Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malcolmson has commented that a result of this withdrawal of patronage by the gentry and the better-off farmers as social distance increased was that " a solid barrier so developed between the culture of gentility and the culture of the people " . |
| 2 | A court has heard that a former Swindon Town player tried to blackmail his ex-chairman over tax-free payments to staff . |
| 3 | An inquest has heard that a baby boy , who lived for less than an hour , could have died because of injuries caused by forceps used during his birth . |
| 4 | A court has heard that a father battered his baby daughter to death because she would n't stop crying . |
| 5 | The DES has explained that a range of cross-curricular issues is intended to be included within this concept of the whole curriculum — including ‘ coverage across the curriculum of gender and multicultural issues ’ . |
| 6 | The American writer James Q. Wilson ( 1975 ) has claimed that a 20 per cent reduction in street robbery could be achieved simply by locking offenders up for longer . |
| 7 | His Highness has reported that a passenger on the dahabeeyah with him — ’ |
| 8 | The London Gazette has reported that a bankruptcy order was made against Mike Franklin on January 30 this year . |
| 9 | The independent Law Commission has recommended that a commercial tenant should in general be freed from any future liability under a lease when he assigns away his interest under it . |
| 10 | The Reviewing Committee has recommended that a further £15–20 million be made available to buy works of art threatened with export for the nation . |
| 11 | The Howie Committee has recommended that a number of occupational areas should be developed under its proposals for the new SCOTCERT award ( see page 4 ) . |
| 12 | President Rafsanjani 's faction has ensured that a committee set up to vet candidates ' Islamic credentials has eliminated many hardliners , such as Ayatollah Khalkhali , who sentenced thousands to death early in the revolution . |
| 13 | One final note from a pedant : a lethal misprint on page 50 has ensured that a generation of students will be informing their tutors that the Socinians were nationalists , rather than rationalists . |
| 14 | Interested parties will find in it an array of ( other people 's ) opinion that can be dazzling , for postmodern methodology has ensured that a little bit of everything ( from a quartermaster 's appraisal of the value of art to a consideration of Santa Barbara 's peacocks ) is included . |
| 15 | Every year the Irish national broadcasting service , RTE , buys in a series of Radharc programmes and their high quality has ensured that a number of them have appeared on other national TV networks . |
| 16 | There is no record of who owns what in the area of mining rights ; thus a mining company may have to spend years discovering to whom it has to pay royalties even after it has ascertained that a piece of Britain contains valuable metals . |
| 17 | It has argued that a total ban on sex may be unnecessary ; it would prefer to have rules that prevent a lawyer from bullying a client to have sex . |
| 18 | Lenneberg ( 1966 ) has argued that a great deal of evidence about deafness in children , aphasia , environmental deprivation of various kinds , muscular debilities and so on supports the hypothesis that language acquisition by children follows a definite maturational path , passing certain milestones of achievement in a certain order . |
| 19 | This paper has argued that a sociological definition of an occupation should be in terms of the specific practices of that occupation . |
| 20 | Even in America Ukraine has found friends : Zbigniew Brzezinski , once President Carter 's national security adviser , has argued that a strong and independent Ukraine would be a powerful bulwark for the West against the re-emergence of an expansionist Russia . |
| 21 | Arnot ( 1981 ) has argued that a theoretical division exists between ‘ cultural ’ ( what I have characterized as ‘ liberal ’ and ‘ radical ’ ) approaches and ‘ political economy ’ ( Marxist-feminist ) approaches . |
| 22 | Patricia Coughlan has argued that A View of the Present State of Ireland is the founding text of modern English discourse about Ireland . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , a social services manager in Essex has said that a Government grant to fund the new Community Care Act from April 1 is not enough . |
| 24 | In the UK , HM Customs & Excise has said that a validation service will be available only for ‘ suspect numbers and not for routine checks ’ . |
| 25 | There is some evidence that an officer of the county court has said that a committal order on Form N111 ( not Form N79 ) was signed and given to the police officers escorting Mr. Butler to prison . |
| 26 | , A Tass report from Moscow has said that a vast reserve of natural gas , capable of " meeting Soviet and Western demands for decades " has been found near to the Barents Sea . |
| 27 | Erm should the erm that , given that er , sorry , that the er , er O P C S in fact erm er after every census makes er guesses about its accuracy erm would erm the spokesman , is the spokesman aware that in fact O P C S has said that a fair erm representation of the intercensal increase in population in Leicestershire er between nineteen eighty one and nineteen ninety one is in fact fifteen thousand people and does n't he feel that to provide for fifty three thousand in the structure plan is a little over the top ? |
| 28 | I understand there are problems er but as a general principle it does seem to me that it 's something that needs to be looked at and the minister has said that a lot of these matters will be dealt with by a statement of practice and er he was asked by the honourable gentleman , the member for South Hams I think , er er er what the status of er these people were . |
| 29 | A judge has said that a financial consultant who went broke owing investors almost two million pounds was a trusted man of good character . |
| 30 | Archaeological evidence has revealed that a cataclysmic flood overwhelmed the Sumerian plains about 4200 BC . |