will be for the company selling the computer to show that any exemption clause it hopes to rely on passes the test of reasonableness . |
| 4 | Defence counsel contended that its only effect on any but a minute lunatic fringe of readers would be horror , revulsion and pity . |
| 5 | In one case , it was said that ‘ it was the 15-year-old girl who was the dominant partner in the relationship ’ with a 28-year-old woman separated from her husband , while in the other case ‘ a pretty 15-year-old schoolgirl skipped lessons to have a lesbian love affair ’ ; however the defence counsel said that her mother had told police she thought there was nothing wrong with a lesbian relationship and ‘ if it had not been for the age of the young lady , none of us would be here today ’ . |
| 6 | The defence counsel said that appeals would be made against the verdicts . |
| 7 | Defence counsel stated that Adams had made a full admission . |
| 8 | The old case authorities suggest that the nature of a share as property does not prevent such a course , but the more modern cases seem to incline towards some restrictions upon the use of votes where there is a conflict of interest involved . |
| 9 | In response Kosygin admitted that ‘ they may not be hurting us , but they give us no pleasure either ’ . |
| 10 | Trying to get an edge — which will count for very little unless the price is right , the IBM Personal Computer Co says that all its new business-oriented personal computers will be designed to comply with the most comprehensive worldwide health , safety and ergonomic standards by year-end : the promise covers desktop and floor-standing units , displays and keyboards ; it claims it will also be the first computer manufacturer in the world to test these products for compliance with the International Standards Organisation Standard 9241 , which addresses the health , safety and comfort of display terminal users starting with premium PS/2s . |
| 11 | Continuing changes in university funding meant that finding an alternative source of financing the care of the Torrie collection and the university 's other artworks was essential , Dr Macmillan said . |
| 12 | The causal direction hypothesis predicts that performance will be better on the causal task than on the temporal task . |
| 13 | Animal protection groups claim that the EC cosmetic industry accounts for about 50000 of the 200000 tests carried out worldwide on animals . |
| 14 | The BASS course board found that the older non-traditional students were high risk especially in the over 35 age group . |
| 15 | He subsequently received letters from CSRG and university counsel claiming that all the work he had contributed to Berkeley since NET2 was ‘ University proprietary , ’ a phrase he had never heard before . |
| 16 | The Queen 's Bench Division Direction says that the wording must be specific , and if prescribing unpleasant consequences unless a particular act is done , the order must make clear the precise period within which the act is to be done except that unless the court otherwise specifies , no time need be specified in the case of judgments or orders for the payment of money , for possession of land , or the delivery of goods ; in those cases , the order , unless some time is specified , may be enforced immediately . |
| 17 | This uncompromising line by the main resistance groups implies that the USSR would need to maintain a political and military commitment to any Afghan regime which includes a PDPA component and emerges out of an international settlement . |
| 18 | The scarcity of modern director 's negligence cases suggests that the likelihood of liability actually being imposed is currently minimal . |
| 19 | Review of the case notes showed that coeliac disease had not been considered in any of these patients and the diagnoses that had been made were not supported by satisfactory evidence . |
| 20 | A cross national analysis of data on women in Maternity Care Monitoring Programmes determined that anaemia was twice as prevalent among women of fourth and higher order as among those with three or fewer children . |
| 21 | In it we incredulously quoted a Guardian story suggesting that Bishop Auckland born Meale defending a tiny Labour majority in Mansfield bore a resemblance to Clark Gable . |
| 22 | Mr Lamont 's announcement that St Pancras will be the terminus of the £3 billion Channel rail link implies that international trains to and from Scotland will be much slower than first thought . |
| 23 | In July 1990 , for example , many arbitrageurs who had written futures contracts to buy FTSE 100 Index futures found that they were short of the FTSE contract close to the expiry deadline , and so attempted to reduce share prices to reduce the value of the index . |
| 24 | Defence experts indicated that the incident , which occurred during naval exercises some 80 miles west of Izmir , might have been caused by excessive stress among junior officers prompted by a long spell at sea . |
| 25 | Ageist attitudes ensure that caring for dependent and vulnerable older people is regarded as a low prestige , low priority enterprise by both health professionals and social workers . |
| 26 | These alignment rules mean that such computers do not in fact operate as pure byte-oriented machines , and are a consequence of a way in which the architecture of the computers has been implemented . |
| 27 | South Tees Health Authority will hear on Thursday it may be because teenagers can not always get condoms easily and they do not have the negotiating skills to insist that condoms are used during sexual intercourse . |
| 28 | Nutrition experts hope that after the kids have heard Scott 's message they will abandon the corner chip shop , forsake the packets of crisps and pack in the pot noodles and sweets . |
| 29 | It is said that in the United States the overload of cases and the dominance of the system by plea bargaining mean that the theoretical presumption of innocence is replaced by an actual presumption of guilt in which the costs to the defendant of contesting his or her innocence are frequently overpowering . |
| 30 | Nonetheless , the sharp differences in survival curves between the three comorbidity groups indicate that this simple categorisation was valid . |