Example sentences of "[that] [noun] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it meant that Swindon had more room to manoevre and Maskells determination in front of goal brought them back level . |
| 2 | If we were to insist that prayer involves some form of dialogue then it would presuppose that we already know what is meant by the concept of God . |
| 3 | On this personal level he is aware that change happens all the time and what is important to him , as it is to any composer , are ‘ those moments when people come up to me and say , ‘ this work has changed my life ’ ’ . |
| 4 | It was the fact that Perk had many different coloured ribbons and every day she would select one to go with her outfit and because she had gone missing wearing a yellow dress , Gail suspected that it was Mr Elder who had taken Perk . |
| 5 | Anthony Scrivener QC , for the defence , had told the judge that Goldman had such an interest in protecting the MCC share price that it had a motive to ‘ create a story ’ about his client mounting a bear raid . |
| 6 | Also , the way in which the machinery was designed ( by totally enclosing the mixing vessels ) meant that operators lost much useful feedback about the state of the process . |
| 7 | When librarians struggle to find appropriate means of evaluating user education programmes and when there is scant evidence that programmes have much effect on students attend . |
| 8 | It is interesting to note that Parliament struck these words out of s.62 because they took away from the purity of the section . |
| 9 | Nevertheless I could not believe that Parliament intended such a construction because it will produce what I regard as such unfair and absurd results . |
| 10 | ‘ They should write , phone and insist that Parliament addresses this issue now . |
| 11 | Held , that , since in Part III of the Insolvency Act 1986 there was no definition of ‘ company ’ in relation to administrative receivers , by virtue of section 251 of that Act the definition in section 735 of the Companies Act 1985 applied and , therefore , unless the contrary intention appeared , ‘ company ’ was to be defined as a company registered under the Companies Acts ; but that a contrary intention was to be deduced from the proper construction of the provisions relating to administrative receivers generally and the Act of 1986 as a whole , whereby it appeared that Parliament intended that ‘ company , ’ in the context of section 29(2) ( a ) , should not be confined to the prima facie meaning of companies registered under the Companies Acts but should embrace unregistered companies liable to be wound up under Part V of the Act of 1986 ; and that , accordingly , the applicants were administrative receivers within the meaning of section 29(2) ( post , pp. 243F–G , 244A–C , D–G , 245F — 246A ) . |
| 12 | I could see that Holmes found this both interesting and strange . |
| 13 | To some extent , the demoralisation and poverty of spirit I had encountered could be attributed to the misfortunes of geography ; to the fact that Czechoslovakia had such ruthless neighbours as Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union . |
| 14 | The World Bank estimates that Czechoslovakia requires more than US$50 billion to reduce pollution levels and to bring environmental standards to acceptable international levels . |
| 15 | The rapid progress of military and naval technology , organisational changes , the sheer growth in the size of armies and navies , meant that states scrutinised each other 's progress in these respects with increasing care , while the few serious armed conflicts of 1871 – 1914 became laboratories in which new weapons and methods could be studied and their effectiveness tested . |
| 16 | One of the reasons it thinks COSE is interested in its participation is some key technology that DEC has that in its infinite wisdom it has failed to trumpet . |
| 17 | This insisted that shareholders sanctioned such donations before they were made instead of only being able to discuss them afterwards . |
| 18 | Alcuin [ q.v. ] says that Offa shed much blood to secure Ecgfrith 's position , and if this refers to a purge of the royal kindred may explain why Cenwulf was so distant a relative . |
| 19 | Experience , however , showed that employers have many priorities — such as making a profit , obtaining orders , producing orders at the right price — and that something which they are not compelled to do , particularly in circumstances where the economic climate is adverse , goes well down the list of priorities . |
| 20 | Bet that Pascall sells more of Hank 's book to women than he ever will to men . ’ |
| 21 | It seemed to Woodcock that Minton recognised this aspect of his nature almost before he himself did . |
| 22 | It is possible that Minton chose this subject , in which the relevance of the Crucifixion is cancelled out by the attention given to a game of chance , as an expression of his own despair at the malignancy of fate . |
| 23 | Later in life Ramsey denied that Temple had this supposed effect upon him . |
| 24 | Research by other scientists showed that birds spent more time on the nest and laid more eggs when peckable objects were attached to the wall beside it . |
| 25 | The department said : ‘ We have no evidence to show that germanium has any nutritional value or is beneficial . ’ |
| 26 | It may have been that Harvey enjoyed such seniority in the Church that in his case such deviation was permitted , but given that two or three other committed Free Presbyterians have been active in the Official Unionist Party ( in 1985 there were two Free Presbyterians in local government as Official Unionist councillors ) , it is more likely that the Church leadership was genuinely able to maintain some distance from Paisley 's politics . |
| 27 | Abdulai Conteh , Vice-President under Joseph Momoh> until the April coup , was denied refuge in the United Kingdom K after the UK Home Secretary decided on July 24 that Conteh bore some responsibility for governmental corruption . |
| 28 | The strategies for the modernisation of the British economy has meant that strategies to undergo this , operate as modes of both economic and social regulation . |
| 29 | Added to which , in modern warfare , breaches of security are potentially ever more fatal , so that artists have less rather than more access to the front than in the past . |
| 30 | Added to which , in modern warfare , breaches of security are potentially ever more fatal , so that artists have less rather than more access to the front than in the past . |