Example sentences of "that a [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For XOOX , on the other hand , the species is the only one that contains a mixture of isotopes , so that a sample made from scrambled dioxygen will give three peaks rather than four , and six peaks . |
| 2 | Polis life was further advanced there — Pindar speaks of ‘ the cities ’ of the Aleuads — and Greek inscriptions go back to earlier dates ( extant ones start c .550 , L. H. Jeffery ( 1961 ) Local Scripts of Archaic Greece , p. 98 , no. 1 , a sacred law ; and Pausanias ( x. 16 ) says that a statue dedicated by a Thessalian called Echekratidas was the first dedication ever made at Delphi ) . |
| 3 | In many cases , the community 's total landholdings were divided , so that a share known as the mensa ( " the table " ) was earmarked for the community 's maintenance , the rest being available for the lay-abbot 's management and the king 's service . |
| 4 | It is not in my view surprising that a principle enunciated in relation to the rigours of seafaring life during the Napoleonic wars should be subjected during the succeeding 180 years to a process of refinement and limitation in its application in the present day . |
| 5 | He said that a levy assessed on arrears could not work because of the problem of defining arrears and basing the levy on the amount outstanding was unfair because of the different types of debt such as an £80,000 mortgage or £100 weekly collection . |
| 6 | I sat down with LIFE and worked through their philosophy , erm in line with our own as it were , and they agreed , and I would ask them to agree this year that any paperwork or any leaflets they distribute make it very clear that a choice remains for a woman in terms of whether or not she should have an abortion , because LIFE is fairly , yes , Michael ? |
| 7 | In the convention used here , a plus sign signifies that a response was obtained at onset at that position , a minus sign that a response occurred at offset , and O means that no response was obtained there or outside that position . |
| 8 | ( a ) he is not guilty of murder by reason only of the fact that a defence provided by s.56 ( diminished responsibility ) , 58 ( provocation ) or 59 ( use of excessive force ) applies ; or |
| 9 | Suppose that a contract to sell at a given price for a specified period is , for whatever reason , advantageous to both buyers and sellers . |
| 10 | We have seen that a contract made during an unsolicited visit is cancellable . |
| 11 | increase agreement reached at the end of June , 1973 , and if it be right to regard this as having been reached under a kind of duress in the form of economic pressure , then what is said in Chitty on Contracts ( 24th ed. ) , para. 442 , to which both counsel referred me , is relevant , namely that a contract entered into under duress is voidable and not void |
| 12 | It became clear , for example , that a contract signed without the artist having had independent legal advice was virtually unenforceable . |
| 13 | It was just after 9 p.m. that a PC arrived from the railway station carrying a small brown envelope , which Morse accepted with delight , smiling radiantly at Lewis but saying nothing as he slit open the top and looked briefly inside . |
| 14 | It suggests that a society based on meritocratic principles may not be well integrated . |
| 15 | The word ‘ ransom ’ seems to indicate that a price had to be paid to God in order that he would free people from their sins . |
| 16 | Using techniques developed in the aeronautics industry it can assess the complex structure of particles applied to canvas , and by reconstituting the tensions that a painting suffers in each area can simulate an image of the canvas when attacked by different elements . |
| 17 | Thus McNair , writing in the post-Charter era , asserted that a State that becomes aware that a treaty concluded between other States will impair its rights can make diplomatic protests and , if it can establish jurisdiction , commence proceedings before the International Court , or take other steps in pursuance of a peaceful settlement to the dispute . |
| 18 | The corporation may argue that a direction given to it by the National Rivers Authority to improve water is unreasonable . |
| 19 | The score being assigned by the syntax analyser is the syntactic belief that a word belongs in the input . |
| 20 | She did remember that a word sounding like ‘ sewers ’ was uttered , and it puzzled her to think why anyone should be ringing in the middle of the night to enquire about the state of the sewers . |
| 21 | The argument is often that a classification designed in the South ( no matter what alterations exist for Shetland ) does not take specifically local conditions and local interests into account . |
| 22 | The Suffolk police had begun hunting up previous owners of Wyvis Hall and they had been alerted that a Verne-Smith lived in their area . |
| 23 | The ground resolution of a TM image is such that a pixel has about a 30 m side , which seems appropriate for the scale of analysis used . |
| 24 | Assume that a loop lying in the x , y plane ( dimensions shown in Fig. 4.14 ) moves with a uniform velocity v in the direction of the positive y axis . |
| 25 | Not so long ago the most that a motorist did with his car on Sunday was wash it . |
| 26 | Imagine that a razor supplied by manufacturer A in February 1989 is bought from a retailer in June 1991 and when used in July 1991 cuts the user 's face when slid sideways across it . |
| 27 | Last week The Northern Echo disclosed details of a document suggesting that a company run by TEC chairman Les Bell was hoping to pay a school leaver £29.50 for a 50 hour week . |
| 28 | The problem in today 's computer industry is that a company needs to be not just adequately well run but superbly well run to turn in acceptable numbers : Hewlett-Packard Co , now doing over $16,000m of business has 20,000 fewer employees than Digital Equipment Corp , which is still stuck at around $14,500m . |
| 29 | Will the right hon. Gentleman now acknowledge that a system based on the highest bid was always likely to undermine the quality and variety of British television ? |
| 30 | Kenneth Baker has decreed that all new cable systems must be compatible , so that a system laid in one part of the country will interface with the systems laid in other parts . |