Example sentences of "[verb] that [adv] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , analyses of the 1984–6 Labour Force Survey suggest that over a quarter of married and cohabiting Afro-Caribbean women ( and Afro-Caribbean men ) aged under 30 had white partners ( CSO , 1988 ) . |
| 2 | Optimistic courtiers suggest that only the marriage of the Queen 's youngest son , Prince Edward , to a suitable bride could redeem the popularity of the Monarchy . |
| 3 | Only when some convincing reason can be adduced for believing that both employers and workers not only misread market signals , but also misread them in the opposite direction from each other , will it be plausible to infer that both the supply of and demand for labour will rise with the general rise in prices and money wages . |
| 4 | The crux of the matter is that while one can accept the proposition that judicial labels often express a conclusion already reached , rather than dictate the result which should be arrived at , to infer that therefore the type of labels that we use are irrelevant is a non sequitur . |
| 5 | From January 1983 , married women will have the right to apply for Family Income Supplement ( a means-tested supplement for low wage-earners with children which currently specifies that only the husband in a married couple may apply ) and , provided the couple agree that she has been and is the main breadwinner , a married woman may then apply for means-tested supplementary benefit . |
| 6 | Lawyers say that quite a lot of Jason 's £35,000 will go in George 's fees . |
| 7 | When I came back to Scotland I found that generally the standard of club rugby was lower . ’ |
| 8 | Imaz found that about a quarter of the Argentine industrial elite , at a time when industrialisation was getting well under way , were self-made men from neither middle- nor upper-class backgrounds ( Imaz 1964 ) . |
| 9 | When Peter Townsend and his army of researchers monitored low incomes in the sixties and seventies for their massive study , Poverty in the United Kingdom ( Penguin , 1982 ) , they found that about a quarter of the unemployed were drawing supplementary benefit . |
| 10 | The report , Cracking the Codex , found that about a quarter of the members of the committees that agree codex standards come from the industry , with only a handful of consumer groups represented . |
| 11 | Bradshaw and Millar found that only a quarter of lone mothers on income support said they were managing all right financially and 52 per cent said they ‘ almost always ’ worried about money . |
| 12 | Although it is a great advantage to be just inside your weight category , some contestants forget that even a glass of water can tip them over . |
| 13 | As with the arrangements for exhibitions , it is recommended that firstly the agreement of the responsibly body is sought , followed up by a discussion with the headmaster and janitor/caretaker about the specific needs for the meeting . |
| 14 | Under Irish law , abortion is a criminal offence and recently the courts ruled that even the provision of information on abortion is now illegal . |
| 15 | Whilst the venue on this occasion was central and it was not the first time the A.G.M. had been held on a Friday evening , the Committee appreciates that perhaps the idea of holding the Meeting on the evening before the Dinner Dance to enable those travelling to London to attend both events was not a good one . |
| 16 | He admits that it may be possible to use reason to a limited extent , but he insists that ultimately the existence of God defies all proof and has to be based on faith which transcends reason .. |
| 17 | In the second edition Dewey announced that henceforth the structure of the scheme would not be fundamentally changed . |
| 18 | When it was first mooted that maybe a team of Tropical Plants staff would make for good television on Busman 's Holiday , several folk were keen to take part . |
| 19 | And bosses revealed that only a deal with Taiwan had prevented the number of job losses being DOUBLED.The shock move means BAe 's factory in Hatfield will shut by the end of next year . |
| 20 | He argued that even the procurement of raw materials from abroad should be subject to government control . |
| 21 | Newman and his original associates ( all white and mostly women ) were hard-liners who argued that only a revolution of the working class could resolve the individual psychic crisis . |
| 22 | Consequently , Comte believed that both the necessity of government and its functions may be deduced from the principle of the division of labour . |
| 23 | Hong Kong says that only a handful of them should qualify as true refugees fleeing persecution , while the rest are ‘ economic migrants ’ escaping the pitiful poverty of their home country . |
| 24 | In a courtly song Bertrand says that only the beauty of the Duchess Matilda prevented him from dying of boredom ; her naked body would make night seem like day . |
| 25 | Can he therefore confirm that either the Secretary of State has breached the security rules or that the excuse of national security has been used merely to cover the fact that the Government made the decisions on political rather than on military grounds ? |
| 26 | In such cases , tests show that only the ear on the side of the blue eye is deaf . |
| 27 | These were furnished with fountains , seats , grass and trees and were so organized that nearly every quartier of Paris could give its inhabitants a place for relaxation . |
| 28 | It is worth remembering that only the format of the evening meal will change dramatically . |
| 29 | In the inflationary expansion one might expect that eventually the symmetry between the forces would be broken , just as supercooled water always freezes in the end . |
| 30 | Quite apart from the impossibility of virgin births , it must be said that symbolically the figure of Mary is surely of little avail . |