Example sentences of "[that] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asserting , what was palpably untrue , that ‘ There are probably few people in India who do not sincerely regret that you should have made it impossible for any government to leave you at liberty ’ , he handed down a sentence of six years ' simple imprisonment , pointing out — the crowning touch-that the sentence was the same as that given to the nationalist hero Bal Gangadhar Tilak , twelve years before . |
| 2 | Clive James , whose Observer column had made him the doyen of television critics in the Seventies , wrote ; ‘ One has been kept from previous series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em by its awful title , but it is time to say what everybody is saying-that the show is a must . |
| 3 | The reason for this is that the snail can only perceive events which are more than one quarter of a second apart , so a stick which is moved four times a second appears to be stationary . |
| 4 | To quote the dictionary again , the word ‘ adventure ’ contains in it an element of the unexpected , of chance and Fate , which means that the protagonist must be able to call on more than normal attributes to meet the challenge set for him . |
| 5 | The name ‘ Someone ’ that the protagonist is given during his death indicates his loss of social identity : he is no one in particular but all people , for his nuclear death family constitutes the ‘ primeval atom ’ . |
| 6 | Voluntary to my mind suggests that the payer being aware of all relevant circumstances including the true state of the law or perhaps having a doubt but not caring which way that doubt is resolved consciously makes a decision to pay . |
| 7 | In their inception , these authorities were based on the fact that the payer and payee were not on an equal footing and it was this inequality which gave rise to the right to recovery . |
| 8 | It is therefore expected that the Karoo plume component would carry an OIB-like isotope signature , but would have lower abundances of incompatible trace element than typical OIB . |
| 9 | This Engels does by showing that the Greek and Roman states , the ‘ sacred ’ sources of the European ideal , were based on principles which can also be seen in embryo among much less prestigious peoples , the American Indians . |
| 10 | What is new however is the suggestion , which at the time of writing must have appeared as the height of impertinence , that the Greek and Roman states originated in much the same kind of confederation as the Iroquois . |
| 11 | Such an argument also presupposes that the ‘ market knows best ’ ( where the term ‘ market ’ today often means a limited number of institutional fund managers , whose time horizons may be ‘ short term ’ ) and that the nationality of a firm ‘ does not matter ’ . |
| 12 | The United Kingdom stated , in limine , that the nationality of the owner of the vessel was generally recognised in international law and in the practice of states as the principal criterion for establishing the necessary link between the flag state and the vessel . |
| 13 | The Spanish Government considered that the nationality condition and the other conditions laid down by the Act of 1988 were manifestly contrary to the basic principles of the E.E.C . |
| 14 | The Spanish Government argued that the nationality condition could not be justified under articles 55 and 56 of the E.E.C . |
| 15 | The Commission maintained that the nationality requirements laid down in the Act of 1988 were contrary to the general prohibition of discrimination on grounds of nationality set out in article 7 of the E.E.C . |
| 16 | They submitted that the nationality requirement was a clear contravention of articles 7 , 40(3) , 52 , 53 , 58 and 221 of the E.E.C . |
| 17 | The applicants in the main proceedings also claimed that the nationality requirement amounted to a serious infringement of the rights of ‘ joint venture ’ boats under article 168(4) in conjunction with Annex XII to the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal to the European Communities 1985 ( ‘ the Act of Accession 1985 ’ ) ( Official Journal 1985 No . |
| 18 | Even if the protection of the rights of local fishing communities were capable of falling within the concept of public policy for the purposes of article 56(1) , it must be held that it follows from what has been stated above that the nationality , residence and domicile requirements are disproportionate to that objective . |
| 19 | The investigation conducted by Inkeles and Bauer among Soviet émigrés in the 1950s , for instance , found that the nationality of most respondents had less influence upon their political beliefs and values than did other variables such as social class and education . |
| 20 | The plaintiff claimed that the nationality of the successor in title was irrelevant where the claimant was the original owner . |
| 21 | Although he acknowledges that the moisture content is high , he says the extra drying costs are offset by catching the crop before it sheds any ears . |
| 22 | In the case of cream cheese fillings for pies and flans , the risk is that the moisture may sink into the pastry , making it soggy . |
| 23 | Coherence within the economic union requires a decision making capacity such that the determination of policy at Community level avoids inefficient overlapping and contradictions in the various aspects of economic policy . |
| 24 | Whatever view is taken of this analysis , and it will be discussed more fully below , it seems to state quite clearly that the determination of sex is a matter for lawyers and courts ; that the law , in other words , must establish methods for determining sex which may or may not correspond to medical opinion . |
| 25 | Notice that the determination of such rates presupposes an understanding of what counts in a culture as ‘ deliberate ’ , and that a high rate need not necessarily be viewed as a bad thing by the culture concerned . |
| 26 | It is one thing to concede , as Finnis does , that the determination of the general requirements of justice leaves open a variable content but it is quite another should that concession logically entail that , given determination , any content is possible . |
| 27 | In Section 8.1 it was explained that the determination of a currency 's exchange rate value is in principle broadly the same as the establishment of the price for any other financial instrument , commodity , or good . |
| 28 | In the succeeding months it became plain that the determination of American leaders to play the key role in shaping the new world order was to clash with the equally determined insistence of the Russians that their interests were of paramount importance over a large part of the globe . |
| 29 | Looking at the way the Commission had construed the rules , the House decided that the determination was a nullity . |
| 30 | The relevant clauses of SSAP9 state that the determination of profit for an accounting year requires the matching of costs with related revenues . |