Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority considered that such cases should in future be dealt with under the Sexual Offences Act 1956 , s.3(1) , which makes it a crime to procure a woman by false pretences or false representations to have unlawful sexual intercourse in any part of the world and that the penalty for this offence should be raised from two to five years ' imprisonment . |
| 2 | These issues were considered by the House of Lords in Henry Kendall and Sons v William Lillico and Sons Ltd ( 1969 ) where the majority held that subsequent knowledge should be taken into account as otherwise , Lord Guest argued , it would be tantamount " to approach the true situation with blinkers " ( p108 ) . |
| 3 | After breakfast I take a stroll around the base checking that all the daily administrative tasks have been completed . |
| 4 | An early Inland Revenue analysis of the revaluation suggest that 240,000 businesses in England face increases of 100 per cent or more in their annual bills ; about 230,000 rises between 50 and 100 per cent and a further 390,000 increases of between five and 50 per cent . |
| 5 | Enid Blyton 's characters do show emotions — they show affection and they get angry — but they are obvious and unrevealing , the writer judging that this shallowness is appropriate for young readers . |
| 6 | Substantial doubts had been raised by the difficultly of Coleman 's having committed the crime in the short space of time for which he had no alibi on the night of the murder , and by numerous statements gathered after the trial attesting that another resident of the small town of Grundy had boasted of having committed the crime . |
| 7 | The chairman of the board ruled that certain witnesses which a prisoner had requested to attend should not be called . |
| 8 | By the end of the inquiry the Board admitted that this had risen by a further 10 per cent . |
| 9 | Fig 64 The tilted angle of the board indicates that all the weight is now on the leeward side of the board , i e the right foot . |
| 10 | The Board desires that all lessons in physical exercise … should be thoroughly enjoyed by the children . |
| 11 | The board found that 105 of 177 drug products sold in Canada were priced above the median international price . |
| 12 | In an attempt to prevent any repetition of the scandal , the board decided that all senior management should be full members of staff . |
| 13 | Unless the board find that one or more of the prescribed grounds of refusal apply to an application , they must grant it . |
| 14 | I went to the cinema considering that that would be of more benefit than taking a Latin exam that I could not pass . |
| 15 | The brewery says that compulsory redundancies ca n't be ruled out . |
| 16 | 3.2 The Programmer warrants that all material times he has satisfied the requirements as to nationality/residence set out in Section 154 of the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 , and that the Program will not reproduce any copyright matter not assigned in this Agreement . |
| 17 | 3.2 The Programmer warrants that all material times he has satisfied the requirements as to nationality/residence set out in Section 154 of the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 , and that the Program will not reproduce any copyright matter not assigned in this Agreement . |
| 18 | Others say that the outcome of the case confirms that federal prisoner No 41586 was bluffing . |
| 19 | This is how Pratt concludes her paper : The taming of the text proves that such a stylistics is already on its way . |
| 20 | Also Chris Protheroe was still in Lusaka carrying out the more routine , though no less important , procedures in the field to ensure that all necessary information was recorded before the team left . |
| 21 | First impressions in the field suggest that large areas of ice-free Antarctica are sterile . |
| 22 | The sheer length of time spent in the field ensured that this , too , lost its novelty . |
| 23 | If the top solution has a much higher score than the next one down , the computer concludes that this is the correct diagnosis . |
| 24 | If a computer salesman claims that the computer he is selling will run a particular software package and this claim turns out to be untrue , it will be for the company selling the computer to show that any exemption clause it hopes to rely on passes the test of reasonableness . |
| 25 | The referendum suggested that most Russians will not tolerate attempts to recreate the past . |
| 26 | The Conference would wish all who may take part in the referendum to recognize that Protestant Churches are pro-Life but anti-amendment and to query whether they wish a clause in the constitution unacceptable to Protestant churches . |
| 27 | Instructions should be unambiguous , but in selling an ambiguous trigger may be used ( not in the sense of deceit ) because the salesman knows that different listeners will react in different ways . |
| 28 | Whereas conventional radar systems emit a beam and analyse its reflections from other ships in the area to avoid collision , Watchman simply pinpoints the radar beams that other ships transmit . |
| 29 | The archbishop hoped that this offer would be sufficient to restore peace , and Lancaster together with Wake and others swore a solemn oath that they had not done anything against the estate of the king or to the dishonour of his royal lordship . |
| 30 | 1990 , either as experts or arbitrators : no separate statistics are available , but the RICS believes that 55 per cent were experts and 45 per cent were arbitrators. of those being experts , and about 200 being arbitrators. arbitrators , the rest were experts . |