Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adj] that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had she for instance dictated that the partner should offer resistance this would have been a relatively crude way of ‘ tightening ’ the structure compared with instructing the listener to be in a ‘ counsellor ’ role . |
| 2 | Nevertheless it is by no means certain that the use of such predicates necessarily commits us to an anti-monist stance . |
| 3 | Even when the problem has been identified as having a legal perspective it is by no means certain that the client will conclude that a solicitor is the most appropriate source of advice . |
| 4 | So it is by no means impossible that the kraken and the other legendary sea monsters that are said to be able to rise from the deep and wrap ships in their tentacles , really exist . |
| 5 | But many pieces commonly thought of as ‘ art ’ ( Handel 's ‘ Hallelujah Chorus ’ , many Schubert songs , many Verdi arias ) have qualities of simplicity ; conversely , it is by no means obvious that the Sex Pistols ' records were ‘ accessible ’ , Frank Zappa 's work ‘ simple ’ or Billie Holiday 's ‘ facile ’ . |
| 6 | However , Sharon said in an interview with the Jerusalem Post of March 22 that the Housing Ministry planned to build 13,000 new homes in the West Bank over the next two years . |
| 7 | It is of course true that the work they carried out may or may not be done by a small part of some other organization but this in itself is a startling example of fragility . |
| 8 | It is of course true that the coming of Jesus did bring a fire upon the earth , a fire of judgment ; men judged themselves by their response to him . |
| 9 | A line can be the contour , the silhouette , of a series of magnitudes such that the mind may run over them , as Descartes required , until they are entirely memorable . |
| 10 | There is a potency in his warning at the end of chapter fourteen that the world is dependent on time which will end , and man 's most urgent and natural work , therefore , should be to find the means by which he can pass beyond it . |
| 11 | It was firmly established from the time of Gregory VII that the pope had the exclusive power to issue new law in case of necessity ( Dictatus Pape c.7 ) — to put forward new decrees and remedies against new excesses and to dispense from or mitigate the law in some cases . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , it was reported in the Middle East Economic Digest of Sept. 28 that the Local Government Minister , Ali Hasan al-Majid , a cousin of President Saddam Hussein and formerly chief of security with special responsibility for the Kurds ( reported on Aug. 20 as in control of Kuwait 's security and administration — see p. 37635 ) , was named governor of Kuwait . |
| 13 | Finally , it was towards the end of January 1938 that the visit took place . |
| 14 | That reduction does not take account of further savings of £19.6 million that the council has to make if it is to avoid having its expenditure capped by the Scottish Secretary . |
| 15 | The judgment effectively absolved it of criminal and civil liability for causing approximately 3,500 deaths and injuries to thousands , and the final settlement was only a percentage of the orginial sum of $3.5 billion that the government was going to sue them for . |
| 16 | In Re Vandervell 's Trusts , 46 TC 341 , the House of Lords concluded that the Court had no jurisdiction ‘ to adjudicate between the taxpayer and the Crown on the correctness of the assessment or upon any underlying issue of fact on which the correctness of the assessment depends ’ . |
| 17 | The recent Caparo judgment reasserted this definition , when the House of Lords decided that the purpose of the financial statements was to allow shareholders to hold directors to account . |
| 18 | The House of Lords decided that the lorry driver , as Romford 's employee , owed his employer a duty to drive with reasonable care and skill . |
| 19 | In practice , the difference between procedure and substance can be very narrow ; for example , in Bromley v. Greater London Council ( 1981 ) the House of Lords decided that the council 's ‘ Fares fair ’ policy for public transport was in breach of its ‘ fiduciary duty ’ to ratepayers and London Transport 's duty to run its operations on ordinary business principles . |
| 20 | The House of Lords decided that the affidavit was not conclusive and that , where appropriate , it had the power to inspect the documents in private and decide whether to accept the claim . |
| 21 | In that case the House of Lords stated that the Minister had a duty to give genuine consideration to a report of an inspector concerning the siting of a new town at Stevenage and to consider objections to that position . |
| 22 | The House of Lords stated that the employer had to devise a safe system and operate it . |
| 23 | the House of Lords held that the test was rather more favourable to the plaintiff , was there ‘ a serious question to be tried ? ’ |
| 24 | The House of Lords held that the rainfall was not an act of God and that the Corporation were liable . |
| 25 | A further illustration is to be found in Wallis & Wells v. Pratt and Haynes ( 1911 H.L. ) where the House of Lords held that the clause ‘ Sellers give no warranty , express or implied ’ did not exclude conditions . |
| 26 | However , despite being framed as a negative provision , the House of Lords held that the clause was unenforceable as it lacked certainty in that it was not for a fixed period of duration . |
| 27 | The House of Lords held that the minister could only intervene if there were reasonable grounds , namely that the education authority was acting in a way no other education authority would act . |
| 28 | The House of Lords held that the question whether the conduct was prejudicial to the interests of the state was for the court and not for the jury . |
| 29 | Held : The House of Lords held that the contract between the Ashbury Railway Company and Riche was outside the scope of the objects clause of the company 's memorandum of association . |
| 30 | The House of Lords held that the contract between Lindsay and Blenkarn was void and that therefore the goods still belonged to Lindsay . |