Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fear that the Secretary of State was not right to claim that the Bill is universally welcomed . |
| 2 | He was surely right to caution that the declaration of a right by a court is perhaps best viewed as the beginning of a political process in which power relationships loom large and immediate . |
| 3 | In La Route des Flandres , the fluctuations between first and third person mean that it is not possible to contend that the novel 's discourse is organized entirely around the consciousness of the central character Georges , who otherwise seems to be re-creating his experiences in the course of a night in bed with the widow of his commanding officer , some time after the wartime conflict . |
| 4 | But when a goods engine makes its appearance from the outer darkness , it is possible to realize that the shunters ' apparent madness is nothing but the acme of method . |
| 5 | A Soviet official leading an AAPSO mission to Kuala Lumpur in the spring of 1971 affirmed that the USSR welcomed all policies of neutrality and non-alignment if they were ‘ directed towards all countries ’ . |
| 6 | It is possible to argue that the single occurrence of they in the data with a singular verb is accidental ( a ‘ performance error ’ ) but equally possible to claim that the non-occurrence of you , we and these with a singular verb is the consequence of an accidental gap in the corpus ; the line of reasoning characteristic of generative grammar is of little help to us here in choosing between these alternatives . |
| 7 | ‘ It would be dishonest to pretend that the NSPCC is making any significant impact on the problem — even they would not claim it . ’ |
| 8 | That guarantees that the consumer feels safe with our food supply and that is in the best interests of all our chicken producers . |
| 9 | The hon. Gentleman is right to emphasise that the Severn tunnel has served the travelling public extremely well for many years . |
| 10 | In the matter of the loveless childhood it is possible to see that the measure of the deprivation bears a direct relationship to the measure of uncivilised behaviour that can derive from it . |
| 11 | In 1850 neither St Petersburg nor Constantinople nor the western powers realized that war was on the horizon , but with hindsight it is possible to see that the battle-lines were drawn . |
| 12 | Thus in the notation FcdEdm , it is possible to observe that the notation Fcd comes from one facet and Edm from a second . |
| 13 | Currently it is usual to find that a contract cleaning company may be used to look after the offices and toilets , but production areas are generally ‘ out of bounds ’ , because they are considered too sensitive . |
| 14 | William Lukin set course to the south , arriving in the search area at 0330 to find that the Nimrod had successfully located the casualty and that the Army Air Corps helicopter was attempting to winch the survivors off . |
| 15 | It may be possible to establish that no contract was actually made on the telephone . |
| 16 | If the proper law of the various agreements is determined to be municipal law and not international law , it might be possible to establish that the member States committed an internationally wrongful act through their negligent supervision of the International Tin Council . |
| 17 | If there has been previous trading between the same parties it may be possible to establish that the terms are incorporated by a course of dealing . |
| 18 | Where the parties have done business together regularly over a period of time it may be possible to establish that the terms are incorporated by a course of dealing . |
| 19 | Only by touch was it possible to establish that the body inside was entire , though it was not practical either to drain the liquid or to lift the remains . |
| 20 | Erm I suppose we could talk about that highlights that a man in China is subjected to domination of three systems of authority , er the state system er which is political authority , the clan system , the clan authority erm ranging from the ancestral temple down to the head of household , and a supernatural system which is erm religious authority . |
| 21 | Er in very briefly and I shall er expand the argument a min in a minute , my amendments five , eight and eleven provide that the size of a police authority should no longer be restricted to sixteen members , but should be er er by order er a somewhere between sixteen and twenty-four members and that two-thirds of those members should be er appoint er er amen appoint appointed by local authorities in the area concerned . |
| 22 | I think it only right to comment that the fact that it is , in a case such as the present , open to a taxpayer to stipulate , if he wishes , that the money shall be repaid if it is found not to be due in pending proceedings , provides another practical reason why a case such as the present is likely to occur only in very rare circumstances indeed . |
| 23 | It is usual to indicate that a consonant is syllabic by means of a small vertical mark , for example ‘ cattle ’ . |
| 24 | If the house is already in the joint names of the husband and wife , it is usual to accept that the title was properly investigated at the time of purchase . |
| 25 | ( a ) Time of exercise It is usual to provide that the tenant must exercise the option within a few months before the expiry of the lease . |
| 26 | A mature , non-exploitative , separated relationship between mother and daughter begins as each accepts that the other can not be perfectly available or responsive to her just as she can not be perfectly available and responsive to the other . ’ |
| 27 | They looked at each other and laughed as they went for the top A and each found that no noise came out at all . |
| 28 | Boutros-Ghali on July 22 recommended that the UN Security Council reject a ceasefire plan negotiated on July 17 in London . |
| 29 | Another whispered that the policeman was wary , unsure of what to reveal and what to hide . |
| 30 | While it is only sensible to acknowledge that the company will have greater resources and possibly less to lose than yourself , your hand could be strengthened if you are confident that messy litigation is the last thing that management wants because , for example , a merger is on the horizon or the publicity of a court case is likely to upset customers . |