Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] that [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as someone gives you ten to the minus eight , you can say , Well if I want to convert that into real money , |
| 2 | ( 3 ) A requirement under this section to provide a specimen of blood or urine can only be made at a police station or at a hospital ; and it can not be made at a police station unless — ( a ) the constable making the requirement has reasonable cause to believe that for medical reasons a specimen of breath can not be provided or should not be required , or ( b ) at the time the requirement is made a device or a reliable device of the type mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) ( a ) above is not available at the police station or it is then for any other reason not practicable to use such a device there , or ( c ) the suspected offence is one under section 4 of this Act and the constable making the requirement has been advised by a medical practitioner that the condition of the person required to provide the specimen might be due to some drug ; but may then be made notwithstanding that the person required to provide the specimen has already provided or been required to provide two specimens of breath . |
| 3 | Now , I do n't want to give you a boring lesson about the markets of the day , suffice to say that in 1520 hard cash was rare , most of it being tied up in fields , lands and houses , so it was natural for people like Ralemberg to tout for business . |
| 4 | They therefore tend to assume that after two years the firm ( if it is not a supernormal growth firm ) simply grows in line with GDP , on the grounds that , in the long run , the share of dividends or earnings in GDP does not trend in any significant way . |
| 5 | I happen to think that behind much of that flamboyance in his earlier years there was a fund of timidity and reticence . |
| 6 | And we do know that for some gravitational reason we 've yet to fathom , the absorption effect is nullified below ground-level . |
| 7 | All I can say is that the yes of God 's love is stronger than the no of his judgment and that I do believe that despite all the shadows and elements of chaos in the world , in the universe and in life , God 's love is stronger and he is a God of love . |
| 8 | ‘ At this stage it is too early ti give an accurate figure for the likely return to depositors , however I do believe that in due course it should be substantial . |
| 9 | I 'm erm I 've been working in low cost housing , housing charities , for a very long time , with Shelter and various other charities like that , and I never cease to be amazed that the Conservative Group , here or nationally , are hostile to subsidies for council housing , because the subsidy which goes to owner-occupiers , through mortgage tax relief , is very much greater than the subsidy that goes to council housing and there 's nothing we as a Council can do about this , but I do hope that in due course we will get a fair system of subsidising houses for everybody , so that wealthy people on high incomes who are getting a big subsidy on their housing through their tax relief , erm are not getting more than people on low incomes living in council houses . |
| 10 | But the Jockey Club 's director of public affairs , David Pipe , said : ‘ The jockeys fail to realise that in this day and age , public opinion is fairly powerful and they are in danger of becoming the subject of private cruelty prosecutions if they are deemed to have broken our rules . |
| 11 | I do agree that on this album and on ‘ Watermark ’ as well there was a feeling of a sense of loss . |
| 12 | ‘ I write to confirm that on 5 October 1989 you were represented at the hearing to oppose the plaintiff being granted an injunction preventing you from selling the property . |
| 13 | So I 've altered that to twelve ninety four and there 's a twenty eight , |
| 14 | I 've heard that by next year 60 per cent of all PCs will be connected to local area networks . |
| 15 | I 've put that I 've tipped that like that on the board is it alright ? |
| 16 | Westergaard and Resler have calculated that in 1913–14 men in full-time non-manual employment earned 142% of the average male wage , male manual workers 88% . |
| 17 | Several commentators have claimed that on this expedition Gould 's party was the first ever to reach the great western bend of the Murray overland from Adelaide . |
| 18 | Even if we agree with his general hypothesis , we have to accept that in some instances people will eat the dead bodies of other people — if only in order to stay alive . |
| 19 | ‘ I have to be careful what I say — I come from Poland and we are very outspoken in my country and I have noticed that in this country you people take offence very easily . |
| 20 | ‘ They just try and make the criminal more fearful of crime but more laws do not mean less crime we have seen that with all their previous measures . |
| 21 | We have seen that on 13 June the Court of Appeal had decided in Heaton 's case that the Transport and General Workers ' Union was not accountable for the action of its shop stewards . |
| 22 | We have seen that for effective teaching in higher education to take place , someone , somewhere should have engaged in research . |
| 23 | We have seen that in capitalist societies , different classes exhibit differences in social characteristics , such as values and patterns of behaviour . |
| 24 | Some historians , most notably Nicholas Tyacke , have argued that between 1560 and 1625 this doctrine was accepted unquestioningly by all the leading officials , theologians , and teachers of the Elizabethan church . |
| 25 | For example anthropologists have argued that in those societies where women are allowed to inherit as well as men this can determine many other aspects of social relations . |
| 26 | Much later he joined forces with the fledgling Spitalfields Trust , and their efforts have ensured that since 1961 only two more Georgian houses have been destroyed , and those in flagrant defiance of the law . |
| 27 | Discussions with individual scientists have revealed that in such cases , informal contacts between supervisors or departments have resulted in the creation of a network of unofficial and informal loan arrangements , totally outwith the control of the libraries concerned . |
| 28 | Black & Decker have revealed that in 1989 , about 20 per cent of all their portable power drills sold in Britain were cordless . |
| 29 | And then again if agonisings about modern are seem to take us in one direction , the banning of books as reminded us , takes us in quite another , and we have to remember that for all practical purposes it was indeed a banned book for nearly fifteen years , from the Twenties into the Thirties . |
| 30 | We have to remember that in many cases it was , ironically , only accidental hardening by destructive fires that preserved caches of clay tablets as samples of the Minoan scripts . |