Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Concordat , described as " the best negotiated settlement in Western history " , confirmed the German emperor 's renunciation of investiture of bishops with the ring and the crozier and the pope 's concession that episcopal elections should be held in the presence of the king . |
| 2 | Here the agent is investing in the small artist , trusting the manager 's judgement that this act should go on to be the next big thing . |
| 3 | Er are you saying that it is any part of the Council 's case that this land th it it 's it is er a possibility that having this land as a strategic reserve er can er is of assistance , or are you saying that it is simply er having included it in , it might form part of a strategic reserve ? |
| 4 | Gregory the Great 's decision that English converts to Christianity might continue to use their traditional places of worship provided they were sprinkled with holy water was a revolutionary extension of clerical tolerance , with momentous implications for later missionary activity . |
| 5 | To the extent that the Secretary of State thereafter enforces such right in respect of payments made to a Party , other than the Lead Organization , then that Party will promptly refund such amounts to the Lead Organization on receipt of an auditor 's certificate that these amounts have been paid by him to the Secretary of State . |
| 6 | The vicar would never have agreed to any kind of mock funeral , but he finally yielded to Midge 's plea that some intercession should be made for the souls of the unknown man and woman whose charred corpses lay in the refrigerator at the mortuary . |
| 7 | One libel expert , Mr Geoffrey Robertson , QC , author of the leading textbook on Media Law , said after yesterday 's verdict that huge awards were turning ‘ the temple of the law into a casino ’ . |
| 8 | The CBI points out that the comparison with March last year is distorted by special factors , notably the announcement in last year 's Budget that value-added tax would increase on April 1 . |
| 9 | Explaining the new arrangement a spokesman said : ‘ It 's the council 's experience that economic development and planning go hand-in-hand . |
| 10 | Although Bekenstein 's hypothesis that black holes have a finite entropy requires for its consistency that black holes should radiate thermally , at first it seems a complete miracle that the detailed quantum-mechanical calculations of particle creation should give rise to emission with a thermal spectrum . |
| 11 | It is government 's intention that departmental reports need not follow a standardized format , or ‘ housestyle ’ , but that they must include certain common core components . |
| 12 | It crossed Cora-Beth 's mind that this girl 's feelings towards Harry might well change if she were to meet him again after an absence of two years , but she bit back her words , fearing that the suggestion , were she to make it , might put the idea into his head . |
| 13 | Maturin counters the captain 's protestation that happy ships did exist by asserting that harmony on a ship depends ‘ upon the whim , the digestion and the virtue of one or two men , and that is iniquitous ’ . |
| 14 | Crucial to the operation of the scheme was the CNAA 's recognition that some institutions had established successful ‘ internal validating committees ’ as sub-committees of Academic Boards , ‘ responsible for considering schemes on their behalf before they are submitted to the Council ’ , and others had developed faculty or school machinery to do the same . |
| 15 | And given the political sensitivity of so much of our work , it is under the secretary general 's guidance that difficult discussions on strengthening the movement 's development and human rights awareness programmes must take place and where the final green light must be given for increasingly complex initiatives to intensify public pressure on governments . |
| 16 | The package , which contained numerous tax incentives , was designed to stimulate the stagnant US economy , and to realize the administration 's prediction that economic growth would resume in early 1992 and would accelerate thereafter . |
| 17 | It 's a Benedict 's rule that all students walking the wards must walk in pairs . |
| 18 | M. André Simon , Boulestin 's compatriot and contemporary , writing two years ago of Boulestin 's rule that all wines young or old , red or white must be served in a decanter , recorded that " he never liked the shape and colour of wine bottles standing on the table : they were of the greatest use , of course , but their right place was the cellar or pantry " . |
| 19 | Russell 's demonstration that naive set theory , which was based on what appear to be almost self-evident propositions , is inconsistent is an example of an informative falsification of a conjecture apparently free from risk . |
| 20 | He added : ‘ The Chancellor has also accepted the union 's recommendation that job-related accommodation provided by a farmer , free of rent and Council Tax , should be treated as a free benefit for income tax purposes . ’ |
| 21 | If implemented , FoE 's recommendation that all power stations should be fitted with emission controlling equipment would be likely to close both PowerGen and National Power . |
| 22 | However , not all voluntary associations are in agreement with The White Paper 's recommendation that greater reliance should be placed upon the independent sector . |
| 23 | Dealing with Mr. Hamer 's submission that these circumstances affected the bank with the undue influence exercised by the husband , Lloyd L.J . |
| 24 | June Huntington 's allegation that these practitioners are businesslike rather than professional questions the selection procedure of the committee . |
| 25 | In 1965 I read about Penrose 's theorem that any body undergoing gravitational collapse must eventually form a singularity . |
| 26 | Since one mole of any gas always contains the same number of molecules , it follows from Avogadro 's law that one mole of any gas always occupies the same volume . |
| 27 | The proposals included the far-sighted proposals to amend the Legal Aid Regulations , so as to show the Bar 's determination that public funds should be efficiently used ; also to counter any suggestion of abuse of public funds by the Bar . |
| 28 | The recommendation by Hunter 's committee that two professors were desirable was forgotten . |
| 29 | Indeed , since the 1980 Education Act 's requirement that all schools publish their examination results , it is not unreasonable to surmise that the influence of examinations upon teaching quality ( or its lack ) is likely to grow in years to come . |
| 30 | It is the latter 's contention that Ultimate Concern , the holy or unconditional , expresses itself in a variety of forms : in painting , which may have no religious content in the traditional sense ; in philosophy , when attempts are made to understand the nature of ultimate reality ; in ideologies which might normally be regarded as secular , such as , nationalism , socialism and humanism ; and in traditional religions . |