Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 These are : 1 the differences between speech and writing ; 2 the nature and internal organisation of written texts ; 3 the processes of writing — and concomitant with this , the appreciation that for the purposes of teaching , the process is of prior importance to the product .
2 Mine comes from peaty moorland and the pH is too low with the result that over the years copper pipework corrodes in places , especially at low points .
3 For these reasons I shall make a declaration to the effect that for the purposes of Part II of the Act of 1987 , an assignee of part of a deposit as defined in section 5 is to be treated as entitled to the assigned part of the deposit and as having made a deposit of an amount equal to that part .
4 At the same time there was a recognition that despite the horrors of mothers-in-law and squalling children the family was an essential bulwark for survival , against the vagaries of the economy and the all too likely threat of the ( sexually segregated ) workhouse in poverty or old age .
5 Er , my Lord er I my observations on that issue at this point be that erm it seems to be the defence case that for the purposes of er the defendants avoiding a duty to advise the plaintiffs as to the need for clear financial offers their terms from the bank , Mr was an experienced man of business and er had considerable financial acumen for the purposes of considering er whether under the banks original proposal for finance he would have been successful , they would be trading as a financial disaster .
6 In contrast was his finding that amongst the prisoners of San Quentin jail , there were some who had achieved fulfilment .
7 His teaching , or the teaching that over the centuries has been ascribed to him , brought into being the highly influential religion of Christianity .
8 She came to a familiar boulder ; it had fallen where the river met the hollow that over the years had become the pond .
9 The ideology was composed of a series of rules relating to marriage , the family and Home that for the evangelicals were rooted in Christianity but were also clearly related to wider social and economic aspirations .
10 As the fifties proceeded , a succession of coups , countercoups , wars , revolutions and civil disorders made the Middle East one of the most volatile areas on earth , a place that in the words of one historian , " reverberated with the sound of crashing throne . "
11 Two separate grounds were advanced in support of the claim , namely , ( 1 ) the broad constitutional point that as the Commissioners of Customs and Excise had no authority from Parliament to impose the charges and the corporation were under no legal liability to pay them the latter should be entitled to recover , and ( 2 ) that the condictio indebiti applied where there was error in the interpretation of a public general statute .
12 An unnamed minister ( probably the Lord President , Lord Salisbury ) , in the absence of control on coloured immigration , spoke of ‘ a real danger that over the years there would be a significant change in the racial character of the English people ’ .
13 whenever the court is of the opinion that in the circumstances it would be just and equitable to dissolve the partnership .
14 It the belief becomes current in public opinion that in the arguments between government and opposition it is not really a matter of opposing opinions being presented , then the impression will increasingly gain currency that parliamentary discussions are just a game .
15 Invited the Lord President to take soundings among Government supporters with a view to determining whether it would be possible to persuade those who were in favour of the abolition of capital punishment that in the interests of securing the passage of the Criminal Justice Bill in the 1947–48 Session they should refrain from pressing for this change in the law ;
16 Will he also use this opportunity to give a categorical pledge that under no circumstances will he lift the ceiling on national insurance contributions , because that would , in effect , claw back the extra pay that teachers gained yesterday ?
17 His flesh was soft ; a badly-fitting mask that around the eyes showed a moist pink edge .
18 We reach this conclusion in the light of the evidence that notwithstanding the rules as to dismissal for theft as applied in the first place … each case can be and is reviewed on the intervention of the security officer who … will make an appropriate recommendation where the case does not warrant dismissal . ’
19 There is some evidence that from the mid-1950s the average size of firm in manufacturing was growing as the employment share of firms with less than 100 workers fell from 60 to 50 per cent .
20 Eddy v Niman is open to the criticism that in the terms of s.3(1) there was an assumption of the rights of the owner when he took the goods from the shelf and placed them in the shopping trolley .
21 Whether we avoid certain foods because God has told us to , or whether it 's simply because of the E numbers ; whether our purification rituals are there to chase out demons in the name of spiritual purity , or germs in the name of hygiene … we all have a sense that beyond the boundaries of our lives lurks Chaos .
22 Here Gehlen collected up the thousands of spools of microfilm that over the years he had painstakingly amassed as part of his record of Russian intelligence .
23 It has become a sad fact of life that during the months that follow Christmas even more animals require food and shelter as they have , through no fault of their own , outgrown their novelty attraction .
24 Both the defendants and the Bank of England , while not expressly acknowledging the link , invite the court to proceed for present purposes on the assumption that without the defendants ' breach the Bank of England would not have issued the section 39 notice in its present form .
25 I do not believe it is merely the result of social conditioning that in the Scriptures , in the Jewish and Christian tradition , mankind and the Church is presented as feminine to God , to whom our response must be one of obedience in contrast to those religions in which the divine is regarded as contained within creation and is to be manipulated or cajoled in order to provide what man needs .
26 In particular , the group discussions we held show that at the extremes of poverty and limited awareness , credit can become too heavy a burden for the family budget and even for emotional stability .
27 If the plagioclase concentration is still less than critical for plagioclase alone , then the plagioclase would be mixed up into the ‘ clear layer ’ in the same way that in the experiments fine particles were swept up from the interfacial zone into the clear layer .
28 Collister later commented : ‘ What I was trying to get at was the way that in the alps in particular , the experience of adventure had been swapped for glamour .
29 There is also authority for the proposition that for the purposes of s.5(1) a copyright owner does not have a proprietary interest in the item copied : Storrow [ 1983 ] Crim LR 332 .
30 There can be little doubt that under the terms of the Common Foreign and Security policy , there would have been no European response to Saddam Hussein 's aggression .
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