Example sentences of "a [noun sg] that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A safer course ( assuming that the business wishes to exclude liability where it is permitted to do so — ie in non-consumer cases ) is to have one set of terms , including the appropriate exclusion clauses , but to include a provision that the forbidden exclusions do not apply in a case where the buyer deals as a consumer . |
| 2 | If the present verdict on Touvier is maintained , they are unlikely to be tried , and it is a trial that the French public now seems to want . |
| 3 | The Environment Committee had it 's last last meeting by a majority vote , made a decision that the proposed reductions in service for the Fire Service sh er er should not be gone ahead with and that and that issues around the should be looked at again at the . |
| 4 | It said : ‘ I 'm much criticised for part of a written order under my signature which includes a sentence that the Yugoslavian nationals were not to be told their destination . |
| 5 | This system is better than the absolute waste of pulping , but it leads to major breakdowns of a kind that the private libraries would not have allowed under any circumstances . |
| 6 | She had bought this expensive dress to capture notice ; she felt it like a blow that the little monster sidling along , sleek and positive , dark hair in brisk waves , silly doll-dress denying fashion , had all the qualities that Nicandra lacked . |
| 7 | It was only when she exhibited her portraits in a boardroom that the medical staff actually saw what she was doing and she finally felt accepted . |
| 8 | Thus in 1343 the commons granted the maltote in return for a concession that the minimum price for wool should be increased and that no one should be allowed to purchase wool below that price . |
| 9 | When the philosopher and historian Thomas Garrigue Masaryk became the first President of the new republic of Czechoslovakia between the wars , there flew above his residence in Prague Castle a flag bearing the words Truth Prevails , and it 's hardly a coincidence that the central theme of Havel 's political writings has been ‘ To live in truth ’ . |
| 10 | It is also no doubt less than a coincidence that the central bank made its move in the week before the French elections . |
| 11 | It was a coincidence that the previous weekend I had been sorting through an old trunk of mine full of memorabilia at my parents ' home , and came across my membership certificate for the Tailwaggers Club , along with Tailwagger medallion . |
| 12 | And the London-based scientist said he believed it was more than a coincidence that the same colony seemed to have been affected by a second strain of the gizzard worm infection which killed 137 birds last year . |
| 13 | On the following day the jury signed a verdict that the 1277 perambulation still set forth the true bounds . |
| 14 | Finally there is a worry that the new pressures make peer review more conservative in the selection of projects . |
| 15 | It is characteristic of the metabolism of a cell that the relative amounts of the different substances remain roughly constant , and that if these proportions are altered by some outside disturbance , they tend to return to their initial values when the disturbance is removed . |
| 16 | So far as the Commissioner is concerned there was a fear that the Prime Minister 's power of censorship could lead to an ‘ extremely thin ’ annual report being laid before Parliament , with little opportunity for informed debate . |
| 17 | But where marked prejudices exist and there is a fear that the invading group will cause a serious loss in real estate values , violent opposition may develop . |
| 18 | Sometimes the adult can try so hard to hide a fear that the very effort seems to emphasize the apprehension . |
| 19 | A sense of an ending , a millenarian impulse perhaps , a fear that the Last Days are coming . |
| 20 | ‘ The discretion must be exercised with a recognition that the primary purpose of section 236 is to enable office-holders to obtain the information which would have been obtainable by the company as a going concern . |
| 21 | Whilst the Accord provided for increased powers for the provinces and a reform of the federal Senate , its most controversial element was its attempt to induce Quebec to sign the 1982 Constitution in return for a recognition that the French-speaking province was a " distinct society " . |
| 22 | It was a practice that the leading horseman exercised the horses daily in a specially designed trap or gig , and it was the habit of a particular one to partake of a social glass of beer en route . |
| 23 | This is of great importance in practice because planning permissions are invariably granted subject to a condition that the permitted development is begun within a stipulated time . |
| 24 | It is not a condition that the third State be specified by name provided it is clear from the context or surrounding circumstances what State is intended , or that a group or class of States is intended of which the claiming State is a member . |
| 25 | The Institute has taken a further tentative step towards opening up its disciplinary hearings to the public , with a recommendation that the Professional Conduct Department should first experiment with fuller reporting of disciplinary cases . |
| 26 | The same can not be said for the Labour party which fought the previous two elections on a programme that the hon. Member for Walsall , South ( Mr. George ) said was disastrous and should have been consigned to the rubbish heap . |
| 27 | It was a tragedy that the very regions that needed support and had previously enjoyed a generous level of regional assistance suffered those cuts . |
| 28 | He then went on to reject a submission that the third condition was only effective to except a Hong Kong profits taxpayer from liability to tax on the profits of an independent business carried on by him overseas . |
| 29 | If there was somebody dolled up as a copper at the Abbey , you 've got a conspiracy , and it 's only if there was a conspiracy that the Secret Service is really interested , because that means there 's at least one bod floating loose who presumably still wants to kill the President . |
| 30 | ( d ) The hybrid situation It is sometimes agreed between the parties to a marriage that the matrimonial home ( or the husband 's interest therein ) be transferred to the wife and a third party ( eg a new husbandsee Chapter 5 ) . |