Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [adv] [verb] [that] " in BNC.

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1 The circulars also recommended that those respectable aged who , for reasons of infirmity or lack of friends or family to care for them , required institutional care , should be allowed greater comforts in the workhouse .
2 The contracts typically say that the decision of the expert is to be final and binding , and that is what the courts say it has to be , in the absence of fraud , partiality or mistake .
3 It 's taken the club a couple of years to get its youth policy back on track , but all the signs now suggest that the current crop of teenagers is the most promising since John Robertson , Gary Mackay and David Bowman came through the ranks in the early Eighties .
4 ( The courts finally decided that Indiana state law governed the purchase but examined Swiss law because important parts of the transaction had taken place in Switzerland ) .
5 The tide appeared to be shifting back to this higher test for in two cases ( at least ) the courts expressly adopted that criteria and disapproved of Lord Hewart C.J. 's formulation .
6 First , in what may be termed classic jurisdictional fact cases such as ‘ if a furnished tenancy , or resources , etc. , exist , you may … ’ the courts well presume that the term , if it is classified as a jurisdictional fact , has a meaning which will be determined by the judiciary and not by the public body .
7 When interpreting statutes the courts often announce that they are trying to discover ‘ the intention of the legislature . ’
8 The courts now hold that any of America 's 50 states can snub new nuclear plants for economic or technological reasons unrelated to the safety or cost of the reactor itself .
9 It is equally astonishing that the Germans never guessed that we were breaking the Enigma code .
10 The evidence of the coins again proves that the recoinage was effected .
11 Since the caterpillars have very bright distinctive colours , the birds quickly recognise that they are inedible and leave them alone .
12 Four pages later , when writing about Aylesbury Bridewell , he said , ‘ the prisoners here wished that the magistrates had made rules also for them ’ ( Howard 1792 : 149 ) .
13 But the functionalists also argue that the ideology which informs the common law approach is hostile to the positive aims of modern government , that the judiciary display a philosophical , cultural , or political bias when reviewing administrative action and therefore that new institutions with new personnel are required to develop a new jurisprudence for the modern age .
14 The Burgundians thought that eating too many potatoes caused leprosy , the Prussians believed that they were responsible for the dreaded consumption , whilst the Russians simply said that they were food sent from the devil .
15 The project was a complete success in that the Russians never suspected that their Moscow traffic was being read .
16 By ‘ blimpish ’ The Times presumably means that the directors it so describes show an obstinate and blinkered lack of concern for the national economic interest , and persist in pursuing what they judge to be the more immediate interests of the companies they direct .
17 Indeed , many of the groups actually felt that their own efforts were " neater " , more " polished " and had more all-round " literary merit " .
18 The cases below demonstrate that adverse possession usually concerns either existing landowners who gradually add a bit on to their gardens ( " boundary cases " ) or city homeless ( the " threat to law and order " cases ) who resort to squatting as necessary for living as well as , perhaps , for ideological reasons .
19 No , sire , I 'm afraid the rules clearly state that once a vote is taken , it is irrefutable . ’
20 The researchers also found that very low concentrations of a synthetic oestrogen hormone found in contraceptive pills affected fish in the same way .
21 The researchers therefore concluded that cigarette smoking was an independent risk factor for the development of premature wrinkling .
22 So construed , a specific issue order means what the cognoscenti always thought that it meant but , since one member of the other group , the ‘ incognoscenti , ’ perhaps was a bit puzzled by it in the first place , I thought it was worthwhile to clarify the matter on this occasion .
23 The authorities plainly establish that he need not and can not do so .
24 The authorities also claimed that an ( unnamed ) foreign state had helped opposition members in exile to communicate with the conspirators , who had planned to seize Khartoum state and the principal towns of Eastern state .
25 449 at 451 , Cockburn C.J. said : The authorities clearly establish that if an agreement is made to compromise a disputed claim , forbearance to sue in respect of that claim is good consideration ; and whether proceedings to enforce the disputed claim have or have not been instituted makes no difference .
26 The authorities evidently feared that Westerners would reinforce protest demonstrators in the city .
27 The authorities later specified that certain French residents in Chad were under suspicion in connection with the Feb. 21 incident , and on March 31 the French government repatriated " for security reasons " four French citizens working on official co-operation projects .
28 The authorities now maintained that the bombing was an act of revenge for the April 1986 raid on Tripoli by US aircraft [ see pp. 34454-59 ] and that available evidence indicated sole Libyan responsibility .
29 Whether Dixon J. 's analysis is right or wrong , the authorities certainly demonstrate that , as Cussen J. put it in Bank of Victoria Ltd. v. Mueller [ 1925 ] V.L.R. 642 , 651 :
30 Yemen was already housing some 50,000 Somali and Ethiopian refugees and the authorities there said that their resources , especially health care provision , were overstretched .
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