Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [noun] that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Father Fitzpatrick told mourners at St Mary 's Church in Rasharkin : ‘ You , who are of the parish , have often heard me say that the spirit of evil — the devil — is rampant in this world of ours . |
| 2 | Lord Templeman has given examples of Parliament 's encroachments on the principle ( sometimes involving a measure of protection for the person compelled to make disclosure , and sometimes not ) and Lord Ackner , quoting a passage from Cross on Evidence , 7th ed. , p. 427 , has reminded your Lordships that the principle is not immutable . |
| 3 | For example , the employees who reject their manager 's ultimatum and vote for industrial action have withdrawn their concession that the manager can control their behaviour . |
| 4 | The previous inspector had always accepted my suggestion that the loan interest relief for tax purposes was a pro-rata fraction of the total gross interest paid , determined by the loan relief limit . |
| 5 | These seem to have had their fears that the flood gates holding back university collections are now opening confirmed , as Edinburgh University announced last month that it was proposing to sell a sculpture by Adrian de Vries or a Ruisdael landscape , bequeathed by Sir James Torrie , to help put right a deficit permitted over the last few years by a Treasurer who has since resigned . |
| 6 | Yesterday , the court heard that Mrs Gilfoyle had told her husband that a woman friend of his would only move into their home ‘ over my dead body . ’ |
| 7 | Phoebe had obviously needed her reassurance that the house was safe . |
| 8 | We have shown our critics that the summer reverses and the indifferent form in the warm-up matches meant nothing . |
| 9 | I have noted your suggestion that the countryside which surrounds Queensferry should be given Green Belt status . |
| 10 | It can hardly have escaped your notice that the satellite television revolution is now well and truly upon us . |
| 11 | ‘ Has it slipped your mind that the child has to go to school ? ’ |
| 12 | It would have been helpful if one of the parents had supported my suggestions that the joke was over and it was time to move on . |
| 13 | And he knew he was not the least afraid , he was only afraid of failing Fergus , who had surrendered his soul that the Wolfqueen might rule again . |
| 14 | Given his belief that the idea that objects exist independently of a perceiving mind contains ‘ a manifest contradiction ’ , one might expect Berkeley to provide some explanation of why anyone should mistakenly have it . |
| 15 | Now Sophia was interested in the furniture and objects , and it was not until they had finished their coffee that the talk turned to parish matters . |
| 16 | Commercial organisations like the Co-operative Retail Society , the Co-operative Wholesale Society , Marks & Spencer and Iceland have expressed their horror that the Government should so abdicate their responsibility as to say , ’ We shall do nothing if you break the law , ’ and weakly add the unconvincing refrain , as the Home Office Minister did , ’ But we 'd rather like it if you did n't . ’ |
| 17 | The meeting with the Grant Assessment Panel of the Sports Council took place in February and Pauline explained how well the new plan had been received by the panel who had expressed their hope that the rise in membership numbers would be maintained . |
| 18 | And yet in the same lecture he had expressed his belief that the tradition of which he spoke was drawing to a close ; and , in the poem , the encounter with the familiar but only half-glimpsed figure is charged with a sense of transitoriness and loss : |
| 19 | It was for that reason that France was hostile to both proposals : de Gaulle had already expressed his belief that the Commission already had too much power . |
| 20 | In the result , their Lordships have humbly advised Her Majesty that the appeal against the ruling of the Court of Appeal that it had no jurisdiction should be dismissed , and that the appeal against the judgment of Barnett J. should be dismissed . |
| 21 | Our lord taught us to pray er er give us this day our daily bread but we all know when we 've read our commentaries that the word epusios means of tomorrow , give us today the bread of tomorrow . |