Example sentences of "that [noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that hope will have been taken from her , leaving her feeling that they have unfinished business , which ( unless she believes in life after death ) will remain unfinished for ever . |
| 2 | The big , dark backs slice the water and are often a sign that feeding will begin . |
| 3 | The National Dairy Council had previously been criticised for a campaign suggesting that milk could protect children 's teeth from decay , but a claim that the vitamin A in milk improved night vision was permitted . |
| 4 | The counsellor has to be realistic in balancing the potential value of change against the personal costs that change might incur . |
| 5 | Both Labour and Conservative Governments had taken the view that change would cause a fierce political storm , so no one did anything . |
| 6 | Many people , starting with President Cesar Gaviria , a Liberal , see this as vital to persuade Colombians that change can come through votes rather than bullets . |
| 7 | Clearly , then , this school concludes that change can come from the people themselves . |
| 8 | There must first be the desire for personal change , and thereafter the confidence that change can take place . |
| 9 | The churches , slow to see that change must come , failed to take control of developments , which passed into the hands first of private enterprise , then of local authorities , under the general direction of Parliament . |
| 10 | Two years into the SAS campaign , the Cornish surfers are as angry as ever and as adamant that change must come . |
| 11 | They raise no interpretative difficulties of the kind that credo may do . |
| 12 | Marie was ready now to believe that Gazzer could have stolen the keys and wrecked the kiosk . |
| 13 | In fact they are dead against it and Iain Duff , manager at both courses , is optimistic that sanity will reign next year . |
| 14 | White may be a very good player and Wilko could have ‘ fancied him ’ , but Rocky should not have been allowed to go in the opposite direction , and as for the ‘ Cantona thing ’ I think that decision will haunt Wilkinson to the grave . |
| 15 | Who would have thought that knitting could provide such a buzz . |
| 16 | It was easy , however , to discount this evidence at a time when opinion polls were in their infancy , at least so far as credibility was concerned , and when it was universally thought that support would return to Churchill as soon as his formidable oratorical skills were thrown in on one side of the party contest . |
| 17 | Heaven only knew what reaction that admission would provoke . |
| 18 | It has been argued that these have been entrenched as , in terms of the political realities of the situation , it is inconceivable that Parliament would repeal them . |
| 19 | ‘ Many statutes are passed by political bargaining and snap judgments of expediency ; the courts can rarely be sure that Parliament would have altered the wording if it had foreseen the situation . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ While I respectfully agree that recommendations of a committee may not help much when there is a possibility that Parliament may have decided to do something different , where there is no such possibility , as where the draft Bill has been enacted without alteration , in my opinion it can safely be assumed that it was Parliament 's intention to do what the committee recommended and to achieve the object the committee had in mind . |
| 21 | Political considerations may make it unlikely , even inconceivable that Parliament might legislate in a particular manner . |
| 22 | Professor de Smith wrote that Parliament might purport to restrict judicial review by conferring powers in subjective terms , the public authority being entitled to act when it ‘ is satisfied ’ or when ‘ it appears ’ to it that , or when ‘ in its opinion ’ , a prescribed state of affairs exists . |
| 23 | This led Professor H.W.R. Wade to argue that it was nonsensical to have a legal theory which said that Parliament could pass laws on any subject without restriction . |
| 24 | The sovereignty of Parliament meant that Parliament could make and unmake any law whatsoever ; there was no higher legislative authority ; and no court was in a position to declare Acts of Parliament invalid . |
| 25 | Moreover , the government had earlier proposed that Parliament should sit for three days a week , instead of five . |
| 26 | Lewis opposed the idea that Parliament should let the scheme be taken out of its hands and said that the Government would apply for a vote during the session to acquire land for the Foreign Office at first , followed by land for other offices . |
| 27 | It is no surprise that parliament should have approved a conservative plan . |
| 28 | We regard it as almost unthinkable that Parliament should have authorised the Serious Fraud Office to continue the exercise of inquisitorial powers against the accused not merely after he had been charged but also ( as Mr. Pleming accepts and asserts ) throughout his trial . |
| 29 | The English Courts can go no further , in the absence of a Bill of Rights " incorporating " the Convention into English law , than to apply it when interpreting ambiguous statutes , on the presumption that Parliament must intend to legislate in a manner consistent with the United Kingdom 's treaty obligations . |
| 30 | ‘ I in no way dissent from this reasoning , but I should myself have been content to derive the same conclusion from the broader consideration that Parliament must have intended rating authorities to act in the same high principled way expected by the court of its own officers and not to retain rates paid under a mistake of law , or in paragraph ( a ) upon an erroneous valuation , unless there were , as Parliament must have contemplated there might be in some cases , special circumstances in which a particular overpayment was made such as to justify retention of the whole or part of the amount overpaid . |