Example sentences of "that [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His widow , Betty , told Esquire that MacDonald worked on the team for only a year before he was fired by Hill . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | Th there is erm a study going on to do with something called the British National Corpus which I do n't quite know what that 's about but they they want er samples of the sort of things that lecturers do in lecture theatres . |
| 34 | On the other hand , he points out that Devlin had in fact answered the question in the affirmative , and had justified this response by suggesting that , just as society can take steps to preserve itself against acts of treason , then so it may protect itself from attacks on established morality , for this too can threaten society 's existence . |
| 35 | ‘ I 've had confirmation from Laville , Reichsführer , that Devlin jumped into Southern Ireland at approximately two a.m . ’ |
| 36 | The longer the dispute continued the more officialdom in Scottish education recognized that support had to be provided . |
| 37 | Indeed she argues that support given to kin was often at considerable cost to the giver in terms of time , energy and even money . |
| 38 | They argue that support acted as an antecedent protective factor , but as their data was not longitudinal , the relationships they found are open to alternative explanations . |
| 39 | It appears that play begins during the period when the separation between consciousness and unconsciousness is becoming more deeply dichotomized , and that , following the development of language , objects never again have such a prominent place in our articulation or self-expression . |
| 40 | Further , while it was said that the decision of Browne J. in the Bognor Regis case [ 1972 ] 2 Q.B. 169 had been generally approved , or not criticised , by textbook writers , and by the Faulks Committee in 1975 , it was not suggested that Parliament had in any legislation apparently treated that decision as representing settled law . |
| 41 | If Parliament had meant to say that any distribution or publication should suffice , it could very easily have said so ; the courts are bound to make sense of the words that Parliament has in fact used . |
| 42 | Somewhat anomalously , reference may even be made to later statutes , to see the meaning that Parliament puts on the same words in a similar context . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | Then she put the apple pie into the range oven and slammed the door so hard that coals fell into the grate . |
| 45 | It has already been noted that contemporaries complained of the prevalence of this crime . |
| 46 | It was Bavaria that provided the Catholic leadership of the Counter-Reformation in Germany , yet as we have seen the young Lassus was capable of composing not only Masses approved by the reforming cardinals but others in flagrant disregard of everything that Trent stood for ( see p. 245 ) . |
| 47 | Earlier we spoke of the selective interests that disciplines take in the world . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | Well , they each seem to do one thing well enough , but fail to realise that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time . |
| 50 | They are a reminder that faith speaks of life that is unbroken by death . |
| 51 | Looking after three young children , being involved in various groups as well as doing part-time evening work means that Faith depends on food that 's quick and convenient to prepare . |
| 52 | A confidential Ministry of Information report , written in April 1968 , revealed that the two papers owed Sh.900,000/ — to the printers , who threatened to discontinue working on them altogether unless this amount were paid and an assurance received from the Treasury that printing costs for the rest of the financial year would be met . |
| 53 | Such figures have caught the attention of Bill Clinton , who admitted in his ‘ state of the union ’ address that Superfund needed to be re-examined . |
| 54 | It is certainly true that states have in the past used methods and means of warfare not outlawed by any specific prohibition although running counter to general principles , and they have sought to justify this by reference either to the principle of reprisal or that of military effectiveness . |
| 55 | The fact that progress appears to be being made with respect to MNC environmental scanning practices should not be overly comforting to MNC executives . |
| 56 | To a large extent that ideology looked to the Roman past . |
| 57 | He states that ideology consists of the beliefs and values of a ruling group which ‘ obscures the real condition of society both to itself and others and thereby stabilizes it ’ . |
| 58 | Again there are two types of criticism that Keynesians make about this link . |
| 59 | It is small wonder that Keynesians stood in perplexed amazement when they tried to relate the new classical theory of unemployment to the unemployment rates which were being experienced in the late 1970s . |
| 60 | It was in the decline of the movement that Healy came into his own . |