Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority considered that such cases should in future be dealt with under the Sexual Offences Act 1956 , s.3(1) , which makes it a crime to procure a woman by false pretences or false representations to have unlawful sexual intercourse in any part of the world and that the penalty for this offence should be raised from two to five years ' imprisonment . |
| 2 | These issues were considered by the House of Lords in Henry Kendall and Sons v William Lillico and Sons Ltd ( 1969 ) where the majority held that subsequent knowledge should be taken into account as otherwise , Lord Guest argued , it would be tantamount " to approach the true situation with blinkers " ( p108 ) . |
| 3 | An early Inland Revenue analysis of the revaluation suggest that 240,000 businesses in England face increases of 100 per cent or more in their annual bills ; about 230,000 rises between 50 and 100 per cent and a further 390,000 increases of between five and 50 per cent . |
| 4 | Enid Blyton 's characters do show emotions — they show affection and they get angry — but they are obvious and unrevealing , the writer judging that this shallowness is appropriate for young readers . |
| 5 | Substantial doubts had been raised by the difficultly of Coleman 's having committed the crime in the short space of time for which he had no alibi on the night of the murder , and by numerous statements gathered after the trial attesting that another resident of the small town of Grundy had boasted of having committed the crime . |
| 6 | The chairman of the board ruled that certain witnesses which a prisoner had requested to attend should not be called . |
| 7 | The Board desires that all lessons in physical exercise … should be thoroughly enjoyed by the children . |
| 8 | The brewery says that compulsory redundancies ca n't be ruled out . |
| 9 | Others say that the outcome of the case confirms that federal prisoner No 41586 was bluffing . |
| 10 | First impressions in the field suggest that large areas of ice-free Antarctica are sterile . |
| 11 | If a computer salesman claims that the computer he is selling will run a particular software package and this claim turns out to be untrue , it will be for the company selling the computer to show that any exemption clause it hopes to rely on passes the test of reasonableness . |
| 12 | The referendum suggested that most Russians will not tolerate attempts to recreate the past . |
| 13 | The Conference would wish all who may take part in the referendum to recognize that Protestant Churches are pro-Life but anti-amendment and to query whether they wish a clause in the constitution unacceptable to Protestant churches . |
| 14 | Instructions should be unambiguous , but in selling an ambiguous trigger may be used ( not in the sense of deceit ) because the salesman knows that different listeners will react in different ways . |
| 15 | Whereas conventional radar systems emit a beam and analyse its reflections from other ships in the area to avoid collision , Watchman simply pinpoints the radar beams that other ships transmit . |
| 16 | The archbishop hoped that this offer would be sufficient to restore peace , and Lancaster together with Wake and others swore a solemn oath that they had not done anything against the estate of the king or to the dishonour of his royal lordship . |
| 17 | His talk of the Tories in Scotland winning back seats and increasing their votes and their majorities is exactly the kind of spin on the election result that Tory apologists are desperate should gain political currency . |
| 18 | The quality of the build shows that some care has been taken in its assembly — for instance , where at all possible , input and output ports have been mounted on the case rather than taking up usable expansion slot space . |
| 19 | The decision means that annual government support for the railways will have dropped from well over £1 billion to around £300 million in 10 years . |
| 20 | The decision means that national legislation in this matter prevails and that Sunday trading continues to be illegal , save for certain goods , in England and Wales . |
| 21 | For standing on the , on the seats you see , which I mean my father was right he 'd got the experience to know that several men had been drowned like that . |
| 22 | The ministry accepted that farm-gate prices were a misleading basis for calculating cost benefits , but the new methods they came up with did not fully adjust the calculations accordingly , especially in the case of cereals . |
| 23 | Elsewhere , the index reports that western Australia , western Europe and the southern USA are getting wetter , while it is becoming drier in western South America and large areas of south-XXXX east Asia . |
| 24 | However , unemployment and the recession mean that many firms can no longer afford the creches and bonuses , and are reluctantly having to curtail them . |
| 25 | Confidental documents obtained by the Guardian show that financial incentives proposed by the ECMT secretariat form a fundamental element of the programme . |
| 26 | The Guardian commented that these sorts of deals ‘ would simply prompt further government investigations into the industry , unless the pub owning company was seen to be genuinely independent of the brewer ’ . |
| 27 | The Guardian reports that 25 baby sharks ( in this case Tope ) were being cared for at the Sea Life Centre at Hastings after their mother was netted by a fisherman . |
| 28 | The story goes that one photographer on board the Queen Mary on her maiden voyage sent film back to Fleet Street by carrier pigeon . |
| 29 | The story goes that this castle was founded by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa , ‘ Redbeard ’ no less . |
| 30 | The story runs that Gay News were having trouble getting any work done because of the number of people who used their phone line as a combination information service and helpline . |