Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it all goes to confirm that a democratic society will inevitably get the police it deserves as it responds to new pressures . |
| 2 | If then his actions simply accorded with what was the convention of his society , this was not because he had so to act , or failed to see that a certain convention was socially limited . |
| 3 | ‘ I was fascinated to discover that a number of Americans worked for SOE before America came into the war . |
| 4 | Malcolmson has commented that a result of this withdrawal of patronage by the gentry and the better-off farmers as social distance increased was that " a solid barrier so developed between the culture of gentility and the culture of the people " . |
| 5 | A court has heard that a former Swindon Town player tried to blackmail his ex-chairman over tax-free payments to staff . |
| 6 | An inquest has heard that a baby boy , who lived for less than an hour , could have died because of injuries caused by forceps used during his birth . |
| 7 | A court has heard that a father battered his baby daughter to death because she would n't stop crying . |
| 8 | The DES has explained that a range of cross-curricular issues is intended to be included within this concept of the whole curriculum — including ‘ coverage across the curriculum of gender and multicultural issues ’ . |
| 9 | The American writer James Q. Wilson ( 1975 ) has claimed that a 20 per cent reduction in street robbery could be achieved simply by locking offenders up for longer . |
| 10 | Carrie and Fred Bradley had come to accept that a drop in their weekly takings was inevitable and there was never any pressure put on the men to leave once they had finished their morning tea or coffee . |
| 11 | An employer has no more power to give orders to an employee than a customer has to demand that a grocer supply goods at a certain price : all a discontented employer can do in practice , just like a customer , is terminate the relationship . |
| 12 | For example , when storing information about employees academic qualifications , does one really need to know that a Research Chemist has a CSE in woodwork ? |
| 13 | His Highness has reported that a passenger on the dahabeeyah with him — ’ |
| 14 | The London Gazette has reported that a bankruptcy order was made against Mike Franklin on January 30 this year . |
| 15 | The independent Law Commission has recommended that a commercial tenant should in general be freed from any future liability under a lease when he assigns away his interest under it . |
| 16 | The Reviewing Committee has recommended that a further £15–20 million be made available to buy works of art threatened with export for the nation . |
| 17 | The Howie Committee has recommended that a number of occupational areas should be developed under its proposals for the new SCOTCERT award ( see page 4 ) . |
| 18 | ( iv ) The following terms , used alone or in combination , will be deemed to indicate that a person is a solicitor holding a current practising certificate , unless it is made clear that the person is not so qualified : |
| 19 | ( v ) The following terms , used alone or in combination , will be deemed to indicate that a person is not a solicitor holding a current practising certificate , unless a contrary indication appears : |
| 20 | President Rafsanjani 's faction has ensured that a committee set up to vet candidates ' Islamic credentials has eliminated many hardliners , such as Ayatollah Khalkhali , who sentenced thousands to death early in the revolution . |
| 21 | One final note from a pedant : a lethal misprint on page 50 has ensured that a generation of students will be informing their tutors that the Socinians were nationalists , rather than rationalists . |
| 22 | Interested parties will find in it an array of ( other people 's ) opinion that can be dazzling , for postmodern methodology has ensured that a little bit of everything ( from a quartermaster 's appraisal of the value of art to a consideration of Santa Barbara 's peacocks ) is included . |
| 23 | Every year the Irish national broadcasting service , RTE , buys in a series of Radharc programmes and their high quality has ensured that a number of them have appeared on other national TV networks . |
| 24 | The purchaser will need to remember that a minimum delay of between 14 and 21 clear days may be needed in between exchange and completion if either an ordinary resolution or special resolution of shareholders is needed . |
| 25 | There is no record of who owns what in the area of mining rights ; thus a mining company may have to spend years discovering to whom it has to pay royalties even after it has ascertained that a piece of Britain contains valuable metals . |
| 26 | It has argued that a total ban on sex may be unnecessary ; it would prefer to have rules that prevent a lawyer from bullying a client to have sex . |
| 27 | Lenneberg ( 1966 ) has argued that a great deal of evidence about deafness in children , aphasia , environmental deprivation of various kinds , muscular debilities and so on supports the hypothesis that language acquisition by children follows a definite maturational path , passing certain milestones of achievement in a certain order . |
| 28 | This paper has argued that a sociological definition of an occupation should be in terms of the specific practices of that occupation . |
| 29 | Even in America Ukraine has found friends : Zbigniew Brzezinski , once President Carter 's national security adviser , has argued that a strong and independent Ukraine would be a powerful bulwark for the West against the re-emergence of an expansionist Russia . |
| 30 | Arnot ( 1981 ) has argued that a theoretical division exists between ‘ cultural ’ ( what I have characterized as ‘ liberal ’ and ‘ radical ’ ) approaches and ‘ political economy ’ ( Marxist-feminist ) approaches . |