Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb -s] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is real , entrenched opposition to the imposition of any structure that resembles two-tier boards or which suggests that significant sections of board powers should be devolved to part-time directors . |
| 2 | ‘ Any party who seeks to charge an accounting party with an amount beyond that which he has by his account admitted to have received or who alleges that any item in his account is erroneous in respect of amount or in any other respect must give him notice thereof stating , so far as he is able , the amount sought to be charged with brief particulars thereof or , as the case may be , the grounds for alleging that the item is erroneous . |
| 3 | Mr. Coghlan accepted that a verdict of death by natural causes aggravated by lack of care can be returned in accordance with Reg. v. Southwark Coroner , Ex parte Hicks [ 1987 ] 1 W.L.R. 1624 , but he submitted that section 19 of the Act of 1988 does not require a coroner to hold an inquest where he foresees that such a verdict is possible . |
| 4 | ‘ What does it mean here , where it says that this used to be a ‘ crubeen shop ’ ? ’ |
| 5 | Evidence to support this general contention has been found in Warwickshire and Devon , where it appears that new building has been concentrated mainly in the major settlements of the hierarchy . |
| 6 | The regulations give some guidance by directing that an application may be refused where it appears that any advantage accruing would only be trivial , where the simple nature of the proceedings would not normally require the assistance of a solicitor , or where funds from another source were available but not pursued . |
| 7 | Indeed at times it appears that she thinks that this liberation progresses from age to age ( though in correspondence she tells me that she thinks that the conclusion to history may well be that we annihilate ourselves ) . |
| 8 | Laura Davies won the US Women 's Open in 1987 and such is the power that she generates that any time she plays really well she wins . |
| 9 | Notwithstanding this provision , it is often of some reassurance to a purchaser from the husband if the wife is joined as a party to the contract or to a separate consent to sale form ; this confirms that she knows that vacant possession is to be given and the land charge is to be cancelled and can contain a specific release by the wife of her rights in the property as from the date of sale . |
| 10 | ‘ Once she knows that this is the way the cards have fallen she 's not going to say ‘ I ca n't do it , I ca n't cope with it ’ and whinge . |
| 11 | In actual fact I have seen valuations which are so wide of the mark ( more than 50% in one case ) that one suspects that some valuers know little about the property market and even less about rebuilding costs , which constitute the basis for insurance . |
| 12 | Private Acts of Parliament could be used to overcome opposition ; 472 between 1770 and 1779 , 2000 in all ( Darby 1973b ) , although it seems that more land was enclosed in the seventeenth than in the eighteenth century . |
| 13 | Evelyn Goldsmith ( 1984 , p.407 ) comments that ‘ Although it appears that some six year olds can understand conventional devices such as speed lines for depicting movement , the most reliable cue is posture , as when people or animals are shown with their limbs in active positions , . |
| 14 | Although he concedes that this kind of research is sometimes necessary , he deplores the tendency to regard it as the norm . |
| 15 | He does n't think that women should be allowed so much freedom of movement , although he understands that this is regrettably the custom , to this day , among white women . ’ |
| 16 | Kosa sees this charismatic character as peculiar to medicine and clergy , although he notes that some Protestant denominations have weakened or eliminated the charismatic authority of the clergyman . |
| 17 | In his mind 's eye he sees a girl who has brains ( although he knows that some very dim actresses can read with all the appearance of intelligence , and the converse ) who has a slight resistance to the Hollywoodification of Claudia 's life . |
| 18 | Nicholson 's customers are not price sensitive explains Tony , although he stresses that this is different to not expecting value for money . |
| 19 | The major criticism of this approach is that it assumes that all information about the organisation is kept in documents . |
| 20 | A more important problem with this treatment of the results is that it assumes that any particular rating means the same for all subjects . |
| 21 | The only real problem with this analysis is that it assumes that this is an unwitting decision by the individuals involved . |
| 22 | Indeed , the evidence in general is so slight that it implies that any animosities had been held in check by Edward IV and only surfaced fully after his death . |
| 23 | Indeed , the evidence in general is so slight that it implies that any animosities had been held in check by Edward IV and only surfaced fully after his death . |
| 24 | Of even greater importance is the fact that it seems that many of the Roman estates , the holdings belonging to villas and towns , continued into the post-Roman period and beyond to emerge as the basic administrative units of late Saxon and medieval England . |
| 25 | If it is thought that it means that any decision should be taken at the lowest possible level , that unfortunately makes me believe that the concept is not all that it is cracked up to be , and for a number of reasons . |
| 26 | An interesting additional finding which is stressed is that it appears that such people are more rather than less likely to exhibit qualities of psychological balance and social responsibility . |
| 27 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |
| 28 | He acknowledged that the students may at first find difficulties in adjusting to the Scottish education system , the language , the weather and life in Edinburgh , and said that he hopes that these awards will remind overseas students that the University has confidence in them . |
| 29 | However , I know that my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House is operating under constraints and that he feels that those arrangements represent the best way to proceed . |
| 30 | Here the Crick hypothesis has an advantage over the others , in that he proposes that those mysterious extraterrestrials did not simply scatter spores willy-nilly but sent out a computer-controlled spacecraft containing the spores as cargo . |