Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the rule for centuries that if animals ( or at least , ordinary tame animals ) strayed from adjacent land on to the highway neither the owner of the animals nor the occupier of the land was liable for any ensuing damage even though it could have been prevented by controlling the animal or by fencing . |
| 2 | The company has an agreement with its work force that when work is short employees will be laid off for two weeks on full pay [ and ] after that they will have to apply for unemployment benefit … . |
| 3 | She continued to try to convince Mrs Singh that although Jeetinder was in the bottom set he was doing well and was not ‘ the bottom of the bottom set ’ . |
| 4 | Lord Cullen heard an allegation that while chairman of Falkirk before being removed from the post last May , Hamish Deans had behaved in an overbearing and dictatorial manner . |
| 5 | The extension of the offence to include obtaining possession or control will have the result that if Kilham , although pretending that he only wanted to borrow the horse , had in fact intended to deprive the owner permanently , he would be guilty under the clause , because he obtained possession of the horse . |
| 6 | Thus , in both pairs of cases we have the result that as discount rates shrink , so does the sequential equilibrium strategy approach the dominant strategy type 's play . |
| 7 | argued that such inferences are stored in memory along with the information explicitly contained in the passage , with the result that when subjects are given a recognition test they will falsely identify the inference as having occurred in the passage . |
| 8 | This shows an irony that although Saint Francis gave all he had to the needy , the church is spending its money on building magnificent and expensive structures instead of giving it to the poor . |
| 9 | It crossed his mind that although Bigwig would certainly be a useful rabbit in a tight corner , he would also be a difficult one to get on with . |
| 10 | Bear in mind that although VHS pre-recorded tapes will play back on S-VHS equipment , the converse is not possible : S-VHS recordings will play back only on S-VHS machines . |
| 11 | Notwithstanding the difficulty in determining the exact meaning of the information defined in s.10 , it must be borne in mind that whether information comes within the scope of the section is a question of fact for the jury or the magistrates to decide . |
| 12 | It must also be borne in mind that when breeding takes place in an ‘ unsuitable ’ pH than the sex ratio of the fry may be affected — in A.cacatuoides it appears that the more alkaline the water the more males are produced , though I do not know if this is true for other species . |
| 13 | It was with this in mind that when oil was first discovered in the North Sea , ICI set about joining a number of exploration consortia . |
| 14 | So bear in mind that when food writers say that an adult man needs around 2000 calories per day , they really mean that he needs 2000 kcals , or Calories : that is , two million calories ! |
| 15 | ‘ It crossed my mind that if people wanted to plant a bomb , they might do it somewhere like that to catch people milling around . ’ |
| 16 | Prior to calling the election Mahathir had claimed to have tapes of Razaleigh telling his own supporters that if Semangat " 46 won , he would " destroy " the PAS and the Democratic Action Party ( DAP ) , the largest opposition party in the coalition . |
| 17 | Chamberlain 's cabinet was obsessed by the fear that if taxpayers ' money was used to shore up the refugee organisations , other countries , not least Germany , would be encouraged to hand on to Britain yet more of their unwanted citizens . |
| 18 | There may also be a reluctance to move out of the South , in the fear that if house prices in the ‘ North ’ increase at a slower rate , it may be difficult to return to the ‘ South ’ at a later date ( refer also to Chapter 8 , page 107 ) . |
| 19 | Some fear that if Mr Mieno delays much longer , he risks overkill . |
| 20 | In the case of Syria and Jordan there was the fear that if Egypt , easily the strongest of the three , negotiated separately with Israel , they would be too weak to recover their own lost territories . |
| 21 | Well , the insurance company seem to have got it into their heads that If Greg Martin is alive Mom might be too . |
| 22 | Mitsotakis rejected an Albanian request that the Cams should be allowed to return to Greece and reclaim property there , telling an Albanian journalist that although compensation for property might be subject to negotiation , the Cams had left as war criminals and international law on this subject should be observed . |
| 23 | It always has to be borne in mind in orthodox research that while strains of laboratory animals are highly inbred to ensure , as far as possible , consistency of response , complete homogeneity can never be guaranteed , and genetic similarity is even less likely to be achieved with plants . |
| 24 | In accordance with Article 4 of this Treaty , the British government had sought and received assurances from the United States that if extradition were to take place , the death penalty would not be carried out . |
| 25 | The clinical teachers tended to be so far removed from the key issues in healthcare that unless students performed allocated nursing ‘ tasks ’ in the standard way , they were viewed as ‘ poor ’ material . |
| 26 | Feminism has meant in practice that as women change they demand that men change too . |
| 27 | As to ( b ) , the rule that if A 's goods are feloniously taken by B , A may follow them onto C's land rests upon a passage in Blackstone which commended itself to two of the judges in Anthony v. Haney . |
| 28 | for this reason , the courts apply the rule that when Parliament has conferred a judicial or quasi-judicial power upon a person , he must act in accordance with the rules of natural justice . |
| 29 | It was revealed also by the R.A.F. that when Leslie 's plane left Fairford at 23.20 hours on 17 June it had a glider in tow . |
| 30 | Cypress says it can only speculate that Sun will become a customer for HyperSparc , though Cypress chief , TJ Rogers , has been sending messages via the press to the effect that if Sun does n't buy HyperSparc , then he 's going to turn around and do the Alpha RISC for DEC ( UX No 384 ) . |