Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [to-vb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The income to finance that expenditure ( 41.8bn in 1984/5 ) was raised from three main sources : 1 ) rates , 11.3bn ( 27 per cent ) ; 2 ) government grants , 16.4bn ( 39.2 per cent ) ; 3 ) charges and miscellaneous 14.1bn ( 33.8 per cent ) ( all figures from Travers , 1986 . |
| 2 | Erm , may I take the opportunity to say that cross border is a bit of a misnomer , erm , it 's , the correct term is really doing work for other bodies . |
| 3 | Does not the Prime Minister realise that , after 40 years in which this country has been dogged by the uncertainty of its position in Europe , he had the opportunity to answer that question once and for all , and he ducked it ? |
| 4 | Indeed the European parliamentary resolution is specific on that point and I believe the boundary commission has failed to take the opportunity to exercise that requirement . |
| 5 | I have now had the opportunity to study that judgment and I have taken further legal advice . |
| 6 | What is she doing with the guitar to produce that look of dreamy ecstasy ? |
| 7 | But a man who has struggled to make Labour electable , at the cost of jettisoning his beliefs , might still have the heart to continue that battle . |
| 8 | ‘ What 's puzzling Henry , ’ said Lizzie now , ‘ is where he got the money to buy that bungalow ? |
| 9 | Can he give the House any information about how it has been possible for the NHS , which is supposedly starved of funds , to find the money to buy that hospital ? |
| 10 | I put away the money to pay that bill and if I have n't got anything left over to buy food with , then we have to manage . |
| 11 | Was that er would that have been considered unusual to have had the money to pay that amount in those days ? |
| 12 | So here 's the hypothesis to explain that ellipsis is confined to constituents where constituents are just what they sound like , genuine components of a larger thing which is signalled by sticking brackets , labelled brackets round them so they make a phrase and you can do certain things with them . |
| 13 | You must also take into account any local exchange control regulations , the effect of which may make it sensible for the contract to stipulate that part of your salary shall be credited to you elsewhere . |
| 14 | ‘ The matters to which regard is to be had in particular … are any of the following which appear to be relevant — ; ( a ) the strength of the bargaining positions of the parties relative to each other , taking into account ( among other things ) alternative means by which the customer 's requirements could have been met ; ( b ) whether the customer received an inducement to agree to the term , or in accepting it had an opportunity of entering into a similar contract with other persons , but without having to accept a similar term ; ( c ) whether the customer knew or ought reasonably to have known of the existence of the term ( having regard , among other things , to any custom of the trade and any previous course of dealing between the parties ) ; ( d ) where the term excludes or restricts any relevant liability if some condition is not complied with , whether it was reasonable at the time of the contract to expect that compliance with that condition would be practic-able ; ( e ) whether the goods were manufactured , processed or adapted to the special order of the customer . ’ |
| 15 | The factors which the court is to take into account under Sched 2 are : ( a ) the strength of the bargaining positions of the parties relative to each other , taking into account ( among other things ) alternative means by which the customer 's requirements could have been met ; ( b ) whether the customer received an inducement to agree to the term , or in accepting it had an opportunity of entering into a similar contract with other persons , but without having to accept a similar term ; ( c ) whether the customer knew or ought reasonably to have known of the existence and extent of the term ( having regard , among other things , to any custom of the trade and any previous course of dealing between the parties ) ; ( d ) where the term excludes or restricts any relevant liability if some condition is not complied with , whether it was reasonable at the time of the contract to expect that compliance with that condition would be practicable ; ( e ) whether the goods were manufactured , processed or adapted to the special order of the customer . |
| 16 | These guidelines , although not exhaustive of the factors to be considered , include the following : ( a ) the strength of the bargaining positions of the parties relative to each other , taking into account ( among other things ) alternative means by which the customer 's requirements could have been met ; ( b ) whether the customer received an inducement to agree to the term , or in accepting it had an opportunity of entering into a similar contract with other persons , but without having to accept a similar term ; ( c ) whether the customer knew or ought reasonably to have known of the existence and extent of the term ( having regard , among other things , to any custom of the trade and any previous course of dealing between the parties ) ; ( d ) where the term excludes or restricts any relevant liability if some condition is not complied with , whether it was reasonable at the time of the contract to expect that compliance with that condition would be practicable ; ( e ) whether the goods were manufactured , processed or adapted to the special order of the customer . |
| 17 | The decision to open that border , and the prospect of German reunification , will virtually paralyse the military side of the alliance . |
| 18 | In a time when there is an obvious and ever-increasing need to find leisure opportunities , an ever-growing thirst for expression and knowledge , and in the light of testimonies from those who have passed through the door , the decision to close that door seems as ill-timed as it is incomprehensible . |
| 19 | We have the experience to build that sort of construction , and the technology . |
| 20 | The parameter ‘ Split-type working ’ allows the user to specify that Primary and Secondary copies must be stored on different media types . |
| 21 | The parameter ‘ Simultaneous media copies ’ allows the user to specify that Primary and Secondary copies may not be mounted simultaneously . |
| 22 | Mrs Thatcher yesterday had the honesty to admit that inflation is ‘ far too high ’ , but she no more deigned to explain what has gone wrong than the Chancellor had the day before . |
| 23 | The attempt to satisfy that curiosity , because it obeys a deep and strong instinct , produces , especially in certain personalities , uniquely powerful sensations of pleasure . |
| 24 | But the heroes who convey this impression are merely embodying the Apolline response to life 's horror : the attempt to make that horror acceptable . |
| 25 | The attempt to harness that power as a controlled source of useful energy has occupied scientists and engineers ever since . |
| 26 | He was fading away ‘ like the old soldier in the ballad , an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty . ’ |
| 27 | I ca n't imagine that George is gon na continuing doing that forever and it may well be that we 'll be faced with a possibility of , of what we do in the future to have that piece of administration done will we be able to assume that it could done voluntary in the future ? |
| 28 | Since this is the nature of the economic environment within which the agent operates it is rational for the agent to use that information about her environment to draw inferences from the information that she has about the current state of the economy , that is to solve her signal extraction problem . |
| 29 | Because recentralization of business my be a correct and and fashionable philosophy or perhaps one that is no longer fashionable I do n't know it still needs we believe a global approach a coherent approach to tie these things together so the organization can not only get the benefit of responsiveness and flexibility at a departmental but the leverage to exploit that information on behalf of the organization as a whole . |
| 30 | ( b ) not less than fourteen nor more than thirty-five clear days before the date appointed for the general meeting , notice executed by a member qualified to vote at the general meeting has been given to the Company of the intention to propose that person for appointment , together with notice executed by that person of his willingness to be appointed . |