Example sentences of "[verb] that [noun] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The co-ordinating committee reported that students participating in the strikes had been receiving death threats . |
| 2 | The local council in Aldershot ruled that soldiers serving in the Gulf would not have to pay poll tax ; but Whitehall refused to follow America 's example of allowing the troops in the Gulf not to pay income tax . |
| 3 | Thus , they contend that losses resulting from the automatic prohibition of mergers above a certain size are unlikely to be substantial , and are more than likely to be offset by the benefits arising from the creation of a climate of greater certainty and competition . |
| 4 | Thus her conclusion that ‘ Once the discretion arises it is for the court to conduct the necessary balancing exercise between what would otherwise be required by the Convention and the interests of the children ’ is wrong in law and fatal to a proper exercise of a discretion under the Convention because it predicates that matters relating to the welfare of children falling outside the ambit of the criteria laid down by the Convention itself are relevant to the exercise of the discretion . |
| 5 | Obviously a longer , longer lead in on that , erm , and , and the county would , clearly need to put some funding into the development to ensure that those er , those satellite businesses operate , and only when you fund those out of the rural economic development 's initiative , but it seems to me to be important that we should ensure that businesses operating in the rural parts of the county have equal access to the facilities of business link and business advice . |
| 6 | Editor , — Robin Russell Jones says that dermatologists working in the community ( presumably this includes private consulting rooms ) would be incapable of providing an adequate dermatological service . |
| 7 | A report by the Local Government Ombudsman says that residents living near the Memorial Ground at Tuffley should have been warned by Gloucester City Council about the possible nuisance the glare might cause them . |
| 8 | The Love Canal issue raised a scandal in the late 1970s , when it was revealed that families living in the area were at serious risk from chemical poisoning . |
| 9 | It was thought that people tapping into the power supply illegally were sending high-voltage ‘ spikes ’ down the line . |
| 10 | A letter from lawyer Richard Regan last June confirmed that charges relating to the matter had been dropped and Mr Gregory absolved from any blame for the oil spill . |
| 11 | Does the Secretary of State accept that people living in the real world question the Government 's industrial policy ? |
| 12 | The Northern Echo was told that solicitors acting for the Grangetown families were now considering an injunction to put before a judge obliging British Steel and ICI to hand over precise information on the contents of their chimney emissions . |
| 13 | In consequence we must insist that staff moving about the building on their own should not use the lifts . |
| 14 | In addition , it was shown that women living in the same household as the person for whom they were caring were more likely to be either working full-time or not at all ; part-time employment was taken when the sick or elderly person lived elsewhere . |
| 15 | Police and motoring organisations warned that drivers heading for the capital are certain to face lengthy delays as thousands of extra people take to the roads . |
| 16 | Appropriate measures should be taken to ensure that staff working for the vendors are not involved in work performed for the purchaser or vice versa . |
| 17 | It appears that styles obtaining in the south could have affected both of these mosaics , not only as subsequent amendments but as original contributions . |
| 18 | The resulting redrawing of constituency boundaries meant that French-speakers living in the suburbs of Brussels would become part of the Flemish province of Brabant surrounding Brussels and would thus lose the right to vote French speakers into the regional parliaments . |
| 19 | ( 4 ) In defending the ‘ flocculus hypothesis ’ , Ito fails to cite a study done in rabbits showing that motor learning in the VOR can be acquired without vestibular stimulation . |
| 20 | The robust nature of the Acrylix brush also means that colour mixing on the palette is easy to do . |
| 21 | Medical negligence is not only a new speciality but the nature of the work , touching as it does the breakdown of the special relationship between patients and doctors as well as the trauma of the injury itself , means that lawyers dealing with the cases must have special experience and skills in handling clients in this field . |
| 22 | Small wonder that lawyers acting for the depositors describe their prospects as ‘ fair ’ . |
| 23 | Mr Bell said that contract printing in the UK had been ‘ an absolute disaster ’ . |
| 24 | The London Weather Centre said that people travelling for the holiday weekend will face more rain tomorrow and Sunday . |
| 25 | Tai Solarin , an outspoken critic of the Government who has been appointed the Bank 's Chairperson , is happy that ‘ the Government has realized that structures operating in the country have not served the purpose of the ordinary people ’ . |
| 26 | Section 222 of the TCGA 1992 , provides that gains accruing on the disposal of , or an interest in , a dwelling house which is or has been an individual 's only or main residence ( together with garden or grounds of up to half a hectare in extent or other extent appropriate for the reasonable enjoyment of the residence according to the size and character of the dwelling house ) throughout the period of ownership ( but disregarding the last 36 months of that period ( TCGA 1992 , s223 ) are exempt from capital gains tax . |
| 27 | ‘ How old would you say that man standing in the window of that house was ? ’ asked Penelope tentatively . |
| 28 | Metropolitan Area Networks could form a market worth $2,000m worldwide by the end of the century , Siemens AG reckons : the company believes that hardware spending on the systems could soar , while customers using the systems could generate a further $10,000m of business : the remarks were made at a conference to announce a £3m order won by GEC Plessey Telecommunications Ltd , in which Siemens owns 40% , to supply metropolitan area equipment to British Telecommunications Plc , Reuter reports . |
| 29 | This suggests that impulses travelling along the uncrossed pathways suppress or inhibit impulses travelling to the cortex by way of uncrossed fibres , although recent work suggests that the extent of ipsilateral suppression depends upon the nature of the competing stimuli ( Springer , Sidtis , Gazzaniga and Wilson , 1978 ) . |
| 30 | Fleming concluded that information relating to the elderly worker did not readily reach the attention of management ( Fleming 1963 ) . |