Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [vb past] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ministry of Defence said that Belgian ammunition of that particular batch had never been supplied to the British Army , and how it had come into Britain was unknown . |
| 2 | Earlier this week the Ministry of Agriculture confirmed that Dutch eggs known to be infected with salmonella had been allowed on sale in the UK . |
| 3 | Will my hon. Friend remind the House how many Conservative Nottinghamshire Members of Parliament attended that unfortunate debate , compared with the attendance of Labour Nottinghamshire Members ? |
| 4 | Moreover , the weakness of the remanent magnetism contained within volcanic rocks together with various sources of error meant that large numbers of individual measurements had to be averaged in order to provide a reasonably precise estimate of past continental positions . |
| 5 | Provisional figures yesterday from the Department of Transport showed that 4,274 people were killed in 1992 — 6 per cent fewer than in 1991 . |
| 6 | In Jim Smith 's presentation on Wednesday morning — AR Division Present and Future — he said that diversification of distribution meant that Scottish Amicable had changed with the times and was not risking all in relying on one source of business . |
| 7 | A Friedman non-parametric analysis of variance and subsequent analysis with the Wilcoxon signed rank test of the number of missing entries for each patient for each type of diary showed that more sessions were missed in the evening than in the morning for both the written ( p<0.05 ) and electronic diaries ( p<0.001 ) , but differences for neither evening nor morning in the two forms of record keeping were significant . |
| 8 | For example , on the crucial question of the medical condition of the evacuees , which was to cause so much controversy , the Board of Education believed that local authorities had been adequately warned that pediculosis ( head lice ) would be a problem and had been given instructions on how to disinfect children by the use of steam baths ; also that its memorandum Ev . |
| 9 | The plan was originally for 17,000 MW of coal plant but this was reduced to 11,300 MW and the level of construction at the time of writing suggested that this objective may not be achieved . |
| 10 | A more serious challenge to the text , however , came from a ‘ higher authority ’ — which could only mean the pope — on 24 November when the Secretary of State asked that explicit mention be made of Pius XI 's and Pius XII 's doctrine on marriage , which would not only condemn all forms of artificial contraception ( at this point , before Humanae Vitae , such a ban was not a foregone conclusion ) , but would also subordinate conjugal love to the procreation of children as the purpose of marriage . |
| 11 | In reply , the Secretary of State said that parental wishes were paramount . |
| 12 | The Secretary of State said that those people who were to receive discounts would be separately marked on the lists . |
| 13 | The Secretary of State said that British Coal 's market has been in decline for decades . |
| 14 | The Secretary of State hoped that qualified members of the teaching staff would pursue research that would contribute to the ‘ better performance of their teaching duties ’ , but he did not envisage that ‘ in the ordinary way it will be necessary for members of the academic staff to devote the whole or most of their time to research ’ . |
| 15 | The Secretary of State acknowledged that some students might be genuinely worried about their finances . |
| 16 | I notice also that the president of the chambers of commerce said that British industry and commerce were on ’ an improving trend of slowly and steadily climbing out of the recession ’ . |
| 17 | The very capaciousness of the idea of proper order as well as the changing dialectical requirements of controversy meant that absolute agreement on fundamentals was unnecessary . |
| 18 | In other words , the rapid shift of populations through the zone of transition meant that primary forms of community and social control were collapsing . |
| 19 | The increased use of trained child care officers who had studied the growth and development of personality meant that more people were aware of the difficulty , if not the impossibility , of compensating a child for the break-up of his or her natural home . |
| 20 | Lack of shelter meant that all cattle had to be housed for 7 to 8 months . |
| 21 | Staff involved in publicising the importance of attendance stressed that good liaison encouraged a united effort and avoided contradictory messages about the importance of attendance . |
| 22 | The memorandum of agreement stipulated that neither side should interfere in the other 's internal affairs . |
| 23 | In fact in Duru [ 1976 ] 1 WLR 2 the Court of Appeal thought that both charges in relation to the thing in action represented by the cheque and to the paper itself were to be upheld but the judges ' minds were not directed at this issue whether property must exist at the time of the obtaining . |
| 24 | This has been considered in a number of recent winding-up cases , notably in Re Abbey Leisure Ltd [ 1990 ] BCC 60 , where the Court of Appeal said that two grounds for preferring a winding-up order to the transfer notice procedure and valuation by a company 's auditor were : ( 1 ) that there was nothing unreasonable in a petitioner with a minority holding refusing to accept a discount being applied to the valuation of his interest in the company , which an auditor was likely to decide on ; and ( 2 ) that there was machinery available in winding-up for the proper determination of claims , which was not available to an auditor . |
| 25 | The Court of Appeal said that difficult questions of law were raised , that there was a ‘ serious issue ’ to be decided and that , pending the full trial , the injunction should be granted . |
| 26 | The Court of Appeal said that public interest in non-disclosure for these reasons had to be weighed against public interest in justice being done . |
| 27 | In R v London Borough of Harrow , ex pDeal [ 1989 ] FCR 729 the Court of Appeal confirmed that judicial review would lie if a decision to place a child 's name on the register could be shown to be utterly unreasonable . |
| 28 | In Small ( 1988 ) 86 Cr App R 170 , the Court of Appeal held that unreasonable belief could be an honest belief , but reasonableness of the belief was " a strong factor " in determining the honesty of the belief . |
| 29 | the court of appeal held that foster parents of a child , scalded when she put her foot under hot running water , were not negligent.the majority view was that a parent should not be responsible for unforeseeable accidents of the type which occur in the best homes . |
| 30 | In Office Angels Ltd v Rainer-Thomas , 1991 IRLR 214 , the Court of Appeal held that restrictive covenants were void . |