Example sentences of "of [det] [noun] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | We tested for a mating preference for large crests by comparing the attractiveness of models with short crests to the same models with crest feathers lengthened ( Fig. 1 ) , using three models of each sex to ensure that responses were not biased by unique characteristics of any one specimen . |
| 2 | It is the responsibility of each candidate to ensure that his script is received by an invigilator . |
| 3 | Therefore he places emphasis on the importance of each country ensuring that factor prices reflect scarcities , thus ensuring that new technology will always develop in the most efficient market-led directions . |
| 4 | The Problem Administrator ( a member of the Computer Group ) will monitor the progress of each problem to ensure that action is being taken . |
| 5 | The independent adjustment of each side meant that jaws could also be positioned at infinitely varying angles , and the grooves on the inside faces of the maws were useful for clamping copper or plastic pipe or dowelling when cutting . |
| 6 | ‘ such a policy of insurance or security ’ The prosecution must show that the insurance , if any is produced , does not conform to the requirements of section 143 , Road Traffic Act 1988 , as section 147 ( 1 ) of that Act requires that for a policy to be effective , the insurers must deliver a certificate in the prescribed form to the assured . |
| 7 | Section 24(1) of that Act says that the BR Board , among other things , |
| 8 | If an abatement notice , served in compliance with s.93 of the 1936 Act , is not complied with at the expiry of the specified time , or the local authority thinks that the nuisance , although abated , is likely to recur , s.94(1) of that Act provides that it is the duty of the local authority to institute summary proceedings for a nuisance order , in order to obtain compliance with the notice or otherwise abatement of the nuisance . |
| 9 | Section 2(2) of that Act provides that regulations may be made ‘ for the purpose of implementing any Community obligation of the United Kingdom or for the purpose of dealing with matters arising out of or related to any such obligation . ’ |
| 10 | Section 3(1) of that Act provides that in the action such damages , other than damages for bereavement , may be awarded as are proportioned for the injury resulting from the death to the dependants respectively , and the amount so recovered , after deducting the costs not recovered from the defendant , is to be divided among the dependants in such shares as may be directed . |
| 11 | We have the additional reference in The Recluse ( see p. 109 ) and a further reading of that poem shows that the Wordsworths approached Grasmere in a mood of mystical elation verging on trance . |
| 12 | McCreery had already by the afternoon of that day recognised that the question of what should be done about the Croats posed a particular problem . |
| 13 | A note in a dated 1 Sha'ban 963/10 June 1556 concerning the number of to be appointed in the of that year mentions that four new each are to be accepted from the kadis of Istanbul , Edirne , Bursa and Egypt and two each from the kadis of Damascus , Aleppo and Baghdad . |
| 14 | The London Gazette in June of that year declared that ‘ a Paper of Advertisements will be forthwith printed apart , and recommended to the Publick by another hand . ’ |
| 15 | part of part of the erm part of that issue says that of course all the prices that he 's got . |
| 16 | There is no hook of that size manufactured that has the strength to withstand the pull of an 8lb line , which is thicker in diameter than the hook itself . |
| 17 | The principle of holidays with pay had been extended to an estimated million and a half manual workers in Britain by the beginning of the 1920s , but the economic recession of that decade meant that this figure remained relatively static until the late 1930s . |
| 18 | The authors of that report accepted that there is a theoretical limit of 2–3 weeks in explicit prediction of day-to-day fluctuations in weather because of the influence of small-scale turbulence within the large-scale dynamics ; such limits imply that medium and long-term prediction must inevitably be stochastic . |
| 19 | A recent review of that book suggested that any connection is superficial rather than essential . |
| 20 | Anyone who has read about the cultural life of that period knows that Diaghilev 's Russian Ballet created a sensation throughout pre-1914 western Europe . |
| 21 | The absence of new gilt issues for a period from 1988 to 1991 and the steeply inverted yield curve for much of that time meant that the eurosterling bond market developed strongly . |
| 22 | The North Devon HA took clinical advice in assessing this individual case and on the basis of that advice decided that this ECR was not a high priority for funding . |
| 23 | Jones ' record of that meeting notes that ‘ None of these dates were questioned or challenged by Fleischmann and Pons or anyone present , nor did anyone raise any questions about the proposal-review process . |
| 24 | The shareholders of the holding company entered into a shareholders ' agreement which stated that it had precedence over the Articles of Association , and clause 3 of that agreement provided that " no further share capital shall be created or issued in the company … without the written consent of each of the parties hereto " . |
| 25 | Subsection ( 2 ) of that section says that ‘ equity security ’ means ‘ a relevant share ’ in the company ( other than one taken by a subscriber to the memorandum or a bonus share ) or the right to subscribe for or convert into ‘ relevant shares ’ in the company . |
| 26 | SIR — The history of resistance to antimalarial drugs has been accompanied by a parallel move of resistance of some researchers to admit that it may be so . |
| 27 | Almost anybody who is offered an honour of some kind indicates that he has had a period of anxious , nay tortured reflection , but somehow inexorably arrives at the conclusion that duty demands — duty to his family , his wife , his children , his bank manager — that he should accept the honour . |
| 28 | This effect , Honey and Hall ( 1990 ) suggested , might derive from the action of some opponent process that comes into play with the repeated presentation of the shock . |
| 29 | Ewan had heard of some research projects that made him very uncomfortable about these people 's future . |
| 30 | Altogether the timing and pattern of this increase suggests that it is connected with an increase , shift or change in habits of a continental population , rather than the British . |