Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb -s] that [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benazir Bhutto says that after the summer of turmoil in Pakistan , this could be the last chance for parliamentary democracy . |
| 2 | Meyer 's chairman Richard Jewson says that in the first four months of this year there is absolutely no sign of more people moving house than a year ago . |
| 3 | Sunderland motor dealer Reg Vardy says that in the past month it has sold £1.1m worth of luxury cars to local businessmen . |
| 4 | Dr Clay writes that during the middle years of the seventeenth century customary tenures were still widespread and important , especially for the smaller properties , but that much less land was held in this way than was the case 100 years earlier . |
| 5 | Dr Clarke maintains that in the 1920s Keynes was primarily a political animal . |
| 6 | But even ISE chairman Hugh Smith admits that on the broking side not only will London 's share of cross-border deals have to fall ( it is now precariously high at 90% ) , but that brokers will have to be big and robust or smart and small to survive . |
| 7 | Mr Gummer argues that under the new proposals the least efficient farmers would have , ‘ no incentive to improve and every incentive to go into reverse and avoid the impact of the new system by artificially dividing the land ’ . |
| 8 | Sir Bernard complains that in the case of the Biffen and Pym briefings , his comments ‘ were dragged out of me . |
| 9 | Mr. Howell accepts that in the present case the governors did consult the local education authority on the admissions policy and that such policy was a reasonable one for a Roman Catholic school to adopt were it not for the duty to comply with parental preference imposed by section 6 of the Act of 1980 . |
| 10 | Mr. Diamond asserts that under the Visby Protocol tort liability would be precluded in at least two of the examples . |
| 11 | Mr Knight anticipates that over the next few years manufacturing capacity will expand and business may be further developed via a joint venture . |
| 12 | Mr. Karsten submits that on the face of it that passage in the judgment of Lord Donaldson M.R. should be considered as obiter , but in any event he submits that it does not bear the meaning contended for by Mr. Wall . |
| 13 | Caro Hunt says that at the age of five he could beat her and it was then she realised he had a lot of promise . |
| 14 | Olwen Hufton maintains that in the eighteenth century the stereotypical spinster was ‘ … one to be despised , pitied , and avoided as a sempiternal spoilsport in the orgy of life ’ . |
| 15 | Hewlett-Packard Co says that in the UK , growth in orders was a storming 39% , and that orders for Unix systems are more than double this time last year : exports from the UK are up 16% , 80% of everything sold is now new business , and all new business is on the Unix side — as price-performance improves two-fold every year , it is selling four times as many Unix boxes each year . |
| 16 | A note on the file at St Martin's-le-Grand shows that for the year ending 31 December , 1920 , the Electrophone Company 's income from subscribers was £11 868 , its operating expenses were £5866 , and its royalty payment to the Post Office was just £496 . |
| 17 | George Hann says that in the years he has known about the business he has been approached on many occasions by people who ‘ come over as being very convincing but who turned out not to be genuine . |
| 18 | Artificial appearance thereby takes on a sexual overtone which Porter detects in the expression ‘ making faces ’ , meaning to have sex Keith Thomas observes that by the eighteenth century bodily control became a symbol of social hierarchy An elegant person would not pass wind audibly , or expose teeth while laughing . |
| 19 | Michel Foucault argues that in the modern period sex has become definitive of the truth of our being ( above , Chapter 14 ) . |
| 20 | As we saw in Chapter 14 , Michel Foucault argues that before the nineteenth century the sodomite was someone who performed a certain kind of act ; no specific identity was attributed to , or assumed by , the sodomite . |
| 21 | I 'm not changing my tune , Councillor Wyle knows that in the past I have actually offered to go with them when they 've made erm , visits to the minister , and when he said , we we we tried , but we never got anywhere , and on various issues I 've said , well perhaps if we got us an all party delegation , at least we could have done no worse . |
| 22 | The KPMG barometer suggests that over the six years that fraud has been tracked , Scotland has been less affected than most regions , with total fraud in the overall period of £34.1 million or 2.1 per cent of the UK total reported . |
| 23 | Legal & General 's Michael Payne says that over the next few years he expects his fund ‘ will grow more in Europe at the expense of UK equities , ’ particularly now that entry into the ERM has reduced the currency risk . |
| 24 | John Sutphen suggests that with the three sonar channels available to dolphins , cetaceans can see-read-hear into each others ' hearts and brains . |