Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the question of a sexual motive is avoided , either the defence recognise that their client could be disadvantaged by being typed as a sex maniac and the prosecution may realise that such a line of questioning may unnecessarily complicate a case , or there may seem little scope for placing the blame elsewhere . |
| 2 | Dogs may be brought into the park provided that they are kept on a lead at all times . |
| 3 | Banyan also took the opportunity to announce that its StreetTalk global directory will also support Novell NetWare by the end of the year . |
| 4 | The Bill will produce the finance necessary to allow the mines to operate efficiently and effectively , and will give the people who work in them the opportunity to feel that they are part of an industry no longer hooked on public subsidy . |
| 5 | No tuna importer has yet responded to WDCS 's latest appeal , and the majority insist that they will continue to carry " dolphin-friendly " labels . |
| 6 | The majority felt that they would be able to inform and motivate their local committee towards a greater emphasis on education . |
| 7 | Sweenie , the majority held that there must be some force to constitute rape and that it was not rape , therefore , to have sexual intercourse with a sleeping woman . |
| 8 | The majority believe that it is up to the Government to kick-start the housing market again . |
| 9 | At the time of their first agency contact , the majority reported that they were using between two ‘ bags ’ ( about 10 ) and a gram of heroin ( 60 ) per day , the typical daily quantity reported being 0.25–0.5 gram ( between 20 and 35 ) . |
| 10 | Many who hold the minority view accept that they must recognize the mind of the Church , just as the majority realise that they have a duty to respect the consciences of those who disagree . |
| 11 | The more able in the group felt they ‘ could n't tell us anything we do n't already know ’ or they were ‘ depressing ’ , while the remainder said that they did not like them because they made them feel inadequate . |
| 12 | ‘ The review of ‘ I 'm Never Gon na Die Again' in Select started off saying that all the guitar playing that I did in The Birthday Party was genius and that since then I 've been very vague and confused . |
| 13 | His timing is incredible and his sheer touch on the guitar means that whatever he plays sounds impressive straight away . |
| 14 | The Shield insisted that there was enough conviction and enthusiasm among women to carry further legislation , despite the blatant obstructionism from men at the Home Office and in Parliament . |
| 15 | Three of the instances of maladministration related to the licensing of the Chesh ire-based savings group in 1984/85 , where the Ombudsman felt that there was enough evidence to have ordered Barlow Clowes to cease op erations . |
| 16 | ‘ If you mean the Prince thinks that we 'd be better off if the clock were set back a couple of hundred years , ’ Caroline said , ‘ the answer 's yes . ’ |
| 17 | Has the Prince forgotten that it was the French farmers who attacked British lorry drivers and burned their cargoes of lamb ? |
| 18 | The only other alternative would be for the court to disregard one of the clauses and hold that one party had , by conduct , accepted the other party 's terms and waived its own , including the provision providing that it should not be taken as accepting any other terms . |
| 19 | Such payments are properly chargeable to capital and not income and as the provision required that they be properly charged to income the relief was not available . |
| 20 | The people at the fund raising coal face who have the skills and the expertise to ensure that our seventy fifth birthday year goes down in Save The Children 's fund raising history . |
| 21 | David McNeil , who is retiring on Friday as senior depute director of education , admitted to ‘ loose and inappropriate ’ remarks after The Scotsman disclosed that his department is being investigated by the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 22 | Section 8 of the UCTA provides that there can be no exclusion of liability for misrepresentation prior to entry into a contract under the Misrepresentation Act 1967 , s 3 or the Misrepresentation ( Northern Ireland ) Act 1967 , s 3 unless the exemption clause passes the test of reasonableness . |
| 23 | There will always , however , be a few cases in which the clinician thinks that it is inappropriate to ask for organs . |
| 24 | Having attracted our attention , of course , the retailer hopes that we will buy . |
| 25 | From last year 's figures , the retailer knows that she can expect sales to drop in late February , but to begin to climb again at the end of April . |
| 26 | The writer remarked that he had ‘ never doubted but that he had succeeded in his place by a commission from the Treasury untill of late that I discovered that he only officiated by orders and an interim warrand from the Commissioners of Customs ’ . |
| 27 | In a memo ( signature illegible ) to the assistant chief of naval staff dated two months after the sinking of the Bismarck , the writer said that it had ‘ unofficially ’ come to his notice that an Ensign Smith of the U S Navy was in the Catalina aircraft that had resighted the Bismarck , then en route to Brest , two days after British naval forces had lost contact with her ; and that an Ensign Rinehart was in another searching Catalina . |
| 28 | Or it could be that the writer believes that he has adequately represented the sound of sh by using the s ; in which case , his auditory analysis is poor . |
| 29 | The writer means that she or he has discussed the poem 's meaning , but the sentence literally says that the next stanza discusses the poem 's beginning ( an unintended meaning ) . |
| 30 | The evidence at the trial proved that he was in fact a highwayman . |