Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 admitting things like losing fifty billion quid on fluttering on foreign exchanges er Mr did or flittering away the north sea oil revenue in tax cuts for higher earners rather than er keeping that er once in a life time er bonus that this country had for the north sea oil and also you could mention the increased pension for but it did n't match billions that have been wasted on defence expenditure especially defence expenditure and especially the trident programme .
2 Moderator four five nine Moderator I welcome the number two in the deliverance but I would make a plea to the er panel that this leaflet be a very simple leaflet and it not be brief , but in fact be quite lengthy .
3 Yet , choline output remained below 10 µg/h showing that lipidic material purified from gastric juice was not of biliopancreatic origin .
4 Here the agent is investing in the small artist , trusting the manager 's judgement that this act should go on to be the next big thing .
5 Er are you saying that it is any part of the Council 's case that this land th it it 's it is er a possibility that having this land as a strategic reserve er can er is of assistance , or are you saying that it is simply er having included it in , it might form part of a strategic reserve ?
6 The vicar would never have agreed to any kind of mock funeral , but he finally yielded to Midge 's plea that some intercession should be made for the souls of the unknown man and woman whose charred corpses lay in the refrigerator at the mortuary .
7 The CBI points out that the comparison with March last year is distorted by special factors , notably the announcement in last year 's Budget that value-added tax would increase on April 1 .
8 Explaining the new arrangement a spokesman said : ‘ It 's the council 's experience that economic development and planning go hand-in-hand .
9 It crossed Cora-Beth 's mind that this girl 's feelings towards Harry might well change if she were to meet him again after an absence of two years , but she bit back her words , fearing that the suggestion , were she to make it , might put the idea into his head .
10 The package , which contained numerous tax incentives , was designed to stimulate the stagnant US economy , and to realize the administration 's prediction that economic growth would resume in early 1992 and would accelerate thereafter .
11 Russell 's demonstration that naive set theory , which was based on what appear to be almost self-evident propositions , is inconsistent is an example of an informative falsification of a conjecture apparently free from risk .
12 He added : ‘ The Chancellor has also accepted the union 's recommendation that job-related accommodation provided by a farmer , free of rent and Council Tax , should be treated as a free benefit for income tax purposes . ’
13 If implemented , FoE 's recommendation that all power stations should be fitted with emission controlling equipment would be likely to close both PowerGen and National Power .
14 However , not all voluntary associations are in agreement with The White Paper 's recommendation that greater reliance should be placed upon the independent sector .
15 In 1965 I read about Penrose 's theorem that any body undergoing gravitational collapse must eventually form a singularity .
16 Since one mole of any gas always contains the same number of molecules , it follows from Avogadro 's law that one mole of any gas always occupies the same volume .
17 It is the latter 's contention that Ultimate Concern , the holy or unconditional , expresses itself in a variety of forms : in painting , which may have no religious content in the traditional sense ; in philosophy , when attempts are made to understand the nature of ultimate reality ; in ideologies which might normally be regarded as secular , such as , nationalism , socialism and humanism ; and in traditional religions .
18 It accepted the British government 's contention that environmental impact studies carried out at Twyford Down and the four other projects satisfied the spirit of the EC 's environmental assessment directives .
19 Although the committee accepts the DTp 's contention that individual pollution accidents had hitherto had little effect , it believes that the rise in incidents in the crowded North Sea and English Channel is a serious " cause for concern " .
20 Malthus accepted Barton 's contention that any increase in poor relief should be measured , not in nominal terms , but in real monetary terms .
21 It is Davie 's contention that this view is quite wrong : there are a great many outstandingly talented British poets , including Charles Tomlinson , C H Sisson , Elaine Feinstein and others ( Davie , as distinguished a poet as any of his subjects , modestly excludes his own work ) who do not answer to this description , and one purpose of Under Briggflats is to claim for them the attention they have often been denied ; in some cases , indeed , to rescue them from scandalous neglect .
22 Gandhi 's insistence that real conversion is a matter of the heart , and something between an individual and his God , makes him view with suspicion the authenticity of many so-called conversions .
23 Unimpressed by Prieto 's insistence that Socialist moderation was the best defence against an ever more apparent flight by conservative Spaniards towards fascism , Largo Caballero , flaunting the label of ‘ the Spanish Lenin' bestowed upon him by Pravda , preferred to beguile the Socialist rank and file with the prospect of an imminent collapse of capitalism and transition to socialism .
24 Despite last-minute manoeuvring by both sides , no compromise could be found between the mayor 's reported willingness to plead guilty to one or more of the 11 misdemeanour charges in return for a non-custodial sentence , and the US Attorney 's Office 's insistence that any plea bargain should include at least one of the three felony charges of lying to the grand jury .
25 The latter camp took heart yesterday from Mr Rocard 's insistence that any decision must be based on a consensus , but realise that they have a tough fight ahead persuading others of the logic of their arguments .
26 I mean I 'd whilst I 'd again accept the validity of Marianne 's point that sexual harassment can cut both ways , as it were , I think though there is a sense among women that there is something qualitatively different .
27 Nevertheless , the existence of these changes strongly suggests that Falkowski and Wilson 's inference that open ocean phytoplankton productivity has remained roughly constant since the industrial revolution is premature , and may even by false .
28 Subsequent reports indicated that opposition parties had questioned the draft constitution 's stipulation that national assembly seats allocated by proportional representation ( half of the total , the rest being elected on a constituency basis by majority vote ) should be based on presidential election results , thus effectively guaranteeing the president a favourable majority in the assembly .
29 We do not share Dr Bailey 's confidence that urinary infection is unimportant in the pathogenesis of reflux nephropathy and believe that deep tissue infection in general requires longer treatment than uncomplicated lower tract infection .
30 Official publications have tended to cite the effects of change in the financial institutional framework as the major factor for the problems experienced with monetary control , yet the Bank of England 's conclusion that monetary policy is affected by financial change is not a new viewpoint .
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