Example sentences of "that [noun] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Denning M.R. said that liability extends to a case where a ‘ third person prevents or hinders one party from performing his contract , even though it be not a breach . ’ |
| 2 | Moreover , it 's surely no coincidence that PWI comes at a time when anti-trust allegations against Microsoft are reportedly still under investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission . |
| 3 | The point will be made to the world that Mexico stands as a nation for the principle that a healthy environment is essential for the common future of humanity , with particular stress on the quality of life our children will inherit . |
| 4 | The vital ingredient that serum provides to a medium is lipid , which cells need to maintain the integrity of their outer membranes . |
| 5 | But McNab continued as he always had , grave and rather lugubrious , knowing that given time , the " cholera cloud " would move on , too , and that his own view would come to be accepted but this would only happen imperceptibly and not , perhaps , like a cloud passing , but more in the way that sediment settles in a glass of muddy water . |
| 6 | Skinner argued that behaviour occurs as a function of previous experiences and that , given a clear understanding of the contingent relations between the environment and a specific behaviour in the past , it is possible to predict , with a very high degree of accuracy , the conditions under which that behaviour will occur in the future . |
| 7 | Delay created by these reasons , both human and procedural , can prove extremely frustrating to the parties , most particularly to the plaintiff who will feel that delay amounts to a denial of justice . |
| 8 | This debate re-opens some of the issues that were touched upon in the first chapter concerning the nature of metaphysics and the argument that Ayer acts in a reductionist way by proscribing , in effect , certain interpretations of reality . |
| 9 | Probability of life arising on a planet ( in , say , a billion years ) , if we assume that life arises at a rate of about once per solar system . |
| 10 | This theory states that motivation comes from a combination of personalizing the consequences of unhealthy behaviours and developing the self-efficacies or coping skills to change one 's behaviour . |
| 11 | And as it 's open-ended , that series — the thing that Pool represents as a wall — will eventually fill up every spare molecule of memory that Pool has . |
| 12 | That is , if one were to attempt to visualize the three personae involved in terms of a novel or play one would need pages to describe the kinds of interchange that Shakespeare renders in a quatrain : ‘ Trice threefold ’ , too , are the number of lines taken up by editors trying to pin down the multiple shifts of identity which take place in these four lines . |
| 13 | He argues that science moves within a world of ideas . |
| 14 | WorldView 2 adds improved support for the Standardised Generalised Mark-up Language , SMGL : the software has always been able to import SMGL documents but now it can export them too , and make use of the plethora of information that SMGL buries in a document . |
| 15 | Quinney ( 1977 ) and Jankovic ( 1977 ) have argued that prison acts as a way of reducing the size of the reserve army of labour . |
| 16 | It also means that WACC enters into a partnership with such institutions , both in developed and developing countries . |