Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Place a set square PQR such that right angle Q rests on AB and side PQ passes through F . |
| 2 | Austria was so totally defeated by Prussia at the battle of Sadowa in July 1866 that any attempt at mediation by France would have been rejected out of hand at Berlin , where it was known that such mediation would be a paper exercise with no military back-up . |
| 3 | In a sharply contrasting assessment , US Treasury Nicholas Brady argued on Sept. 22 that lower interest rates encouraged increases in investment , productivity and living standards , adding that " when interest rates remain high for whatever reason , the returns on investment stay sterile in the banking system " . |
| 4 | The Oil Minister Hamud Abdullah al Raqaba said on May 11 that 100 oilwell fires had been extinguished and the wells brought under control [ see pp. 37988 ; 38119 ; 38166 ] . |
| 5 | It was suggested by Hirst J in Fraser v Thames Television Ltd [ 1983 ] 2 All ER 101 that some degree of originality is required for confidential information to be protected . |
| 6 | European Community officials stated on May 20 that continuing aid would be conditional upon the country resolving ethnic conflicts and furthering economic and political reform , and that future close relations would depend on the country remaining united . |
| 7 | The conclusion of the report was that the resilience and vigour of adult education in the county during the previous twenty years had placed it in a good position to consolidate earlier effort and made HMI confident that further development in the provision of liberal adult education would build on the foundation of the established tradition of co-operative endeavour between the LEAs and the Responsible Bodies . |
| 8 | But it was the part of Fletcher Christian that fascinated Brando , and he announced that he would play the part if the script was rewritten to his specifications . |
| 9 | SCOTVEC 's Policy Committee agreed in November 1990 that such certification could be introduced provided that : |
| 10 | Inside Western Sahara , Polisario claimed on Oct. 9 that Moroccan security forces had arrested and tortured dozens of demonstrators two days earlier . |
| 11 | It was announced on Feb. 28 that further voting to complete the local elections would be held on March 1 and 8 , as well as on April 19 . |
| 12 | It was reported on March 25 that seven government officials from the Taegu environment office had been charged with negligence or forgery after the Doosan Electro-Materials Corp. had released hundreds of tonnes of toxic waste into the Naktog River , the source of drinking water for millions of people . |
| 13 | The Attorney-General refused to lend his name to the action , and the House of Lords held that this refusal could not be challenged in an action for judicial review . |
| 14 | The House of Lords held that this agreement was not a contract of sale and that the customer was not a ‘ buyer . ’ |
| 15 | The section expressly prohibits ‘ disparaging another candidate ’ and the House of Lords held that this phrase was wide enough to cover this activity . |
| 16 | As respects England and Wales or Northern Ireland , any provision in an Act passed before 1st August 1958 that any order or determination shall not be called into question in any court , or any provision in such an Act which by similar words excludes any of the powers of the High Court , shall not have effect so as to prevent the removal of the proceedings into the High Court by order of certiorari or to prejudice the powers of the High Court to make orders of mandamus . |
| 17 | The Minister of State for Defence , Ranjan Wijeratne , said on Nov. 1 that two Army battalions had started operations to " liberate " the north-western island of Mannar amidst reports that more than 45,000 Moslems had been forced to flee the area under threat from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) , the main Tamil separatist group . |
| 18 | The House of Lords said that punctual payment required payment on the Friday , if the banks were closed on the Saturday and Sunday , and that the owners could not be said to have waived the breach simply because their bank had accepted the payment order . |
| 19 | In France it was reported on Nov. 14 that former Defence Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement had said that a hitherto " dormant " French branch of an anti-communist NATO network had recently been dissolved by presidential order . |
| 20 | It was announced on Dec. 5 that 900 drug dealers and traffickers had been hanged during 1989 , that a further 900 faced the death penalty and that a total of 14,000 traffickers had been arrested since March 1989 . |
| 21 | It further announced on Dec. 20 that this meeting would be held between Dec. 3 and 7 , 1990 . |
| 22 | Discussion of the movement had hardly died down when Commander McGuinness was advised by ATA Headquarters on April 25 that another Priority One-Plus Spitfire movement would commence the following day . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , Health Ministry officials said on April 13 that foreign aid had " been very insignificant so far " . |
| 24 | However , a military spokesman warned on April 24 that martial law could easily be re-imposed if any unrest occurred . |
| 25 | Even if the committees do not persuade ministers and civil servants to change what they do , their very existence makes Whitehall aware that any aspect of policy or administration may become the subject of more searching scrutiny than would be possible in the Commons ' chamber . |
| 26 | Furthermore , legislation expressly intended to give effect to the first stage of Economic and Monetary Union has already been enacted , following the decision of the European Council in Madrid in June 1989 that that stage should begin on 1 July 1990 . |