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

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1 One key way of protecting ourselves in future is to ensure that the premiums charged fully reflect the risks that the country has to take on in allowing such cover to go forward .
2 I want to start by asking what are the risks that the Delors plan — the origin of European economic and monetary union — will suffer the same fate as the Werner plan did 20 years ago .
3 I accept that we do not want to become involved with domestic cutlery and important workmen 's tools such as Stanley knives , but there is other action that the Government should take .
4 to her majesty 's sch inspector so that er they could be aware of , of , of the action that the service er as has , has , has taken .
5 That is why it is essential , as a preliminary to any future action that the House has to consider , that there is a proper convergence of the economies .
6 He wanted to keep close to the poor bloody infantry , so he would get into discussion with the constable on the beat , the detective on a case ; and he would end up being drawn into endorsing action that the Inspector in charge would not countenance .
7 That said , there is a playful yet authoritative personality here , which makes the quasi-erotic experience of pressing down the plunger ( an action that the semiotician of coffee Pierre Beaudidlez has described as having an ‘ ecstatic rightness ’ ) especially piquant .
8 But that was in 1909 and she has had so many successors that the device now sticks out like a sore thumb and must be used only with the greatest care and deftness of touch .
9 A quarter of a century later , it is a moment she can still picture in her mind 's eye and she can still summon up the painful feelings of rejection , breach of trust and isolation that the break-up of her parents ’ marriage signified to her .
10 ( Wendy is brought up from the hold and sees at a glance that the deck has n't been scrubbed for years . )
11 Re last few What about those particlarly nasty songs that the scum sing about Don Revie having Motor Neurone disease .
12 The few songs that The Wedding Present released in 1988 made their way into the various end of year charts .
13 That it is in the interest of the Workers ' Educational Association that the organisation of its activities and its expansion , and the direction of its policy , should continue in the hands of its members ; that the work of the professional officers in the field should be supplementary to that of the Branch and Federation members and not a substitute for it , and that all constitutional impediments to the holding of any Branch or Federation office by voluntary members of the WEA should be removed .
14 A statement in its memorandum of association that the company 's object shall be to carry on business as a general commercial company shall mean that its object is to carry on any trade or business whatsoever , and in such a case the company has power to do all such things as are incidental or conducive to the carrying on of any trade or business by it .
15 It was always an objective of the sadly-moribund Vulcan Association that the future of the aircraft be safeguarded once retired .
16 He also reminded the Association that the registration procedure would take time and invited it to nominate three north country shipowners to visit the London head office of the union , inspect all books and documents relating to membership and funds in order to satisfy themselves that it was a bona fide organisation .
17 The hon. Gentleman is merely trying to raise obscure scares about our proposals when he knows from his own visit to the association that the policy is extremely popular with all the principals and that his statement — that the colleges would be given back to his friends in Labour councils — was greeted with widespread dismay there .
18 I agree with my hon. Friend that it is vital at this time , when there is the greatest risk of proliferation that the world has ever known and when the world 's greatest nuclear power is in a state of disintegration , that we ensure that while we take every positive and constructive step to try to deal with that very grave situation , we recognise the need to maintain our essential safeguard , our own nuclear deterrent .
19 with , with my granddaughter , she , she did the same s she used to go and babysit at this girl 's house and she fe felt , she was only fourteen , and she felt sorry for her and she 'd go and babysit every night she 'd go and babysit and er but she used to b sit up in the bedroom , she never ever went down the sitting room thinking that the child 's mother was either down in the sitting room or just going out for a short while and coming back and then eventually they put erm a bed up in the child 's bedroom for Denise to stay there over nights and Pearl did n't worry at all , well she knew , knew where , at least she knew where and er this girl was bringing men back down in the sitting room every night , three or four , sometimes ten men in a night during the night !
20 It was now part of their ingrained thinking that the newspaper barons were imposing their standards on the population by rewriting the language of tabloid journalism .
21 It 's the first time I 've come away from an exhibition thinking that the exhibition as such was stupid .
22 She 's frightened of , sort of , opening the door thinking that the dog might get at her
23 One compartment , the rumen , is a repository for the raw mass of unprocessed leaves , grass stems or twigs that the animal has just eaten .
24 Bassist Norman Watt Roy , who was the power behind Ian Dury and has a set of eye-baggage that must be the envy of Barry Norman , puts so much into thumping out a rhythm that the sweat drips from the end of his guitar .
25 As for his goodness , the attempt to live a Christian life was so much a part of Irwin 's public persona that the legend became current that , arriving in India on Good Friday , he ignored the official ceremonies of welcome and went straight to church .
26 She only remembered her mother and the grief that the name Lemarchand had brought .
27 Its good reception encouraged Boyle to set pen to paper , publishing his results in June 1663 , at which time he observed , ‘ Nor is it only by dissection of various animals that the naturalist may promote the anatomist 's knowledge , but perhaps he may do it by devising ways to make the dead bodies of man and other animals keep longer than naturally they would do . ’
28 There is evidence from observational studies in newborn infants , and experiments in animals that the pathogenesis linking these two conditions is venous congestion .
29 The dealing relationship with the Bank enables GEMMs to bid for stock that the Bank holds , to offer stock to the Bank for sale and to propose switches between different stocks .
30 The title ‘ Head of the Commonwealth ’ , against which from the government benches I registered a lone protest upon the second reading of the Royal Titles Bill in March 1953 , enshrines a paradox which thirty years ago two countries in particular conspired for their own purposes to ignore : India , in order to become a republic while forfeiting none of the privileges which allegiance had conferred , and Britain , in order to feed its delusion that the Empire was being transformed into something brighter and better still .
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