Example sentences of "that the [noun sg] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , in two later cases courts have refused to follow this and , it must surely be right ( at any rate if the price has been paid ) that the buyer obtains such rights as the transferor had .
2 Determined belief in the capacity for self control results in pride that the sufferer has special standards and abilities that others lack .
3 And although it is true that Wagner could , if required , have figured under various of their headings , it seems that the decision to lay any emphasis on the relevance of Wagner 's work to his own ideas represented a further and final development .
4 Neither are the risks merely physical when she encourages a direct association between looking at her art and consuming food and drink , but the vast array of psychological dynamics which can motivate purchases as humble as a cup of coffee guarantees that the decision to choose one bar over another is often less casual than browsing through galleries .
5 She has found that the decision to choose residential care can cause just as much bereavement and guilt as can death .
6 Earlier , during a visit to Southampton , he denied party strategy had been hi-jacked by the debate over proportional representation , disclosing that the decision to highlight constitutional issues on Democracy Day was taken a fortnight ago .
7 On 8 February 1985 a federal appeal court in New York upheld this judgment , stating that the decision to deploy these weapons was the responsibility of Congress and the executive branch of government .
8 IT was always known that the decision to close 31 pits was economic , industrial and social madness .
9 In this respect an important lesson from Allende 's experiment is that the decision to abolish private property inevitably results in the erosion of economic and political freedom also .
10 In a statement on Sept. 27 the Iranian News Agency ( IRNA ) said that the decision to renew diplomatic relations with the UK was based on Iran 's acceptance of " remarks by British officials announcing respect for Islam , Moslem values and sanctities " .
11 When Mr Deane eventually left Ireland later in 1978 he confided to the Cork Examiner that the decision to have violent confrontation at Barnahely was not made by him : ‘ That morning was handled on the advice of other people .
12 Thus , in the actual case their Lordships held that although the Minister had to adduce evidence that the decision to ban national unions at G.C.H.Q. was based on considerations of national security , the question of whether such considerations outweighed the prima facie duty of fairness was for the Minister himself to decide .
13 Neither is anybody convinced that the Union has any ideas about bringing about genuine improvement within the game .
14 Not that the Queen has much trouble putting down rebels , hey !
15 Speaking on the BBC radio he said : ‘ We realise that the Queen has enough problems on her plate at the moment .
16 It was not , I think , surprising that the master rejected these arguments .
17 But Mr Dorrell said : ‘ There is no secret about the fact that the Treasury announced last summer it was engaged in a fundamental review of not just health expenditure but four other areas of Government spending to ensure that the way the money is spend reflects today 's priorities . ’
18 This was most evident in the fact that the provision banning sympathetic strike action in the 1927 Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act was never tested in the courts .
19 Ethologists have offered a good deal of cross-cultural evidence , usually in the form of pictures of infants seizing each others ' toys and pushing each other about in sandpits , to support the view that the tendency to direct unprovoked action upon another person is at least universal , even though there is nothing in the evidence to suggest a unique origin for the tendency .
20 Failure means that the character suffers temporary exhaustion ( WS -10 , BS -10 , S -1 , T -1 for D10+10 turns ) .
21 He says that the recession caused major problems for some businesses — he thinks they are now being slowly resolved .
22 However , there are various defences available — for example , that the parent took reasonable steps to comply with the direction or that the direction was ‘ unreasonable ’ .
23 The report shows that the committee devoted some time to analysing a helpful report from the Health Education Authority , ’ Beating the Ban ’ , which was published in 1990 .
24 The minister has since explained that the committee found conflicting evidence in a ‘ preliminary report ’ from Indianapolis , the home of Lilly 's research laboratories .
25 ( However , there can be little doubt that the Committee considered homosexual relations to be sinful ) .
26 The 1989 Report shows that the Committee considered these matters at length , and , because of this foresight , most of the technical problems seem to have been overcome without too much trouble , and complaints have been minimal , The equipment in the Chamber of the House is remarkably compact .
27 In such intellectual dispute and discourse , the claim by one side that the other lacks cognitive skills appears as part of the political process of debate .
28 Sixthly , each robot would have to know that the other had these properties , and know that each knew that , otherwise they could hardly rationally plan actions dependent on the other 's plans .
29 I am happy to say that the change brought immediate results .
30 This reassurance is welcome , but it has to be said that the change gives less prominence to this requirement , and we shall need to watch with care that it is properly covered in the assessment arrangements .
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