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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 In the first week of July the Soviet authorities announced that in the third quarter of 1990 its oil deliveries to its European COMECON partners would be reduced by around 30 per cent .
2 An examination of magistrates courts revealed that for the under-21 population , black youth on average received 12 months imprisonment , whilst white youth only 9 months for similar offences .
3 The experiments using indomethacin to inhibit cyclo-oxygenase activity would support the above concept , since indomethacin suppressed all differences between the three experimental groups suggesting that in the absence of normal prostaglandin generation , there is no beneficial effect derived from the dietary supplement with polyunsaturated fatty acids .
4 The alchemists maintained that through the correct disciplines such a return might be made .
5 In 1983 the Soviet media cited a New York Times report that in the absence of an agreement with the United States on the bases Greek officials were prepared simply to liquidate them and were ‘ seriously considering taking up a position of neutrality similar , for example , to that adhered to by Sweden ’ .
6 As the investigation progressed , the researchers found that on the two-toed species males outnumbered females 3.1 , and on the more common three-toed sloth it was 7:1 .
7 Sun Microsystems Computer Corp and Oracle Corp say that under the Transaction Processing Performance Council Benchmark A the eight-processor model of Sun Microsystems ' new Sparcserver 1000 under Oracle7 Co-operative Server delivered 400.80 transactions a second for price-performance of $5,987 a tpsA .
8 Outside legal doctrine itself there has been a greater willingness to accept that in the large public company the shareholders may not perform the task of monitoring and controlling the management of the company , so that the managers are potentially left in a position of unchecked power .
9 Mr. Howell accepts that in the present case the governors did consult the local education authority on the admissions policy and that such policy was a reasonable one for a Roman Catholic school to adopt were it not for the duty to comply with parental preference imposed by section 6 of the Act of 1980 .
10 The President announced that with the exception of these two Committees , it was customary for all Offices to be voted for en-bloc by a show of hands .
11 Beyen argued that in the long term the ‘ sector ’ approach to co-operation would have to face up to the need for an all-embracing ‘ common market ’ reducing all trade barriers between the Six .
12 Our data suggest that in the quadruple vector the p10 promoter probably makes transcripts that over-run and down-regulate the downstream ph promoter products .
13 Candidates say that on the doorstep , education questions concern mainly national policies .
14 Buxton and Klein 's study found that in the early 1970s local variations within a region were greater than between regions .
15 The Association found that for the first time the municipal government was taking its demands seriously and was prepared to make concessions which would effectively improve working conditions .
16 Dr Clay writes that during the middle years of the seventeenth century customary tenures were still widespread and important , especially for the smaller properties , but that much less land was held in this way than was the case 100 years earlier .
17 Scott 's research show that among the top 250 British enterprises in 1976 , 43 were controlled by personal shareholders , 71 by corporate owners , and 110 by a mixture ( Scott , 1985 , p. 77 ) .
18 Freud believed that at the root of all neuroses lay repressed sexual desires , but even if one does not follow him in this , it would be hard to resist the conclusion that this was true of some of his patients .
19 Five teams ( from Divisions II-IV ) have been dropped from last season 's event and Currie hope that in the future both Melrose and Gala will be able to participate , though the uncertainty over the pair 's national league match precluded their involvement this year .
20 Similar considerations show that inside the horizon a separation in radial coordinate only has become time-like .
21 The study estimated that of the revised total 300,000 were Polish Jews and 145,000 were Polish non-Jews .
22 Reviewing this same exhibition , both Allard and Apollinaire noticed that for the first time in several years the influence of Matisse and Fauvism was slight .
23 A lifelong Manchester City fan recalled that in the 1940s ‘ it was a very mixed crowd .
24 Exactly yes we 'll take a breathing space until the new year I mean Neil says that at the moment he 'd be quite happy to get into a job where if he was a good worker he could progress in the job and I said an what about doing your radio repairs in the evening , but he just , he said yes .
25 Bede says that after the defeat and death of Oswiu 's son and successor , Ecgfrith , in the battle of Nechtanesmere in 685 , the Picts recovered their land which the Angles had held and the Scots who lived in Britain and certain of the Britons ( perhaps of Strathclyde ) their independence ( HE IV , 26 ) .
26 These data show that for the 65 — 74 age group mortality from stroke decreased by 42 per cent for males and 50 per cent for females .
27 Child 2 : ‘ Mummy says that in the old days daddy would have worked down a coal mine to make power for people ,
28 Benazir Bhutto says that after the summer of turmoil in Pakistan , this could be the last chance for parliamentary democracy .
29 The RYA says that over the next 10 years demand for new berths will reach 85,000 nationally on top of the present 190,000 .
30 Sitting much later in the genteel coffee shop of a Holiday Inn in Suburban Virginia , Habib Olahi recalled that as the Shah walked to and fro , he said , " This is against the constitution . "
  Next page