Example sentences of "[det] [verb] that a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I suppose we could talk about that highlights that a man in China is subjected to domination of three systems of authority , er the state system er which is political authority , the clan system , the clan authority erm ranging from the ancestral temple down to the head of household , and a supernatural system which is erm religious authority . |
| 2 | You do not need all this to establish that a man is drunk or that there is mayhem when he is in charge of a class . |
| 3 | This assumes that a test is trying to measure a single dimension of student ability — a trait — and that the difficulty of a test item is independent of both the other items in the test and the groups of students who answer it . |
| 4 | This assumes that a depositor is the person who will have made the deposit in question . |
| 5 | This directed that a number of Czechs and dissident Yugoslavs , who had infiltrated an area in Austria east of that covered by the Allied V Corps , should be treated as disarmed enemy troops and evacuated to British concentration camps in Italy . |
| 6 | This says that a member can defend itself , but in no sense does it endorse a prolonged campaign of counter-attack . |
| 7 | A special analysis of this showed that a quarter of all people entering unemployment in May 1980 who had found a job within 10 months had taken one which they knew to be temporary . |
| 8 | This states that a solute distributes itself between two immiscible liquids in a constant ratio of concentrations irrespective of the amount of solute added . |
| 9 | The setting is right , and some feel that a murder is about to be committed . |
| 10 | This meant that a decompression stop was not required and that these parameters would be stored in the memory , to be compensated for on the next dive . |
| 11 | In practical terms this meant that a court should not lightly disregard foreign blocking statutes or ‘ defensive laws ’ ; that perceived national interests should be carefully defined and weighed , so that some delay might well be accepted in the interest of promoting respect for the sovereign equality of States under international law ; and that evidence of the willingness of the foreign state to assist United States courts ( e.g. by a civil law country enacting legislation to enable cross-examination to take place ) should be taken into account . |
| 12 | In practice , this meant that a polytechnic or college of higher education could obtain a 100 per cent grant for that proportion of the establishment 's work which fell within the definition of ‘ poolable advanced further education ’ as agreed by local authorities . |
| 13 | This meant that a trust investing solely in , say , gilts or bonds could qualify for the £1,500 limit , which was not the original intention . |
| 14 | This meant that a man 's estate was increasingly likely to be divided between his wife ( if she survived him ) and his children , although not necessarily in equal measure . |
| 15 | Prior to that time retirement ages for men and women were the same , and this meant that a man retiring at 65 often had to support himself and his wife on a single-rate pension , because on average women were younger than their husbands . |
| 16 | This meant that a lot of the interchange would be verbal with no record or a remembered , inaccurate record . |
| 17 | This meant that a condition for the exercise of the power was that the land was of the appropriate type . |
| 18 | Some felt that a recruitment campaign for volunteers was overdue . |
| 19 | This implies that a share should sell for PE o times its earnings per share if it is fairly priced . |
| 20 | This implies that a trade-off between unemployment and inflation may exist only in the very short term . |
| 21 | This means that a word mask should reduce the word-superiority effect in comparison with a feature mask ; and Johnston and McClelland ( 1980 ) showed that this was the case . |
| 22 | Sperber and Wilson 's ( 1986 ) principle of relevance entitles the hearer to expect adequate contextual effects for the minimum necessary processing effort.5 This means that a speaker who is asked to say what , for example , was said in a lecture would not satisfy the principle of relevance if he or she read out the entire content word for word . |
| 23 | This means that a management policy that is injurious to employee interests can be attacked only on the grounds that the directors lacked good faith , meaning that the directors did not honestly believe that the policy constitutes an appropriate balancing of interests , or that they have altogether disregarded the impact of their decision on the employees . |
| 24 | This means that a man sacrifices every other aspect of himself to the job and forgets his other roles , such as father , son , brother , friend and lover , and also forgets that in his teens , perhaps , he liked playing the piano , going to football matches , singing in the choir and writing short stories . |
| 25 | This means that a company with a financial year end of 28 February will be required to file its accounts by 28 September if it is a public company , and by 28 December if it is private . |
| 26 | This means that a decision must be taken on whether the in-use setting can be recreated in the studio or whether the photography should be done on location . |
| 27 | Spelt out slightly more fully ( and at the risk of oversimplification ) , this means that a decision is open to review where it has been arrived at as a result of a mistaken view of the law , or where the decision is one that could not reasonably have been arrived at , in the sense that the person deciding must have taken into account irrelevant considerations , or failed to take into account relevant ones , or where he has failed to observe the dictates of natural justice which require him to give the parties a hearing before arriving at his decision . |
| 28 | This means that a proposal must be circulated among various sections and departments that will be affected by the proposal , with much discussion and correction ensuing . |
| 29 | This means that a child acquiring language who does not yet know what chair means but will acquire the knowledge must already have represented in his ‘ language of thought ’ a predicate of the kind ‘ is a portable seat for one ’ . |
| 30 | This means that a child who is exposed to violent models may be less inclined to halt or inhibit aggressive actions when given the opportunity . |