Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this is the argument it neglects the fact that statutory bodies are given very specific powers . |
| 2 | I must stress the fact that this building is not , as the IRA has callously and cynically claimed , an operational military base . |
| 3 | Where the former used the full vocabulary of informality , and seemed unprepared or unable to accommodate the possibility that alternative viewpoints might exist , the latter were more aware of the limitations of progressivism , both as an idea and as a basis for practice . |
| 4 | He envisages that a change in outlook may derive from appreciation of the complex event sequences that new techniques have now exposed in the Quaternary ; from appraisal of the classical models of change to accommodate the realization that extreme rapidity of change now has to be considered when evaluating chronological biotal and geomorphological processes ; from adjustment of geomorphology to new knowledge of Quaternary change such as rate of ice sheet growth and decay ; and similar adjustment of biogeography and of palaeoclimatology . |
| 5 | Clearly , theories of this sort must be extended in some way if they are to accommodate the fact that latent inhibition depends in part on what the target stimulus predicts . |
| 6 | A second example of the importance of giving opportunities to other people comes from the type of head who , in pursuing the argument that good management of a school should lead to good learning by the child , watches pupils for signs that they do in some way match hopes about independence of mind , wholeness and honesty . |
| 7 | First , it may be recalled that in Chapter 2 , I concluded discussion of habitation by allowing the possibility that simple exposure to a stimulus might result in the formation of an increasingly detailed and well-specified representation of it . |
| 8 | The point of this exercise is to limit the terms experience , life , and reality in such a manner as to enable the claim that popular access to all three can only be gained by means of art which , for the purposes of national education effectively means English and especially English literature . |
| 9 | Candid recording , for instance , is a troublesome issue for sociolinguists ; but I have received the impression that medical researchers are generally less inclined to worry about audio-recording without the speaker 's knowledge or permission , provided anonymity is maintained . |
| 10 | LIFESPAN records the fact that this assertion has been made by changing any development versions of modules in a package ( including the package module itself ) to approved versions and giving them a non-development issue number , such as 2.3 from 2.3C . |
| 11 | They espouse the principle that any war , whether nuclear or conventional , must be reliably prevented and that peace must be maintained and shaped . |
| 12 | The third and final stage involves the claim that relational properties are merely a special class of qualitative properties of a single substance . |
| 13 | The ontological version of the argument involves the claim that existential propositions , in the final analysis , can all be shown to be about certain concrete ontological items and attributes of such items . |
| 14 | But Richard Buxton QC , a commissioner , said : ‘ The introduction of a hierarchy of offences will convey the message that this conduct is no longer responsible or funny . |
| 15 | Note that the amber light shall convey the prohibition that vehicular traffic shall not proceed beyond the stop line etc. , except in the case of any vehicle which , when the amber light is first shown , is so close to the said line and signal that it can not safely be stopped before passing the line or signal . |
| 16 | Local environmentalists have fiercely criticized the fact that unsafe conditions still exist at the plant even after three years of clean-up work . |
| 17 | I shared the view that personal taxation was too high and that one way we could help industry was to reduce the tax burden upon it . |
| 18 | Although this method fulfils the requirement that all animals are equally likely to be part of the study , we have no control over sample size ; if herd A is chosen then there will be 36 cattle in the study whereas for herd C there will be only 6 . |
| 19 | The Council was financed jointly by the Ministry and the Local Education Authorities and respected the principle that each school should be responsible for determining its own curricula and teaching methods . |
| 20 | It will be a condition only if either there is an earlier case establishing that such a clause is a condition ( i.e. ‘ of the essence ’ ) or else it was clearly intended by the parties when they made the contract that any breach of that term would entitle the other party to repudiate the contract and reject the goods . |
| 21 | At its conclusion they made the order that all parties accepted to be the appropriate order . |
| 22 | The previous chapter made the point that economic regulation involves controls on pricing and controls on entry . |
| 23 | Yesterday , Labour 's spokesman made the point that nationalising water was a priority — yet another priority — which would cost £8 billion . |
| 24 | He made the point that most debtors will have to pay , and will respond positively when things improve . |
| 25 | The Observer , in nineteen ninety-three , referring to Hunslet Leeds , made the point that improved housing is no compensation for the destruction of a community , without which outsiders are created . |
| 26 | Erm , I 'd just like to reassure the conference , that there is actually a representative erm , from a environmental organisation , here today after Richard erm , comments , Head of Communications at Friends of the Earth , erm , and also to ask him , on what basis , erm , he made the comment that environmental organisation have a tradition of not working together . |
| 27 | Pierre Reverdy , a young friend and supporter of Picasso and Braque , was quick to realize the fact that true Cubism had not been the product of pictorial doctrines and theories , and also that the search for the means of expressing a new concept of form and space had made Cubism a style of almost unequalled pictorial discipline . |
| 28 | Given the requirement that medical evidence has to be served with the proceedings , and given the long waiting lists that now apply for very senior surgeons , it might be a good idea either to get an initial report from the treating surgeon or to use one of the independent physicians mentioned above . |
| 29 | It is also perhaps surprising that he did not adopt a more radical approach to the housing market , given the effect that falling house prices and the burden of debt have had on consumer expenditure . |
| 30 | It is also perhaps surprising that he did not adopt a more radical approach to the housing market , given the effect that falling house prices and the burden of debt have had on consumer expenditure . |