Example sentences of "that [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is certain is that for countless ages the greatest mountain range on earth will continue to form an impenetrable barrier to the terrestrial animals that live north and south of it . |
| 2 | The fault , if it is a fault , lies in the Interpretation Act 1978 Sch 1 , which states that for legal purposes a ‘ month ’ means a calendar month , and this applies to legislation since 1850 . |
| 3 | A significant number were aimed at positive prevention and these included altering the time allowed for lesson changeover to reduce crowd chaos , a decision to involve all staff in corridor supervision , a move to set up mutual support pairs amongst staff and the creation of a rewards system following the realization that for non-academic pupils the school offered little or no incentives . |
| 4 | Carrow claims that for normal children the test scores increase with age and that it differentiates individuals with known disorders , including deaf children and those with articulation difficulties , from ordinary , non-handicapped children . |
| 5 | Notice that for small differences the expression [ ] is approximately equal to the formula which appears in the F statistic . |
| 6 | What is clear is that for different reasons the Nordic states were disinclined to pursue closer economic integration wholeheartedly , or were at least following their customary practice of slow and cautious deliberation to try to pinpoint and resolve in advance any possible difficulties . |
| 7 | Despite the fact that small companies promise substantially faster growth , the survey revealed that for large companies the median price to earnings ratio was a heady 20.6 , compared with 15.4 for smaller firms . |
| 8 | It can be shown that for large samples the statistic , called the likelihood ratio test statistic , is distributed as a chi-square variate with g degrees of freedom where , as before , g is the number of restrictions and ‘ log ’ stands for natural logarithm . |
| 9 | ( 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 . |
| 10 | ( 4 ) If the provision of a specimen other than a specimen of breath may be required in pursuance of this section the question whether it is to be a specimen of blood or a specimen of urine shall be decided by the constable making the requirement , but if a medical practitioner is of the opinion that for medical reasons a specimen of blood can not or should not be taken the specimen shall be a specimen of urine . |
| 11 | Can a constable , when authorised by section 7(3) of the Act to require a specimen of blood or urine ( and absent any medical opinion that for medical reasons a blood specimen can not or should not be taken ) , lawfully require the provision of blood ( or urine ) alone without , in speaking to the suspect , making reference to the alternative ? |
| 12 | In this case it will be obligatory for the driver to provide the specimen which the constable decides to require , either blood or urine subject only to this , that if the constable requires blood but a medical practitioner is of opinion that for medical reasons a specimen of blood can not or should not be taken , the obligation on the driver will then be to provide a specimen of urine instead . |
| 13 | The only concession to scale is that for obvious reasons the lift buttons are situated outside the cars ! |
| 14 | Although I recognise that for obvious reasons the Secretary of State will not want to be locked or painted into a figure of 512 as the maximum , which is what it would be , will he tell the House whether , in the light of last week 's discussions with President Yeltsin and the changes that have taken place since Christmas , the Government are now considering the minimum deterrent to be somewhat lower than they had previously considered it necessary to be ? |
| 15 | On the other hand , he considered that through parliamentary victories the working class was capable of conquering the rest of the state . |
| 16 | It is true that with increased years the incidence of multiple pathology increases . |
| 17 | Norman Smith , match secretary of Irby Angling Club , reckons that with perfect conditions the Classic champion might even have 80lb of fish . |
| 18 | … the circumstances are such that any reasonable man standing in the shoes of the recipient of the information would have realised that upon reasonable grounds the information was being given to him in confidence , then this should suffice to impose upon him the equitable obligation of confidence . |
| 19 | Perhaps the most elegant formulation of principle was given in Coco v Clark ( AN ) ( Engineers ) Ltd where it was said that if a reasonable man standing in the shoes of the recipient of the information would have realised that upon reasonable grounds the information was being given to him in confidence then this should suffice to impose upon him the equitable obligation of confidence . |
| 20 | The story , in brief , is that in colonial times the British banks would not lend to Sri Lankans , except to the very wealthy or very influential . |
| 21 | Doctors have discovered that in suitable cases the lumpy atheroma deposits can be squeezed flat , widening the arteries again . |
| 22 | Quantitative measurements show that in methanogenic subjects the majority of gaseous hydrogen produced from fermentation is consumed by methanogenic bacteria . |
| 23 | It is clear from the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 306 that in appropriate circumstances a company carrying on business in Hong Kong can earn profits which do not arise in or derive from the colony , notwithstanding the fact that those profits are not attributable to an independent overseas branch . |
| 24 | It is difficult to conceal the suspicion that in Soviet eyes a new technological era is dawning , with consequences for military science as far-reaching as the ballistic missile and nuclear weapon , and the ‘ revolution in military affairs ’ which they unleashed . |
| 25 | It is for this reason that in Victorian novels the description of working-class interiors , as I have mentioned , invariably emphasizes their hard-won decency . |
| 26 | The run-off from the pig factories is so high in nutrients and so voluminous that in warm summers the entire Adriatic stinks of rotting algae and dead fish . |
| 27 | It was therefore important to check that in embryonic wounds the epidermis was actively moving over the mesenchyme and not merely riding passively on mesenchymal contraction . |
| 28 | A pointed feminist saying about the president goes : ‘ George Bush is every woman 's first husband ’ , an apt summary of Francis Fukuyama 's concern that in liberal democracies the greatest threat is boredom . |
| 29 | Pluralists deny that higher social classes monopolize power and believe that in liberal democracies the wishes of the people determine government policy . |
| 30 | In studies of small mammal decay , it has been found that in hot climates the soft parts decay and the carcase is reduced to bone and sinew within 6–8 days ( Korth , 1979 ) . |