Example sentences of "[that] [art] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Some in the Republic believe , though , that the decision to call off the tours would suit the SARU , who have been made aware that three matches in four days in Bucharest in the middle of June followed by two in a week in Rome could leave very few survivors from heat stroke .
2 The truth , both for Owen and Marx , is likely to be this : that in the pervasive optimism of the time , it was natural for the revolutionary to suppose that the change to usher in the new order was at hand , whether prompted by an Owenite vision of human perfectibility or by the culminatory movement of the perfecting Marxist dialectical materialism .
3 Cheap fares were available only for the westward journey , so that the disincentive to return to the East was considerable .
4 It was realised that the ability to experiment in the human sciences was extremely limited for a number of practical and ethical reasons .
5 He rejects the suggestion that salary is a satisfactory reward to entrepreneurs , and argues that the opportunity to trade on the basis of inside information should be viewed as part of a compensation package to encourage innovation .
6 Where you find those two provisions you construe the document , not as a release , but merely as an undertaking not to sue a particular individual , and the result is that the right to proceed against the co-debtor is reserved and can be put in force against him .
7 And they were both agreed that the thing to do with the club was to use it for their private purposes .
8 A second result was to weaken customary control over pre-marital sexual relations and in the context of increased mobility the inevitable result was that the impulse to marry in the event of a pregnancy was either weakened or thwarted .
9 After a lifetime of university teaching I have ceased to believe that the desire to sit at the feet of many masters is a powerful motive with the majority of wandering scholars .
10 Was it possible that the desire to return to the Vita Apostolica , the simple life of prayer , personal austerity and poverty was reconcilable with the Petrine commission and all the pomp and authority that suggested ?
11 Now the purpose of relying on a rights- based argument is frequently to claim an entitlement to act irrespective of the consequences for others , and so if the idea of rights is to be coherent we must accept that a freedom to act in the face of at least some adverse social outcomes is entailed .
12 It is possible that a failure to distinguish between the two sexes can explain the lack of agreement .
13 In a House of Commons debate on the Griffiths proposals , the Health Minister , Mr David Mellor , said that a commitment to care in the community meant ending the incentives to residential care in the social security system .
14 The insurance should cover the full cost of rebuilding and reinstatement from time to time , although it is accepted that a covenant to insure for the " full cost of reinstatement " will be construed as meaning the cost of reinstatement at the time when reinstatement actually takes place , as opposed to the date when the premium is paid , or any other date .
15 There is abundant evidence from every country , and under every conceivable form of government in the world , that every effort to legislate for the control of all the many aspects of human behaviour fails dismally .
16 The employees appealed and it was held , allowing the appeal , that the industrial tribunal had erred in law in holding that an intention to compete in the future with their employers expressed by the employees in letters to their employers ' suppliers was in itself a breach of a duty of fidelity owed by the employees to the employers and that accordingly the dismissals had been unfair .
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