Example sentences of "that the [noun] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Between the coupon payment date and the next ex dividend date ( X ) , the bond is traded cum dividend , so that the buyer gets the next coupon payment . |
| 2 | They were shocked that the UK chose the stark warning ‘ Smoking Kills ’ as one of the rotating warnings on the back of cigarette packets , especially as he followed the health community 's advice and dropped the attribution to the Chief Medical Officers and increased the overall size of the warnings . |
| 3 | Making international comparisons between seven EEC countries , Japan and USA , the data shows that the UK had the lowest death rate of these nine ( 9.4 per 100 000 population ) and Portugal the highest in the EEC countries with 30.2 per 100 000 population . |
| 4 | Although stating that sentencing policy is outside its terms of reference , the Woolf report noted the difficulties caused by the fact that the UK has the highest rate of imprisonment in proportion to its population in Europe ( para 10.149 ) . |
| 5 | The market ensures that the price equals the marginal benefit and the marginal cost , and hence equates the two . |
| 6 | Reports indicated , however , that the decision to convene the latest meeting , which followed talks in Tehran between SAIRI and the Iraqi National Congress ( INC — sponsor of the Vienna conference ) , had been prompted by SAIRI 's growing concern over the INC 's high profile among Western governments . |
| 7 | ‘ As for the Handscomb case , the ratio decidendi was that a sentence of 27 years was so far beyond anything which the judiciary could have recommended as the appropriate tariff , that the decision to postpone the first review until 1991 was one which no reasonable Secretary of State could have reached . |
| 8 | He added that the decision marked the first nationalisation under a Thatcher government . |
| 9 | Yet the commercial farmers can be forgiven for believing that the decision to buy the white farms has been taken for short-term political reasons rather than longer-term ones of efficiency or fairness . |
| 10 | Always made certain that the horses had the best hay . |
| 11 | On the other hand , the group of verbs which occur with predicate qualifiers will be expected to exhibit some degree of compatibility with the noun phrase element of the structure which they govern , although this does not imply that they have to make exactly the same sort of sense when they occur with that phrase alone as they do when the adjective is present , for the very reason that the adjective provides the syntactic-semantic condition under which the relation between the verb and its object holds ; compare leave the items and leave the items date-stamped . |
| 12 | We owe to the same Caesar the information that the Druids used the Greek alphabet ( 6.14 ) . |
| 13 | We assume ( following the literature ) that the firm knows the objective distribution of the output price , and the cost function it faces . |
| 14 | Right , so if we just the origin of the particular point on that curve the slope of that the origin to denote the average product of labour . |
| 15 | The ancient Mediterranean cultures believed that the dolphin represented the vital power of the sea . |
| 16 | It could well be argued that the committee under-played the ideological differences that exist between such approaches to the curriculum ( an issue we shall return to later ) . |
| 17 | Thirdly , the copy-writer tells us that the flats overlook the open ground where the Scots army mustered in the English wars , whereas the fact is that any mustering was at , or over , the distant sky line at Bruntsfield or Morningside . |
| 18 | It lasted just over three weeks and the immediate conflict was only resolved by the intervention of the Ministry of Labour and its Minister , Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland , who requested that the employers allow the existing wage rates to continue until a Court of Investigation , which was to be set up , reported upon the woollen and worsted textile trades . |
| 19 | Martin ( 1987 ) suggests a link between psychology and the immune system , based on the idea ‘ that the brain influences the immune system and , therefore , our resistance to disease ’ . |
| 20 | One can only speculate that the GMC took the easy option and avoided testing the issue of clinical ecology head on because it feared a lengthy presentation of evidence on both sides , with the risk of an inconclusive result . |
| 21 | A right hand response to a left field presentation ( indirect or crossed reaction ) , however , would mean that the hemisphere initiating the manual response is not the hemisphere receiving the stimulus and therefore some finite interval of time is required for a nervous impulse to cross from one half of the brain to the other in order to generate a response . |
| 22 | Instead , the buyer should seek to ensure that the consideration reflects the higher risk to the buyer and the terms which the seller wants for completing the disposal . |
| 23 | Hennion argues that the monopolies need the independent small producer for economic reasons — to maintain a flow of new products and to ensure communication with an active market ( Hennion 1981 ; 1983 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ Is it true that the magistrate investigating the Miletti case is to be replaced ? ’ |
| 25 | A spokesman for the club said yesterday that the players realised the serious nature of their action , but that they wanted their fate in their own hands . |
| 26 | By their social destruction , the message is conveyed that the impairment represents the greatest fall for a person this side of death . |
| 27 | It is , therefore , essential that the developer obtains the necessary easement or rights of way from the respective owners , when access roads are to remain unadopted . |
| 28 | Can , can we Mr chairman can we not suggest erm the fact that , to the three executives , that the subscription stay the same for three or six month period until unison and members are balloted on |
| 29 | I went back to the beginning and started over , but had n't come to any conclusion when I reached the sign telling me that the Florabelle served the thickest steak in five counties . |
| 30 | Most borrowers obtain tax relief under the MIRAS scheme , which means that the borrower pays the net amount and the lender recoups the tax from the Inland Revenue . |