Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] that [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are not to suppose of this machine that when a chocolate bar does not come out there exists a causal circumstance which necessitates the failure . |
| 2 | Because of these difficulties and the commercial desire that once a company is to be sold its sale should be completed as soon as possible , the parties usually try to have a simultaneous signing and completion . |
| 3 | It appears from the case decisions on this point that if the court feels that the driver should have seen the signal then the offence will be committed ; |
| 4 | Incidentally , Dutoit dampens the tam-tam at the end ( he 's not the only one ! ) , despite Rachmaninov 's clear instruction that whilst the rest of the orchestra play a quaver , the tam-tam should go to the end of the bar ( notated dotted crotchet ) with the implication that it should be allowed to carry on beyond . |
| 5 | I remind the hon. Gentleman that since the Government took office all the redundancies in the British coal industry have been voluntary and that the terms offered to miners affected are among the most generous in British industry and can reach £37,000 per man affected . |
| 6 | It seemed like ever since the ‘ sixties there had been just one brand of government in two slightly different packages and nothing much ever changed ; there was this feeling that after the burst of energy in the early-mid-'sixties everything had been going downhill ; the whole country was constipated , bound up with rules and regulations and restrictive practices and just general , endemic , infectious ennui . |
| 7 | There are , of course , cases where a newspaper wishes to publish material which is unlawful as the law at present stands , although there is some prospect that if the Attorney-General takes action an appeal court will overturn an earlier decision and decide in the newspaper 's favour . |
| 8 | It is for this reason that when a Kingdom has been taken by force of arms , it is said to have been taken by the sword . |
| 9 | The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State , Mrs Virginia Bottomley , reiterated the familiar British line that while the government was ‘ already considering the scope of agricultural restrictions , ’ it ‘ believes that wherever possible , they should in the first event be on a voluntary basis , with compulsory powers being retained as a fall-back . ’ |
| 10 | There is a popular idea that when the flight data recorder is recovered from a crashed aircraft the investigator has merely to read an indicator inside it which will tell him just what the cause of the accident was , eliminating the need for all the tedious investigation practices which used to take so much time . |
| 11 | He states that an expert on ancient British dialects considered the wall of brass to be a confusion with an old tradition that if the ring of sluices and embankments which Bladud erected around the ‘ brazen ’ waters of the Fenland were broken by flood , then Stamford would be surrounded by ‘ brayes ’ or shallow stretches of water ! |
| 12 | The break-through that the Anisminic case made was the recognition by the majority of this House that if a tribunal whose jurisdiction was limited by statute or subordinate legislation mistook the law applicable to the facts as it had found them , it must have asked itself the wrong question , i.e. , one into which it was not empowered to inquire and so had no jurisdiction to determine . |
| 13 | The break-through that the Anisminic case made was the recognition by the majority of this House that if a tribunal whose jurisdiction was limited by statute or subordinate legislation mistook the law applicable to the facts as it had found them , it must have asked itself the wrong question , i.e. , one into which it was not empowered to inquire and so had no jurisiction to determine . |
| 14 | ‘ We very much hope that after the meeting with trading standards officials advice can be given to booksellers as to what wording would now be appropriate for any disclaimer notice for future sales , ’ says BML m.d . |
| 15 | His appearance was a stark reminder that although a fortnight ago he had distracted her from telling him about Thomas — or maybe she had chickened out ? — the revelation had to be faced . |
| 16 | For the moment , however , there was still an outside chance that when the nationalist and communist members of what was described as a good-will parliamentary mission from Hanoi — and Ho as President — arrived in the more liberal and relaxed atmosphere of Paris an understanding might have been reached . |
| 17 | There is also the additional hazard that if the rope breaks at the towplane end , it may fall over the glider , causing damage . |
| 18 | It is a sobering thought that if the football season were to end now , just a third of the way through , Tranmere Rovers and Everton could be exchanging places in the Premier League . |
| 19 | In pensive vein he had published ‘ an early warning ’ in The Favourite Game against those who would follow ‘ our future leaders , the war babies ’ ; for the simple reason that while the world convulsed in its madness and death-throes , ‘ we grew up with toy whips , ’ ‘ games ’ played by old and young alike . |
| 20 | When the group is monolingual there is a real problem that because the task is so interesting , the use of English is forgotten in the urgency of the moment . |
| 21 | This has the remarkable consequence that if a man attacks his wife ( or vice versa ) in the privacy of their own home , the offence of affray appears to be committed if the evidence is that there was violence of a sufficient degree . |
| 22 | Behind this medical pressure lay the thinly veiled threat that if the government refused to acknowledge its responsibilities towards the armies of the Empire , then the result would be destruction . |
| 23 | In this case it was held by the European Court that where the Community has exercised an express internal power , the corresponding external powers , that is , the power to negotiate an international agreement relating to external aspects of the same matter , fell within Community competence . |
| 24 | Thus it is common ground in the present case that if a manufacturer negligently makes and markets defective goods , for instance a car with defective brakes , or a soothing syrup for babies which is negligently contaminated with corrosive acid , and the defective goods are put on the market and sold to a member of the public , and the predictable accident follows and a young baby is injured , for instance if the baby is a passenger in the car when the brakes fail and the car crashes , or is given the syrup , it is no defence to an action for damages , by or on behalf of the baby , for the manufacturer to prove that the baby was only born after the defective goods had left the manufacturer 's premises or even had passed to the member of the public by purchase from the retailer . |
| 25 | It is a good indication that once a skill is learned , reproducing it is purely instinctive . |
| 26 | For it remains a curious anomaly that although the marathon has been the classic test of long distance endurance throughout nearly a century of Olympic history , the fastest timings have never enjoyed the status of world records . |
| 27 | Four : there is a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped . |
| 28 | many ear that when the Home office cuts its grant from next April , local authorities wo n't be able to make up the shortfall . |
| 29 | We which I would hope when will itemise the qualities and strengths of the child that you want to cover , like when we do personal statements or joint statements in the tenth and eleventh year that if the form teacher just ca n't write well Fred 's worked very well , he 's done extremely well in English we 'll actually start to talk about him as an individual and his strengths and weaknesses . |
| 30 | Writing at the same time as Russell appealed to President Wilson , MacDonald insisted that it was disarmament , democracy and international socialism that provided the key to stable peace : ‘ Then we shall want no League of Nations to Enforce Peace , with its dangers and surrenders to militarism . ’ |