Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further investigations revealed that the platypus 's electric sensors lie within its bill , probably in glands which secrete a fluid to stop the sensors drying out on land . |
| 2 | Fifth , class action suits mean that a shareholder with just one share can sue on behalf of the entire body of shareholders and , finally , the widely misused Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act allows any firm that has been charged with fraud more than three times in the previous few years , whether or not it is found guilty , to be perceived as a corrupt organisation and therefore liable for triple damages . |
| 3 | In addition , there may be statements from engineers or surveyors suggesting that the building is physically unsound . |
| 4 | Most moral entrepreneurial groups contend that a ( partial ) sexual revolution has taken place , though little evidence of radical changes in sexual behaviour is forthcoming — other than evidence of a circumstantial kind . |
| 5 | In the way it is said that the Tour de France does not really begin until it reaches the Alps , the cognoscenti contend that the first 63 holes are jockeying for position . |
| 6 | On 3 October , a certain Brigadier McLean wrote to the Director of Military Operations suggesting that the ‘ S.A.S. , L.R.D.G. and 1 L.R.S. be combined and that armour , artillery and infantry the size of a regiment should be added for seaborne operations . |
| 7 | Some environmental groups maintaining that the birds should be left to their own devices rather than being raised in captivity . |
| 8 | During this time , the marriage could be saved or the custody of the children resolved before the courts agreed that the marriage was irretrievably broken down . |
| 9 | Most of the fragments detected by the ( T 2 AG 3 ) 4 oligonucleotide are very small in the Mbo I and Alu I digested DNAs suggesting that the telomeric repeats can be as short as 300 bp or even shorter . |
| 10 | Everyone in our sample cases agreed that the law is the law and must be enforced ; they disagree only about what the law in fact was . |
| 11 | Decio where the courts ruled that a corporation could not recover unless it first proved that it had in fact been injured by the insider 's illicit trading . |
| 12 | Bizarrely , the Paris courts ruled that the article had indeed ’ wrongfully referred to the mysterious and even suspicious origins of the Al Fayed family ’ . |
| 13 | The English courts ruled that the article could not be published , because it " prejudged " issues in litigation , and was therefore a contempt of court . |
| 14 | Both groups argued that the current Palestinian negotiating strategy should be reconsidered since it had failed to achieve its objectives . |
| 15 | Local and environmental groups fear that the new mining activity will turn what is now magnificent scenery into a mud choked ecological disaster . |
| 16 | A range of consumer and environmental groups fear that the patenting of plants and animals will give large companies increased control over agriculture . |
| 17 | Opponents argued that the cellars were used for punishment purposes , and Special Branch alleged that a man had been seriously wounded by a knife in the stomach after horseplay between fascists at Black House . |
| 18 | In 10 out of 12 EC countries , lower taxes mean that the same bottle is sold for less : |
| 19 | Capital-logic accounts contend that the shift from small and medium-scale industries owned by individual entrepreneurs and their families to larger-scale units . |
| 20 | Both clubs agreed that a team called Borussia Munchen Urchfont and Hotton Farm Colliery Sports and Social United Reserves was stupid . |
| 21 | However , to assert that there is a very great deal remaining to be said about the mutual effects of semantics and syntax may seem a bold claim , perhaps even a surprising one , given the number of those who have worked on both areas and the many publications with titles suggesting that the two have been linked inside their covers . |
| 22 | Caught unprepared by East Germany 's explosion of discontent , West Germans fear that the regime 's stubbornness could provoke a revolt and bring chaos to the country , threatening the stability of Europe and pose immense problems — including the question of German reunification — which they and their neighbours are not ready to face . |
| 23 | There are several reason why the courts insist that the police should observe the set limits to their powers . |
| 24 | In December 1969 , after Conservative protests had been disposed of that Parliament was being asked to reach a decision at an unnecessarily early stage ( a General Election was in the offing ) , both Houses agreed that the 1965 Act should not expire . |
| 25 | Michelle contacted the Guinness Book of Records whose compilers agreed that the tiniest of tots deserves a special mention . |
| 26 | The assault was stiffly resisted and at no time in their planning had the Germans calculated that the Belgians would do anything other than tamely submit . |
| 27 | SAVE 's solicitors argued that the House of Lords judgment ‘ extends to the case where the demolition , although not total , is sufficiently substantial to alter or remove the identity of the building ’ . |
| 28 | Most contemporaries realized that the two aspects were intimately connected . |
| 29 | His employers argued that the onset of this rare and serious illness was not reasonably foreseeable and , therefore , they should not be liable for the consequences . |
| 30 | But , of course , executive control of Parliament and Parliament 's supremacy over the courts mean that the constitution may become simply what Her Majesty 's Government says it is . |