Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] that [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The private members ’ motions with the most signatures were discussed , including Higton 's proposal that ministers in gay relationships should be sacked . |
| 2 | Nor did Alexander accept Lanskoi 's opinion that members of the new committee ought to be " convinced of the need to move towards a new order " . |
| 3 | Bell , the Company 's Managing Director , explained why it was in the interests of the Company 's policyholders that levels of reversionary bonuses not only had regard to the investment outlook but also preserved the Company 's ability to invest freely so that its total performance would not be adversely affected . |
| 4 | Although clearly based on what was observable in her work , the conception of O'Keeffe 's art that critics like Mannes and McBride infused into the criticism of the late 1920s did little to lessen the appeal of the Stieglitz-generated ideas they contradicted . |
| 5 | Moore 's claim that definitions of ethical expressions in naturalistic terms commit the ‘ naturalistic fallacy ’ long continued to be a main influence on moral philosophy in the English speaking world . |
| 6 | There was some substance , none the less , to Gorbachev 's claim that relations between the two countries were entering a ‘ qualitatively new stage ’ , and he suggested several ways in which such relations could be carried further , including a new ‘ liquid coal ’ pipeline , a new ‘ silk way ’ from China to Europe , and various forms of inter-regional cooperation . |
| 7 | She remembered Alain Gebrec 's warning that parts of it were unstable ; a vision of the shattered body of Wolfgang Klein swam before her eyes , her stomach contracted and her legs turned to cotton wool . |
| 8 | Dr Frankie Walters , chairman of the local medical committee and a general practitioner in west Newcastle , agrees with Boyle 's analysis that relationships between general practitioners and social workers have not always been good . |
| 9 | Hart then moves on to consider Devlin 's assertion that attacks upon , or threats to , the established morality of a society , are also attacks upon , and threaten the continued existence of , that society . |
| 10 | Harvey Wood , of the Clean Rivers Trust , told a Parliamentary launch of the group 's report that areas at risk include north Nottinghamshire , South Wales , Staffordshire and Lancashire . |
| 11 | Sir : It seems clear from Sarah Helm 's report that members of SPUC and the Parliamentary Pro-Life Group , are determined to use the debates on the forthcoming Embryo Research Bill as though embryo experimentation and abortion can be considered together . |
| 12 | They especially liked Israel 's affirmations that negotiations on the final status of the occupied territories would be based on UN Security Council Resolution 242 , the 1967 land-for-peace document that all the Arab delegations regard as holy writ . |
| 13 | Rarely can St Augustine 's dictum that bands of brigands are but petty kingdoms without justice ( City of God , iv , 4 ) have been so easily comprehended as in the eleventh century . |
| 14 | He constantly ignored Bolingbroke 's maxim that Members of Parliament are like hounds that grow fond of the leader ‘ who shows them game and by whose halloo they are used to be encouraged . ’ |
| 15 | It was only after Olivier 's death that details of his gay relationships emerged . |
| 16 | In addition , the growth of the new middle class of managerial , professional and clerical workers appears to contradict Marx 's view that divisions among those without wealth would disappear . |
| 17 | We therefore dispute van Maanen 's view that researchers on the police have to be male ( 1981 : 480 ) , in order to be able to participate fully in the masculine occupational and leisure culture of the police . |
| 18 | I share the hon. Gentleman 's view that talks on political development constitute a contribution to moving towards stabilisation and peace in the Province . |
| 19 | Phillips also contradicts Clarke 's view that cuts of £28 million forced on the Science and Engineering Research Council are the result of ‘ reckless overcommitment ’ by the SERC . |
| 20 | Despite this short-term hiccup , it is the Henley Centre 's view that prospects for the leisure sector will remain buoyant overall . |
| 21 | Shaikh Hamad 's observation that borders within the Arab world should remain as they were at independence was , however , interpreted as an indication of Bahrain 's continued claim to the islands . |
| 22 | It can be related to Sinclair 's observation that examples of English are sometimes given which the analysis of actual data reveals do not in fact occur ( see page 76 ) . |
| 23 | Temple rejected , though , the weavers ' complaint that clothiers in general " load them with intolerable weights and starve them by stoppages " . |