Example sentences of "[noun pl] [that] [pron] is [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has dismissed warnings from the Office of Fine Arts that it is forbidden to deal in State property , quoting the former assistant secretary of state L. de Graaff , who in 1984 stated that the artists were free to do with these works as they wished . |
| 2 | So wide are the analyses and the prescriptions that one is tempted to wonder whether the concept of pluralist stagnation might itself be applied to the political analysis of Britain 's ills . |
| 3 | It has drawn up a list of some 30 technical consultants , with interests ranging from marine science to energy , which the bank will call in for advice on esoteric projects that it is asked to fund . |
| 4 | There are only a few places where he can be , but it is n't until 0500 hours that he is found walking along Unter den Linden , the most famous and beautiful of Berlin 's pre-war streets , having apparently lost contact with his friends . |
| 5 | This is the figure mentioned as so resembling the copies of the Tyrannicides that it is known as the Kritian boy . |
| 6 | Pictures are taken at several ( eight ) different exposure levels and each point is weighted according to the number of times that it is seen . |
| 7 | The conspiracy theory of racism makes sense of a particular social reality : it is because the police force , which is supposed to uphold justice and protect ethnic minorities from racist attacks , is itself responsible for so much of the violence and injustice suffered by black communities that it is experienced as being part of the same oppressive system as the gang of white unemployed youth who are beating up people on the street . |
| 8 | Notices may be entered on the Register of Title to protect a wide variety of interests — for example , an estate contract , a grant of easements over registered land , a lease or agreement for a lease which is not an overriding interest , and many other matters that it is desired shall come to the notice of all persons dealing with the land . |
| 9 | It is not , in my judgment , a valid objection to the S.I.B . 's pleaded case that these defendants have not themselves received any of the money of the investors that it is proposed that they should be ordered to repay . |
| 10 | Assumptions that she is driven by pity ( usually based on the death of her brother Philip from an Aids-related illness in 1986 ) annoy her . |
| 11 | Whole companies depend on the computer networks that it is designed to control . |
| 12 | This is clear evidence that religious output , despite some criticisms of its style and approach , is by no means the anathema for viewers that it is supposed from the purely commercial viewpoint of some broadcasters . |
| 13 | Thus , radical reform restructures rape offences in ways that it is hoped will facilitate the prosecution process without jeopardising the interests of the accused . |
| 14 | It is noteworthy , then , that the recipient often writes down the details that he is told . |
| 15 | Either the magistrate refuses bail and says , effectively , that the court orders that the weekly equivalent of £20,000 a year is spent on the offender until his case is heard , or the court grants bail and orders that nothing is spent on the offender until the case is heard . |
| 16 | The Sufi tradition in particular stresses that only through the use of symbols can any understanding be reached : It is through symbols that one is awakened ; it is through symbols that one is transformed ; and it is through symbols that one expresses . |
| 17 | The Sufi tradition in particular stresses that only through the use of symbols can any understanding be reached : It is through symbols that one is awakened ; it is through symbols that one is transformed ; and it is through symbols that one expresses . |
| 18 | Alexander firmly believed that man has to delay his instantaneous response to the many stimuli that he is bombarded with each day if he is ever to cope with his rapidly changing environment . |
| 19 | The massive tax increases that lie ahead should go some way to reassure the financial markets that he is determined to redress a recessionary budget deficit now projected to run at £50 billion — £1 billion a week — in the current year . |
| 20 | The 37-year-old former England winger vowed he would see out the remaining 18 months of his contract , saying : Coppell , 37 , dismissed reports that he is wanted by Sunderland as he prepared to take his side back to Anfield where they crashed 5-0 on Saturday . |
| 21 | Coppell , 37 , dismissed reports that he is wanted by Sunderland as he prepared to take his side back to Liverpool tonight in the Coca-Cola Cup , after losing there 5-0 in the League on Saturday . |
| 22 | The imperative 'need to find regularities ' which Popper speaks of , coupled with Bartlett 's ‘ effort after meaning ’ , constitute a powerful expectation in human beings that what is said or written will make sense in the context in which it appears . |
| 23 | Some of those who accept the existence of a middle class believe that it is divided into many different strata ; others that it is divided , but only into two main groupings . |
| 24 | This ability to tolerate the heat has encouraged imaginative claims that it is linked with Indian cattle brought to southwest England on Indian trading boats long , long ago , and others suggest a link with the Salers of France . |
| 25 | Now , clearly , in many circumstances where the property of an adjective matches a speaker 's perception , it may not need to be assigned — i.e. stated explicitly to be valid for the entity concerned — on the grounds that it is felt to be a characteristic sufficiently basic to the entity not to need assignment , as opposed to being called upon as an initial qualifying and identifying element . |
| 26 | Alternatively , laws-of-war considerations can lead to advocacy of the enhanced radiation weapon or neutron bomb , on the grounds that it is aimed specifically to destroy military targets ( Johnson , 1984 , pp. 46–7 ) — but this could lead to pressure for first use of nuclear weapons . |
| 27 | Edinburgh continues to stock Huckleberry Finn , on the grounds that it is aimed at older readers , better able to understand the historical context . |
| 28 | I am aware of one educated patient , with known duodenal ulcer , who had started taking this medicine for headache , believing it to be Ayurvedic and despite the facts that it is labelled as containing 530 mg aspirin and 100 mg paracetamol and that he had been instructed by his doctor to refrain from all pain-relieving medications like aspirin . |