Example sentences of "[v-ing] that a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a period of time , silence on the part of a third party ( the most likely response ) could estop it from denying that a novation had occurred . |
| 2 | On 17 December , its officials woke to radio bulletins announcing that a bill to ban all remaining forms of tobacco advertising had , in the small hours , finally passed through both houses of the federal parliament with the support of all parties . |
| 3 | The cost of checking that a loss has been reported to the Police , Hotel or Courier and the time taken to do so must affect the decision to carry out an investigation . |
| 4 | The burden of proving that a clause satisfies the reasonableness test is on the party who seeks to rely on the clause . |
| 5 | Proving that a contravention has occurred , even if only on the balance of probabilities , will not be easy , nor will demonstrating that an alleged miscreant has made a profit as a result of his contravention . |
| 6 | Notice that this condition says nothing about the possibility of proving that a topic referred to on a given occasion is the same as the topic referred to on a different occasion . |
| 7 | Notwithstanding Roh 's efforts at damage limitation , however , the opposition attempted to exploit the government 's vulnerability by suggesting that a cover-up had been perpetrated in order to minimize the government 's involvement in the Suso scandal . |
| 8 | Last week The Northern Echo disclosed details of a document suggesting that a company run by TEC chairman Les Bell was hoping to pay a school leaver £29.50 for a 50 hour week . |
| 9 | Macmillan played on Kennedy 's political instincts by suggesting that a failure to honour Eisenhower 's Polaris pledge could sink the Macmillan Government and lead to the election of an anti-American alternative , either Conservative or Labour — anti-Americanism not being confined to one party . |
| 10 | We have identified difficulties which may be encountered in realising that a problem has a legal dimension and in connecting that problem to the sort of work with which lawyers are commonly understood to deal . |
| 11 | Richards suggests that ‘ since the Anglican Church in Wales was disestablished in 1919 , it is not fitting that a name associated with church organisation should be linked to a secular unit of local administration ( Richards 1983:39 ) . |
| 12 | It is worth remembering that a sparrow has more vertebrae in its neck than a giraffe . |
| 13 | BROADCASTERS are warning that a deal struck between the BBC , the Musicians ' Union and the actors ' union , Equity , on the sale of video-recordings of TV programme mean an end to the release of minority interest programmes , like science documentaries , on video-tape or disc . |
| 14 | The noun ‘ dependent ’ is an ugly label , implying that a person exists only in relation to another person . |
| 15 | Inasmuch as the media does reproduce such accounts it sustains the status quo , since ‘ the problem ’ is said to lie within the individual and not wider social processes , implying that a solution comes through changes in the individual rather than in society . |
| 16 | That may be so , but it does not prevent people in our field from continually falling into the error of supposing that a solution designed to match one problem must be applicable to quite a different problem as well . |
| 17 | The novelist is now of course in middle age , but right back in his teens he wrote to his brother ‘ Man is a mystery ’ , adding that a lifetime spent trying to unravel the mystery would not be wasted . |
| 18 | How do social workers go about investigating these complaints , and what leads them towards deciding that a child has been abused ? |
| 19 | After deciding that a paper looks , feels and smells to your liking , a few other factors should be considered . |
| 20 | Abandoned by her family and deserted by her servants , Elena Petrescu was incapable of grasping that a revolution had happened . |
| 21 | Shortly afterwards Dawes wrote to the Board complaining that a flag had been hoisted at the workhouse on the occasion of his leaving . |
| 22 | The justification for the possession offence is preventive , and there is little difficulty in holding that a person caught in possession of explosives with intent to endanger life has sufficiently crossed the threshold of criminality to justify punishment . |
| 23 | It is not , so far as the author is aware , a breach of privilege of the House to assure oneself that a Clerk of the Parliaments , stating that a Bill has been consented to by Lords and Commons , actually is a Clerk of the Parliaments duly authorised so to state . |
| 24 | Caterham tends to compete , he says , with the ‘ hot hatches ’ such as the Golf GTI , a huge surprise considering that a Golf has four comfortable seats and can carry a respectable amount of luggage while the Seven arrives at a buyer 's door in several cardboard boxes , has two seats , no doors or luggage space to speak of and , in the words of one reviewer , ‘ is likely to blow your teeth out at much over 80 mph ’ . |
| 25 | Perhaps my slightly jaundiced view stems from the fact that I was expecting that a book based on a workshop on the physical and neuropsychological basis of music would contain some physics , or at the very least some reasonably quantitative science rather than somewhat vague speculations . |
| 26 | Demonstrating that a virus isolated from a human cancer can cause further cancers in other humans is clearly an unacceptable experiment ! |
| 27 | A Washington Post report of Oct. 9 , 1989 , quoted US administration officials as saying that a decision had been made during an unusually secretive policy review that the USA would continue to produce chemical weapons over a 10-year phaseout period after the conclusion of an international treaty to ban the weapons ( see negotiations above ) . |
| 28 | An editorial alleged that the Government would welcome headlines saying that a patient had died because it would swing public opinion against the unions . |
| 29 | At a gig in Newcastle , I was reprimanded for saying that a condom smelt ‘ fishy ’ , as this was deemed to be implicitly degrading to women . |
| 30 | Instead of saying that a person feels a pain in his foot it might be less misleading to say that he has an in-the-foot pain . |