Example sentences of "[vb pp] that [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In fairness to de Valera , it must be said that he opposed any attempt to incorporate the church into the apparatus of the state and in this was , as already noted , going against the form of relationship preferred by the Popes of the day . |
| 32 | He had said that he regarded all-round cancellation as the only fair solution to inter-Allied debts , and this remained his basic position throughout . |
| 33 | With his father 's help , Victor began slowly exercising his limbs , but doctors have said that he needs controlled therapy in the city hospital — something the family will never be able to afford . |
| 34 | Meanwhile , Dustin , who has said that he envies pregnant women , followed a natural childbirth course with Anne , doing all the exercises she did . |
| 35 | Regan and Stewart ( 1982 ) had also earlier argued that they had insufficient legitimacy since members were neither elected or selected on the basis of expert knowledge , prerequisites of authority . |
| 36 | Responsibility lies with the SROs , but it could be argued that they have insufficient resources to carry out this role , and should merely be ombudsmen ( although there is also some doubt as to their ability to act in this limited capacity given their degree of underfunding ) . |
| 37 | If a British multinational invests in plant abroad , it is often argued that it weakens British industry because the resources could have been used to invest in new production in the UK . |
| 38 | Marxism has sometimes been regarded as a positivist approach since it can be argued that it sees human behaviour as a reaction to the stimulus of the economic infrastructure . |
| 39 | When organisms are examined it is seen that they form natural groups with features , usually morphological , in common . |
| 40 | You have seen that there exists convincing evidence that the Jovian interior is hot and that convection is the dominant mode of heat transport outwards . |
| 41 | We have already seen that it rejects any notion that God is changed . |
| 42 | Firstly , we need to recall that a feature of modernity is that infant mortality rates have dropped , people live longer , and medicine and improved diet have ensured that we have healthy populations . |
| 43 | I was told that they receive three meals a day and a very small amount of payment , although this did not appear to be directly related to the amount of work they did . |
| 44 | At last I had five pounds — but when my father and I went to buy them we were told that they cost fifteen pounds , a considerable sum of money to an eight-year-old , and way beyond my means . |
| 45 | Each of the 12 speakers who accepted our invitation to be here has been told that they have seven minutes to address the conference . |
| 46 | On a recent visit to the Midland Bank in Southampton to ask about opening a current account I was told that I needed some form of indentification . |
| 47 | My husband has been told that he has high cholesterol . |
| 48 | She had learned the harp because she had once been told that she had beautiful elbows , and harp playing seemed to make better use than most careers of the Lord 's stingy gift . |
| 49 | A child under 10 incurs no criminal liability for its acts ; a child over 9 , but under 14 , incurs no such liability , unless it is shown that it had sufficient capacity to know that its act was wrong . |
| 50 | If we return , for example , to the case of student protesters , we have already noted that they show some signs of a need for parental surrogates , and certainly they are seldom complete anarchists . |
| 51 | It may have been noted that I placed sexual offences against children among cases which may have effect . |
| 52 | I mean the one is a classic one when she knew it was Scottish based that she passed any correspondence on |
| 53 | The people are very tolerant and it has been overheard that I speak better Portuguese than I do English . |
| 54 | While idioms and dead metaphors must be distinguished , it should also be recognised that they have certain characteristics in common . |
| 55 | To ease my conscience I would like it to be recognised that I have five co-founders : Jock Lewes , Paddy Mayne of the original ‘ L ’ Detachment , George Bergé who started the French S.A.S. , Brian Franks who re-raised the S.A.S. flag after the war and John Woodhouse who created the modern S.A.S. during the Malaysian Campaign by restoring to the regiment its original philosophy . |
| 56 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 March 1991 the defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the donee of the power of appointment , the defendant 's mother , Mrs. Mary Steed , did not know that she had been appointed attorney by the defendant and accordingly could not have known that she had any power to deal with his property when she executed the transfer of 4 September 1979 , and that in those circumstances the plea of non est factum ought to have succeeded on the judge 's finding that the donee was tricked into signing the transfer ; ( 2 ) the judge having rightly concluded that the transaction as affected was not a sale , save possibly at such a gross undervalue as to vitiate it as a sale , should therefore have held that the transfer was void and ineffective ; ( 3 ) the judge having rightly concluded that he retained a discretion to rectify the charges register against the registered holder , notwithstanding , as he found , that ( i ) the title of the mortgagors , Mr. and Mrs. Hammond , was merely voidable and not void , and ( ii ) that the registered holders of the charge were bona fide mortgagees for value without notice of the facts giving rise to voidability , then wrongly exercised his discretion to refuse to rectify since the considerations in favour of rectification could hardly have been stronger and his refusal to exercise his discretion was tantamount to denying the effective existence of such discretion , as if it was not exercised on the facts of this case it could never , or virtually never , be exercised at all ; and that , in the premises , the judge had erred in law in placing excessive reliance upon ( i ) and ( ii ) above to the exclusion of the other considerations which favoured rectification . |
| 57 | He ate food that cost little and let it be known that he underwent severe penances and fasting . |
| 58 | The new version of the directive , which had received the assent of the European Parliament ( EP ) on Nov. 22 , and which was due to come into force in January 1993 , allowed providers of financial services the right , in principle , to trade anywhere in the EC provided that they met minimum standards ( the so-called " single passport " concept ) . |
| 59 | It must also be remembered that they have certain rights while in the Department 's care not only in physical terms but also in relation to information which is held by the Department about them as individuals . |
| 60 | ‘ So , Sally-Anne , ’ he said , the three of them on their own , before the tea-tray , Uncle Orrin and Aunt Nella having tactfully found that they had other engagements . |