Example sentences of "[adv prt] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Runcie denied his vision of a universal primacy would affect the Queen 's position under the British constitution , which lays down that the monarch must be a Protestant . |
| 2 | It proposes a timetable for withdrawal , laying down that the Iraqis should start to leave at once , within a day of a ceasefire , and that they should be allowed to do so safely . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's only when you let your hair down that others can see the real person hiding under the hat . |
| 4 | You can put down that I 'm here under duress because your friend , Dr Kingsley , forced me to it . |
| 5 | But one of the most significant developments in inter-union relations was the ‘ Bridlington Agreement ’ passed at the TUC Congress in 1939 , which laid down that no union should attempt to organize workers at any industrial establishment where another union was already represented and negotiated on behalf of the majority of the workers . |
| 6 | Although the authorities conflict , it has been laid down that the new doctrine of reckless manslaughter supersedes the older doctrine of manslaughter by gross negligence . |
| 7 | If you feel constantly anxious and frightened about food , if you can not take pleasure in eating or in your body , if you know deep down that something is wrong , then it is irrelevant what you weigh or whether your immediate health is at risk ; you should take yourself and your feelings seriously , and look for help . |
| 8 | After qualification , the recommendations of the Royal College of Physicians lay down that there should be three years of general training , including general medicine , neurology , and rheumatology , with , if possible , some ophthalmology , dermatology , and psychiatry , followed by four years of higher training in the specialty itself . |
| 9 | I teetered , caught control again , and made it down that last forward rush , sliding and bouncing through the lunatic water . |
| 10 | Moreover in The Tablet ( 16 April 1958 ) Shirley Williams pointed out another advantage that grant-maintained schools might have : Mr Baker has laid down that LEA schools must take in children up to the 1979 limit of numbers , so that as many parents as possible can get their children in , if they choose a particular school . |
| 11 | Medical and veterinary faculties ( for which the competition was high , the numbers limited ) could lay down that candidates would not be considered unless they got high grades in physics , chemistry and biology at A level . |
| 12 | It was , however , clearly laid down that the architects would have no claim whatever , except for the prize money offered for the several designs that might be approved . |
| 13 | His father objected that the police had arrested him unlawfully , because the law lays it down that no-one is allowed to do on Sunday the work by which he earns a living , and the police were therefore not allowed to arrest anybody on a Sunday . |
| 14 | Consequently the guideline in the BCU Coaching Scheme lay down that all canoeists should be able to swim 50 metres in light clothing and that capsize drill should be included as an early lesson ( p 357 , Canoeing Handbook ) . |
| 15 | The message had the quality of directness and unambiguity , but a gauntlet had been thrown down that no self-respecting , authority-bating child could ignore . |
| 16 | Once more it was impossible to get high enough to see over the neighbouring branches but he called down that he was reasonably sure that they were now at the southernmost end of the depression which contained the Swamp and that if after another mile or so they turned westward they could do so on dry land . |
| 17 | Once more it was impossible to get high enough to see over the neighbouring branches but he called down that he was reasonably sure that they were now at the southernmost end of the depression which contained the Swamp and that if after another mile or so they turned westward they could do so on dry land . |
| 18 | In 1700 Parliament passed the Act of Settlement , laying down that if Anne died without any surviving children , as now seemed highly likely , the throne should pass to her nearest Protestant relative . |
| 19 | Article II laid down that if Queen Anne failed to leave an heir the succession should pass to a relatively distant claimant , ‘ the most excellent Princess Sophia , electress and duchess dowager of Hanover , and the heirs of her body being protestants ’ . |
| 20 | The risk is the greater because , when you are working down that deep , in order to remove the soil from the spade the dig must be angled forward towards the rabbits . |
| 21 | ‘ I saw Kylie do the Stock/Aitken/Waterman thing and Jason went down that same road , and I realised I was n't going to do anything musical while I was with Neighbours , because Kylie and Jason were just copping flak from everywhere . |
| 22 | The BBC documentary that alerted people in Britain to the implication of the silicon chip ( Ed Goldwyn 's Now the Chips are Down that we mentioned in Chapter 1 ) ended with the alarming questions : |
| 23 | ‘ It was only when the police asked them to turn the noise down that any of us had any chance of sleep . ’ |
| 24 | The Northern Ireland ( Emergency Provisions ) Act laid down that a person arrested on suspicion could be held without further formality for up to twenty-one days . |
| 25 | The Alberta liquor laws laid down that no minors might drink , but it was not difficult to obtain beer or liquor , and he had often drunk himself silly . |
| 26 | ‘ People realise deep down that they have the talent to be among the best in the world . |
| 27 | It is the verb to bring down that forges the link between the otherwise still nouns and pronoun in the sentence . |
| 28 | Since then I have found other uses for it in my knitting room such as to anchor down that very important latch tool and to put in place the little basin on the weighing machine which tends to flop off when I go to weigh a heavy jumper . |
| 29 | But then , much more to the point , the pope went on to say that there was also a letter from Pope Boniface IV to King Ethelbert , from which he quoted a passage laying down that the monastic community of the cathedral church was to be continued by all Augustine 's successors . |
| 30 | From his vast knowledge of that swirling urban society in London and New York it was the type that could be swept up and then knocked back down that Chaplin chose to express the emotions of a whole era . |