Example sentences of "[vb -s] that [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He adds that at the other end of his society 's new building — a pink neo-classical palace — there are men in braces and loud shirts dealing on the Tokyo capital markets as they order pizzas . |
| 2 | It emphasises that in the final analysis it is not what the electors , or judges , or a returning officer may say , but what the House itself says , which determines whether a successful candidate may take a seat . |
| 3 | Dr Clay writes that during the middle years of the seventeenth century customary tenures were still widespread and important , especially for the smaller properties , but that much less land was held in this way than was the case 100 years earlier . |
| 4 | Wittek writes that among the basic causes of concern were Bayezid 's policy of using Christian soldiers against the Muslim gazi emirates in Anatolia and the " latinization " of the Ottoman court , the introduction into it of the practices of the Christian Balkan princes , this criticism being reflected in anecdotes relating that Bayezid 's Serbian wife Despina instructed him in the delights of wine . |
| 5 | He then writes that in the early part of 821/early 1418 , Molla Fenari appointed his younger son , Sinan al-Din Yusuf Bali Celebi ( Yusuf Bali ) , as naib for the kadilik of Bursa and with his elder son , Muhyi " l-Din Muhammad Shah Celebi ( Mehmed Sah Fenari ) , went directly to Egypt where he spent Ramadan at the Zayniyya medrese and awaited the arrival of Seyh Zeyneddin , with whom he subsequently made the pilgrimage in 822 , departing from , and returning to , Jerusalem . |
| 6 | The last line illustrates that in the covariant derivative of a tensor of second order or higher there is one term for each index . |
| 7 | Mr. Howell accepts that in the present case the governors did consult the local education authority on the admissions policy and that such policy was a reasonable one for a Roman Catholic school to adopt were it not for the duty to comply with parental preference imposed by section 6 of the Act of 1980 . |
| 8 | As I have said , counsel for the defendants accepts that in the present case by promising to pay the extra £10,300 the defendants secured benefits . |
| 9 | She concludes that during the 1950s and 1960s the prospect of returning to the labour market gave women an incentive to compress their childbearing , thus shortening intervals between births and accelerating the tempo of fertility . |
| 10 | Adams ( 1979 ) presents a review and experimental study of the subject , and concludes that despite the theoretical problems , there is practical value in teaching rhythm to learners of English . |
| 11 | In truly Sartrean terms , Nu:an concludes that for the contemporary revolutionary writer the central dilemma is located in the problematical relationship between writer and reading public . |
| 12 | He insists that in the last analysis there is a fundamental difference between believing in ahi sā , even though it is not possible to behave non-violently in all life 's circumstances , and believing in hi sā . |
| 13 | It is a first-hand account by someone who has met and talked with many of the creators of modern quantum theory , and who remarks that by the 1970s ‘ my collection of notes and transcripts of tape recordings of conversations , discussions and interviews had become quite large ’ . |
| 14 | He believes ‘ Chicago will evolve back into one major large fair ’ , and Mr Blackman agrees that within a few years , ‘ there will be one show of real importance , or there will be two distinctly different shows ’ . |
| 15 | It just so happens that for the past sixty years it has been . |
| 16 | In a field landing it often happens that on the final approach or even during the hold off you realise that the first part of the field is not as smooth as it is further along . |
| 17 | The Friends ' new Patron says that for a modern town like Swindon , that would have been a disaster . |
| 18 | Her eleventh novel , Gwendolen , has just been published and she says that for the first time she is writing for her soul . |
| 19 | She now does yoga , and says that for the first time in her life she wakes up feeling calm and generally finds that thinking positively works . |
| 20 | It says that with a General Election looming , now is the time to take up ‘ unique tax-planning opportunities ’ . |
| 21 | And there we were thinking that it passed the 2m mark at the end of last year : IMB Corp says that on the first anniversary of the launch of OS/2 2.0 , it has shipped more than 2m copies , has more than 80 agreements with hardware vendors to package OS/2 on their systems , and that there are now 1,200 applications specifically written for it . |
| 22 | An active member of the police Superintendents Association , Mr McLean says that at a recent meeting disgust was expressed at the Met 's failure to hit back at criticism of this kind — such as the comment by Bernie Grant , MP for Tottenham , that the divisional chief in his constituency was ‘ incompetent . ’ |
| 23 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 24 | David Clews , of Pintail , says that about the only request for spares was due to a shaft breaking when a burr caught in clothing . |
| 25 | Merseyside 's leading housing advice group also says that over the last year there has been a 100pc rise in the number of young homeless being referred to it . |
| 26 | The RYA says that over the next 10 years demand for new berths will reach 85,000 nationally on top of the present 190,000 . |
| 27 | Mead says that over the next several years it will move from a mainframe-centric architecture to a more flexible Unix environment , and Hewlett products are being incorporated as components of Mead Data 's internally developed Lexis and Nexis legal , business , financial and medical databases . |
| 28 | Legal & General 's Michael Payne says that over the next few years he expects his fund ‘ will grow more in Europe at the expense of UK equities , ’ particularly now that entry into the ERM has reduced the currency risk . |
| 29 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 30 | Dowty says that after a rocky patch during the recession , when the company was forced to axe 1,800 jobs , it 's fortunes are picking up ; not the time to be selling out . |