Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Provision is , however , made for the possibility that at any time the two airports may have the same owner . |
| 2 | This might plausibly be dismissed as ‘ Victorian stupidity ’ were it not for the tact that in Britain in 1988 a similar view was actually inscribed in law . |
| 3 | There is also authority for the proposition that for the purposes of s.5(1) a copyright owner does not have a proprietary interest in the item copied : Storrow [ 1983 ] Crim LR 332 . |
| 4 | as authority for the proposition that in a section 8(2) case the alternatives of giving either blood or urine ‘ must both be made available to the subject . ’ |
| 5 | The hon. Gentleman need not think that there is any military support for the idea that in the past the Navy has argued for a three-boat solution , and he will be given a very rough time by the Navy if he makes such a suggestion . |
| 6 | They may be sufficient to account for the feeling that as a matter of meaning , recognition is a condition of possession of legitimate authority . |
| 7 | Assume for the moment that in the United States the Constitution , the statutes enacted by Congress and the legislatures of the several states , and past judicial decisions are , by convention , all grounds of law . |
| 8 | The conclusion we are entitled to draw from these findings is that , in general , female usage tends towards the more ‘ careful ’ end of the stylistic continuum and male usage towards the more ‘ casual ’ , and it seemed at this stage of our research that we had some justification for the claim that in linguistic variation , sex-differentiation is prior to class differentiation and need not be interpreted as subsidiary to class ( as it normally has been ) . |
| 9 | This provides support for the suggestion that in certain cases part-time and temporary workers are equivalents , and are viewed as such by employers and workers themselves . |
| 10 | The foregoing would , of course , mean that property rights were not for the dispensation of some imagined ‘ god ’ of early superstitious religion , but existed by virtue of the fact that human beings have , in the course of time , generally agreed that such a right was ‘ good ’ , for the reason that without it there could be no peaceful existence and no contentment . |
| 11 | This sort of nonsense could have been fairly innocuous had it not been for the fact that under Napoleon I , the frequent employment of courtiers in great and influential offices of state had led to a gradual isolation of the Emperor , which in turn gave too much power to those close to the throne , many of whom , it should be noted , actively worked against him in the last years of the reign . |
| 12 | For the fact that at the time Picasso saw the work as unfinished , allows us an insight into his aesthetic intentions and his technical procedure . |
| 13 | This accounts for the fact that on cloudy nights , when there are no stars to be seen , they tend to wander off course and may even get completely lost . |
| 14 | This hypothesis can account for the fact that on cooling , rapid crystal growth is seen to occur which is inconsistent with the need for long range diffusion if the regularly folding lamellae were forming . |
| 15 | I was in command of a heavily laden Stirling which was renowned for the fact that on a cold night the engines took a long time , even with the grills closed , to warm up . |
| 16 | Here is a testable prediction , all the more interesting for the fact that for appropriately chosen orientations of the axes unc one can show that quantum mechanics leads to a violation of the Bell inequality . |
| 17 | Soviet recognition was extended to the Castro government a few days after it had taken power , but this was not reciprocated , and it appears to have been the Cubans , concerned not to give Washington any pretext for claiming that Communism had arrived in the Caribbean , who were responsible for the fact that for well over a year after the revolution the two countries did not have diplomatic ties . |
| 18 | But this would also account for the fact that within this system many singers — Marie Lloyd , for instance — retained performing styles heavily influenced by oral traditions ; they often did not read music — as , notoriously , the accompanying orchestras had to remember . |
| 19 | Were it not for the fact that in lanes , roads , and street , |
| 20 | This may have been no shattering revelation for any man to make if it had n't been for the fact that in the hot steamy summer of ‘ 89 Lowe got himself laid by two girls in Atlanta , Georgia . |
| 21 | It is suggested that this accounts , at least in part , for the fact that in most developing and some developed countries infants and young children of rural mothers generally face a lower probability of defeating life hazards than do those born to urban mothers . |
| 22 | By the early nineteenth century even an Anglican clergyman was prepared to give credit to the Methodists for the fact that in Cornwall there were no more " desperate wrestling matches … and inhuman cockfights " and fewer " riotous revellings " . |
| 23 | The door opened unexpectedly , and he would have fallen into the dark kitchen were it not for the fact that after four inches it jarred and stuck . |
| 24 | The fact that the announcement of Castro 's new economic course was ignored by Izvestiia , Pravda , New Times and International Affairs is additional evidence for the argument that at this stage Moscow was interested in restraining , rather than fostering , radicalisation of the Cuban revolution . |
| 25 | There are , of course , instances in other areas of the law where such opinion is ignored , and where one searches in vain for a reasoned articulation of justification based on sound policy , but they usually serve as food for the argument that in so doing the law becomes an ass . |
| 26 | In the next Conservative government , Edward Heath was so lukewarm about the idea that between 1970 and 1973 only nine political knighthoods were awarded , provoking complaints of knight starvation . |
| 27 | How about the view that in order for a computer to produce a real work of art , it would have to want to produce that art ? |
| 28 | But what about the argument that in order to save Kuwait the allies have to destroy it . |
| 29 | Gabriel obeyed at once , and while riding along was thinking so hard about the shooting that in the darkness he failed to notice a man walking along the road to Casterbridge . |
| 30 | There was no dispute about the fact that on 25 January 1990 , when the agreement was made , the Ledingham-Smiths could not pay their debts as they fell due , but they thought that if the business could be sold with an adequate payment for goodwill , all creditors would be paid in full . |