Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] that a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT HAS BECOME one of the clichés of political debate that a concern for conservation is a new — and therefore probably transient — phenomenon and in addition that it is the hobby of an élite determined to fight against the inevitable overriding dictates of modern economic growth . |
| 2 | The United States Supreme Court has gone further , requiring as a matter of due process that a judge who has been vilified should step down — at least where the matter is left until the end of the trial . |
| 3 | Never the less , it is a basic principle of English law that a person is innocent until proven guilty and should not be required to attempt to prove their innocence by having to explain their actions . |
| 4 | Above all , it is a fundamental principle of English law that a contract can not be varied unilaterally . |
| 5 | Now having said that , often the trauma , which goes back to my original remark , is the sheer number of children , the sort of social impact that a reception class can have . |
| 6 | Now having said that , often the trauma , which goes back to my original remark , is the sheer number of children , the sort of social impact that a reception class can have . |
| 7 | This was a figure of actual spending that a department was not to overshoot in the coming year whatever happened to prices or the wages and salaries of its employees in the interim . |
| 8 | The defence of honest belief that a girl is over 16 is likely to have a far greater impact than the defence of honest belief in consent in the context of rape . |
| 9 | A plea of honest belief that a girl is above 16 is thus far more likely to be pleaded and with far greater success than a plea of honest belief in consent on a rape charge . |
| 10 | Mr. Beloff submits that the first question we have to answer is : is there any known rule of natural justice that a person who is not the subject of an administrative decision should nevertheless have the right to make representations before the decision is made ? |
| 11 | ‘ It is of great importance that a child 's environment enables him to enlarge his living sphere , according to his own abilities and without being restrained by traffic , from his home surroundings to the neighbourhood and beyond . |
| 12 | There had been such a wide expanse of firm ground that a trench had never been worn . |
| 13 | They are refusing to let little Lucy stay with her 42 classmates despite medical evidence that a move could be traumatic . |
| 14 | Because the phallic stage of sexual development continues for the Australian aborigines right up to puberty and because resolution of the Oedipus complex can not occur until initiation , it follows as a matter of inexorable logic that a latency period recognizable as a consequence of a culturally induced culmination of the Oedipal stage can not be expected . |
| 15 | Police work involves so much bloody paperwork these days and a lot of boring stuff that a family row can quite spice up a night . |
| 16 | An analogy would be with the familiar general principle of criminal law that a person can not be guilty as an aider and abettor unless ( in technical terms ) one can point to a principal offender who has committed the actus reus of an offence . |
| 17 | He suggests that there is something a little unnerving about a young child assuring a piece of moulded plastic that a metal machine is a playmate . |
| 18 | It is easy to see why the Author was the winner of an award for ‘ U.K. Best Shareware Author ’ with programs that are so easy to use with on-line help that a manual is not needed . |
| 19 | Supposing the sentence read : ‘ It is also argued that it is inconsistent with human dignity that a man should use his muscles as a crane for transporting someone else 's goods ’ ; or ‘ that a woman should use her vocal cords for the delectation of others ’ ; or ‘ that a person should use his or her brain to work out someone else 's income tax ’ — would these substitutes carry convictions ? |
| 20 | It is also argued that it is inconsistent with human dignity that a woman should use her uterus for financial profit and treat it as an incubator for someone else 's child . ’ |
| 21 | The Theory : What is needed is an input device which can translate the lines and curves of the drawing or design into digital information that a computer can then re-create as a display . |
| 22 | So it 's with added comprehension that a reader of On the Look-Out can approach the taut ferocity of Sisson 's early poems and the sombreness of those more recent , the jarring plainness of his Divine Comedy and other such translations , the savagery of his two gaunt novels , and the war against fashion-induced mediocrity waged by Sisson the literary critic . |
| 23 | It might seem odd during a period of so much innovation and advancement in photographic technology that a film developer formulated in 1891 should still be so popular today , over 100 years on |
| 24 | It may seem odd that during a period of so much innovation and advancement in photographic technology that a film developer formulated in 1891 should still be so popular today over 100 years on . |
| 25 | I have read in Ideal Home that a tip to help sell a house is to brew coffee or play soothing classical music when prospective buyers are viewing , but I disagree with this . |
| 26 | He knew from long experience that a kidnapping usually meant the involvement of the Sardinian shepherds who had , over the past twenty years or so , been steadily leaving their island and bringing their flocks to graze on the hills around Florence . |
| 27 | It was he who pronounced in open court that a husband was entitled to beat his wife so long as the rod he used was no thicker than his thumb . |
| 28 | It is a ‘ heroic poem ’ , even though , as Wordsworth admitted , ‘ it was a thing unprecedented in literary history that a man should talk so much about himself ’ . |
| 29 | The other instance : we are told on unimpeachable authority that a woman is looking forward to the birth of her daughter ; years later we read of a young man arriving on the scene . |
| 30 | Flowers concluded with a much-quoted dictum : ‘ There should be no commitment to a large programme of nuclear fission power until it has been demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that a method exists to ensure the safe containment of long-lived , highly radioactive waste for the indefinite future . ’ |