Example sentences of "[verb] that the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She began inching towards him , hugging the face of the cliff , praying that the rock beneath her would hold . |
| 2 | A World Bank spokesman responded to the leak by denying that the memo in any way represented Bank policy , and adding that it had been written in a deliberately ironic tone in order to provoke internal debate within the organization . |
| 3 | He might not have thought he deserved the Man of the Match award on Wednesday night , but there can be no denying that the return of Gascoigne has transformed Taylor 's England from a farce to a force . |
| 4 | Nevertheless there is no denying that the threat of removal has radically altered the relationship between chairmen and committee members . |
| 5 | If this seems too severe , there is no denying that the development of the industrial co-operative sector has had little reason over the years to feel grateful to the Consumer Movement . |
| 6 | In taking this view we are not denying that the loss of liberty may actually be necessary in a few extreme cases and this should only be where the child presents a significant danger to him or herself or where there is a significant risk of major further offending and severe damage to community . |
| 7 | In an essay written with Watt in 1963 ( in Goody , ed. 1968 ) , Goody sets out to counter-balance the relativism of his colleagues in anthropology which , he feels , ‘ has now gone to the point of denying that the distinction between non-literate and literate societies has any significant validity ’ . |
| 8 | The report disclosed that the Ministry of Agriculture monitoring programme for the lake had been seriously inaccurate . |
| 9 | A month ago its chairman Paul Torday , a former Northern CBI chairman , disclosed that the cost of its defence amounted to £653,000 . |
| 10 | ( 3 ) That ( per Lord Mackay of Clashfern L.C. and Lord Griffiths ) on the true construction of section 63 of the Finance Act 1976 the taxpayers were assessable on the extra cost of providing the benefit , and from the point of view of expense incurred it could not be said that its provision involved significant extra cost to the school ; that ( Lord Mackay of Clashfern L.C. dissenting ) reference should be made to Hansard to resolve the ambiguity in section 63 , and that the Parliamentary history disclosed that the Act of 1976 was passed on the basis that the effect of sections 61 and 63 thereof was to assess in-house benefits , and particularly concerning education for teachers ' children , on the marginal costs to the employer and not on a proportion of the total costs incurred in providing the service both for the public and the employee ; and that section 63 should be construed accordingly ( post , pp. 1036C–E , F–G , 1039B , C , G , 1040B , 1042C–D , 1063A , H — 1064A , C , 1067A ) . |
| 11 | The Saturday Evening Post scoop was relayed to British newspapers which quoted from the article and disclosed that the head of MI5 was Sir Martin Furnival-Jones . |
| 12 | ( ’ Subjective' here has nothing to do with ethical subjectivism ; it is generally supposed that the existence of this subjective obligation is an objective fact . ) |
| 13 | It is supposed that the ratio between the actual and predicted hospital mortalities , a value known as the standardised mortality ratio ( SMR ) , can be used to compare ICUs , but the following example illustrates the problem . |
| 14 | Only the most starry-eyed optimist could have supposed that the Union of the Crowns and then , at last , the Act of Union in 1707 making the two countries one would somehow bring immediate peace in a region with such memories . |
| 15 | Eliot seems to have ignored these suggestions because for him the physical and social landscape of London was no more than a screen on which to project a phantasmagoria that expressed his own personal disorders and desperations ( partly sexual , as one might expect , and as the drafts make clear ) ; whereas Pound seems to have supposed that the subject of the poem was London in all its historical and geographical actuality , much as the city of Dublin was from one point of view the subject of Joyce 's Ulysses . |
| 16 | I would have supposed that the question in Reg. v. Lawrence was whether appropriation necessarily involved an absence of consent . |
| 17 | I would have supposed that the question in Reg. v. Lawrence was whether appropriation necessarily involved an absence of consent . |
| 18 | Contrary , however , to the view of Lord Roskill in Morris , Lawrence was a case in Parker LJ 's view very much concerned with appropriation : " I would have supposed that the question in Lawrence 's case was whether appropriation necessarily involved an absence of consent . " |
| 19 | Culyer and Brazier ( 1988 ) described the Enthoven model but argued that ‘ since it is usually supposed that the competition for contracts would not be restricted to NHS institutions we prefer the term ‘ provider markets ’ to the more usual ‘ internal markets ’ ’ . |
| 20 | It might be supposed that the loss of his ships , with Grágás his flagship among them , was the greatest single blow that a sea-lord such as Thorfinn might receive . |
| 21 | In the example here it might plausibly be supposed that the age of the pupils might well influence attainment or otherwise modify the effect of the causal factor . |
| 22 | Their administrators had too readily supposed that the pleasure of kicking a ball across a stretch of grass was an acceptable substitute for the real danger and excitement of a raid . |
| 23 | Dalgliesh thought of him as a type of police officer less common than formerly but still not rare ; the conscientious and incorruptible detective of limited imagination and somewhat greater intelligence who had never supposed that the evil of the world should be condoned because it was frequently inexplicable and its perpetrators unfortunate . |
| 24 | To take the British example , I would hazard that the ratio of real balances to total private sector net worth is less than 1% ( see Dow and Saville ( 1988 ) for a breakdown of the constituent parts of private sector wealth ) . |
| 25 | On the existing assets , the statisticians suggest that the allowance for depreciation should be £134m . |
| 26 | They suggest that the models may be linked , and further suggest that the direction of the causal link between participation and satisfaction is not entirely clear : possibly satisfaction leads to participation and not vice versa . |
| 27 | Several reports also suggest that the absorption of other nutrients than water , such as hexoses , amino acids , and fatty acids , are decreased in the inflamed jejunum . |
| 28 | These data suggest that the selection of a relative who gives moral support is related partly to the composition of the kin group and partly to the quality of a particular relationship over a long period of time . |
| 29 | The preceding chapters of this Report suggest that the outlook for music in the Church of England is an uncertain and , in many ways , disturbing one . |
| 30 | But the facts strongly suggest that the current of liberation really began to flow in 1953 , the year not only of the Kinsey Report but of two significant debuts : those of James Bond and Playboy . |