Example sentences of "that [noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to emphasize that accompaniments based on motifs or , as in the previous section , on brief rhythmic cells , can not be successful unless they are formed from well-sculptured , distinctive material . |
| 2 | There has always been the suspicion that values applied in cultural and moral spheres were far from impartial . |
| 3 | It has certainly been claimed that values associated with ascetic Protestantism provided new motivation for scientific inquiry , particularly in Holland and England during the seventeenth century . |
| 4 | While they acknowledge that the data on their first two questions , as to whether sign languages are understood by foreigners , were mostly self-reports , they conclude that signs used in foreign countries , or even in different parts of the same country , are largely unintelligible in connected discourse . |
| 5 | It held , for example , that Italy was in breach of its obligations under the Treaty when it required that researchers employed by the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche had to be Italians because they were civil service posts . |
| 6 | In Boynton v Richardson 's [ 1924 ] WN 262 , the court said that surveyors appointed under a contract to value timber had to " hold the scales " between the two parties and were quasi-arbitrators , and had to be able to exercise their judgment free from the embarrassment of a possible action for negligence . |
| 7 | The disclosure will fuel suspicions among Opposition MPs and trades unionists that plans supported by the Defence Secretary , Malcolm Rifkind , to transfer nuclear refitting work promised to Rosyth to Devonport , are part of a hidden agenda to close the Fife yard . |
| 8 | He assumes that entities referred to will remain constant , that the temporal setting will remain constant , that the locational setting will remain constant , unless the speaker indicates some change in any of these , in which case the hearer will minimally expand the context . |
| 9 | Analysing your opening to me you were saying that there 's expert evidence that solicitors instructed in the purchase of a property must ask about financial arrangements and advise about them . |
| 10 | It also said that solicitors employed by large companies should not be allowed to appear in higher courts because the fact that they were employed might stop them from showing impartiality and detachment . |
| 11 | An earlier proposal that solicitors employed by foreign lawyers in England and Wales should be allowed to give legal advice to clients of the practice as well as doing non-reserved work for such clients has been dropped , at any rate for the time being until some adequate system of regulation can be devised . |
| 12 | Most readers will probably recall being explicitly taught the concept of the antonym at school ( I seem to recall that antonyms figured in the late , unlamented 11 + exam ) . |
| 13 | At a news conference on May 5 , Dumas and the Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Vellayati said that their talks had been " very positive " and expressed the hope that discussions aimed at resolving the financial dispute between the two countries [ see p. 37929 ] would end with " positive results " . |
| 14 | In the past , the only sources of the drug were tiny supplies that aficionados diverted from medical use . |
| 15 | that the only kind of learning worth seriously measuring is that which can be evaluated by making a mark on a card for subsequent ingestion by a machine ( An awful corollary to this is that judgments made by human beings must be given less weight than electronically certified facts . ) |
| 16 | It holds that groups defined as ‘ nations ’ have the right to , and therefore ought to , form territorial states of the kind that have become standard since the French Revolution . |
| 17 | Since there is a waiting list for places on the course for better driving , readers may be interested to know that groups affiliated to the Institute of Advanced Motorists hold such classes all over the country . |
| 18 | There is plenty of evidence , too , that orangs kept in cramped solitary confinement become not only bored but mentally sick . |
| 19 | Where delays occurred , the chances of an inventory being incomplete were obviously increased ; it has been noticed , for instance , that bequests mentioned in wills are sometimes missing from the inventory . |
| 20 | Indeed , the Treasury worked skilfully to maintain its separateness by ensuring that CEPS worked to the financial year ( April to April ) whilst the Economic Section prepared its Survey on a calendar year basis . |
| 21 | Signals , sitreps and diaries of the time contain no hint that a massacre had taken place , or that Tito 's Yugoslavs at Bleiburg had in any way breached their assurances to Brig Scott , and this may be regarded as significant in assessing the extent to which 5 Corps subsequently continued to accept Yugoslav assurances that prisoners surrendered to them would not be indiscriminately killed . |
| 22 | Police warned that tablets stolen in a burglary at a house in Harford Street , Middlesbrough , could be harmful if taken in quantity . |
| 23 | Officials also confirmed that checks ordered by the US Federal Aviation Authority ( FAA ) on other Boeing 747 cargo planes ( prompted by similarities between the latest disaster and an earlier accident involving a China Airlines Boeing 747 freighter at Taipei in December 1991 ) had uncovered several corroded fuse pins attaching engines to the struts , and a cracked lug through which fuse pins were passed . |
| 24 | Fourth , researchers argue that strategies aimed at protecting older workers , although increasing the job security of those who are in employment , may well intensify the problems of those who are unemployed . |
| 25 | BRITISH defence chiefs have criticised a survey which shows that servicemen stationed in the South Pacific during the atom bomb tests in the 1950s have abnormally high incidences of radiation-linked cancers . |
| 26 | And remember that times given for stages in guidebooks and on mountain path signposts are estimates for typical , more lightly equipped walkers . |
| 27 | The General Product Safety Directive ( 92/59/EEC ) is designed to ensure that products placed on the market in member states are safe for consumers to use . |
| 28 | I have no doubt that those same consumers , when exercising their choice about what to buy , will want to be absolutely sure that products imported to the United Kingdom have had to undergo precisely the same levels of checks and monitoring as products exported from the United Kingdom . |
| 29 | Lastly , the CPA 1987 is not retrospective so that products supplied before 1 March 1988 are not covered . |
| 30 | It shows the appalling deprivation and human loss that Russians suffered during the Second World War and the difficulty that children of the thirties had in adjusting to life in post-war Russia . |