Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] [that] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority believe that it is up to the Government to kick-start the housing market again . |
| 2 | Has the Prince forgotten that it was the French farmers who attacked British lorry drivers and burned their cargoes of lamb ? |
| 3 | The only other alternative would be for the court to disregard one of the clauses and hold that one party had , by conduct , accepted the other party 's terms and waived its own , including the provision providing that it should not be taken as accepting any other terms . |
| 4 | There will always , however , be a few cases in which the clinician thinks that it is inappropriate to ask for organs . |
| 5 | In a memo ( signature illegible ) to the assistant chief of naval staff dated two months after the sinking of the Bismarck , the writer said that it had ‘ unofficially ’ come to his notice that an Ensign Smith of the U S Navy was in the Catalina aircraft that had resighted the Bismarck , then en route to Brest , two days after British naval forces had lost contact with her ; and that an Ensign Rinehart was in another searching Catalina . |
| 6 | No auditor can conduct an audit which is both effective and efficient unless he/she has a good working relationship with the client company 's directors , but it is crucial that the auditor remembers that it is not the directors who are the client , but the company itself . |
| 7 | At the conclusion of the hearing the Board intimated that it would humbly advise Her Majesty that the appeal should be dismissed , for reasons which it would subsequently deliver . |
| 8 | The Board recognises that it is both impracticable and inappropriate to remove , in the foreseeable future , some of the remaining alternative accounting treatments permitted . |
| 9 | The Board reported that it had established management objectives and expressed confidence that the introduction of new management techniques , in many cases building on work in hand , would lead to significant improvements in the speed and quality of service and efficiency . |
| 10 | The Board claimed that it owned the land by virtue of a private Act of Parliament , the British Railways Act 1968 . |
| 11 | Analysis of the radioactivity within the seaweed indicates that it had been discharged from Sellafield within the past 12 months or so . |
| 12 | Its rather strange style finds its nearest parallels in the third quarter of the century , and primitive elements in the technique suggest that it is an early piece of its kind . |
| 13 | The special nature of the facts of the case mean that it has a very narrow reading and for this reason might amount to nothing more than an amalgam of common law duties not to be dishonest . |
| 14 | Second , the text shows that it was important to know whether the general clause applied or not . |
| 15 | The difficulty is that the grammar of the disposition suggests that it should be the curator , but the reference to ‘ his , nurses can surely be meant to refer only to the foster-child ; and the last sentence of the text confirms that it is the foster-child who is intended . |
| 16 | The clerk argued that it was not a " competent application " . |
| 17 | The Government 's desire to assist charities is seen in concessions to individuals , such as Gift Aid , payroll giving and covenants , but the Chairman remarked that it makes no sense if the Institution has to hand the money back , and more through Value Added Tax . |
| 18 | The taxpayer contended that it was necessary , before the Revenue could succeed , for the Revenue to show that there was an element of bounty . |
| 19 | Indeed , the election indicates that it is unpopular among the mass of voters , and the Tories ' clear opposition to it helped their victory . |
| 20 | A spokeswoman for the ministry said that it had seen a draft of the report earlier in the year and had felt that it had made ‘ inappropriate use ’ of the generalised derived limits . |
| 21 | The ministry said that it intended to go ahead with the slaughter of the flock ‘ as soon as possible ’ . |
| 22 | The Ministry said that it would refrain from slaughtering the birds until the ruling on Tuesday . |
| 23 | Our journeys on the whiteboard suggest that it holds the key to our concepts of beauty . |
| 24 | Commenting on the move in an editorial on March 7 , The Hindu said that it marked " the logical culmination of one stage in V.P. Singh 's effort to eliminate corruption in the upper reaches of government and restore the integrity of the decision making process " [ see p. 37184 for initiation in January 1990 of criminal proceedings in Bofors corruption case ] . |
| 25 | Commenting on the assassination in its editorial of May 21 The Hindu stated that it was " difficult to assert at this stage if … |
| 26 | If the guardian believes that it would assist the court to see all or any of the records or documents he has inspected he must notify the court ( FPCR , r11(9) ( b ) ; FPR , r4.11(9) ( b ) ) . |
| 27 | The vicar insisted that it would mean wearing the uniform his people would recognise , and that included the surplice . |
| 28 | The story goes that it was a very merry party — maybe they were celebrating being able to get in the hay after a bad spell — and they stepped on the bridge to enjoy some music , a very Tallentire thing to do . |
| 29 | In practice , it is standard for agreements to seek to exclude any liability for pre-contractual representations by including entire agreement provisions under which the acquirer confirms that it is not relying on any representations , etc. other than those included in the agreement . |
| 30 | It is selectively impaired by lesions involving subcortical visual relays but detailed analysis of the deficit shows that it is probably due to a mild impairment in detecting contrast similar to that obtained with small cortical lesions ( Legg 1988 ; Legg and Cowey 1977 ; Legg and Turkish 1983 ) . |