Example sentences of "the [noun] [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 | The Pentagon estimates that 150000 Russians work full time on civil defence during peacetime , This would rise to 16 million in war . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It adds : ‘ It is felt following the findings of the Accounts Commission that this role should be fully examined . ’ |
| 7 | The accounts confirm that senior BTR executives are paid less than those of similarly sized concerns . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The chairman of the board ruled that certain witnesses which a prisoner had requested to attend should not be called . |
| 10 | The Board desires that all lessons in physical exercise … should be thoroughly enjoyed by the children . |
| 11 | The NSP announced that 31 people , including students and teachers , had been indicted under the draconian anti-communist National Security Law . |
| 12 | In many situations , you will not be able to demonstrate beyond reasonable doubt what the linguistic patterns in the community are — what speaker-knowledge of those patterns is like and which of the patterns show that linguistic changes are in progress — unless you quantify . |
| 13 | The brewery says that compulsory redundancies ca n't be ruled out . |
| 14 | A study in one polytechnic found that 11% of the bookstock was in circulation , while in another two samples taken from law and the humanities revealed that three issues per volume was the average use per annum , and that two-thirds of the items were loaned in a two-year period . |
| 15 | Others say that the outcome of the case confirms that federal prisoner No 41586 was bluffing . |
| 16 | If an authority misdirects itself in law , or acts arbitrarily on the basis of considerations which lie outside its statutory powers , or so unreasonably that its decisions can not be justified by any objective standard of reasonableness , then it is the duty and function of the courts to pronounce that such decisions are invalid when these are challenged by anyone aggrieved by them and who has the necessary locus stand I to do so . |
| 17 | An internal management machinery for the handling of individual grievances exists in RENFE ( the procedure of ‘ reclamación previa ’ , or prior claim , characteristic of the public administration ) , but time limits for application to the courts mean that many grievances are the subject of concurrent actions by employees in the labour courts . |
| 18 | The courts ruled that such companies only had the powers specifically granted to them by Parliament , and the ruling was extended to local authorities despite the fact that they were independently elected , not mere private corporations . |
| 19 | The inherent power of the courts to ensure that inferior jurisdictions remain within their assigned ambit has always , it may be argued , related to the legality of the findings that can be made and not their correctness . |
| 20 | The courts accept that ordinary readers are not literal-minded simpletons . |
| 21 | First impressions in the field suggest that large areas of ice-free Antarctica are sterile . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The referendum suggested that most Russians will not tolerate attempts to recreate the past . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The coins show that contemporary Romans kept returning to the iconography not just of war , but of conquest , and that they presented themselves as following in the footsteps of Alexander ; this is an important contribution to our understanding of their aspirations at the time . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |