Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] that the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | That guarantees that the consumer feels safe with our food supply and that is in the best interests of all our chicken producers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Thus in the notation FcdEdm , it is possible to observe that the notation Fcd comes from one facet and Edm from a second . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ( 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | Another whispered that the policeman was wary , unsure of what to reveal and what to hide . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The books here have been collected entirely at random , as has been explained , but it is interesting to see that the arrival of the new media is reflected in some of them quite significantly . |
| 18 | But whether or not I am right about a Niemecz on paper 60 rpm for the machine 's flywheels , the tempo relationships of the pieces on all three machines ' barrels are a constant and it is interesting to see that the tempo range for pieces either minuet-like in character or specifically called minuets ( in available manuscripts or because of the music 's original sources ) roughly corresponds to the ranges of minuet tempos metronomized by Hummel and Czerny for Mozart and by Czerny for Haydn . |
| 19 | This is quite the worst case I have ever heard of.It 's an outrage and proves that the government is quite wrong to claim that the health service is improving |
| 20 | Some admitted that the creation of a " buffer group " of temporary workers actually enhanced the employment security of their " core " members ; indeed , some " temporary worker agreements " were also " no redundancy agreements " for the bulk for the workforce [ see Chapter 7 ] . |
| 21 | It was also quite prepared to acknowledge that the Messiah was not a pacific , ethereal , lamb-like saviour , but a rightful and wrathful king , a political and military leader presiding not over any nebulous kingdom of heaven , but over very real terrestrial domains . |
| 22 | Unless the landlord is prepared to agree that the insurance should be in the joint names of the landlord and tenant , which is unlikely as the landlord would wish to keep control of the policy and proceeds , the tenant should ensure that either the landlord will act reasonably in deciding which other risks it may wish to insure against , or that the tenant will also have the right to nominate risks . |
| 23 | In Mainz an ordinance of 1788 announced that the elector would give general audiences every Monday at precisely 4 o'clock in the afternoon : at these every inhabitant of the electorate was entitled to attend and present in person any grievance he might have . |
| 24 | This revealed that the University Grants Committee , the UFC 's predecessor , had breached Treasury rules in allowing 20 universities to re-employ the lecturers and professors who had benefited from a £130 million early retirement programme . |
| 25 | This revealed that the management were ‘ concerned ’ that the post-60/65 group comprised 18 per cent of the industry compared with a national average of 3.5 per cent , and had offered ‘ solutions ’ . |
| 26 | Some argued that the shock made industry return in the end to competitiveness , but other economists argued that subsequent growth owed more to spending North Sea oil profits on a consumer boom . |
| 27 | Some argued that the case had been brought to an early end as there was little chance of the prosecution being successful , others suggesting that the case had in all but final verdict already been won . |
| 28 | Some argued that the situation demanded a stronger UN presence than the proposed 500-strong unarmed force . |
| 29 | Some argued that the Party should threaten to withdraw from the coalition unless the Tories accepted demands to extend war controls to the nationalization of major industries . |
| 30 | It would be foolish to pretend that the evidence in favour of enforcing trusts for performance directly is very strong . |