Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] that [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , Walpole , described in the same book ( p. 83 ) as someone who " thrived on gossip , and on playing at loo or at hazard with a duchess or two " , could very well have been a sufficiently astute observer of social mores to deduce that the first manifestations which he had seen of the new way of dressing constituted the beginning of a major trend . |
| 2 | Savary 's statements show that the 17th century bill of lading had begun to function as a ‘ necessary ’ document ; only by showing the document could Savary 's shipper-owner claim lawful possession of the goods he had shipped in his own vessel . |
| 3 | Astronomical computations show that the first day of the two calendars agreed in the year 2773 BC , and it has been concluded that this was when the Sothic calendar was introduced . |
| 4 | So I went in person to enquire what had happened to it , and after several more weeks heard that a first edition of fifty thousand copies was being printed . |
| 5 | The remainder would then be destroyed over the following two years provided that no third country refused to comply with the ban . |
| 6 | The German authorities decreed that the second weekend in January would have to be used for matches , as a weekend in February would be lost because of the European tournament . |
| 7 | These observations show that the first absorption band of at 37 900 cm -1 consists of two electronic transitions . |
| 8 | This led some writers to suspect that the Third World , like the First World , was not of a piece , but that there might be substantial differences of kind as well as the obvious differences of degree between countries . |
| 9 | Jiminez de Arechaga concludes that recognising a third party 's assent through its actions shows that the third party is taking advantage of a pre-existing right , and is not concluding a collateral agreement . |
| 10 | Caution against dealings provides that a third party claiming an interest such as the courts would enforce , shall be notified of any proposed dealing with the land so that he or she might challenge it . |
| 11 | In case librarians and information scientists feel that the first stage of Taylor 's processes of adding value is not very challenging , I feel that I should spend a few moments indicating the considerable complexity of the publicly available information resource potentially relevant to business activities . |
| 12 | But there are reasons to think that the Next Steps programme may create problems of political accountability . |
| 13 | The numbers mean that the first bulb flashes every 12 seconds , the next every 8 seconds , and the third every 6 seconds . |
| 14 | The May inquiry was told on June 15 by counsel for the Maguires that inspection of the records of the scientists involved in the forensic tests showed that a second series of tests on the hand swabs had been carried out and had proved negative . |
| 15 | The old ones say that the first morning , the first experience of dawn in the camps , is the greatest test . |
| 16 | Others suggest that the first Hereford ancestor was a cow called Silver who , with her calf , was bequeathed to Benjamin Tomkins by his father Richard in 1720 , and indeed Benjamin 's son , Benjamin the younger , became the great improver of the breed in the 1760s . |
| 17 | Most students find that the first job does eventually come along , and even that elusive Equity card is attainable . |
| 18 | The precise origins of the Mage Wars have been lost in the fogs of Time , but disc philosophers agree that the First Men , shortly after their creation , understandably lost their temper . |
| 19 | Okahata and his colleagues suggest that the first step in our perception of smells occurs when odorous substances are absorbed by the lipid bilayer of a cell . |
| 20 | Oh , no , she silently grieved , and as her conscience prodded away at her until she was in an agitated state of mental uproar , so all her disquieted spirits urged that the next time she saw Ven she must confess the whole of it to him . |
| 21 | ‘ Celeste may attend every Grand Prix , but — ’ his dark brown eyes met hers ‘ — that wo n't stop the gossips assuming that the next place we 're heading is into bed . ’ |