Example sentences of "[vb pp] that [noun pl] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , it is commonly supposed that trees and shrubs colour better on acid soils than they do on alkaline . |
| 2 | Field men , however , are constantly reminded that industrialists and farmers work on a principle of equity : they can readily discover the standards which their competitors must observe and may complain if they are being handicapped . |
| 3 | It is the meaning they were likely to convey to the person to whom they were addressed that matters and not the meaning they might , on analysis , bear to a trained legal mind . |
| 4 | Still less could it have been foreseen that Palestinians and Israelis would find themselves facing one another across a Madrid conference table in the 1991 encounter which provided most of the disappointments predicted by numerous observers at the time , but which may still prove to contain the seeds of a more fruitful sequel in the future . |
| 5 | No one would have guessed that Piers and Nicole were involved , least of all her husband . |
| 6 | While the parties to an agreement creating a new State may have intended that rights and obligations contained in the treaty would bind the new State , it is not apparent that the new State has consented to them . |
| 7 | But we have already noticed that judges and lawyers very often disagree about the correct answer to questions like these . |
| 8 | Until recently it was reckoned that men and women on average had sex with 6 different people in their lifetime . |
| 9 | It was decided that dances and discos , which had not been supported , should be dropped but that the children ‘ s events should be continued although alterations would probably be made . |
| 10 | In the past it was felt that women and their health services were neglected , But now I think we are neglecting men 's health needs . ’ |
| 11 | It is to be accepted that tasks and programmes will have the character of ‘ experimental action ’ , and some of the experiment will fail , or end up with results different from those expected . |
| 12 | Tax relief on forest ownership has also been abolished due to the media uproar of 1988 when it was revealed that celebrities and business corporations were investing in conifer plantations as a tax dodge . |
| 13 | As we shall see , mystical teachers tirelessly proclaimed that visions and voices were not an essential part of the mystical journey and could in fact be a distraction ; the mystical apprehension of God certainly had nothing to do with the ordinary emotions . |
| 14 | The party 's policy review has said that Muslims and other minority religious groups should be entitled to voluntary-aided schools ( for which nearly all the costs come from public funds ) provided they follow the national curriculum . |
| 15 | Next , it is said that lawyers and judges are not familiar with Parliamentary procedures and will therefore have difficulty in giving proper weight to the Parliamentary materials . |
| 16 | It is said that lords and ladies and royalty were entertained here , and known that George Fox , the founder of the Quakers , preached here . |
| 17 | Designer and architect are probably the most demanding of these skills , although it could be argued that artists and writers , beauty consultants , hairdressers and photographers also need them . |
| 18 | Granovetter ( a pioneer of the study of this dimension of recruitment ) has argued that sociologists and economists have seriously neglected this aspect of ‘ the matching process ’ , i.e. the actual process whereby individuals come to get the jobs they do ( Granovetter , 1975 ) . |
| 19 | The tide appeared to be shifting back to this higher test for in two cases ( at least ) the courts expressly adopted that criteria and disapproved of Lord Hewart C.J. 's formulation . |
| 20 | We have seen that decisions and acts may be subject to judicial review if they are made or done in the exercise of public functions , whether those functions are conferred by statute or common law or neither . |
| 21 | We have seen that Asians and Afro-Caribbeans are likely to be assaulted more than whites ( Asians twice as much as whites ) , and whilst we have statistics where white victims are ‘ mugged ’ by black assailants ( a small part of robbery figures ) , we have no figures for street robbery , rape or racial assaults on black people by whites . |
| 22 | Many thinkers besides Whitehead have seen that events and processes may be more fundamental expressions of the ‘ thingness ’ of things than concepts like substance and matter . |
| 23 | ( We have already seen that utili-tarians and retributivists should also condemn our existing system . ) |
| 24 | The greenbelts have so far ensured that towns and cities do not sprawl into one another . |
| 25 | Up to about twenty years ago , it was thought that protons and neutrons were " elementary " particles , but experiments in which protons were collided with other protons or electrons at high speeds indicated that they were in fact made up of smaller particles . |
| 26 | He had never thought that prostitutes and squalor went hand in hand . |
| 27 | I just do n't like being told that boys and men are bad . |
| 28 | He would be heard out , and he would see the shaking heads , and he would be told that facilities and staff were tied down , knotted down , on Trident . |
| 29 | The county council recently agreed that firms and organisations can sponsor displays as advertisements . |
| 30 | Finally , the Scottish Office has recently agreed that Highlands and Islands Enterprise can fund Skillstart 1 and Skillstart 2 — the preliminary awards introduced at the same time as the first general SVQs — to two points for Output Related Funding purposes . |