Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [that] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forgive me but it seems to me strange that a lady such as you … how shall I say … should stay in a pensione . |
| 2 | Therefore it appears to me clear that a corporation at common law may maintain an action for a libel by which its property is injured . |
| 3 | Therefore it appears to me clear that a corporation at common law may maintain an action for a libel by which its property is injured . |
| 4 | Even more than in the 1930s , the TUC were imprisoned within constraints imposed on it by a capitalist wage-structure : the TUC argued strongly for adequate pensions ( denying , for example , that an old person needed less to eat ) ; but if this was to be implemented without encouraging further wage-cuts to elderly workers , then it appeared to them inevitable that a retirement condition must be introduced . |
| 5 | ‘ It seems to me evident that a family will provide support for each other , ’ she told a conference of 300 experts . |
| 6 | Andrew says if people find it unbelievable that a nurse could ever kill then they should relise that the situation in Bosnia is unbleievable . |
| 7 | I find it strange that a wife , a queen , a princess with responsibilities , who had been informed in no uncertain fashion that her husband was to join her , fails to do anything when he does not arrive . |
| 8 | ‘ I find it strange that a report is being talked about when no-one was sent off , ’ he said . |
| 9 | ‘ Alan is a great player but I find it strange that a Scot is preferred to an Irishman and the more matches I win , the bigger the snub will be . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Alan is a great player but I find it strange that a Scot is preferred to an Irishman and the more matches I win , the bigger the snub will be . ’ |
| 11 | The sense in which we can talk of the meaning of an individual sentence is not determinate enough to make it possible that a sentence be unrevisably true in virtue of that meaning . |
| 12 | Was n't it possible that a man of Jamie 's age might be more able to cope with her feminism , her academic success ? |
| 13 | Thus , in the case of a general exclusion clause , is it possible that a clause could be enforceable in respect of some classes of liability controlled by the UCTA , but not in respect of others ? |
| 14 | How then is it possible that a gesture I saw performed by one person , a gesture that was connected to her , that characterized her and was part of her individual charm , could at the same time be the essence of another person and my dreams of her ? |
| 15 | Is it possible that a body was put in the basin early on Saturday morning and that it remained there until the next high tide without being seen ? ’ |
| 16 | The contrast between nature and architecture here was too much indeed for the ungenerous Hippolyte Taine , who came here on his Journey to the Pyrenees in the middle of the last century and wrote that ‘ One finds it grotesque that a bit of hot water should have brought cuisine and civilization into these declivities . ’ |
| 17 | On the contrary , I think it admirable that a gentlewoman should think seriously of such matters . ’ |
| 18 | A second thing is that a co , is it right that a company of people should be deprived of a sacrament because an ordained minister is not available ? |
| 19 | First , is it right that a remedy should be refused because the respondent would have made the same decision even if it had not acted illegally ? |
| 20 | It is all very well to delay the onset of a retinopathy for a year or two , but to achieve this , is it justifiable that a diabetic has no social life and a poorer quality of life for 20 years ? |
| 21 | Mr. Simon Hughes As the Minister 's first answer made it clear that a price differential has been a major cause of the substantial increase in sales of unleaded petrol , and as the Secretary of State is on record as saying that the market has a role to play in cutting the use of petrol across the market in the United Kingdom , by what figures does the Department currently estimate that petrol prices will increase over the next few years ? |
| 22 | The Government have made it clear that a decision on the site would be premature at this stage . |
| 23 | Reynolds held talks with leading politicians on Feb. 19 , in an attempt to find cross-party agreement on the case , but made it clear that a referendum to dilute the constitutional clause on abortion would be avoided if possible . |
| 24 | If intended as a last step prior to dismissal , such a warning should describe the nature of the offence and make it clear that a repetition will cause you to be dismissed . |
| 25 | The invitation should make it clear that a selection procedure is in progress and that all that is required are details , including prices and , if appropriate , samples of products for evaluation , the result of which might be an invitation to conduct trials . |
| 26 | The judgement of Upjohn , J. in Smeaton v Ilford Corporation , however , makes it clear that a water authority , being a statutory undertaker , will not be liable for creating a nuisance unless it was also negligent . |
| 27 | Subsection ( 3 ) makes it clear that a licence may be suspended not only on the grounds of the actings of the licence-holder but also on grounds attributable to the actings of persons frequenting the premises or the vicinity of the premises . |
| 28 | Paragraph 2.9 of the Code of Practice to the Act makes it clear that a person can be detained on the basis of a known history of mental illness following non-compliance with medication . |
| 29 | I agree with Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. that the effect of section 8 is to make it clear that a child of 16 or 17 years of age has the same capacity as an adult to consent to surgical medical or dental treatment which would otherwise constitute a trespass . |
| 30 | Page 382 of ’ Erskine May ’ concerns the citing of documents not before the House and makes it clear that a Minister may not ’ read or quote from a despatch or other state paper not before the House , unless he is prepared to lay it upon the Table . ’ |