Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] that [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The government adopted a decree on April 5 for the provision of homes and jobs to returning Turks , many of whom had sold their houses or found that the local authorities had bulldozed them in their absence .
2 But in the hands of people who could not add two and two together , or calculate that the weekly instalments on the dining room suite , the washing machine , the television set , the refrigerator came to most of the whole weekly income , with little over for rent , food , clothes , and every other necessity , it was practically the root of all evil from which could grow debts , family quarrels , rent arrears , eviction and even worse disaster .
3 Conclusions about the functions of one hemisphere that had previously been based on observations of the effects of injury could be confirmed by studies that showed that the self-same functions were retained by that hemisphere after section of the callosum , but were not available to the other .
4 This could not be explained , other than to say that the two things caused the passage to " jar " .
5 But that was the limit of their comment , except to admit that the large numbers involved did sometimes make it difficult to avoid an appearance of ‘ group justice ’ .
6 The full Slovak National Council , meeting on Feb. 25 , noted the decision of its Presidium and recommended that the political parties represented in the assembly submit their comments and proposals on the draft by March 2 .
7 I raised this at the pre-meeting and asked that the various participants should have a look at those issues where they had areas of disagreement to see whether or not er they could reconcile those .
8 If they last , Phillips believes that joint ventures may hold the answer and thinks that the new shareholders who will take stakes after the existing owners are forced to divest themselves of 51% of ITN could provide the answer .
9 Professor Sean Freyne of Trinity College , a former Roman catholic priest , published an article in the Irish Times favouring the constitutional amendment , and suggesting that the Irish bishops ' attitude to marriage , despite some signs to the contrary , was eminently legal and contractual in orientation ( Irish Times , 5 June 1986 ) .
10 Immediately pressing a few flowers from this bouquet will ensure that they are preserved while in top condition , and mean that the remaining flowers can be enjoyed in a colourful arrangement .
11 Clare looked up , and realized that the terraced rows either side of the road had disappeared .
12 Meciar , on his first visit abroad as Slovak Prime Minister , met Hungarian Prime Minister Jozsef Antall in Budapest on Sept. 9 , and agreed that the main issues causing friction between Slovakia and Hungary should be examined by joint parliamentary committees .
13 An anonymous tract of February 1691 started with the premise that " Government as ordained by God , has for its End or Object the Common Good " , and argued that the heavy taxes , the decay of trade , and the oppressions of war suffered under William meant that his Government was " not an Upholder of the common good ; and consequently … no more a Government " .
14 Louis 's duty to respond arose from the fact that in 1119 , Cluny , caught between its need of lay protection and fear that the local lords would seek to violate its famous immunity , had turned to the distant but pious Louis VI and placed its whole order in his guardianship .
15 At present he was with a party of police officers visiting the United States and Inspector Blakelock was totally in charge doing the two jobs , not only receiving the exhibits , making out the register of court attendances and preparing the statistics , but discussing the cases with the detective in charge , explaining what the Laboratory could hope to do , rejecting those cases where the scientists could n't help , and checking that the final statements for the court were complete .
16 We pay attention to those salient features which are constitutive of the type of genre , and expect that the peripheral features will be as they have been in the past .
17 example A thesis which investigates made-up words ( which resemble slips of the tongue ) in Joyce 's Finnegans Wake , compares literary theoretical approaches with experimental psychological approaches , and concludes that the psychological approaches undermine the validity of the literary theoretical approaches .
18 The Committee scrutinised epidemiological studies on the effects of passive smoking and found that the overall findings were consistent with an increased risk of lung cancer in nonsmokers in the range of 10%-30% .
19 But Baldwin weathered these political storms with some adroitness and found that the economic policies he favoured emerged , almost naturally , out of the collapse of the second Labour government in August 1931 .
20 Next he interrogated the gunners and found that the average rounds used by them ( that came back ) was something in the order of 350 rounds per gun , and they carried and brought back several thousand rounds per gun .
21 Graham studied the rates of effusion of gases and found that the relative rates of effusion of different gases under the same conditions are inversely proportional to the square roots of their densities .
22 Napoleon Duarte , elected Mayor of San Salvador in 1969 , began the scheme and promised that the new buildings would transform working conditions and pull the market women out of their poverty .
23 On the whole the writing of the 1880s did demand change and assumed that the privileged readers had such change within their power .
24 The nuclear shell model does just this and assumes that the individual neutrons and protons move in an average spherical or deformed ( spheroidal ) potential field .
25 An increasing number of directors of sponsoring companies are beginning to ask ‘ What did we get for our money ? ’ when they so often see players to whom considerable appearance fees have been paid , losing limply in their first or second round matches and , even worse , then turning round and implying that the only tournaments they really take seriously are the Grand Slams .
26 They blame Cdr Riek 's faction for assisting Khartoum , and hope that the seasonal rains will come soon and seriously hamper government advances .
27 Advanced root etching is shown in Fig. 1.11A , where the root marks are so extensive and overlapping that the individual marks are hard to distinguish and the whole bone appears to have been chemically corroded ( which of course it has ) .
28 Results plotted according to the WLF equation could be predicted also from the molecular kinetic equation and show that the two approaches are compatible .
29 Karl Semper 's Animal Life as Affected by the Natural Conditions of Existence of 1881 developed the concept that would later be known as the food-chain and noted that the total numbers of predators must be much lower than the numbers of the prey organisms to maintain a stable system .
30 In 1628 , William Laud persuaded Charles I to issue a declaration prohibiting all theological disputation and ordering that the Thirty-Nine Articles should be adhered to in their full and literal sense .
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