Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [vb past] that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Condition 2 stated that a charge of £5 plus V.A.T. per transparency was payable for each day they were late being returned . |
| 2 | Estimates of the net saving of enterprises given in Chapter 7 showed that the amount of net saving had become more and more negative in the 1980s . |
| 3 | Given that such a coalition would enjoy the support of more than 50% of electors and that the turnover of seats under PR is small ( Professor Finer estimated that a swing of 1% would result in the loss of only six seats ) , it would most likely remain in office for the foreseeable future and hence be in a position to ensure a degree of policy continuity . |
| 4 | The Privy Council in Hector v. Attorney-General of Antigua and Barbuda [ 1990 ] 2 A.C. 312 held that the prosecution of an editor of a newspaper with an offence under the Public Order Act 1972 ( No. 9 of 1972 ) of Antigua contravened the rights of the individual under their Constitution . |
| 5 | A report published on Oct. 17 by the human rights group Amnesty International stated that the security forces continued to detain and torture opponents of the government " with apparent impunity " under the continuing state of emergency imposed in 1981 . |
| 6 | The future of the National Book Sales was this week thrown into doubt after Book Marketing Ltd announced that the summer sale , due to run from 3rd July to 7th August , had been cancelled because of a lack of support . |
| 7 | Employers , the government and the president of the Bundesbank all warned that the level of this settlement could lead to unemployment in the steel industry and , if imitated by other trade unions , to inflation and higher interest rates . |
| 8 | Commentators on Bonar Law 's election to the leadership all agreed that the party had taken a decisive turn . |
| 9 | It was in the same year that Culture and Anarchy first appeared that the Charity Organisation Society was founded , to busy itself with the task of classifying and purifying the demoralised lower orders , and to sift out the ‘ deserving ’ from the ‘ undeserving ’ poor . |
| 10 | Even those who thought that spatial perception would stand in for technical ability at age thirteen felt that the match between the specific ability and general intelligence was too close to allow it to generate a specialised educational form . |
| 11 | In order to remove all doubt , the Law Commission in their Report Sale and Supply of Goods ( 1987 ) No 160 recommended that the concept of merchantability should explicitly include reasonable durability as measured from the time of supply and this was included in s2B(e) of the Consumer Guarantees Bill 1990 . |
| 12 | Clause four declared that the objective of the party was ‘ to secure for the producers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry , and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible , upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry and service ’ . |
| 13 | In the past year this meant that the Library could acquire much important material , none more significant than the literary manuscripts of Hugh MacDiarmid , which have now found their natural home in the National Library of Scotland . |
| 14 | Clearly , a sum paid to the settlor to discharge a liability of his to the bank would come within this section ( see IRC v Bates ( 1966 ) 44 TC 225 : the case of Potts ' Executors v IRC [ 1951 ] AC 43 held that a payment to a third party was not a sum paid to the settlor but that case is no longer good law in view of TA 1988 , s677(10) which was inserted into the former TA 1970 , s451 ( now TA 1988 , s677 ) by s42(7) of FA 1981 ) . |
| 15 | The VAT ( Treatment of Transactions ) Order 1992 confirmed that no output tax liability arises if an employee sacrifices part of his salary in return for a company car . |
| 16 | Lord Diplock in Treacy v DPP [ 1971 ] AC 537 said that the Act was " expressed in simple language as used and understood by ordinary literate men and women " . |
| 17 | Channel 4 said that the word was used to describe that part of the body rather than gratuitously to offend … |