Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adj] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is by no means certain that material rewards are the only means by which societies can induce their members to fill social positions as the theory seems to suggest . |
| 2 | It is of course true that evidence will be difficult to acquire in cases of marital rape . |
| 3 | It is of course important that growth in size be linked to growth in maturity , otherwise we may simply see the fulfilment of Jesus ' warning about the seed sown on the rock , which shoots up fast but withers because its roots are not deep enough . |
| 4 | In Andersen Consulting v CHP Consulting Ltd. ( 1991 ) , a case concerning a dispute about maintenance of computer software by third parties , it was said that confidence is frequently used in connection with copyright material as it is : of course notorious that copyright protects only the expression of ideas and does not protect the idea itself |
| 5 | The House of Lords held that trade unions could be sued , in effect , for losses sustained by employers as a consequence of strike action . |
| 6 | where the two directors disagreed and neither had a casting vote , the House of Lords held that registration must proceed . |
| 7 | For applications of size such that equation ( 8 1 ) approximates to : |
| 8 | We noted in Chapter 13 that consumption was around 50% of total final expenditure ( TFE ) in 1991 . |
| 9 | It was pointed out in Chapter 1 that geography was not integral to the theory of long waves , apart from the descriptive fact that different countries have taken the lead in successive cycles . |
| 10 | It will be seen in Chapter 5 that city bureaux also make links with local libraries , but in the main they are arranging to share local information rather than develop the self-service information service as in the rural communities . |
| 11 | The fact that both these forms of aphasia are frequently observed suggests that there are separate systems for perceiving and producing speech ; and we have already seen in Chapter 6 that research on normal subjects suggests the same conclusion . |
| 12 | The same type of modification is seen on shrews ( it will be seen in Chapter 3 that evidence of digestion occurs earlier on vole teeth than on mice or shrews ) , and flaking and penetration of limb bones is also common ( Fig. 1.13 G-H ) . |
| 13 | In the urban fringe it has already been shown in Chapter 3 that recreation can have an adverse impact on farming , but other work has shown that the 500 or so informal recreation sites which cover 5.7 per cent of London 's Green Belt ( Ferguson and Munton , 1979 ) are not heavily used by either car-owing suburban dwellers ( who leapfrog over the green belt into so-called proper countryside since they perceive the sites as being too near to be worthy of a special car trip ) or by carless inner city residents ( who spurn the use of public transport ) ( Harrison , 1983 ) . |
| 14 | Between closely related taxa , resource partitioning is found as in the case of squirrels in Gabon , where two of the nine coexisting species are found in special habitats , the other seven being taxonomically rather diverse : four of these are essentially arboreal , the other three ground foragers , and in each group there are differences in size such that food is partitioned by hardness and size . |
| 15 | While stating in paragraph fourteen that development plans should make no reference to the possibility of allowing other development in exceptional circumstances , nowhere in the P P G does it suggest that the authority should exclude the possibility that very special circumstances could justify an exception to be made . |
| 16 | : We concluded in Note 4 that department Z will not incur further variable overhead costs . |
| 17 | It was noted in Section 18.1 that transition can occur without this process . |
| 18 | We shall see in Section 5.7 that symmetry considerations allow us to decide which vibrational modes will lead to Raman scattering . |
| 19 | We can see from Fig. 6.11 that excitation is to vibrational levels of the ion whose wavefunctions give high probabilities for the inter-atomic distance found in the neutral molecule , and so overlap the ground-state wavefunction . |
| 20 | With a succession of international airlines reporting poor profits in March , Günter Eser , the director-general of the International Air Transport Association , estimated on March 15 that IATA members had lost more than $2,000 million during 1990 because of falling bookings associated with the Gulf crisis , and because of soaring aviation fuel costs . |
| 21 | The government claimed on Jan. 16 that security forces had destroyed the rebels ' headquarters , but on the following day the BRA staged one of its most spectacular actions to date when it attacked the island 's prison , releasing all Bougainville inmates and killing five prison officers . |
| 22 | Viljoen warned on Aug. 26 that violence and intimidation had to end before negotiations on a new constitution could begin . |
| 23 | After the Guardian pointed out on December 8 that Kingfisher did indeed face a prima facie competition problem , he told another newspaper that during his 1986 bid for the then Woolworths , he had been obliged by the OFT to pre-sell Comet to Granada to avoid a monopolies investigation . |
| 24 | Prince Bola Ajibola , the Minister of Justice and federal Attorney General , confirmed on Sept. 12 that power would be handed to a civilian administration on Oct. 1 , 1992 , as planned , in spite of adjustments to the interim timetable . |
| 25 | Antonio Sibacha , secretary-general of the Gabon-based opposition Union for Democracy and Social Development in Equatorial Guinea ( UDDS ) , claimed on May 4 that opposition activist Feliciano Moto had been beaten to death by guards from the presidential palace , that two other opposition activists had been arrested , and that the regime was employing the tactics of " assassination and imprisonment " . |
| 26 | The US ambassador in Belgrade asserted on May 21 that Secretary of State James Baker could still revoke the decision , especially if the presidency issue was resolved quickly . |
| 27 | At the same time Major announced a cut of 1 percentage point in the minimum lending rate , to 14 per cent , and said on Oct. 7 that revaluation of the pound within the ERM was a possible alternative to further interest rate cuts if the pound reached the top of its permitted fluctuation range . |
| 28 | The UN Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) warned on Feb. 26 that drought in southern Africa could result in famine throughout the region . |
| 29 | President Patricio Aylwin Azócar stated on Nov. 6 that Army appointments he had made on Oct. 31 could " not be contested constitutionally " and that Pinochet was " finding it hard to play the role he chose , that of Army C.-in-C. , subordinate to the President " . |
| 30 | The US administration , in an attempt to reassure NATO allies , stated on Nov. 20 that defence spending cuts would be concentrated on US-based personnel . |