Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] that a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A significant court ruling on the subject of sexual harassment was handed down on April 16 , when a judge in Fukuoka ruled that a publishing company had violated the rights of a former female employee who had felt obliged to leave her job after allegations of alcoholism and sexual promiscuity against her . |
| 2 | As the two girls whirled downstairs towards the clattering dining room , Victoria realised that a wedge had been tapped into their ten-year friendship . |
| 3 | There is a further clause in the 1950 law that permitted Manor to confirm that a man or woman was not an absentee if that person left his place of residence ‘ for fear that the enemies of Israel might cause him harm or otherwise than by reason or for fear of military operations , . |
| 4 | Similarly , the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany argued that a member state might legitimately adopt appropriate criteria with regard to the grant of flag rights in order to safeguard the objectives of the Community system of fishing quotas ; it considered that , if necessary , the criteria adopted to that end might be contrary to the E.E.C . |
| 5 | Taylor found that a kangaroo hops at the same frequency at which gazelles of equal weight run or , for that matter , at which humans of equal weight bound on a pogo stick . |
| 6 | G. Lightheart reported that a television set had been given to the youth club . |
| 7 | G. Lightheart reported that a television set had been given to the youth club . |
| 8 | Najibullah proposed that a referendum be held in both government and mujaheddin-controlled areas to determine whether a ceasefire should be implemented . |
| 9 | And Williamson emphasises that a BSD/AT&T Unix license is required , and that MacMach , containing BSD 4.3 source code , is not a public-domain product . |
| 10 | President Mikhail Gorbachev announced that a draft union treaty would be forwarded to republican governments . |
| 11 | Gorbachev revealed that a law on establishing new political parties was currently being drafted . |
| 12 | Murray 's face wore an expression of dismay and Richard realised that an explanation was needed immediately . |
| 13 | The LDP fear that an attempt to phase out whaling , even for a theoretically temporary period of a moratorium , would lose them the support of the fishing communities . |
| 14 | Mandela announced that a series of bilateral discussions with the government , held in parallel with the multiparty CODESA talks , had been suspended indefinitely . |
| 15 | At a press conference he gave after the collapse of the coup ( on Aug. 21 ) Gorbachev recounted that a delegation , consisting of Boldin , Gen. Plekhanov , Shenin and Gen. Varennikov , had visited him at his holiday dacha in the Crimea on Aug. 18 and placed him under house arrest because he had refused to endorse a state of emergency . |
| 16 | Hegel believed that a substance was exhausted by the sum of its predicates , which is another way of saying that he identified the categories of the German language with those of abstract thought , and those of abstract thought , in turn with those of Mind or Geist . |
| 17 | Strong observational backing from scientists at the University of Arizona shows that a wave of gravitational energy sweeps through the gas clouds in the galaxy , with a mass at least one-thousand times that of our Sun . |
| 18 | League official David Howes confirmed that a sample had proved positive but , in line with normal procedure , neither the name of the player nor his club will be released unless he is found guilty of taking a prohibited substance , writes John Whalley . |
| 19 | ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela declared that a majority was in favour of negotiations , although he acknowledged that the party 's leadership had failed to consult its supporters on many issues . |
| 20 | Lang confirmed that a report due to be produced soon by a Scottish Office-COSLA working party on the internal management of councils is likely to include initiatives like American-style elector mayors and cabinet-style management for the new authorities . |
| 21 | The work with patients who had the delusion of being watched , and who spoke of the watcher as another person in terms like the following : ‘ He is waiting for me to go now ’ , or ‘ He thinks I should do such and such ’ , had first led Freud to suggest that a part of a person 's ego can keep watch over another part . |
| 22 | Pinto confirmed that a prototype Alpha box would be around by the end of the year ( UX No 376 ) — other officials said the emergence of shrink-wrapped non-proprietary Unix environments — with the added incentive of Unix System Laboratories Inc 's Destiny and Microsoft Corp NT already scheduled for Alpha — will open up the workstation market sufficiently for it to stake a claim . |
| 23 | On other occasions in a , in a different though I think related way , erm Proust shows that a phrase such as , for instance , ‘ the Church of St. Hilaire ’ is a piece of shorthand which the intellect employs to define and to stabilise and to make easy to deal with what is at the sense level a complicated and continually changing reality . |
| 24 | LEBANON 'S newly elected President , Mr Rene Muawad , yesterday continued to try to form a government of national unity , but the Christian leader General Michel Aoun declared that a revolution had begun in his country . |
| 25 | Kahn reckoned that a plan either to make them sell their shares or to force a swap of the shares for shares in a newly-formed corporation called Velcro Reorganisation NV was ‘ in effect Hobson 's choice , ’ as he put it in an affidavit filed with a New York Federal district court . |
| 26 | Four brothers simultaneously in the Football League could be unique , though David suspects that a quartet of Clarkes also gave ‘ family club ’ a new dimension . |
| 27 | CIMA suggested that the proposals should be included in Cadbury 's code of best practice , while Coopers & Lybrand thought that a Stock Exchange requirement would not work and added that ‘ it could not see why the OFR could not in principle be a Financial Reporting Standard ’ . |
| 28 | Effectively Gregory indicates that a section of the aristocracy were dissatisfied with all three Merovingian kings , including Childebert in 582 . |
| 29 | As Sabah said that an agreement with France would soon follow , the aim being to " guarantee peace and security in the region , be it through the storage of weapons and military equipment in Kuwait , as is the case with the agreement with the USA , or the articles in the agreement signed with Britain which make stipulations on helping to build , organize and train the Kuwaiti army " . |
| 30 | Keynes accepted that an increase in employment would need to be underpinned by a reduction in the real wage rate but rejected the view that the forces of competition would automatically achieve this end . |