Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alcatel Cable SA reports that a consortium led by its Alcatel Submarcom venture , in which AT&T Co and Pirelli SpA are the other members , has signed a $53m contract to install a submarine cable between Argentina , Brazil and Uruguay : the team will run 1,071 miles of optical fibre cable in two pairs from Florianpolis in Brazil to Las Tolinas in Argentina and Maldonado in Uruguay to create the Unisur system , which will have capacity of 560Mbps and will link South America to the global optical fibre network via the existing Americas I and Colombus II systems ; the new system is due to be completed next year . |
| 2 | Six hundred people in the business coughed up £2 10s 0d each , thereby becoming known as the Noble Six Hundred ; subsequent donations and the proceeds of Royal Variety performances meant that a nursing wing was added two years ago , and today there are 36 residents with a staff of 60 to look after them . |
| 3 | There is no evidence from any of the screening programmes to suggest that a transient elevation of creatine kinase activity in a neonate may lead to developing a muscular dystrophy in later life . |
| 4 | Fifth , class action suits mean that a shareholder with just one share can sue on behalf of the entire body of shareholders and , finally , the widely misused Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act allows any firm that has been charged with fraud more than three times in the previous few years , whether or not it is found guilty , to be perceived as a corrupt organisation and therefore liable for triple damages . |
| 5 | A public notice has been published under the Insolvency Act sating that a bankruptcy order had been made against owners Peter and Anne Taylor . |
| 6 | Section 124 of the Insolvency Act provides that a winding up petition may be presented to the court by : |
| 7 | Leading scientists from the Acid Waters Review Group recommended that a 90 per cent cut in acidic deposition is necessary to bring the affected freshwater lakes and streams back to normal . |
| 8 | Latest crime figures reveal that a house is burgled … |
| 9 | While trials of Securitate leaders were taking place in Timisoara , opposition activists alleged that a high proportion of secret policemen were simply absorbed into the government agencies , armed forces and revamped services . |
| 10 | In February the Institution sub-committee reported that a meeting had been held with representatives of the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board : Sir Frederick Messer , M.P . |
| 11 | New figures from the British Audience Research Bureau show that A Question of Sport is the sixth most popular programme among FT readers , but does n't feature in the top ten Sunday Sport readers ' list at all . |
| 12 | Although in theory speechreading should be particularly useful in circumstances where hearing is most difficult , in practice aid-users find that a barrage of distorted sounds can interfere with concentration . |
| 13 | Various airline industry estimates suggest that a one minute delay in scheduled aircraft departure costs between £130 and £750 . |
| 14 | Many industry specialists claim that a new international standard called MPEG-2 , quietly agreed in April , could be just as influential as the result of the FCC competition . |
| 15 | As already mentioned , an increasing number of research reports shows that a frequent complaint made by patients is lack of information . |
| 16 | The Hill Reaction will proceed in the absence of carbon dioxide provided that a suitable hydrogen is present . |
| 17 | A German Foreign Ministry spokesperson reported that a meeting of EC representatives in Lisbon on April 2 had approved a German proposal for a formal EC protest to the Turkish government over the recent military action against civilians [ see pp. 38833-34 ; for resignation of German Defence Minister over sale of vehicles to Turkey see p. 38822 ] . |
| 18 | Perhaps the most entertaining tale came late afternoon , with anonymous telephone calls stating that a nosey employee of Marks & Spencer ( down 1 at 329p ) having been called in to deputy chairman Clinton Silver 's office , saw a piece of paper suggesting the retailer was set to bid the debt-laden supermarket group , Asda ( off ½ at 31p ) . |
| 19 | Whereas the test designers suggest that a teacher without specialist knowledge might give the test as a screening device to identify the existence of articulation problems , the analysis of the nature of the errors and the appropriate forms of intervention ought to be left for an expert in phonological analysis . |
| 20 | The news-stand was not due to open for an hour but after showing his ID card to a guard Benin asked that a copy of Pravda be delivered to his office the moment it arrived . |
| 21 | The licensing committee heard that a bar in Perry 's Brasserie , Beaumont Street , had double its capacity when health chiefs made a surprise visit . |
| 22 | In its final Report , the Criminal Law Revision Committee concluded that a statutory provision was necessary in order to avoid the uncertainty which , in its view , Olugboja was likely to engender . |
| 23 | Seeking views on the future economic role of councils , the Scottish Office consultation paper on council reform suggested that a ‘ better defined statutory footing would help delineate the respective responsibilities of local authorities and other publicly funded organisations which are active in this field ’ . |
| 24 | Concern over a covert Iraqi nuclear weapons programme had grown after US intelligence sources claimed that a senior Iraqi nuclear scientist , who recently defected to the USA , had confirmed that a substantial portion of Iraq 's nuclear and chemical weapons stocks remained intact . |
| 25 | Cargo forecasts suggest that a growth rate of 11.4 percent for Europe-Far East trade over the next 20 years will be more than double the expected increase across the North Atlantic . |
| 26 | There is a widespread tendency in social science and in more popular discussions of opinion/attitude surveys to assume that a large sample provides some automatic guarantee of reliable results , while a small one promises unreliability . |
| 27 | On Nov. 4 , Ghana Broadcasting Corporation reported that a dusk-to-dawn curfew had been imposed on Kumasi , capital of Ashanti region , which was regarded as Boahen 's principal power base , after NPP supporters rioted " in violent reaction to the results of the presidential election so far declared " . |
| 28 | The Law Society insists that a solicitor 's undertaking is near absolute , and must be honoured . |
| 29 | Westmorland Law Society suggested that a distinction would have to be drawn between institutions and small businesses for the purpose of any test . |
| 30 | Chapter 9 considers who can act as an expert : as the answer is anyone whom the parties appoint , safeguards are built into the expert clause to provide that a suitably qualified person is likely to act as the expert . |