Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] 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 numbers of acute beds that a service needs has long been a contentious issue . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Above all , it is a fundamental principle of English law that a contract can not be varied unilaterally . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | Despite official denials that a blackball system exists , it has all the characteristics of a club , or as one member boasted , ‘ the Mafia ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | But the queues continue — symbolising a gathering flight from money amid constant rumours that a currency reform is in the offing . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Viennese police have found so many rare animals in the possession of eastern Europeans that a magistrate has asked for help from CITES in identifying where they come from . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | There had been such a wide expanse of firm ground that a trench had never been worn . |
| 17 | They are refusing to let little Lucy stay with her 42 classmates despite medical evidence that a move could be traumatic . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In short , the contradiction between GCSE and records of achievement hinges on the question of whether the priority for 16+ assessment should be the provision of reliable information which has high predictability for the purposes of selection , or whether the primary purpose should be to reflect what has been achieved in relation to the whole range of educational goals that a school may set for itself . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | So much detail is now accumulating on so wide a range of taxonomic groups that a mini-theory can be erected for virtually every one of them . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The register , like other records that a company is required to maintain , may be kept either in bound books or by recording the matter in any other way and , in particular , may be on a computer or other electronic device so long as the material can be reproduced in legible form and is so reproduced for purposes of inspection or supply of a copy . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Does the Minister accept that it is feared in rural areas that a move towards privatisation would lead to services that require subsidies being axed , which would be a body blow to those rural areas and their opportunities for economic development ? |