Example sentences of "'s [noun] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They argue , somewhat surprisingly , that it is a mistake to meet it by trying to ‘ upgrade the imagined simulation in hopes of finally winning Searle 's concession that at last its states have achieved intrinsic intentionality ’ . |
| 2 | If all were re-appointed , in a replay of 1964 , the claim that franchises were ‘ competitive ’ would begin to look hollow , and would simply confirm the Pilkington Committee 's judgement that to all intents ‘ the appointment of a programme contractor is virtually irrevocable ’ ( Pilkington , 1962 , p. 165 ) . |
| 3 | My Lord the started sum of money originally , sixty thousand pounds was the total loan and there were further overdraught facilities and and it 's the plaintiff 's case that without it it was simply not going to be manageable and as a result of that having thought carefully about erm , position it is his case that he rang Peter , told him that there were major problems in the financing of the deal and asked him if he could get him out of the contract because the finance he anticipated was no longer going to be available and it was his case that Peter advised him that there was no way out because contracts had been exchanged , er Mr was told very clearly that he was committed legally now to the deal and that he 'd better try and rearrange some finances since clearly they were moving towards er the completion date . |
| 4 | It was followed by a silence so fraught with regret on Luce 's part that after a few seconds she had to admit the truth . |
| 5 | It is clear from reports of children 's progress that at present there is , for many , no easy progression from the simpler language and narrative line of stories written for inexperienced readers . |
| 6 | She first confirmed Watson 's hypothesis that in the tobacco mosaic virus small protein sub-units were arranged in a helical fashion . |
| 7 | The A sixty four south ma'am , I I have some sympathy with Mr with Mr 's views that in fact , the A sixty four is an e area where the landscape quality 's not high . |
| 8 | It crossed Harry 's mind that on the kind of salary he received — even if he was lucky enough to be paid as well by an English employer as he was by Wendell Harvey — Madeleine would not be able to afford designer dresses , or any other of those expensive luxuries she took for granted . |
| 9 | And consequently it was also Sky 's fault that for every one person watching Sky , six people choose to tune into Football Italia on Channel 4 on Sunday afternoons . |
| 10 | This critique of utilitarianism would seem to support Gandhi 's contention that in comparison with sarvodaya utilitarianism shows a lack of dignity and humanity . |
| 11 | Thus when in 1304 Archbishop Corbridge of York admitted to a canonry a papal providee instead of a royal presentee , he was summoned for contempt and was told by the king 's judges that as the pope 's acts were not subject to the English courts , no one should prosecute anything at Rome or elsewhere to the detriment of crown rights and royal dignity . |
| 12 | This is why noise groups invariably deal with subject matter that is anti-humanist — extremes of abjection , obsession , trauma , atrocity , possession — all of which undermine humanism 's confidence that through individual consciousness and will , we can become the subjects of our lives , and work together for the general progress of the commonwealth . |
| 13 | What must have really alerted concerned Americans was Blumer 's conclusion that for the most part the movies dulled discrimination , confused judgement , and stimulated random and unchannelled emotions . |
| 14 | Mr Justice Connell 's inquiry , set up by the Jockey Club , refused to accept Mr Evans 's evidence that on both occasions he waved his flag to signal to the riders that the race had been stopped . |
| 15 | Janet 's Norwegian is n't what it could be and she had n't understood the producer 's instruction that for an English translation she needed an ear-piece . |
| 16 | We know from Gen Shandruk 's memoirs that on 10 May , the day after the division had been recorded by 6 Armoured Division as having surrendered near Volkermarkt , the two generals , Shandruk and Freytag , set off with a small group to reach the US Zone , leaving behind some 10,000 men under Col Krat . |
| 17 | And when we remember what Eliot did with the gibe , taking it over in the title of Old Possum 's Book of Practical Cats , that collection of whimsical fireside charades in verse , we may well think again about Auden 's comment that in English family life ‘ it is becoming to entertain each other with witty remarks , hoaxes , family games and jokes ’ . |
| 18 | It was Sophy Sanger 's belief that by co-operating internationally for such practical , specific reforms , human beings might evolve into peaceful internationalists . |
| 19 | A glaring example of this is Andersson 's claim that to has meaning in He trained the dog to perform some very clever tricks , where it is prepositional , but not in He taught the dog to perform some very clever tricks , where it is " a pure infinitive marker without meaning " ( 1985 : 267 ) . |
| 20 | The result is to make more plausible Mancini 's claim that from the seizure of the prince at the end of April some men were suspicious of Gloucester 's ultimate intentions . |
| 21 | The result is to make more plausible Mancini 's claim that from the seizure of the prince at the end of April some men were suspicious of Gloucester 's ultimate intentions . |
| 22 | Derrida focuses on Foucault 's claim that in Madness and Civilization he is writing a history of the Other . |
| 23 | Mr Clarke said later that no decision had been taken to do away with the pay formula , but he added : ‘ However I can not agree that firefighters should be an exception to the Government 's policy that in the current pay round the rises of all public sector employees should not exceed 1.5 per cent and that there could not be any catching up settlement thereafter . ’ |
| 24 | A typical statement of this position was Claire Johnston 's argument that in realist feminist film ‘ what the camera in fact grasps is the ‘ natural ’ world of dominant ideology ’ . |
| 25 | About literality and freedom in the rendering of poetic texts , however , the applied linguists are not altogether at ease ; Hatim and Mason ( 1990 ) allude to Roman Jakobson 's argument that in a poem " formal aspects of the linguistic code become part of the meaning , so that translation proper is impossible " — in other words , that the only option may be some form of creative equation in which the resources of the target language are searched for equivalents or compensatory balances . |
| 26 | As I have said , it is claimed on Winchester 's behalf that in addition to being an exempted person , it was also a member of Lautro itself , and thus in addition an appointed person . |
| 27 | It had not escaped Cecilia 's notice that to many people , even today , old women are objects of ridicule . |
| 28 | Cropper 's implication that in this way God 's concerns became a man 's own and , potentially , were the basis for activism in the world , indicates the difficulty of reading the language of quietism in a purely passive way . |
| 29 | In later years many critics were to take up Lorentz 's implication that in essence I am a Fugitive was a conventional melodrama centred on a romantic hero . |
| 30 | Charles 's boyhood sufferings taught him a patience far removed from defeatism , reinforcing Christianity 's message that to be humbled was the prelude to triumph . |