Example sentences of "of [v-ing] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do him the credit of suggesting that it was not of his invention . |
| 2 | The burden of proving that it was not reasonably practicable would appear to fall on the defendant . |
| 3 | This saddles the defendant with the task of proving that it was not practicable that the procession should have been postponed . |
| 4 | Barclays Bank plc took the step in March 1984 of announcing that it would aim to keep its base rate within ¼ — ⅜%; of the prevailing three month interbank rate , but there no longer seems to be a very precise linkage between the two rates . |
| 5 | ‘ In the first place , there is the doctrine , which may now perhaps be regarded as a rule of evidence , that , if a voluntary disposition in favour of the husband is impeached , the burden of establishing that it was not improperly or unfairly procured may be placed upon him by proof of circumstances raising any doubt or suspicion . |
| 6 | The whole question of the burden of proof was nicely summed up in the Esso case by Lord Hodson where he said : It has been authoritatively said that the onus of establishing that an agreement is reasonable as between the parties is upon the person who puts forward the agreement , while the onus of establishing that it is contrary to the public interest , being reasonable between the parties , is on the person so alleging … |
| 7 | Gentlemen : It is with great regret that I see so many students labouring day after day in the Academy , as if they imagined that a liberal art , such as ours , was to be acquired like a mechanical trade , by dint of labour , or I may add the absurdity of supposing that it could be acquired by any means whatever . |
| 8 | This last provision looks so sweeping that there is a danger of supposing that it has swept away all difference between legal and equitable rights . |
| 9 | It is a choice that is fully there for us to make at the same time and in the same fashion as other countries , except that we have the additional option of deciding that it would not be right for this country . |
| 10 | The other key aspects of teaching that it is useful to record are the level of demand that is placed on the pupil(s) at each stage and the amount of guidance that the teacher provides . |
| 11 | There are such obvious advantages in having access through video to examples of teaching that it is easy to forget that there can also be problems . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) That the court 's discretionary jurisdiction to stay criminal proceedings should be exercised very sparingly and only in exceptional circumstances ; that , while the longer the delay was the greater was the likelihood that the prosecution was at fault and that the defendant had suffered prejudice and the less the prosecution could explain the delay the easier it would be to infer fault , the question whether the defendant had discharged the heavy burden of demonstrating that it would be an abuse of the process of the court for the proceedings to continue , was to be considered in the light of all the circumstances without applying shifting burdens of proof ; and that , accordingly , since the district judge had correctly taken into account all the relevant factors , and had made no error as to the burden of proof , there were no grounds on which the High Court judge could have reversed the district judge 's decision not to grant a perpetual stay of the 1989 prosecution ( post , pp. 261B , 264E–F , G–H , 265A–B ) . |
| 13 | A common theme in the reaction against it has been a demand for the ‘ return to justice ’ : retributive justice is seen as having the virtue of acknowledging that it is punishing ‘ responsible ’ people , which in turn requires the safeguards of individual rights and public accountability of the ‘ due process of law ’ , and the limitations on intervention in people 's lives provided by the principle of retributive proportionality . |
| 14 | This is just another way of saying that it has 3ml of alcohol in every 100ml . |
| 15 | Perhaps the charge that attitudinism makes ethics peculiarly irrational is merely a way of saying that it denies that there is such a thing as objective ethical truth . |
| 16 | The law used to look with disfavor on the statute of limitations , but I have been in the habit of saying that it is one of the most sacred and indubitable principles that we have … |
| 17 | The cost of doing that it was too high for him . |
| 18 | Still hammering away , the Institute has the satisfaction of knowing that it has at last brought home to the Ministry of Health , within whose purview this question comes , that things are not what they ought to be , and Dr Eichholz , who has just retired from the Chief Inspectorate of Special Schools , is at its request making a special enquiry . |
| 19 | The utter confidence of the claim incensed her , but then came the pain of knowing that it was all too true . |
| 20 | There is no automatic way to make nine tricks in a hand like this , but you have the comfort of knowing that it will not be easy for the defence either . |
| 21 | For the next couple of weeks while I get to know how the station works I shall be like your shadow , Fran , but you 'll have the comfort of knowing that it 's all in the line of business . ’ |
| 22 | For in the future , under different conditions , there is always the possibility of showing that it 's wrong . |
| 23 | It has been objected against this kind of reasoning that it really misses the point the sceptic is trying to make . |
| 24 | Do n't make the mistake of thinking that it must be cow 's milk , just because this is the food problem that we hear about most often in babies . |
| 25 | Instead of thinking that it is natural for a moving object to carry on in a straight line at a steady speed , and then worrying about how the force of gravity manages to pull all objects — heavy ones and light ones — round in the same orbit , what we ought to be doing is thinking of the path they all follow as being the natural path . |
| 26 | This is regarded by the present government , along with its proposals for a national curriculum , as a means of enhancing the quality of education , and making schools more accountable to parents in a system of schooling that it is intended will be more consumer oriented . |
| 27 | Amiss thought of mentioning that it had tasted like condensed milk with a tea bag waved at it , but felt that might be a slur on Alf 's taste-buds . |
| 28 | To go to the one man in the world most interested in seeing that the evidence never came out and then to put into his hands the means of ensuring that it never could come out ! |
| 29 | We are in danger of forgetting that it is God we are talking about : the God who created us , the God who sustains us and has sovereign rights over us . |
| 30 | ‘ But perhaps you 're in danger of forgetting that it always did , and always will , take two to tango . ’ |