Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The link with sovereignty and with the ultra vires doctrine is provided by implication : parliament only intended that such discretion should be exercised on relevant and not irrelevant considerations , or to achieve proper and not improper purposes .
2 Wagner can count some worthwhile benchmarks — from the Caring in Homes initiative to the forthcoming Children 's Charter and one or two legislative achievements — but it can also be justly proud of its part in seeing that residential care is on the political agenda , no longer a Cinderella service .
3 This is a major boost to the Northern Ireland quarry industry and the Port of Belfast means to play its full part in seeing that this export trade is expanded even further in the years ahead .
4 One such dispute was settled by Marie with a verdict apparently asserting that true love can not exist between man and wife .
5 The Inland Revenue eventually decided that this practice was contrary to the legislation on PRP schemes , and put an end to it in a Statement of Practice ( SP7/92 , see ACCOUNTANCY , October , p 103 ) .
6 This grand term merely means that successful community care schemes are usually a joint initiative of two or more service sectors , that is , a local authority and a voluntary organization , a local authority and the NHS , the NHS and a housing association , and so on .
7 For some reason , the makers of this trash still think that all metal fans have had their frontal lobes seared from their skulls , and would n't know an intelligent sentence if it jumped up and shouted ‘ moron ’ in their earholes .
8 For some reason , the makers of this trash still think that all metal fans have had their frontal lobes seared from their skulls , and would n't know an intelligent sentence if it jumped up and shouted ‘ moron ’ in their earholes .
9 A 1986 report from the British Medical Association also suggested that universal screening is ‘ probably not justified ’ , and that it could ‘ alarm some elderly people unnecessarily . ’
10 Our study also showed that postprandial gall bladder contraction was suppressed for at least four hours after octreotide injection .
11 Our findings about symmetry perception also demonstrate that neglected information that is unavailable for verbal report may nevertheless be represented implicitly , confirming previous reports which have remained controversial .
12 There is still widespread popular belief in the efficacy of practising such ‘ relevant ’ skills , even though research clearly indicates that such practice is largely futile : if pupils are unable to master a skill fairly quickly they do not appear to improve subsequently .
13 Mahathir also said that foreign investment would continue to be encouraged .
14 Our present study clearly indicates that any contribution made by abnormal forms of gastrin is minimal and that the gastrin which is increased in the presence of H pylori infection is G17 .
15 This figure also illustrates that other interest , in problems which scarcely seem to have presented themselves to sculptors in the rest of Greece : alike in the patterns discoverable in the pull and hang of clothes , and in the relation of clothes to the body beneath .
16 Labour now realises that that system of relief was not adequate .
17 The gas industry legitimately complained that this competition was sometimes far from fair : the Electricity Boards were using the leverage provided by the necessity of electric lighting to try to exclude gas and deprive consumers of a free choice .
18 For the output equation AD assume that real output is a function of time , its own lagged value and current or one-period lagged unanticipated monetary growth ( AD , 1983 , p.448 ) .
19 Blumler also suggested that parliamentary television was markedly bipartisan , paying relatively little attention to the Liberal Democrats and Members of other smaller parties , but analysis of the actuality contributions of various participants shows that they received more than their proportionate strength in the House ; Liberal Democrats were given 4.3% of total actuality contributions and took part on 7.8% of contribution occasions .
20 The central committee also decided that future party leadership contests would take place through primary elections in which all the party 's members would participate .
21 By allowing the arbitrary arrest of such people , the Act explicitly recognizes that personal freedom in Britain depends in large measure on economic and material well-being .
22 There will be a duty on the Further Education Funding Council specifically to ensure that further education is provided for those with special educational needs beyond the age of 16 .
23 [ In the Court of Appeal Pickin successfully argued that this case was authority for the House of Lords refusing to give effect to a private Act obtained by fraud . ]
24 The by-election gains in Manchester in 1912 and in Ipswich on the eve of the war perhaps showed that this recovery was at hand .
25 My husband always maintains that white wine tastes better when drunk outside — by which he actually means that if he is in the open air he is relaxed and therefore more capable of enjoying anything .
26 The team also concluded that severe pollution was confined largely to 250 miles of the Saudi coastline south of Kuwait , that most of the oil in the spills had been digested by microbes , and that sea-bed levels of cancer-causing chemicals produced by burning oil were no higher than those found in estuaries in the United States or Britain .
27 The political argument for conventionalism I set out a moment ago supposes that this kind of situation is inevitable , that no theory of adjudication can prevent it .
28 The inclusion of this peculiar detail consistently throughout one picture strongly suggests that that picture is a direct copy of another man 's work ; and the Centauromachy and Amazonomachy will at least include elements from pictures by the same man .
29 Claud Lorrain sometimes painted that celestial luminary in his pictures , but , if not , the sun was but little out of it — a choice generally to be preferred to all others . ’
30 Custom then demanded that this person should hand over three gifts for the child , with his good wishes .
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