Example sentences of "[that] [noun pl] [vb base] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It is suggested that views diverge on the central question of the rights of parents to custody and control of their children in relation to the right of the state ( acting through courts and social work agencies ) to intervene in the parent-child relationship , to remove children from their parents , to allocate their care and control to other parties , and to determine their subsequent upbringing .
2 It is certainly true that states have in the past used methods and means of warfare not outlawed by any specific prohibition although running counter to general principles , and they have sought to justify this by reference either to the principle of reprisal or that of military effectiveness .
3 Once new laws have been passed , workplace action is needed to ensure that employers comply with the new legislation .
4 The contenders for a tribe 's leadership come from the group of especially large Orcs known as Big'uns — the closest that Orcs get to a ruling class .
5 the requirement that returns conform to a normal distribution ;
6 Because tasks in organisations are almost always interdependent , it is essential that personnel act in a calculable and predictable manner .
7 Cognitive–Behavioural treatments have been the most extensively evaluated interventions of all the psychotherapeutic schools in relation to these disorders and they do indicate that clients benefit in the short term , but little is known about the maintenance of change in the long term .
8 Not only is this desirable as a means of restricting monetary growth , but , if it involves cutting government expenditure ( as opposed to increasing taxes ) , it will also increase the size of the private sector relative to the public sector and it is the private sector that monetarists see as the main source of long-term growth in output and employment .
9 These and other observations have led to the obvious speculation that plumes arise at the core-mantle boundary .
10 The note adds that directors participate in a long-term , performance related incentive plan based on growth in earnings per share above a minimum level over a four-year period .
11 Finally , we take it that effects depend on the causal items , and that the latter do not in this way depend on the former .
12 Suppose that banks operate with a desired ratio , , of reserves to deposit liabilities , ‘ the deposit ratio ’ and that the public holds a desired ratio , , of notes and coin to its deposits , ‘ the cash ratio ’
13 Announcing the move in a Commons written reply , yesterday the Armed Forces Minister , Archie Hamilton , said : ‘ The organisation of army bands has been reviewed in order to ensure that the right numbers of bandsmen , providing music to the high standard expected , are employed in proportion to the army 's total size , and that the important contribution that bands make to the regimental system is retained . ’
14 Workers ' preferences or attitudes are also unchanged , but it is the wage net of tax that workers compare with the marginal value of their leisure in deciding how much labour to supply .
15 Johnson may be a forlorn , pathetic creature who was never clever enough to emulate more sophisticated cheats who can mask the effects that steroids have on the human system .
16 If the taxes that individuals pay for a local public good were higher as a consequence of higher income , the poor might enjoy a greater quantity of a local public good if they were resident in a high-income area .
17 We have indicated that organisations exist within a changing environment and they have to respond to this environment .
18 Team scores are compared to introduce some rivalry ( which usually means that participants work into the early hours later in the course ) , and critiques prepared on how their performance might be improved through reference to Grid styles .
19 In particular that fireworks comply with the British Standard that people register that they are keeping fireworks retailers and wholesalers so that we can go and inspect the storage conditions er and that people obey the law by not selling fireworks to people under the age of sixteen .
20 He has pointed out that both our own experience and Marx 's writings suggest that changes result from a disparate collection of circumstances which can not be reduced to a single contradiction , but are jointly sufficient for a situation to become volatile .
21 The simplest models assume that earnings grow at a constant rate of g per cent per year .
22 Essentially , occupational pension schemes are designed — by men with male ‘ family wage-earners ’ and male middle-class career patterns in mind , so not only do they exclude the majority of part-time workers , but they tend to assume that earnings peak in the final years of working life , which is much less often the case for women than for men .
23 It also applies to Hewlett-Packard 's own old non-RISC and Apollo systems and does not require that customers trade in a minimum number of systems .
24 For the ‘ accelerator ’ theory to be valid , it is necessary that firms behave in a particular way .
25 Probably the most well-known body in Britain for establishing voluntary standards of quality and reliability is the British Standards Institution , whose famous Kitemark indicates that goods conform to the high standards set by the Institution .
26 It is also this sudden change in the quality , not just the quantity , of managerial work that subordinates accept as a natural and appropriate break in the continuum of hierarchy .
27 Mostly it is a Monday that slimmers pick for a new health regime , a new diet .
28 It is to be hoped that teachers respond to the positive utterances of David Hargreaves and Keith Evans ( director of education for Clwyd ) and continue curriculum innovations within the confines of the national curriculum .
29 The most popular way to regard the cases is to say that both groups are equally valid and that differences turn on the legislative instrument .
30 There really is n't any need to worry though , for all around are ample nut slots , several with the tell-tale whitish scarring that bears witness to the secure passage of countless stoppers and hexes and thus , be implication , other climbers .
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