Example sentences of "by [art] [noun sg] that it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlton , who are meeting Greenwich Borough Council officials tomorrow night over the projected return to The Valley , are unhappy at being told recently by the council that it wants the club 's proposals to be revised dramatically to take account of environmental requirements . |
| 2 | Further , the word ‘ communion ’ , a term again involving a verbal identification of Church and Eucharist , was so much used by the Council that it has subsequently been seen to express the Council 's ecclesiology most profoundly and has been made great use of in such documents as those of ARCIC . |
| 3 | The Evangelical Alliance , representing more than a million Christians of all denominations , was so concerned over the increasing problems created by the occult that it published Doorways to Danger . |
| 4 | The decision to maintain the acceptance of a long-standing invitation to go on Mr. Byrne 's show in Dublin on Friday night was prompted by the opportunity that it afforded to speak to the people of the Republic of Ireland about terrorism and the response of a democratic society . |
| 5 | In the same way , a horse 's communication with us will be influenced by the knowledge that it has acquired from other horses ; sometimes to its advantage and sometimes not . |
| 6 | The physically knowledgeable may be helped by the remark that it corresponds to a state of the particle 's spin . ) |
| 7 | Disputes that arise when a sale is not completed often centre around allegations by the vendor that it has incurred costs such as commissioning an accountant 's report on the express understanding that the purchaser would reimburse the cost if the transaction failed . |
| 8 | The trouble with this way of dealing with the myth is that the myth is so attractive that people are not put off by the objection that it opens the door to scepticism about common meanings . |
| 9 | The controversy surrounding the work of Telman Gdlyan and Nikolai Ivanov , chief corruption investigators with the USSR Procurator General 's office , came to a head on April 18 when the USSR Supreme Soviet voted to refuse a request by the Procuracy that it rescind the mandates of the two men to sit in the Congress of People 's Deputies , so that they might face criminal charges relating to coercion of suspects and witnesses . |
| 10 | Last year 's event was weakened by the fact that it coincided with the now defunct Tokyo Art Expo . |
| 11 | The decline in the position of history in many of our schools is signified by the fact that it failed not only to be ranked as a core subject in the National Curriculum reinstated under the Education Reform Act of 1988 but was struggling hard for its survival on the list of foundation subjects as schools in the early 1990s tried to pour the National Curriculum quart into the school timetable pint pot . |
| 12 | This witticism received rapturous applause and left his speechwriters beaming , no one seemingly bothered by the fact that it made no sense . |
| 13 | Will the Secretary of State concede that one of the things that this will enable Yarrow to do is to keep its essential design capability , illustrated by the fact that it produced the first of class ? |
| 14 | A mathematical system is distinguished by the fact that it seeks to derive a large number of very complex conclusions from a small number of primitive propositions , employing a small number of primitive ideas . |
| 15 | Stated in this stark form , the revenue 's position appears to me , as a matter of common justice , to be unsustainable ; and the injustice is rendered worse by the fact that it involves , as Nolan J. pointed out [ 1989 ] 1 W.L.R. 137 , 140 , the revenue having the benefit of a massive interest-free loan as the fruit of its unlawful action . |
| 16 | In the campaign to save the tiger , the Fund certainly played its part , greatly helped by the fact that it enjoyed the wholehearted support of the leader of the country most involved . |
| 17 | The sensitivity of the initiative is underlined by the fact that it took at least five months for Unix Labs and Santa Cruz to agree on a basic specification drawn up by UK firm IXI Ltd and edited by Unix Labs . |
| 18 | Our first Members ' Evening was held at the Community College on Friday 1st March 1991 and its success can be judged by the fact that it went on until the Social Secretary literally had to call a halt at 11.15 p.m. ! |
| 19 | It is a beautiful and very moving story , marred only by the fact that it does not bear the remotest resemblance to what actually happens . |
| 20 | Here the two sentences are linked because they follow the grammatical pattern , definite article + proper noun + copula + complement , a link whose purely formal nature is revealed by the fact that it does not really survive translation into English , where the definite articles are not needed and an indefinite one is . |
| 21 | His father had confided in him and Francis himself had been surprised , not only by the nature of the confidence but also by the fact that it had been made to him . |
| 22 | Traditionally its importance is demonstrated by the fact that it underpinned Gloucester 's usurpation and his brief reign . |
| 23 | Traditionally its importance is demonstrated by the fact that it underpinned Gloucester 's usurpation and his brief reign . |
| 24 | NC protein is present in the capsid during reverse transcription , as indicated by the fact that it promotes the positioning of the primer tRNA to the PBS for the initiation of reverse transcription . |
| 25 | Development at Scott Lithgow could be hampered by the fact that it lies on unimproved land outside the Inverclyde Enterprise Zone . |
| 26 | Typically in English a paragraph is unified by the fact that it brings together material around a single point or topic indicated in the first sentence . |
| 27 | The verb metaphor is further characterized by the fact that it has no direct link to its proper term , but acts on the noun of which it is the predicate ; in the case of the transitive verb it can also act on its direct and indirect objects . |
| 28 | Nevertheless Poland was still encumbered by a poorly developed industrial sector , a primitive , almost feudal , agricultural system , an under-funded banking sector and a poorly integrated railway system , and was hampered by the fact that it paid out 40 per cent of Gross National Income ( approximately 28 per cent of all government expenditure ) to maintain an army that was second in size only to that of Russia . |
| 29 | The disclosure comes after last night 's announcement by the UVF that it has lifted its death threat against prison officers . |
| 30 | The disclosure comes after last night 's announcement by the UVF that it has lifted its death threat against prison officers . |