Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both AT2 and AT3 thought that the Senior Management Team had been pleasantly surprised at what the review had revealed : that all the pupils liked Art and that classroom organisation was so efficient . |
| 2 | It does not help Fergie 's case that the financial expert who has been advising her about the settlement is the same man she has been cavorting with in the south of France . |
| 3 | The Law Lords were upholding a lower court 's decision that the Southern Water Authority had not breached the terms of the 1981 Act by damaging a site of special scientific interest ( SSSI ) . |
| 4 | The general lines of reform must be to permit increases on prewar standard rents which will cover maintenance costs with a certain allowance for arrears ; but these costs should be certified by the relevant local authority and only collectable upon that authority 's certificate that the appropriate standard of maintenance has been attained . |
| 5 | The force between them has some correspondence with Newton 's finding that the gravitational force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them . |
| 6 | In the form in which the proposals on community service appeared in the Bill they owed something also to the Government 's hope that the new measure would be seen as a credible alternative to custodial sentences , thus contributing towards the aim of bringing down the prison population . |
| 7 | It has also stood Marx on his head , by transforming itself from a classless society into a caste society ( if at the same time gratifying Lenin 's hope that the intermediate stage of class society might be bypassed ) . |
| 8 | Pointing to the Commission 's admission that the key symptoms in Britain were now ‘ similar ’ to those in West Germany , Rossi expressed surprise that the Commission was ‘ apparently no further forward than in 1984 ’ . |
| 9 | It is just Cork 's luck that the main championship is already over , Bertie Fisher having retained the title on the Ulster International at the end of July . |
| 10 | The magnitude of the NLD 's victory placed into question the validity of the SLORC 's stricture that the sole purpose of the election was to establish a Constituent Assembly without legislative power , whose task would be to draw up a new constitution before power could be handed over to a " strong " government , generally interpreted as meaning one acceptable to the military . |
| 11 | Richard Hazleton , president of Dow Corning Europe , said in a statement that the decision ‘ reflects Dow Corning 's optimism that the long term growth and expansion of the markets and applications for silicones is undiminished ’ . |
| 12 | A new race of novelists may result , making it possible to refute with more confidence than hitherto B. S. Johnson 's fear that the British novel has never fulfilled the huge potential created by the irruption of modernism into the literature of the twentieth century . |
| 13 | So great was Paul 's obsession that the only way Mrs Bedworth could force him to take a break was by switching off the electricity supply at the mains , she told Southwark Crown Court . |
| 14 | In an unplanned discourse the decision to reformulate an utterance may be based on the speaker 's recognition that the original formulation was not an appropriate means of achieving communicative success , or , in relevance theoretic terms , on his or her recognition that the original utterance did not , in fact , achieve optimal relevance . |
| 15 | It said in the E , the Echo I read in the Echo it 's er , Friday 's Echo that the first band comes on at four |
| 16 | It was a Benedict 's rule that the close relatives of a D.I.L. must be allowed unrestricted access to their ill relative . |
| 17 | And its significance lay in Bentham 's demonstration that the very design of an organisation 's physical setting could be made to function as one of its instruments of social control . |
| 18 | It was n't Sky 's fault that the Premier League football on display represented the biggest mis-use of the word ‘ premier ’ since Adam and Eve learnt how to spell . |
| 19 | Editor , — I have no solution to the problem of junior doctors ' hours , but Jeremy Wight 's allegation that the Junior Doctors Committee was duped by ‘ the hierarchy of the BMA ’ requires comment . |
| 20 | It probably did not help Lendl 's mood that the net posts were adorned , in large letters , with the words ‘ ATP Tour ’ . |
| 21 | This may be done for a variety of reasons including someone 's anxiety that the original figures were just too unlikely to be reliable . |
| 22 | The area of dispute , which promises to occupy all of a meeting of EC finance ministers in Luxembourg today , is over the Commission 's proposal that the current system of exporting goods free of VAT be abandoned and that after 1992 the tax should be levied in the country of origin before export . |
| 23 | These results reinforce Kjellberg 's contention that the sleep-deprived person is not , as a strong version of lapse theory would suggest , essentially " normal " but suffering periodic lapses . |
| 24 | Last year , 30,000 of the porpoises were taken , despite the International Whaling Commission 's insistence that the total catch should be limited to one-third of that number . |
| 25 | The PLO leader Yassir Arafat discussed this proposal with King Hussein of Jordan in Amman on Nov. 13 , but the initiative foundered quickly over Iraq 's insistence that the Arab League cancel the resolutions of its Cairo meeting in August [ see p. 37635 ] , requiring immediate withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait . |
| 26 | It was , apparently , because of Ligachev 's insistence that the Central Committee report to the party congress in 1990 made no reference to private property . |
| 27 | Kaifu 's revised package , including further compromises and in particular meeting Komeito 's insistence that the entire sum should not be raised by tax increases , was publicly accepted by Komeito on Feb. 16 , thereby making its approval by the end of March almost inevitable . |
| 28 | Because of Ceausescu 's insistence that the entire population is responsible for national defence , there is seen to be no need to maintain professional and well-trained armed soldiers . |
| 29 | One such twist may be the prince 's insistence that the Vietnamese withdrawal be supervised by the Unit.ed Nations , and not , as Vietnam proposes , by India , Poland and Canada , the countries that supervised France 's withdrawal from Indochina in 1954 . |
| 30 | Dr Forwell told yesterday 's meeting that the statistical evidence was ample and was not disputed . |